Saudi Arabia vs Ukraine: Mobile cellular subscriptions

Saudi Arabia
54.18 million
in 2024
Ukraine
50.33 million
in 2023
Saudi Arabia rank
34th
Ukraine rank
37th

Mobile cellular subscriptions over time

  • Saudi Arabia
  • Ukraine
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How they compare

Saudi Arabia currently reports 54.18 million against 50.33 million in Ukraine, a difference of 3.86 million.

That makes Saudi Arabia's figure about 1.1 times Ukraine's.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 34 shared years of data; in 1990 it was Saudi Arabia ahead.

Globally, Saudi Arabia ranks 34th and Ukraine ranks 37th 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.