India vs Indonesia: Mobile cellular subscriptions

India
1.15 billion
in 2024
Indonesia
347.31 million
in 2024
India rank
2nd
Indonesia rank
4th

Mobile cellular subscriptions over time

  • India
  • Indonesia
0250.0M500.0M750.0M1.0B1.2B196019922024

How they compare

India currently reports 1.15 billion against 347.31 million in Indonesia, a difference of 804.04 million.

That makes India's figure about 3.3 times Indonesia's.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 53 shared years of data; in 1960 it was Indonesia ahead.

Globally, India ranks 2nd and Indonesia ranks 4th 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.