Botswana vs Qatar: Mobile cellular subscriptions

Botswana
4.13 million
in 2024
Qatar
4.68 million
in 2024
Botswana rank
132nd
Qatar rank
129th

Mobile cellular subscriptions over time

  • Botswana
  • Qatar
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How they compare

Qatar currently reports 4.68 million against 4.13 million in Botswana, a difference of 548,090.

That makes Qatar's figure about 1.1 times Botswana's.

The two have swapped places 10 times across 50 shared years of data; in 1960 it was Qatar ahead.

Globally, Botswana ranks 132nd and Qatar ranks 129th 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.