Democratic Republic of Congo vs Cote d'Ivoire: Mobile cellular subscriptions

Democratic Republic of Congo
63.96 million
in 2024
Cote d'Ivoire
58.72 million
in 2024
Democratic Republic of Congo rank
29th
Cote d'Ivoire rank
32nd

Mobile cellular subscriptions over time

  • Democratic Republic of Congo
  • Cote d'Ivoire
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How they compare

Democratic Republic of Congo currently reports 63.96 million against 58.72 million in Cote d'Ivoire, a difference of 5.24 million.

That makes Democratic Republic of Congo's figure about 1.1 times Cote d'Ivoire's.

The two have swapped places 7 times across 50 shared years of data; in 1960 it was Cote d'Ivoire ahead.

Globally, Democratic Republic of Congo ranks 29th and Cote d'Ivoire ranks 32nd 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.