Bangladesh vs Nigeria: Mobile cellular subscriptions

Bangladesh
187.58 million
in 2024
Nigeria
164.65 million
in 2024
Bangladesh rank
9th
Nigeria rank
10th

Mobile cellular subscriptions over time

  • Bangladesh
  • Nigeria
050.0M100.0M150.0M200.0M196019922024

How they compare

Bangladesh currently reports 187.58 million against 164.65 million in Nigeria, a difference of 22.93 million.

That makes Bangladesh's figure about 1.1 times Nigeria's.

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

Globally, Bangladesh ranks 9th and Nigeria ranks 10th 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.