Indonesia vs Japan: Mobile cellular subscriptions

Indonesia
347.31 million
in 2024
Japan
221.92 million
in 2023
Indonesia rank
4th
Japan rank
6th

Mobile cellular subscriptions over time

  • Indonesia
  • Japan
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How they compare

Indonesia currently reports 347.31 million against 221.92 million in Japan, a difference of 125.40 million.

That makes Indonesia's figure about 1.6 times Japan's.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 52 shared years of data; in 1960 it was Japan ahead.

Globally, Indonesia ranks 4th and Japan ranks 6th 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.