South Korea vs United Kingdom: Mobile cellular subscriptions

South Korea
89.22 million
in 2024
United Kingdom
84.10 million
in 2024
South Korea rank
21st
United Kingdom rank
24th

Mobile cellular subscriptions over time

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How they compare

South Korea currently reports 89.22 million against 84.10 million in United Kingdom, a difference of 5.12 million.

That makes South Korea's figure about 1.1 times United Kingdom's.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 51 shared years of data; in 1960 it was United Kingdom ahead.

Globally, South Korea ranks 21st and United Kingdom ranks 24th 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.