Libya vs South Africa: Mobile cellular subscriptions
Mobile cellular subscriptions over time
- Libya
- South Africa
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
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.