Homes with a mobile phone in South Africa

99.8%

% of households · 2019

4th highest of 58 countries

In 2009: 86.1%

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Nearby in the ranking

  1. Armenia 99.9%
  2. Mexico 99.9%
  3. Timor-Leste 99.9%
  4. South Africa 99.8%
  5. Turkmenistan 99.1%
  6. Maldives 99.0%
  7. Turks and Caicos Is. 99.0%

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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/