technology2024

Mobile telephone ownership, both sexes

Name: Mobile telephone ownership, both sexes
Creator: United Nations SDG Global Database
Keywords: trend-research-200, un-sdg, digital-access-telecommunications, mobile, telephone, ownership, both, sexes

Compare mobile telephone ownership, both sexes across 146 countries using official UN SDG Global Database observations for 2024.

Source: United Nations SDG Global Database•146 countries

Loading visualization...

Key Insights

Global Average

81.8%

Median: 85.9%

Countries Covered

146

with available data

Highest

Singapore

99.8%

Lowest

Burundi

27.8%

Top 5 Countries

1Singapore99.8%

2Monaco99.5%

3Romania99.1%

4Spain99.1%

5Czech Republic98.8%

By Region

Oceania96.7%(2 countries)

Europe96.5%(26 countries)

South America90.0%(1 countries)

North America87.0%(4 countries)

Asia85.8%(13 countries)

Key Findings

•146 ISO-mapped countries or territories have a finite fixed-year observation.
•Singapore has the highest published value (99.8 %).
•Burundi has the lowest published value (27.8 %).

Country Rankings

Top 10 Countries

Bottom 10 Countries

Data Analysis

Value Distribution

How countries are distributed across the value range

Low (27.8%)High (99.8%)

Regional Comparison

Average values by world region (Global avg: 81.8%)

Oceania (2)

Europe (26)

South America (1)

North America (4)

Asia (13)

Other (93)

Africa (7)

Percentile Profile

The curve shows how values change from the lowest to the highest country. Steep sections reveal inequality or outliers.

0th percentile · lowest100th percentile · highest

About This Statistic

Proportion of individuals who own a mobile telephone, by sex (%).

Values use UN SDG series IT_MOB_OWN, release 2026.Q2.G.01, one fixed 2024 reference year, unit Percentage, and the fixed selection Reporting Type: Global; Sex: Both sexes. Aggregates, missing/non-finite values, other dimensions, other attributes, and non-ISO geographies are excluded; MapTheory does not impute missing countries.

Methodology

UN SDG series IT_MOB_OWN; year 2024; unit PERCENT; dimensions {"Reporting Type": "G", "Sex": "BOTHSEX"}; attributes {"Nature": "E", "Units": "PERCENT"} Official UN SDG metadata for indicator 5.b.1.

Full Data

Rank ↑	Country ↕	Value ↕
1	Singapore	99.8%
2	Monaco	99.5%
3	Romania	99.1%
4	Spain	99.1%
5	Czech Republic	98.8%
6	Austria	98.8%
7	Iceland	98.7%
8	Luxembourg	98.7%
9	Denmark	98.6%
10	Qatar	98.6%
11	Switzerland	98.5%
12	Kuwait	98.4%
13	Norway	98.2%
14	Ireland	97.8%
15	Malta	97.8%
16	Liechtenstein	97.7%
17	Australia	97.5%
18	Egypt	97.4%
19	Croatia	97.3%
20	Finland	97.1%
21	San Marino	97.1%
22	United States of America	97.1%
23	Cyprus	97.0%
24	Israel	97.0%
25	Belgium	96.9%
26	Taiwan, Province of China	96.8%
27	Andorra	96.7%
28	Italy	96.0%
29	Estonia	95.9%
30	New Zealand	95.9%
31	United Kingdom	95.9%
32	Hungary	95.8%
33	Canada	95.7%
34	Greece	95.7%
35	Bulgaria	95.6%
36	Sweden	95.1%
37	Latvia	95.0%
38	Montenegro	95.0%
39	Seychelles	95.0%
40	Lithuania	94.4%
41	Guyana	94.0%
42	Bahamas	94.0%
43	Kyrgyzstan	93.8%
44	People's Republic of China	93.5%
45	Macao	93.4%
46	Bhutan	93.2%
47	Maldives	92.7%
48	Ukraine	92.7%
49	Algeria	92.7%
50	The Republic of North Macedonia	92.3%
51	Mongolia	92.1%
52	Brunei Darussalam	91.9%
53	Netherlands	91.6%
54	Germany	91.3%
55	Tunisia	90.9%
56	Moldova, Republic of	90.4%
57	Argentina	90.0%
58	Iraq	89.5%
59	Suriname	89.2%
60	Albania	89.2%
61	Mauritius	89.0%
62	Bosnia and Herzegovina	88.9%
63	Nauru	88.0%
64	Jamaica	87.5%
65	Antigua and Barbuda	87.5%
66	Dominica	87.4%
67	Libya	87.3%
68	South Africa	87.0%
69	Islamic Republic of Iran	86.8%
70	Lebanon	86.5%
71	Saint Lucia	86.3%
72	Turkmenistan	86.1%
73	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	85.9%
74	Saint Kitts and Nevis	85.8%
75	United Republic of Tanzania	85.3%
76	Costa Rica	85.2%
77	Gabon	84.8%
78	Vietnam	84.8%
79	Uzbekistan	84.8%
80	Palau	84.7%
81	Azerbaijan	84.5%
82	Trinidad and Tobago	84.1%
83	Barbados	83.7%
84	Eswatini	83.6%
85	Mauritania	83.2%
86	Nicaragua	83.0%
87	Fiji	82.7%
88	Guinea	82.2%
89	Zimbabwe	81.6%
90	Venezuela	81.6%
91	Cape Verde	81.4%
92	Mexico	81.2%
93	Cambodia	80.7%
94	Bolivia	80.5%
95	Grenada	80.1%
96	Mozambique	79.9%
97	Panama	79.9%
98	El Salvador	79.8%
99	Armenia	79.8%
100	Namibia	79.7%
101	Senegal	79.4%
102	Nepal	78.4%
103	Marshall Islands	77.1%
104	Lao People's Democratic Republic	76.9%
105	Honduras	75.6%
106	Lesotho	75.2%
107	Guatemala	74.0%
108	Ghana	73.1%
109	Djibouti	73.0%
110	Tonga	73.0%
111	Equatorial Guinea	71.8%
112	Sao Tome and Principe	70.9%
113	Tajikistan	70.7%
114	Cuba	69.8%
115	India	69.5%
116	Nigeria	69.5%
117	Mali	69.2%
118	Republic of the Congo	69.1%
119	Cameroon	67.4%
120	Sri Lanka	65.9%
121	Republic of The Gambia	65.3%
122	Micronesia, Federated States of	65.2%
123	Benin	65.0%
124	Niger	63.9%
125	Burkina Faso	63.9%
126	Comoros	63.1%
127	Guinea-Bissau	61.9%
128	Haiti	60.3%
129	Angola	59.7%
130	Kiribati	59.4%
131	Togo	59.3%
132	Solomon Islands	58.6%
133	Malawi	57.2%
134	Liberia	54.8%
135	Ethiopia	52.7%
136	Rwanda	51.5%
137	Sierra Leone	50.3%
138	Afghanistan	48.4%
139	Papua New Guinea	48.1%
140	Somalia	47.9%
141	Zambia	47.4%
142	Madagascar	44.4%
143	Chad	44.3%
144	Democratic Republic of the Congo	44.3%
145	Central African Republic	39.8%
146	Burundi	27.8%

Showing 146 of 146 countries

Topics

#trend-research-200 #un-sdg #digital-access-telecommunications #mobile #telephone #ownership #both #sexes

Data Source

This data comes from United Nations SDG Global Database (2024).

View Original Source