Bahamas vs Barbados: Mobile cellular subscriptions

Bahamas
387,960
in 2024
Barbados
323,482
in 2022
Bahamas rank
175th
Barbados rank
177th

Mobile cellular subscriptions over time

  • Bahamas
  • Barbados
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How they compare

Bahamas currently reports 387,960 against 323,482 in Barbados, a difference of 64,478.

That makes Bahamas's figure about 1.2 times Barbados's.

The two have swapped places 9 times across 50 shared years of data; in 1960 it was Barbados ahead.

Globally, Bahamas ranks 175th and Barbados ranks 177th 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.