Countries in Africa by mobile subscriptions

Questions

Which country in Africa has the most mobile subscriptions?

Libya has the most mobile subscriptions in Africa: 193 subscriptions per 100 people (2022). Next come Côte d'Ivoire (184 subscriptions per 100 people) and South Africa (179 subscriptions per 100 people).

Which country in Africa has the fewest mobile subscriptions?

Liberia, with 32 subscriptions per 100 people (2022).

What is the typical mobile subscriptions of a country in Africa?

The median of the 54 countries in Africa is 97 subscriptions per 100 people: half are above it, half below. The median, not the average, because a few countries at the top would drag an average far above almost everyone.

Where do the figures come from?

Mobile phone subscriptions for every 100 people. One person can hold several SIM cards, so many countries pass 100. Source: World Bank, mostly 2024. Only independent states are ranked; territories are listed separately. A country’s continent follows Natural Earth; the handful of island states it files under the open ocean are placed by their UN subregion.

Source: World Bank (CC BY 4.0). Figures more than 5 years older than the newest are left out rather than shown beside current ones. Countries sharing a value share a rank. All sources.