Homes with a mobile phone by country

Share of homes with a mobile phone. The map opens on 2019, with figures for 58 countries.

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Highest in 2019

  1. Armenia 99.9%
  2. Mexico 99.9%
  3. Timor-Leste 99.9%
  4. South Africa 99.8%
  5. Turkmenistan 99.1%

Lowest in 2019

  1. Central African Rep. 29.9%
  2. Mongolia 41.6%
  3. Dem. Rep. Congo 48.0%
  4. Burundi 55.1%
  5. Papua New Guinea 56.4%

About the data

Unit
% of households
Years
1995–2023
Data as of
2026-09-28
Source
Global Data Lab
License
Free for non-commercial use with credit; commercial use needs written permission from the Global Data Lab
Credit
Data retrieved from the Wealth database of the Global Data Lab (v2.1), https://globaldatalab.org/wealth/

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