Iraq vs Malaysia: Mobile cellular subscriptions

Iraq
46.08 million
in 2024
Malaysia
49.66 million
in 2024
Iraq rank
39th
Malaysia rank
38th

Mobile cellular subscriptions over time

  • Iraq
  • Malaysia
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How they compare

Malaysia currently reports 49.66 million against 46.08 million in Iraq, a difference of 3.58 million.

That makes Malaysia's figure about 1.1 times Iraq's.

Across all 53 years both countries report, Malaysia has been ahead every year.

Globally, Iraq ranks 39th and Malaysia ranks 38th 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.