Senegal vs Zambia: Mobile cellular subscriptions

Senegal
22.92 million
in 2024
Zambia
23.17 million
in 2024
Senegal rank
60th
Zambia rank
59th

Mobile cellular subscriptions over time

  • Senegal
  • Zambia
05.0M10.0M15.0M20.0M25.0M196019922024

How they compare

Zambia currently reports 23.17 million against 22.92 million in Senegal, a difference of 247,500.

The two have swapped places 6 times across 53 shared years of data; in 1960 it was Zambia ahead.

Globally, Senegal ranks 60th and Zambia ranks 59th of 213 countries.

Individual pages

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.