China vs Indonesia: Mobile cellular subscriptions
Mobile cellular subscriptions over time
- China
- Indonesia
How they compare
China currently reports 1.87 billion against 347.31 million in Indonesia, a difference of 1.52 billion.
That makes China's figure about 5.4 times Indonesia's.
The two have swapped places 1 time across 53 shared years of data; in 1960 it was Indonesia ahead.
Globally, China ranks 1st and Indonesia ranks 4th of 213 countries.
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About this data
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.