North Korea

Mobile Phone Subscribers

23.27
per 100 people
Dec 65Dec 76Dec 79Dec 82Dec 85Dec 88Dec 91Dec 94Dec 97Dec 00Dec 03Dec 06Dec 09Dec 12Dec 15Dec 200.0006.00012.0018.0024.00
  • North Korea
Source: IMF

Global Ranking

189
Libya42.52
190
Ethiopia38.71
192
Samoa34.78
193
Liberia32.68
194
North Korea23.27
195
Micronesia19.13

Asia Ranking

26
Uzbekistan99.75
27
Bhutan96.57
28
India83.6
29
Pakistan79.51
30
Laos56.35

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Definition of Mobile Phone Subscribers

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.

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