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The World Factbook 2002
  Field Listing - Telephones - mobile cellular


This entry gives the total number of mobile cellular telephones in use.
Country
Telephones - mobile cellular
Afghanistan NA
Albania 250,000 (2001)
Algeria 33,500 (1999)
American Samoa 2,550 (1997)
Andorra 14,117 (December 1998)
Angola 25,800 (2000)
Anguilla 1,629 (2000)
Antarctica NA; Iridium system in use
Antigua and Barbuda 1,300 (1996)
Argentina 3 million (December 1999)
Armenia 25,000 (2001)
Aruba 3,402 (1997)
Australia 8.6 million (2000)
Austria 6 million (2001)
Azerbaijan 40,000 (1997)
Bahamas, The 6,152 (1997)
Bahrain 58,543 (1997)
Bangladesh 283,000 (2000)
Barbados 8,013 (1997)
Belarus 8,167 (1997)
Belgium 974,494 (1997)
Belize 3,023 (1997)
Benin 55,500 (2000)
Bermuda 7,980 (1996)
Bhutan NA
Bolivia 116,000 (1997)
Bosnia and Herzegovina 9,000 (1997)
Botswana 200,000 (2000)
Brazil 4.4 million (1997)
British Virgin Islands NA
Brunei 43,524 (1996)
Bulgaria 1.054 million (2001)
Burkina Faso 25,200 (2000)
Burma 8,492 (1997)
Burundi 16,300 (2000)
Cambodia 80,000 (2000)
Cameroon 300,000 (2002)
Canada 4.207 million (1997)
Cape Verde 28,119 (2002)
Cayman Islands 2,534 (1995)
Central African Republic 570 (1997)
Chad 20,000 (2002)
Chile 944,225 (1998)
China 65 million (January 2001)
Christmas Island NA
Cocos (Keeling) Islands NA
Colombia 1,800,229 (December 1998)
Comoros NA
Congo, Democratic Republic of the 15,000 (2000)
Congo, Republic of the 250,000 (2001)
Cook Islands 0 (1994)
Costa Rica 143,000 (2000)
Cote d'Ivoire 450,000 (2000)
Croatia 1.3 million (2001)
Cuba 2,994 (1997)
Cyprus Greek Cypriot area: 68,000 (1998); Turkish Cypriot area: 70,000 (1999)
Czech Republic 4.346 million (2000)
Denmark 1,444,016 (1997)
Djibouti NA (2002)
Dominica 461 (1996)
Dominican Republic 130,149 (1997)
East Timor NA
Ecuador 384,000 (1999)
Egypt 380,000 (1999)
El Salvador 40,163 (1997)
Equatorial Guinea NA
Eritrea NA; note - mobile cellular service was introduced in May 2001
Estonia 711,000 (yearend 2001)
Ethiopia 17,800 (2000)
Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) NA
Faroe Islands 10,761 (1999)
Fiji 5,200 (1997)
Finland 2,162,574 (1997)
France 11.078 million (yearend 1998)
French Guiana NA
French Polynesia 5,427 (1997)
Gabon 120,000 (2000)
Gambia, The 5,624 (2000)
Gaza Strip NA
Georgia 185,500 (2000)
Germany 55.3 million (June 2001)
Ghana 150,000 (2001)
Gibraltar 1,620 (1997)
Greece 937,700 (1997)
Greenland 12,676 (yearend 1999)
Grenada 976 (1997)
Guadeloupe NA
Guam 55,000 (1998)
Guatemala 663,296 (September 2000)
Guernsey 12,000 (1997)
Guinea 21,567 (1998)
Guinea-Bissau NA
Guyana 6,100 (2000)
Haiti 0 (1995)
Holy See (Vatican City) NA
Honduras 14,427 (1997)
Hong Kong 3.7 million (December 1999)
Hungary 1.269 million (July 1999)
Iceland 65,746 (1997)
India 2.93 million (November 2000)
Indonesia 1.07 million (1998)
Iran 265,000 (August 1998)
Iraq NA; service available in northern Iraq (2001)
Ireland 2 million (2001)
Israel 2.5 million (1999)
Italy 20.5 million (1999)
Jamaica 54,640 (1996)
Japan 63.88 million (2000)
Jersey 4,400 (1997)
Jordan 11,500 (1995)
Kazakhstan 400,000 (2001)
Kenya 540,000 (2001)
Kiribati NA
Korea, North NA
Korea, South 28 million (September 2000)
Kuwait 210,000 (1997)
Kyrgyzstan NA
Laos 4,915 (1997)
Latvia 401,263 (2000)
Lebanon 580,000 (1999)
Lesotho 21,600 (2000)
Liberia 0 (1998)
Libya NA
Liechtenstein NA
Lithuania 500,000 (2001)
Luxembourg 215,741 (2000)
Macau 158,251 (November 2001)
Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of 12,362 (1997)
Madagascar 63,100 (2000)
Malawi 49,000 (2000)
Malaysia 5 million (2000)
Maldives 1,290 (1997)
Mali 40,000 (2001)
Malta 17,691 (1997)
Man, Isle of NA
Marshall Islands 489 (2001)
Martinique 15,000 (1997)
Mauritania 35,000 (2001)
Mauritius 60,482 (1998)
Mayotte 0 (2000)
Mexico 2.02 million (1998)
Micronesia, Federated States of NA
Moldova 2,200 (1997)
Monaco NA
Mongolia 110,000 (2001)
Montserrat 70 (1994)
Morocco 116,645 (1998)
Mozambique 100,000 (June 2001)
Namibia 82,000 (2000)
Nauru 450 (1994)
Nepal NA
Netherlands 4,081,891 (April 1999)
Netherlands Antilles 13,977 (1996)
New Caledonia 13,040 (1998)
New Zealand 2.2 million (2000)
Nicaragua 7,911 (1997)
Niger 6,700 (2002)
Nigeria 200,000 (2001)
Niue 0 (1991)
Norfolk Island 0 (1983)
Northern Mariana Islands 1,200 (1995)
Norway 2,080,408 (1998)
Oman 59,822 (1997)
Pakistan 158,000 (1998)
Palau 1,000 (2002)
Panama 17,000 (1997)
Papua New Guinea 3,053 (1996)
Paraguay 510,000 (2001)
Peru 504,995 (1998)
Philippines 6.5 million (2000)
Poland 1.78 million (1998)
Portugal 3,074,194 (1999)
Puerto Rico 169,265 (1996)
Qatar 43,476 (1997)
Reunion 197,000 (September 2000)
Romania 645,500 (1999)
Russia 2.5 million (October 2000)
Rwanda 11,000 (1999)
note: Rwanda has mobile cellular service between Kigali and several prefecture capitals (2002)
Saint Helena 0 (1997)
Saint Kitts and Nevis 205 (1997)
Saint Lucia 1,600 (1997)
Saint Pierre and Miquelon 0 (1994)
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines NA
Samoa 1,545 (February 1998)
San Marino 3,010 (1998)
Sao Tome and Principe 6,942 (1997)
Saudi Arabia 1 million
note: in 1998, the government contracted for the installation of 575,000 additional Group Speciale Mobile (GSM) cellular telephone lines over 15 months to raise the total number of subscribers to more than one million; Riyadh planned to further expand the GSM system in 1999 by adding an additional one million lines (1998)
Senegal 373,965 (2001)
Seychelles 16,316 (1999)
Sierra Leone 30,000 (2001)
Singapore 2.74 million (2000)
Slovakia 736,662 (April 1999)
Slovenia 1 million (2000)
Solomon Islands 658 (1997)
Somalia NA
South Africa 7.06 million (2001)
Spain 8.394 million (1999)
Sri Lanka 228,604 (1999)
Sudan 20,000 (2000)
Suriname 4,090 (1997)
Svalbard NA
Swaziland 45,000 (2001)
Sweden 3.835 million (October 1998)
Switzerland 1.967 million (1999)
Syria NA
Taiwan 16 million (September 2000)
Tajikistan 2,500 (1997)
Tanzania 30,000 (1999)
Thailand 3.1 million (2002)
Togo 2,995 (1997)
Tokelau 0 (2001)
Tonga 302 (1996)
Trinidad and Tobago 17,411 (1997)
Tunisia 50,000 (1998)
Turkey 17.1 million (2001)
Turkmenistan 4,300 (1998)
Turks and Caicos Islands 0 (1994)
Tuvalu 0 (1994)
Uganda 9,000 (1998)
Ukraine 236,000 (1998)
United Arab Emirates 1 million (1999)
United Kingdom 13 million (yearend 1998)
United States 69.209 million (1998)
Uruguay 350,000 (2001)
Uzbekistan 26,000 (1998)
Vanuatu 310 (2000)
Venezuela 2 million (1998)
Vietnam 730,155 (2000)
Virgin Islands 2,000 (1992)
Wallis and Futuna 0 (1994)
West Bank NA
Western Sahara 0 (1999)
World NA
Yemen 32,042 (2000)
Yugoslavia 87,000 (1997)
Zambia 75,000 (2001)
Zimbabwe 111,000 (2001)

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