Algeria vs Malaysia: Mobile cellular subscriptions

Algeria
54.05 million
in 2024
Malaysia
49.66 million
in 2024
Algeria rank
35th
Malaysia rank
38th

Mobile cellular subscriptions over time

  • Algeria
  • Malaysia
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How they compare

Algeria currently reports 54.05 million against 49.66 million in Malaysia, a difference of 4.39 million.

That makes Algeria's figure about 1.1 times Malaysia's.

The two have swapped places 7 times across 53 shared years of data; in 1960 it was Malaysia ahead.

Globally, Algeria ranks 35th and Malaysia ranks 38th of 213 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Mobile cellular subscriptions
Source
World Telecommunication/ICT Indicators Database, International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
260 places, 13,039 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.