France vs United Kingdom: Mobile cellular subscriptions

France
77.53 million
in 2023
United Kingdom
84.10 million
in 2024
France rank
26th
United Kingdom rank
24th

Mobile cellular subscriptions over time

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How they compare

United Kingdom currently reports 84.10 million against 77.53 million in France, a difference of 6.58 million.

That makes United Kingdom's figure about 1.1 times France's.

Across all 52 years both countries report, United Kingdom has been ahead every year.

Globally, France ranks 26th and United Kingdom ranks 24th 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.