Mobile cellular subscriptions (per 100 people)
Mobile cellular telephone subscriptions per 100 inhabitants for the 8-country panel (USA, Canada, UK, Germany, France, Japan, China, India). The World Bank publishes the indicator in the World Development Indicators from the ITU World Telecommunication/ICT Indicators Database. The measure counts subscriptions to a public mobile telephone service offering voice communications over cellular technology: postpaid subscriptions plus active prepaid accounts (used in the last three months). It excludes data cards/USB modems, public mobile data services, private trunked mobile radio, telepoint, radio paging and telemetry. Values can exceed 100 because many people hold more than one active subscription. Pairs with the individuals-using-the-internet dataset (mobile access vs internet adoption). Values are null where national statistics are unavailable and are never interpolated. Units: subscriptions per 100 people.
- Source
- World Bank
- Rows
- 208
- Columns
- 4
- Source cadence
- Yearly
- Last refreshed
- Sep 24, 2026
- Theme
- technology
| Column | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| country_code | string | ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code (World Bank API field countryiso3code). |
| country_name | string | Country name as published by the World Bank API. |
| year | integer | Calendar year of the observation (World Bank API field date). |
| value | float | Indicator value for the country and year, as defined by the World Bank indicator (see the dataset description). Missing values are null. (unit: subscriptions per 100 people) |
First 10 sample rows — a preview, not the complete dataset.
| country_code | country_name | year | value |
|---|---|---|---|
| CAN | Canada | 2,000 | 28.25 |
| CAN | Canada | 2,001 | 34.117 |
| CAN | Canada | 2,002 | 37.646 |
| CAN | Canada | 2,003 | 41.748 |
| CAN | Canada | 2,004 | 46.744 |
| CAN | Canada | 2,005 | 52.455 |
| CAN | Canada | 2,006 | 57.233 |
| CAN | Canada | 2,007 | 61.276 |
| CAN | Canada | 2,008 | 66.048 |
| CAN | Canada | 2,009 | 70.394 |
Profiled Sep 24, 2026 from snapshot 20260924T042902Z-6a3445d8f8c8
Measured- Completeness
- 98.8%
- Rows
- 208
- Columns
- 4
- Columns with gaps
- 1
| Column | Missing | Distinct | Range | Distribution |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| country_codevarchar | 0% | 7 | — |
|
| country_namevarchar | 0% | 9 | — |
|
| yearbigint | 0% | 27 | 2,000 → 2,025median 2,013 | |
| valuedouble | 4.8% | 169 | 0.3381 → 178.43median 91.18 | 4 outside 1st–99th percentile |
- Current
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208 rows · first snapshot
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curl "https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/world_bank/mobile_cellular_subscriptions" | jq '{title, rows, columns_count, license}'import requests
ds = requests.get("https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/world_bank/mobile_cellular_subscriptions").json()
print(ds["title"], ds["rows"], "rows")
# Sample rows for an LLM context window
for row in ds.get("sample_rows", [])[:5]:
print(row)API endpoint: https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/world_bank/mobile_cellular_subscriptions
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World Bank. (2026). Mobile cellular subscriptions (per 100 people) [Data set, snapshot 20260924T042902Z-6a3445d8f8c8, sha256 6a3445d8f8c8]. Datazimuts. Retrieved 2026-09-24, from https://datazimuts.com/en/datasets/world_bank/mobile_cellular_subscriptions?snapshot=20260924T042902Z-6a3445d8f8c8
@misc{dz_world_bank_mobile_cellular_subscriptions_6a3445d8,
title = {{Mobile cellular subscriptions (per 100 people)}},
author = {{World Bank}},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Datazimuts},
howpublished = {\url{https://datazimuts.com/en/datasets/world_bank/mobile_cellular_subscriptions?snapshot=20260924T042902Z-6a3445d8f8c8}},
note = {Snapshot 20260924T042902Z-6a3445d8f8c8, sha256 6a3445d8f8c8d0aa401785f41711c3df36d701307c06b583e52cf46f386d6176; accessed 2026-09-24}
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