China vs United States: Mobile cellular subscriptions
Mobile cellular subscriptions over time
- China
- United States
How they compare
China currently reports 1.87 billion against 390.99 million in United States, a difference of 1.48 billion.
That makes China's figure about 4.8 times United States's.
The two have swapped places 1 time across 50 shared years of data; in 1960 it was United States ahead.
Globally, China ranks 1st and United States ranks 3rd 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.