Sao Tome and Principe vs Seychelles: Mobile cellular subscriptions

Sao Tome and Principe
147,061
in 2024
Seychelles
163,827
in 2024
Sao Tome and Principe rank
185th
Seychelles rank
184th

Mobile cellular subscriptions over time

  • Sao Tome and Principe
  • Seychelles
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How they compare

Seychelles currently reports 163,827 against 147,061 in Sao Tome and Principe, a difference of 16,766.

That makes Seychelles's figure about 1.1 times Sao Tome and Principe's.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 53 shared years of data; in 1960 it was Seychelles ahead.

Globally, Sao Tome and Principe ranks 185th and Seychelles ranks 184th 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.