Liberia vs Papua New Guinea: Mobile cellular subscriptions

Liberia
32.06 per 100 people
in 2022
Papua New Guinea
38.77 per 100 people
in 2024
Liberia rank
209th
Papua New Guinea rank
207th

Mobile cellular subscriptions over time

  • Liberia
  • Papua New Guinea
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How they compare

Papua New Guinea currently reports 38.77 per 100 people against 32.06 per 100 people in Liberia, a difference of 6.7 per 100 people.

That makes Papua New Guinea's figure about 1.2 times Liberia's.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 50 shared years of data; in 1960 it was Papua New Guinea ahead.

Globally, Liberia ranks 209th and Papua New Guinea ranks 207th of 213 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Mobile cellular subscriptions (per 100 people)
Unit
per 100 people
Source
World Telecommunication/ICT Indicators Database, International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
260 places, 13,015 data points, 1960–2025
Last refreshed

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.