Libya vs South Africa: Mobile cellular subscriptions

Libya
192.97 per 100 people
in 2022
South Africa
179.34 per 100 people
in 2024
Libya rank
7th
South Africa rank
10th

Mobile cellular subscriptions over time

  • Libya
  • South Africa
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How they compare

Libya currently reports 192.97 per 100 people against 179.34 per 100 people in South Africa, a difference of 13.64 per 100 people.

That makes Libya's figure about 1.1 times South Africa's.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 50 shared years of data; in 1960 it was South Africa ahead.

Globally, Libya ranks 7th and South Africa ranks 10th 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.