North Korea vs New Zealand: Mobile cellular subscriptions

North Korea
6.35 million
in 2022
New Zealand
6.78 million
in 2024
North Korea rank
116th
New Zealand rank
114th

Mobile cellular subscriptions over time

  • North Korea
  • New Zealand
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How they compare

New Zealand currently reports 6.78 million against 6.35 million in North Korea, a difference of 429,560.

That makes New Zealand's figure about 1.1 times North Korea's.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 50 shared years of data; in 1960 it was New Zealand ahead.

Globally, North Korea ranks 116th and New Zealand ranks 114th 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.