Chile vs Hong Kong: Mobile cellular subscriptions

Chile
26.22 million
in 2024
Hong Kong
27.05 million
in 2024
Chile rank
53rd
Hong Kong rank
51st

Mobile cellular subscriptions over time

  • Chile
  • Hong Kong
010.0M20.0M30.0M196019922024

How they compare

Hong Kong currently reports 27.05 million against 26.22 million in Chile, a difference of 833,200.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 53 shared years of data; in 1960 it was Hong Kong ahead.

Globally, Chile ranks 53rd and Hong Kong ranks 51st 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.