South Africa vs Turkey: Mobile cellular subscriptions

South Africa
114.79 million
in 2024
Turkey
94.32 million
in 2024
South Africa rank
16th
Turkey rank
19th

Mobile cellular subscriptions over time

  • South Africa
  • Turkey
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How they compare

South Africa currently reports 114.79 million against 94.32 million in Turkey, a difference of 20.47 million.

That makes South Africa's figure about 1.2 times Turkey's.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 53 shared years of data; in 1960 it was Turkey ahead.

Globally, South Africa ranks 16th and Turkey ranks 19th 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.