United Arab Emirates vs Zambia: Mobile cellular subscriptions

United Arab Emirates
22.41 million
in 2024
Zambia
23.17 million
in 2024
United Arab Emirates rank
62nd
Zambia rank
59th

Mobile cellular subscriptions over time

  • United Arab Emirates
  • Zambia
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How they compare

Zambia currently reports 23.17 million against 22.41 million in United Arab Emirates, a difference of 762,600.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 43 shared years of data; in 1982 it was United Arab Emirates ahead.

Globally, United Arab Emirates ranks 62nd and Zambia ranks 59th 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.