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  Field Listing - Telephones - mobile cellular


Country
Telephones - mobile cellular
Afghanistan 15,000 (2002)
Albania 1.1 million (2003)
Algeria 1,447,310 (2003)
American Samoa 2,377 (1999)
Andorra 23,500 (2001)
Angola 130,000 (2002)
Anguilla 1,800 (2002)
Antarctica NA
Antigua and Barbuda 38,200 (2002)
Argentina 6.5 million (2002)
Armenia 114,400 (2003)
Aruba 53,000 (2001)
Australia 14.347 million (2003)
Austria 7,094,500 (2003)
Azerbaijan 870,000 (2002)
Bahamas, The 121,800 (2002)
Bahrain 443,100 (2003)
Bangladesh 1.365 million (2003)
Barbados 140,000 (2003)
Belarus 1.118 million (2003)
Belgium 8,135,500 (2002)
Belize 60,400 (2003)
Benin 236,200 (2003)
Bermuda 37,873 (2003)
Bhutan 22,000 (2005)
Bolivia 1,401,500 (2003)
Bosnia and Herzegovina 1.05 million (2003)
Botswana 435,000 (2002)
Brazil 46,373,300 (2003)
British Virgin Islands 8,000 (2002)
Brunei 137,000 (2002)
Bulgaria 2,597,500 (2002)
Burkina Faso 227,000 (2003)
Burma 66,500 (2003)
Burundi 64,000 (2003)
Cambodia 380,000 (2002)
Cameroon 1.077 million (2003)
Canada 13,221,800 (2003)
Cape Verde 53,300 (2003)
Cayman Islands 17,000 (2002)
Central African Republic 13,000 (2003)
Chad 65,000 (2003)
Chile 6,445,700 (2002)
China 269 million (2003)
Christmas Island NA
Cocos (Keeling) Islands note - analog cellular service available
Colombia 6,186,200 (2003)
Comoros 2,000 (2003)
Congo, Democratic Republic of the 1 million (2003)
Congo, Republic of the 330,000 (2003)
Cook Islands 1,500 (2002)
Costa Rica 528,047 (2002)
Cote d'Ivoire 1.236 million (2003)
Croatia 2.553 million (2003)
Cuba 17,900 (2002)
Cyprus Republic of Cyprus: 417,900 (2002); north Cyprus: 143,178 (2002)
Czech Republic 9,708,700 (2003)
Denmark 4,785,300 (2003)
Djibouti 23,000 (2003)
Dominica 9,400 (2002)
Dominican Republic 2,120,400 (2003)
East Timor NA
Ecuador 2,394,400 (2003)
Egypt 8,583,940 (2005)
El Salvador 1,149,800 (2003)
Equatorial Guinea 41,500 (2003)
Eritrea NA
Estonia 881,000 (2002)
Ethiopia 97,800 (2003)
European Union 314,644,700 (2002)
Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) 0 (2001)
Faroe Islands 30,700 (2002)
Fiji 109,900 (2003)
Finland 4.7 million (2003)
France 41,683,100 (2003)
French Guiana 138,200 (2002)
French Polynesia 90,000 (2002)
Gabon 300,000 (2003)
Gambia, The 100,000 (2002)
Gaza Strip 320,000 (cellular subscribers in both Gaza Strip and West Bank) (2002)
Georgia 522,300 (2003)
Germany 64.8 million (2003)
Ghana 799,900 (2003)
Gibraltar 9,797 (2002)
Greece 8,936,200 (2003)
Greenland 16,747 (2001)
Grenada 7,600 (2002)
Guadeloupe 323,500 (2002)
Guam 32,600 (2001)
Guatemala 1,577,100 (2002)
Guernsey 31,500 (2001)
Guinea 111,500 (2003)
Guinea-Bissau 1,300 (2003)
Guyana 87,300 (2002)
Haiti 140,000 (2002)
Holy See (Vatican City) NA
Honduras 326,500 (2002)
Hong Kong 7,241,400 (2003)
Hungary 6,862,800 (2002)
Iceland 279,100 (2003)
India 26,154,400 (2003)
Indonesia 11.7 million (2002)
Iran 3,376,500 (2003)
Iraq 20,000 (2002)
Ireland 3.4 million (2003)
Israel 6.334 million (2002)
Italy 55.918 million (2003)
Jamaica 1.4 million (2002)
Japan 86,658,600 (2003)
Jersey 61,400 (2001)
Jordan 1,325,300 (2003)
Kazakhstan 1.027 million (2002)
Kenya 1,590,800 (2003)
Kiribati 500 (2002)
Korea, North NA
Korea, South 33,591,800 (2003)
Kuwait 1.42 million (2003)
Kyrgyzstan 53,100 (2002)
Laos 55,200 (2002)
Latvia 1,219,600 (2003)
Lebanon 775,100 (2002)
Lesotho 92,000 (2002)
Liberia 2,000 (2001)
Libya 100,000 (2003)
Liechtenstein 11,400 (2002)
Lithuania 2,169,900 (2003)
Luxembourg 473,000 (2002)
Macau 364,000 (2003)
Macedonia 365,300 (2002)
Madagascar 279,500 (2003)
Malawi 135,100 (2003)
Malaysia 11,124,100 (2003)
Maldives 41,900 (2002)
Mali 250,000 (2003)
Malta 290,000 (2003)
Man, Isle of NA
Marshall Islands 600 (2002)
Martinique 319,900 (2002)
Mauritania 300,000 (2003)
Mauritius 462,400 (2003)
Mayotte 21,700 (2002)
Mexico 28.125 million (2003)
Micronesia, Federated States of 1,800 (2002)
Moldova 338,200 (2002)
Monaco 19,300 (2002)
Mongolia 404,400 (2004)
Montserrat 70 (1994)
Morocco 7,332,800 (2003)
Mozambique 428,900 (2003)
Namibia 223,700 (2003)
Nauru 1,500 (2002)
Nepal 50,400 (2003)
Netherlands 12.5 million (2003)
Netherlands Antilles 81,000 (2001)
New Caledonia 80,000 (2002)
New Zealand 2.599 million (2003)
Nicaragua 202,800 (2002)
Niger 24,000 (2003)
Nigeria 3,149,500 (2003)
Niue 400 (2002)
Norfolk Island 0 (proposed cellular service disallowed in August 2002 island referendum) (2002)
Northern Mariana Islands 3,000 (2000)
Norway 4,163,400 (2003)
Oman 464,900 (2002)
Pakistan 2,624,800 (2003)
Palau 1,000 (2002)
Panama 834,000 (2003)
Papua New Guinea 15,000 (2002)
Paraguay 1,770,300 (2003)
Peru 2,908,800 (2003)
Philippines 15.201 million (2002)
Poland 17.401 million (2003)
Portugal 9,341,400 (2003)
Puerto Rico 1,211,111 (2001)
Qatar 376,500 (2003)
Reunion 489,800 (2002)
Romania 6.9 million (2003)
Russia 17,608,800 (2002)
Rwanda 134,000
note: Rwanda has mobile cellular service between Kigali and several provincial capitals (2003)
Saint Helena 0 (1997)
Saint Kitts and Nevis 5,000 (2002)
Saint Lucia 14,300 (2002)
Saint Pierre and Miquelon 0 (1994)
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 10,000 (2002)
Samoa 2,700 (2002)
San Marino 16,800 (2002)
Sao Tome and Principe 4,800 (2003)
Saudi Arabia 7,238,200 (2003)
Senegal 575,900 (2003)
Serbia and Montenegro 3,634,600 (2003)
Seychelles 54,500 (2003)
Sierra Leone 67,000 (2002)
Singapore 3,521,800 (2004)
Slovakia 3,678,800 (2003)
Slovenia 1,739,100 (2003)
Solomon Islands 1,000 (2002)
Somalia 35,000 (2002)
South Africa 16.86 million (2003)
Spain 37,506,700 (2003)
Sri Lanka 931,600 (2002)
Sudan 650,000 (2003)
Suriname 168,100 (2003)
Svalbard NA
Swaziland 88,000 (2003)
Sweden 7.949 million (2002)
Switzerland 6.172 million (2003)
Syria 400,000 (2002)
Taiwan 25,089,600 (2003)
Tajikistan 47,600 (2003)
Tanzania 891,200 (2003)
Thailand 26.5 million (2005)
Togo 220,000 (2003)
Tokelau 0 (2001)
Tonga 9,000 (2004)
Trinidad and Tobago 361,900 (2002)
Tunisia 1,899,900 (2003)
Turkey 27,887,500 (2003)
Turkmenistan 52,000 (2004)
Turks and Caicos Islands 1,700 (1999)
Tuvalu 0 (2004)
Uganda 776,200 (2003)
Ukraine 4.2 million (2002)
United Arab Emirates 2,972,300 (2003)
United Kingdom 49.677 million (2002)
United States 158.722 million (2003)
Uruguay 652,000 (2002)
Uzbekistan 320,800 (2003)
Vanuatu 7,800 (2003)
Venezuela 6,463,600 (2002)
Vietnam 2.742 million (2003)
Virgin Islands 41,000 (2002)
Wallis and Futuna 0 (1994)
West Bank 480,000 (cellular subscribers in both West Bank and Gaza Strip) (2003)
Western Sahara 0 (1999)
World NA
Yemen 411,100 (2002)
Zambia 241,000 (2003)
Zimbabwe 379,100 (2003)

This page was last updated on 28 July, 2005
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