Technology, Internet & Money
How many active mobile-cellular phone subscriptions existed worldwide as of 2024?
Answer
9,000,000,000 subscriptions
That's more subscriptions than the roughly 8.2 billion humans on Earth — plenty of people carry two SIMs, while hundreds of millions of others still have none.
Source: ITU data via World Bank (mobile-cellular subscriptions, IT.CEL.SETS)
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