Philippines vs Thailand: Mobile cellular subscriptions

Philippines
133.57 million
in 2024
Thailand
115.13 million
in 2024
Philippines rank
13th
Thailand rank
15th

Mobile cellular subscriptions over time

  • Philippines
  • Thailand
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How they compare

Philippines currently reports 133.57 million against 115.13 million in Thailand, a difference of 18.44 million.

That makes Philippines's figure about 1.2 times Thailand's.

The two have swapped places 5 times across 53 shared years of data; in 1960 it was Thailand ahead.

Globally, Philippines ranks 13th and Thailand ranks 15th 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.