Bangladesh vs Japan: Mobile cellular subscriptions

Bangladesh
187.58 million
in 2024
Japan
221.92 million
in 2023
Bangladesh rank
9th
Japan rank
6th

Mobile cellular subscriptions over time

  • Bangladesh
  • Japan
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How they compare

Japan currently reports 221.92 million against 187.58 million in Bangladesh, a difference of 34.34 million.

That makes Japan's figure about 1.2 times Bangladesh's.

Across all 52 years both countries report, Japan has been ahead every year.

Globally, Bangladesh ranks 9th and Japan ranks 6th 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.