Botswana vs Puerto Rico: Mobile cellular subscriptions

Botswana
4.13 million
in 2024
Puerto Rico
4.10 million
in 2024
Botswana rank
132nd
Puerto Rico rank
134th

Mobile cellular subscriptions over time

  • Botswana
  • Puerto Rico
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How they compare

Botswana currently reports 4.13 million against 4.10 million in Puerto Rico, a difference of 35,670.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 52 shared years of data; in 1960 it was Puerto Rico ahead.

Globally, Botswana ranks 132nd and Puerto Rico ranks 134th 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.