Malawi vs Sweden: Mobile cellular subscriptions

Malawi
15.00 million
in 2024
Sweden
14.92 million
in 2024
Malawi rank
74th
Sweden rank
75th

Mobile cellular subscriptions over time

  • Malawi
  • Sweden
05.0M10.0M15.0M196019922024

How they compare

Malawi currently reports 15.00 million against 14.92 million in Sweden, a difference of 76,000.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 53 shared years of data; in 1960 it was Sweden ahead.

Globally, Malawi ranks 74th and Sweden ranks 75th 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.