Mobile Phone Ownership

Every year in one file, one row per country per year: mobile-phone-ownership-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

Every column in the newest file of Mobile Phone Ownership: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.

Column	What it holds	Stored as	Range, 2024	Distinct	Empty	Spread
CountrycountryName	The country’s name, as this file spells it.	Text	—	140	0
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier	The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.	Text · 3 letters	—	140	0
Adults who own a mobile phone (%)mobile_phone_ownershipHeadline	The headline figure: Adults who own a mobile phone (% of population aged 15+).	Number · up to 15 decimals	45.8336Madagascar100.0000Libyamiddle 91.6827	140	0
FemalefemaleWomen	The same measure, for women.	Number · up to 15 decimals	30.130Pakistan100.000Libyamiddle 91.020	140	0
MalemaleMen	The same measure, for men.	Number · up to 14 decimals	49.5751Madagascar100.0000Libyamiddle 92.9042	140	0

Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. A higher value is the better result.

One year, covering 140 countries.

Not in this dataset · 85 places this site covers

World Bank Group gives no figure for these in any year held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.

AfghanistanAmerican SamoaAndorraAngolaAnguillaAntigua and BarbudaArubaBahamasBarbadosBelarusBermudaBhutanBritish Virgin IslandsBruneiBurundiCabo VerdeCayman IslandsCentral African RepublicChannel IslandsCook IslandsCubaCuraçaoDjiboutiDominicaEquatorial GuineaEritreaFaroe IslandsFijiFrench PolynesiaGibraltarGreenlandGrenadaGuamGuinea-BissauGuyanaHaitiIsle of ManJamaicaKiribatiLiechtensteinLuxembourgMacauMaldivesMarshall IslandsMicronesiaMonacoMontserratMyanmarNauruNew CaledoniaNiueNorth KoreaNorthern CyprusNorthern Mariana IslandsPalauPapua New GuineaPuerto RicoQatarRwandaSaint Kitts and NevisSaint LuciaSaint MartinSaint Vincent and the GrenadinesSamoaSan MarinoSão Tomé and PríncipeSeychellesSint MaartenSolomon IslandsSomaliaSomalilandSouth SudanSudanSurinameSyriaTimor-LesteTongaTurkmenistanTurks and Caicos IslandsTuvaluUnited Arab EmiratesUnited States Virgin IslandsVanuatuVatican CityYemen

1. 1 · Publisher

   World Bank Group

   worldbank.org

2. 2 · Their file

   Mobile Phone Ownership 2024

   WB_FINDEX_WIDEF.csv

3. 3 · Read by this site

   September 26, 2026

   Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.

4. 4 · Stored as

   1 file, one per year

   It downloads as a CSV: mobile-phone-ownership-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

5. 5 · Used on

   Its statistic page, and every profile it measures

   /statistics/mobile-phone-ownership

From World Bank Data360 (Global Findex 2025, survey wave 2024). Female and male shares are the Bank's own. The United Arab Emirates is not included because the Bank does not publish its 2024 figures.