Mobile Phone Subscribers

Africa Ranking

per 100 peopleSource: IMF

Current Rank	Country	Value	Latest Reading	Previous Rank	Previous Value

1	Seychelles	186.58	2020	1	198.15
2 ↑	Botswana	162.84	2020	3	162.64
3 ↓	South Africa	161.8	2020	2	165.6
4 ↑	Ivory Coast	152	2020	5	145.34
5 ↓	Mauritius	150.41	2020	4	147.01
6	Gabon	137.01	2020	6	137.75
7 ↑	Morocco	133.89	2020	8	127.95
8 ↓	Ghana	130.21	2020	7	134.32
9	Tunisia	125.67	2020	9	126.31
10	Mali	125.01	2020	10	116.62
11 ↑	Kenya	114.2	2020	17	103.77
12 ↓	Namibia	114.06	2020	11	113.19
13	Senegal	113.95	2020	13	109.72
14 ↓	Gambia	110.81	2020	12	110.1
15 ↑	Swaziland	107.14	2020	18	102.43
16	Mauritania	106.08	2020	16	104.09
17 ↑	Burkina Faso	105.81	2020	20	100.21
18 ↑	Guinea	105.04	2020	19	100.8
19 ↑	Zambia	103.92	2020	21	96.41
20 ↓	Algeria	103.89	2020	15	105.51
21 ↑	Nigeria	99.07	2020	24	91.85
22 ↓	Cape Verde	97.98	2020	14	108.32
23 ↑	Guinea-Bissau	97.25	2020	28	82.79
24 ↓	Egypt	93.18	2020	22	94.97
25 ↑	Benin	91.9	2020	26	87.7
26 ↑	Comoros	89.88	2020	36	67.6
27 ↓	Zimbabwe	88.76	2020	25	90.1
28 ↓	Republic of the Congo	88.62	2020	23	91.91
29 ↓	Sierra Leone	86.3	2020	27	86.13
30	Tanzania	85.75	2020	30	82.21
31 ↓	Cameroon	84.2	2020	29	82.7
32 ↑	Rwanda	81.95	2020	35	76.49
33	Sudan	80.26	2020	33	77.11
34	Sao Tome and Principe	79.49	2020	34	77.08
35 ↓	Togo	78.71	2020	32	77.2
36 ↓	Lesotho	72.94	2020	31	79.13
37	Uganda	60.53	2020	37	57.37
38 ↑	Niger	58.82	2020	41	51.99
39 ↑	Madagascar	57.31	2020	43	48.21
40 ↓	Burundi	55.77	2020	38	56.65
41 ↓	Somalia	55.65	2020	40	53.27
42 ↑	Chad	52.89	2020	44	48.06
43 ↑	Malawi	52.3	2020	45	47.78
44 ↑	Eritrea	50.78	2020	50	37.49
45 ↓	Mozambique	49.47	2020	42	48.65
46	Equatorial Guinea	45.97	2020	46	45.5
47	Democratic Republic of the Congo	45.55	2020	47	42.77
48	Djibouti	43.93	2020	48	42.51
49 ↓	Libya	42.52	2020	39	54.86
50 ↑	Ethiopia	38.71	2020	51	37.4
51 ↑	Central African Republic	37.91	2020	52	33.62
52 ↓	Liberia	32.68	2020	49	39.23

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.