Malaysia vs Peru: Mobile cellular subscriptions

Malaysia
49.66 million
in 2024
Peru
42.64 million
in 2024
Malaysia rank
38th
Peru rank
40th

Mobile cellular subscriptions over time

  • Malaysia
  • Peru
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How they compare

Malaysia currently reports 49.66 million against 42.64 million in Peru, a difference of 7.02 million.

That makes Malaysia's figure about 1.2 times Peru's.

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

Globally, Malaysia ranks 38th and Peru ranks 40th 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.