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Nigeria - Mobile Subscriptions 2021

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Mobile cellular subscriptions per 100 people · World Bank

89.29 −6.14 from 2020 Global rank: 155th

Nigeria's mobile subscriptions was 89.29 in 2021, decreased +6.14 from 95.44 in 2020. This was the 155th highest globally.

Global Ranking - 2021▾

Mobile Subscriptions by Country - 2021
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Hong Kong SAR, China	319.85	9.6%
2nd	Antigua and Barbuda	199.24	-0.5%
3rd	Libya	195.12	18.3%
4th	United Arab Emirates	186.30	-4.2%
5th	Montenegro	185.49	4.4%
6th	Macao SAR, China	183.58	-22.7%
7th	El Salvador	176.97	10.9%
8th	Botswana	173.25	7.0%
9th	Russian Federation	169.07	3.7%
10th	Thailand	168.49	3.8%
11th	South Africa	163.13	3.0%
12th	Japan	159.52	3.3%
13th	Kuwait	158.65	3.1%
14th	Singapore	157.98	5.1%
15th	Costa Rica	154.83	3.8%
16th	Mauritius	154.05	3.3%
17th	Iran, Islamic Republic of	153.63	5.6%
18th	Côte d'Ivoire	150.34	8.4%
19th	Seychelles	149.48	-2.0%
20th	Estonia	148.74	2.7%
21st	Panama	147.90	3.9%
22nd	Suriname	146.65	-0.2%
23rd	Colombia	146.63	9.7%
24th	Georgia	146.57	9.1%
25th	Cyprus	145.99	5.5%
26th	Saudi Arabia	145.00	4.0%
27th	Philippines	144.42	8.2%
28th	Cayman Islands	142.64	-2.0%
29th	Korea	140.52	3.3%
30th	Mongolia	140.35	5.8%
31st	Israel	139.78	0.3%
32nd	Morocco	138.91	2.8%
33rd	Uruguay	138.11	3.1%
34th	Qatar	137.71	1.6%
35th	Malaysia	137.69	6.7%
36th	Mauritania	137.54	8.9%
37th	Luxembourg	136.87	3.0%
38th	Viet Nam	136.81	-3.4%
39th	Maldives	136.79	-4.3%
40th	Chile	136.57	5.5%
41st	Sri Lanka	135.52	2.8%
42nd	Slovak Republic	135.27	1.2%
43rd	Oman	135.08	-3.8%
44th	Ukraine	135.03	4.4%
45th	Palau	134.96	0.1%
46th	Trinidad and Tobago	134.22	0.0%
47th	Brunei Darussalam	133.60	11.4%
48th	Lithuania	133.36	1.5%
49th	Poland	132.99	2.9%
50th	Gabon	132.31	0.8%
51st	Indonesia	132.20	2.2%
52nd	Aruba	131.09	-0.1%
53rd	Italy	130.78	1.0%
54th	Argentina	130.35	7.6%
55th	Peru	129.99	8.5%
56th	Tunisia	129.85	4.7%
57th	Nepal	129.65	-1.7%
58th	Finland	129.04	0.2%
59th	Moldova	128.98	15.7%
60th	Bahrain	128.08	7.3%
61st	Myanmar	127.24	-14.1%
62nd	Germany	127.13	-1.0%
63rd	Belarus	127.12	1.6%
64th	Czechia	126.17	2.4%
65th	Liechtenstein	126.07	0.0%
66th	Guatemala	125.72	7.0%
67th	Denmark	125.60	1.0%
68th	Armenia	125.40	3.9%
69th	Serbia	125.08	4.0%
70th	Sweden	124.96	1.1%
71st	Ghana	124.40	-2.0%
72nd	Kazakhstan	123.94	-0.6%
73rd	Malta	123.94	1.4%
74th	Netherlands	123.45	1.7%
75th	Slovenia	123.36	1.7%
76th	European Union	123.27	1.5%
77th	Switzerland	123.21	-3.3%
78th	Kenya	122.30	4.0%
79th	China	121.49	0.8%
80th	Austria	121.36	1.0%
81st	St. Kitts and Nevis	121.26	-9.1%
82nd	Portugal	119.77	4.8%
83rd	Andorra	119.69	15.2%
84th	Paraguay	119.31	0.2%
85th	Romania	119.12	2.3%
86th	Spain	119.00	2.0%
87th	Greenland	118.85	1.1%
88th	Eswatini	118.63	13.3%
89th	United Kingdom	117.89	0.5%
90th	Iceland	117.34	2.1%
91st	Cambodia	117.24	-7.0%
92nd	Tajikistan	116.23	-2.2%
93rd	San Marino	115.70	3.1%
94th	French Polynesia	115.41	-3.8%
95th	Senegal	115.33	1.5%
96th	Bulgaria	114.91	0.3%
97th	Bosnia and Herzegovina	114.91	8.0%
98th	Latvia	114.65	6.2%
99th	New Zealand	114.46	-6.9%
100th	Cabo Verde	114.23	7.9%
101st	France	113.95	3.2%
102nd	Puerto Rico (US)	112.54	5.5%
103rd	Barbados	112.22	7.2%
104th	Burkina Faso	112.20	9.0%
105th	Croatia	112.17	1.4%
106th	Faroe Islands	111.09	-1.3%
107th	Bangladesh	110.01	3.8%
108th	Norway	109.59	1.2%
109th	Gambia, The	108.85	2.3%
110th	Mali	108.69	-6.8%
111th	Greece	108.64	1.9%
112th	Guinea-Bissau	108.63	14.3%
113th	Kyrgyz Republic	108.17	-1.5%
114th	Fiji	108.16	-0.2%
115th	Ireland	106.87	1.7%
116th	United States	106.33	2.4%
117th	Azerbaijan	105.69	4.0%
118th	Bermuda	105.19	-0.4%
119th	Hungary	105.14	-0.8%
120th	Australia	105.12	0.2%
121st	Algeria	105.04	1.5%
122nd	Guyana	104.97	-1.0%
123rd	North Macedonia	104.88	5.4%
124th	Brazil	104.83	6.3%
125th	Comoros	104.31	7.1%
126th	Namibia	103.73	-2.3%
127th	Zambia	103.28	3.0%
128th	Timor-Leste	102.67	-1.2%
129th	Uzbekistan	102.41	3.0%
130th	Jamaica	102.39	0.9%
131st	Sierra Leone	101.64	16.8%
132nd	Belgium	101.46	1.6%
133rd	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	100.81	0.9%
134th	Guinea	100.62	-2.5%
135th	Bhutan	100.33	3.7%
136th	Bahamas, The	100.26	-14.8%
137th	British Virgin Islands	99.56	5.1%
138th	Türkiye	99.54	4.3%
139th	Mexico	99.09	2.2%
140th	Monaco	97.14	4.2%
141st	St. Lucia	96.24	17.6%
142nd	Congo, Republic of	95.86	-1.8%
143rd	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	95.52	-1.5%
144th	Ecuador	94.95	7.6%
145th	Benin	94.92	11.4%
146th	Iraq	94.61	6.3%
147th	Nicaragua	93.82	3.3%
148th	Gibraltar	92.65	-5.4%
149th	Dominica	92.51	-16.2%
150th	Albania	92.48	1.4%
151st	Virgin Islands (US)	91.72	0.6%
152nd	New Caledonia	91.16	-0.4%
153rd	Curaçao	90.66	-1.3%
154th	Zimbabwe	90.25	6.2%
155th	Nigeria	89.29	-6.4%
156th	Tuvalu	88.29	2.0%
157th	Turkmenistan	88.19	-0.6%
158th	Dominican Republic	87.52	7.2%
159th	Canada	87.41	3.1%
160th	Grenada	86.57	-15.2%
161st	Tanzania	86.02	2.4%
162nd	Nauru	85.40	-0.6%
163rd	São Tomé and Principe	85.26	6.4%
164th	Egypt, Arab Republic of	84.09	-3.6%
165th	Vanuatu	81.69	-0.8%
166th	Rwanda	81.64	0.5%
167th	India	81.60	-0.8%
168th	Cameroon	80.81	-5.2%
169th	Lesotho	80.54	15.2%
170th	Pakistan	78.80	5.4%
171st	Syrian Arab Republic	78.56	-0.7%
172nd	West Bank and Gaza	78.16	-2.5%
173rd	Lebanon	74.99	-0.3%
174th	Honduras	73.48	6.8%
175th	Sudan	71.77	-4.6%
176th	Togo	70.45	-6.3%
177th	Belize	66.78	-1.1%
178th	Jordan	65.74	2.2%
179th	Uganda	65.62	5.4%
180th	Lao PDR	64.71	2.5%
181st	Haiti	64.35	-1.1%
182nd	Cuba	63.87	7.1%
183rd	Solomon Islands	62.16	-2.4%
184th	Niger	61.51	2.4%
185th	Tonga	60.98	4.0%
186th	Burundi	59.70	13.6%
187th	Malawi	59.56	16.3%
188th	Chad	58.03	15.1%
189th	Afghanistan	56.69	-2.3%
190th	Madagascar	53.92	-1.6%
191st	Eritrea	53.76	-1.8%
192nd	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	51.21	-3.6%
193rd	Papua New Guinea	48.12	-2.0%
194th	Yemen, Republic of	47.81	13.8%
195th	Congo, Democratic Republic of	47.29	11.3%
196th	Equatorial Guinea	46.43	7.1%
197th	Angola	44.39	1.4%
198th	Djibouti	43.64	11.1%
199th	Mozambique	43.16	-14.1%
200th	Kiribati	41.00	-5.4%
201st	Marshall Islands	38.68	3.2%
202nd	Central African Republic	35.82	-1.7%
203rd	Samoa	32.28	-0.9%
204th	Liberia	31.43	-2.1%
205th	South Sudan	30.15	41.4%
206th	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	22.87	-0.4%
207th	Micronesia, Federated States of	19.71	-0.6%

FAQ

What was Nigeria's mobile subscriptions in 2021?▾

Nigeria's mobile subscriptions in 2021 was 89.29. This ranked 155th globally.

How did Nigeria's mobile subscriptions change in 2021?▾

Nigeria's mobile subscriptions decreased by 6.4% in 2021 compared to 2020.

Which country had the highest mobile subscriptions in 2021?▾

Hong Kong SAR, China had the highest mobile subscriptions in 2021 at 319.85.

What is the mobile subscriptions of Nigeria in 2021?▾

The mobile subscriptions of Nigeria in 2021 was 89.29. This ranked 155th globally.

How does 2021 compare to 2020 for Nigeria's mobile subscriptions?▾

Nigeria's mobile subscriptions went from 95.44 in 2020 to 89.29 in 2021, a 6.4% decrease.

HistorySaid - pattern alert

Nigeria matched the Fiscal Dominance Trap pattern in 2021. Historically: 386 occurrences, 278 successful (72%). Outcome 24 months later: 24.7%. View full analysis →

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