Laos vs Mauritania: Mobile cellular subscriptions

Laos
4.96 million
in 2023
Mauritania
4.76 million
in 2024
Laos rank
124th
Mauritania rank
127th

Mobile cellular subscriptions over time

  • Laos
  • Mauritania
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How they compare

Laos currently reports 4.96 million against 4.76 million in Mauritania, a difference of 204,040.

The two have swapped places 7 times across 52 shared years of data; in 1960 it was Mauritania ahead.

Globally, Laos ranks 124th and Mauritania ranks 127th 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.