Burkina Faso vs Sri Lanka: Mobile cellular subscriptions

Burkina Faso
27.46 million
in 2024
Sri Lanka
30.62 million
in 2024
Burkina Faso rank
50th
Sri Lanka rank
47th

Mobile cellular subscriptions over time

  • Burkina Faso
  • Sri Lanka
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How they compare

Sri Lanka currently reports 30.62 million against 27.46 million in Burkina Faso, a difference of 3.17 million.

That makes Sri Lanka's figure about 1.1 times Burkina Faso's.

Across all 53 years both countries report, Sri Lanka has been ahead every year.

Globally, Burkina Faso ranks 50th and Sri Lanka ranks 47th 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.