Kiribati vs Tonga: Mobile cellular subscriptions

Kiribati
72,000
in 2024
Tonga
64,838
in 2022
Kiribati rank
194th
Tonga rank
196th

Mobile cellular subscriptions over time

  • Kiribati
  • Tonga
025.0k50.0k75.0k100.0k196019922024

How they compare

Kiribati currently reports 72,000 against 64,838 in Tonga, a difference of 7,162.

That makes Kiribati's figure about 1.1 times Tonga's.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 51 shared years of data; in 1960 it was Tonga ahead.

Globally, Kiribati ranks 194th and Tonga ranks 196th 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.