Japan vs Russia: Mobile cellular subscriptions
Mobile cellular subscriptions over time
- Japan
- Russia
How they compare
Russia currently reports 186.1 per 100 people against 178.43 per 100 people in Japan, a difference of 7.67 per 100 people.
The two have swapped places 4 times across 52 shared years of data; in 1960 it was Russia ahead.
Globally, Japan ranks 11th and Russia ranks 8th of 213 countries.
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About this data
Mobile cellular telephone subscriptions are subscriptions to a public mobile telephone service that provide access to the PSTN using cellular technology. The indicator includes (and is split into) the number of postpaid subscriptions, and the number of active prepaid accounts (i.e. that have been used during the last three months). The indicator applies to all mobile cellular subscriptions that offer voice communications. It excludes subscriptions via data cards or USB modems, subscriptions to public mobile data services, private trunked mobile radio, telepoint, radio paging and telemetry services.