South Africa vs Vietnam: Mobile cellular subscriptions
Mobile cellular subscriptions over time
- South Africa
- Vietnam
How they compare
Vietnam currently reports 128.87 million against 114.79 million in South Africa, a difference of 14.08 million.
That makes Vietnam's figure about 1.1 times South Africa's.
The two have swapped places 2 times across 53 shared years of data; in 1960 it was Vietnam ahead.
Globally, South Africa ranks 16th and Vietnam ranks 14th of 213 countries.
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About this data
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.