Australia vs Hong Kong: Mobile cellular subscriptions

Australia
30.07 million
in 2024
Hong Kong
27.05 million
in 2024
Australia rank
48th
Hong Kong rank
51st

Mobile cellular subscriptions over time

  • Australia
  • Hong Kong
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How they compare

Australia currently reports 30.07 million against 27.05 million in Hong Kong, a difference of 3.02 million.

That makes Australia's figure about 1.1 times Hong Kong's.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 53 shared years of data; in 1960 it was Hong Kong ahead.

Globally, Australia ranks 48th and Hong Kong ranks 51st 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.