Libya vs United Arab Emirates: Mobile cellular subscriptions

Libya
192.97 per 100 people
in 2022
United Arab Emirates
203.21 per 100 people
in 2024
Libya rank
7th
United Arab Emirates rank
4th

Mobile cellular subscriptions over time

  • Libya
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How they compare

United Arab Emirates currently reports 203.21 per 100 people against 192.97 per 100 people in Libya, a difference of 10.23 per 100 people.

That makes United Arab Emirates's figure about 1.1 times Libya's.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 40 shared years of data; in 1982 it was United Arab Emirates ahead.

Globally, Libya ranks 7th and United Arab Emirates ranks 4th 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.