Arab Region | Number of mobile-cellular telephone subscriptions (Arab countries,1990–2021)

Mobile cellular telephone subscriptions are subscriptions to a public mobile telephone service that provide access to the PSTN using cellular technology. The indicator includes (and is split into) the number of postpaid subscriptions, and the number of active prepaid accounts (i.e. that have been used during the last three months). The indicator applies to all mobile cellular subscriptions that offer voice communications. It excludes subscriptions via data cards or USB modems, subscriptions to public mobile data services, private trunked mobile radio, telepoint, radio paging and telemetry services.
Publisher
Arab Development Portal
Origin
Arab Region
Records
698
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Arab Region | Number of mobile-cellular telephone subscriptions (Arab countries,1990–2021)
1992 Algeria 4781
1996 Algeria 11700
1998 Algeria 18000
2004 Algeria 4882414
2013 Algeria 39517045
2017 Algeria 45845665
2021 Algeria 47015757
1991 Bahrain 7354
1994 Bahrain 17616
2004 Bahrain 649764
2013 Bahrain 2210190
1998 Djibouti 220
2001 Djibouti 3000
2002 Djibouti 15000
2006 Djibouti 44817
2014 Djibouti 287049
2020 Djibouti 434035
1998 Egypt 90786
2000 Egypt 1359900
2010 Egypt 70661005
2011 Egypt 83425145
2015 Egypt 94016152
2021 Egypt 103449734
2004 Iraq 574000
2015 Iraq 33559000
2021 Iraq 40749364
1990 Jordan 1439
2003 Jordan 1325313
2015 Jordan 13797968
1990 Comoros 0
1995 Comoros 0
2001 Comoros 0
2012 Comoros 283511
2019 Comoros 575218
1996 Lebanon 198000
2010 Lebanon 2863664
2019 Lebanon 4237962
1992 Libya 0
1994 Libya 0
2005 Libya 2000000
2006 Libya 3927562
2012 Libya 9587000
1998 Kuwait 250000
2003 Kuwait 1420000
2004 Kuwait 1774567
2006 Kuwait 1179573
2018 Kuwait 7099848
1990 Mauritania 0
1992 Mauritania 0
1994 Mauritania 0
2008 Mauritania 2091992
2015 Mauritania 3644483
2016 Mauritania 3614172
2018 Mauritania 4566502
1995 Morocco 29511
1996 Morocco 42942
1997 Morocco 74472
1999 Morocco 369174
2000 Morocco 2342000
2010 Oman 4606133
2014 Oman 6194169
2017 Oman 6943910
1992 Palestine 0
2001 Palestine 175941
2002 Palestine 251602
2004 Palestine 436628
2012 Palestine 3134700
1993 Qatar 4289
1995 Qatar 18469
1996 Qatar 28772
1999 Qatar 84365
2010 Qatar 2186447
2012 Qatar 2601210
2005 Saudi Arabia 14164184
2006 Saudi Arabia 19700000
2008 Saudi Arabia 36000000
2013 Saudi Arabia 53104000
2008 Somalia 627000
1997 Sudan 3800
2002 Sudan 190778
2004 Sudan 1048558
2018 Sudan 30100412
1997 Syria 0
2012 Syria 12980000
2013 Syria 12291150
2017 Syria 15386000
2018 Syria 17129676
2021 Syria 16990714
2006 Tunisia 7339047
2010 Tunisia 11114206
2019 Tunisia 14771048
1993 United Arab Emirates 70586
2001 United Arab Emirates 1909303
2004 United Arab Emirates 3683117
2012 United Arab Emirates 13775252
2015 United Arab Emirates 17942560
2016 United Arab Emirates 19905093
2007 Yemen 4349000
2014 Yemen 17100000
2021 Yemen 15178000

Arab Region | Number of mobile-cellular telephone subscriptions (Arab countries,1990–2021)

Mobile cellular telephone subscriptions are subscriptions to a public mobile telephone service that provide access to the PSTN using cellular technology. The indicator includes (and is split into) the number of postpaid subscriptions, and the number of active prepaid accounts (i.e. that have been used during the last three months). The indicator applies to all mobile cellular subscriptions that offer voice communications. It excludes subscriptions via data cards or USB modems, subscriptions to public mobile data services, private trunked mobile radio, telepoint, radio paging and telemetry services.
Publisher
Arab Development Portal
Origin
Arab Region
Records
698
Source