Global unique mobile subscriber penetration 2024-2030, by region

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Petroc Taylor,
Mar 14, 2025

In 2024, 71 percent of the global population were reported to have had a mobile subscription. This figure is forecast to reach 76 percent by the end of the decade, with particularly strong growth forecast in Latin America, the Middle East, and North Africa. Europe and Greater China had the highest mobile subscription penetration rates among global regions at 89 percent.

Unique mobile subscribers penetration rate as share of population worldwide in 2024 and 2030, by region

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February 2025

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Worldwide

Survey time period

2024

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Percentage of population

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*Forecast.

**Asia Pacific excludes Greater China.

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