Iran vs Vietnam: Mobile cellular subscriptions

Iran
159.39 million
in 2024
Vietnam
128.87 million
in 2024
Iran rank
11th
Vietnam rank
14th

Mobile cellular subscriptions over time

  • Iran
  • Vietnam
050.0M100.0M150.0M196019922024

How they compare

Iran currently reports 159.39 million against 128.87 million in Vietnam, a difference of 30.52 million.

That makes Iran's figure about 1.2 times Vietnam's.

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

Globally, Iran ranks 11th and Vietnam ranks 14th 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.