Mobile subscriptions
Mobile cellular subscriptions per hundred people. The other precondition: UPI runs on phones, and this series is why a payments system of that scale was possible at all.
Latest
79.35
Published by
ITU, via World Bank
Mobile subscriptions over time
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| Period | Mobile subscriptions |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 79.4 |
| 2023 | 80.6 |
| 2022 | 80.2 |
| 2021 | 81.6 |
| 2020 | 82.3 |
| 2019 | 82.9 |
| 2018 | 85.6 |
| 2017 | 86 |
| 2016 | 83.9 |
| 2015 | 75.4 |
| 2014 | 71.9 |
| 2013 | 68.4 |
| 2012 | 67.6 |
| 2011 | 70.9 |
| 2010 | 60.5 |
| 2009 | 42.8 |
| 2008 | 28.7 |
| 2007 | 19.6 |
| 2006 | 14.2 |
| 2005 | 7.81 |
| 2004 | 4.6 |
| 2003 | 3.02 |
| 2002 | 1.18 |
| 2001 | 0.607 |
| 2000 | 0.338 |
| 1999 | 0.181 |
| 1998 | 0.117 |
| 1997 | 0.088 |
| 1996 | 0.033 |
| 1995 | 0.008 |
| 1994 | 0 |
| 1993 | 0 |
| 1992 | 0 |
| 1991 | 0 |
| 1990 | 0 |
| 1989 | 0 |
| 1988 | 0 |
| 1987 | 0 |
| 1986 | 0 |
| 1985 | 0 |
| 1984 | 0 |
| 1983 | 0 |
| 1982 | 0 |
| 1981 | 0 |
| 1980 | 0 |
| 1979 | 0 |
| 1978 | 0 |
| 1977 | 0 |
| 1976 | 0 |
| 1975 | 0 |
| 1970 | 0 |
| 1965 | 0 |
| 1960 | 0 |
Compared with
Source
ITU, via World Bank — https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/IT.CEL.SETS.P2