Countries in South America by mobile subscriptions

Questions

Which country in South America has the most mobile subscriptions?

Colombia has the most mobile subscriptions in South America: 174 subscriptions per 100 people (2024). Next come Uruguay (146 subscriptions per 100 people) and Suriname (142 subscriptions per 100 people).

Which country in South America has the fewest mobile subscriptions?

Venezuela, with 71 subscriptions per 100 people (2024).

What is the typical mobile subscriptions of a country in South America?

The median of the 12 countries in South America is 126 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.