Colombia vs Egypt: Mobile cellular subscriptions

Colombia
92.07 million
in 2024
Egypt
113.19 million
in 2024
Colombia rank
20th
Egypt rank
17th

Mobile cellular subscriptions over time

  • Colombia
  • Egypt
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How they compare

Egypt currently reports 113.19 million against 92.07 million in Colombia, a difference of 21.12 million.

That makes Egypt's figure about 1.2 times Colombia's.

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

Globally, Colombia ranks 20th and Egypt ranks 17th 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.