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Sao Tome and Principe vs Tonga: Mobile cellular subscriptions

Sao Tome and Principe
62.44 per 100 people
in 2024
Tonga
61.73 per 100 people
in 2022
Sao Tome and Principe rank
189th
Tonga rank
192nd

Mobile cellular subscriptions over time

  • Sao Tome and Principe
  • Tonga
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How they compare

Sao Tome and Principe currently reports 62.44 per 100 people against 61.73 per 100 people in Tonga, a difference of 0.7109 per 100 people.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 51 shared years of data; in 1960 it was Tonga ahead.

Globally, Sao Tome and Principe ranks 189th and Tonga ranks 192nd 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.