Chad vs Malawi: Mobile cellular subscriptions

Chad
14.80 million
in 2024
Malawi
15.00 million
in 2024
Chad rank
76th
Malawi rank
74th

Mobile cellular subscriptions over time

  • Chad
  • Malawi
05.0M10.0M15.0M196019922024

How they compare

Malawi currently reports 15.00 million against 14.80 million in Chad, a difference of 194,700.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 53 shared years of data; in 1960 it was Malawi ahead.

Globally, Chad ranks 76th and Malawi ranks 74th 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.