Faroe Islands vs Greenland: Mobile cellular subscriptions

Faroe Islands
57,146
in 2022
Greenland
66,425
in 2022
Faroe Islands rank
198th
Greenland rank
195th

Mobile cellular subscriptions over time

  • Faroe Islands
  • Greenland
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How they compare

Greenland currently reports 66,425 against 57,146 in Faroe Islands, a difference of 9,279.

That makes Greenland's figure about 1.2 times Faroe Islands's.

The two have swapped places 6 times across 50 shared years of data; in 1960 it was Greenland ahead.

Globally, Faroe Islands ranks 198th and Greenland ranks 195th 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.