Female teens linked to phone subscriptions
Comparing Age population, age 17, female, interpolated with Fixed telephone subscriptions, gaps filled across 210 countries, 2025–2025.
- Rank correlation
- +0.55
- Holding size constant
- -0.49
- Countries compared
- 210
- Period
- 2025–2025
What might link these
The relationship between the age population of female teens and fixed telephone subscriptions might be influenced by factors such as urbanization or economic development, which could increase access to telecommunications. A careful reader should be cautious about assuming a direct link between these indicators. Education level could be a likely confounder.
Why this is not proof of anything
This is a correlation across countries, not an experiment. It cannot show that either indicator causes the other, and both may simply follow a third thing. This correlation could mislead because it may be driven by underlying factors like urbanization rather than a direct relationship between female teens and phone subscriptions.
The second figure above repeats the measurement with national population and income held constant. It is the more conservative number: a relationship that largely disappears there was mostly telling you that larger, richer countries have more of most things.
How this was measured
Both indicators were ranked across every country reporting each, and the two rankings compared — ranks rather than raw values, because a handful of very large countries can otherwise manufacture a relationship on their own. The calculation is arithmetic over figures already published on this site; the commentary above is drafted from the two indicator names and the resulting coefficients.