Portugal vs Rwanda: Mobile cellular subscriptions

Portugal
12.94 million
in 2024
Rwanda
13.29 million
in 2024
Portugal rank
82nd
Rwanda rank
81st

Mobile cellular subscriptions over time

  • Portugal
  • Rwanda
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How they compare

Rwanda currently reports 13.29 million against 12.94 million in Portugal, a difference of 346,400.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 53 shared years of data; in 1960 it was Rwanda ahead.

Globally, Portugal ranks 82nd and Rwanda ranks 81st 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.