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Dataset · World Bank Group
Smartphone Ownership
Smartphone Ownership, 2024 · 140 countries · 3 measures
Smartphone ownership is the share of adults whose main phone is a smartphone, from the World Bank's Global Findex survey. Where basic phones carry calls and text-based mobile money, a smartphone is what opens the internet, apps and most digital services — so this is the sharper of the two phone measures.
This site holds one year, Smartphone Ownership, 2024, read from World Bank Group’s own data and stored exactly as published.
Smartphone Ownership · the file
- Newest
- Smartphone Ownership, 2024
- Held
- 1 year · 140 rows
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
01One year
Every year
Newest first. Each opens the full table for that year, and each downloads as a CSV.
| Year | Countries | Change | Read | Download |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Smartphone Ownership, 2024 | 140 | — | September 26, 2026 | CSV |
Every year in one file, one row per country per year: smartphone-ownership-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv
025 columns
What’s in the file
Every column, what it holds, how it is stored and what its values look like — what a reader needs before opening the file.
| 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 whose main phone is a smartphone (%)smartphone_ownershipHeadline | The headline figure: Adults whose main mobile phone is a smartphone (% of population aged 15+). | Number · up to 15 decimals | 8.66301 Chad97.36489 Swedenmiddle 78.77587 | 140 | 0 | |
FemalefemaleWomen | The same measure, for women. | Number · up to 15 decimals | 9.1127 Pakistan98.2069 Norwaymiddle 77.4612 | 138 | 2 | |
MalemaleMen | The same measure, for men. | Number · up to 15 decimals | 14.5275 Malawi98.1739 Denmarkmiddle 79.5235 | 138 | 2 |
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.
03140 countries across every year
Who is covered
How many countries each year holds, continent by continent, who joined and who left, and which places this site covers that the dataset never has.
| 2024 | |
|---|---|
| Africa | 40 |
| Americas | 22 |
| Asia | 38 |
| Europe | 38 |
| Oceania | 2 |
| All | 140 |
One year, covering 140 countries.
Not in this dataset · 84 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.
Afghanistan
American Samoa
Andorra
Angola
Anguilla
Antigua and Barbuda
Aruba
Bahamas
Barbados
Belarus
Bermuda
Bhutan
British Virgin Islands
Brunei
Burundi
Cabo Verde
Cayman Islands
Central African RepublicChannel Islands
Cook Islands
Cuba
Curaçao
Djibouti
Dominica
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
Faroe Islands
Fiji
French Polynesia
Gibraltar
Greenland
Grenada
Guam
Guinea-Bissau
Guyana
Haiti
Isle of Man
Jamaica
Kiribati
Liechtenstein
Luxembourg
Macau
Maldives
Marshall Islands
Micronesia
Monaco
Montserrat
Myanmar
Nauru
New Caledonia
Niue
North Korea
Northern Mariana Islands
Palau
Papua New Guinea
Puerto Rico
Qatar
Rwanda
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Lucia
Saint Martin
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Samoa
San Marino
São Tomé and Príncipe
Seychelles
Sint Maarten
Solomon Islands
SomaliaSomaliland
South Sudan
Sudan
Suriname
Syria
Timor-Leste
Tonga
Turkmenistan
Turks and Caicos Islands
Tuvalu
United Arab Emirates
United States Virgin Islands
Vanuatu
Vatican City
Yemen04Provenance
Where it comes from
The path from the publisher to this page, and what was checked and changed on the way.
1 · Publisher
World Bank Group
2 · Their file
Smartphone Ownership 2024
3 · Read by this site
September 26, 2026
Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.4 · Stored as
1 file, one per year
It downloads as a CSV: smartphone-ownership-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv5 · Used on
Its statistic page, and every profile it measures
Precision
The headline is stored to 15 decimals, as published.
Rounded by this site
Never. Tables on screen may show fewer decimals; the files never do.
Changed by this site
Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.
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.
05Reuse
Licence and credit
What the publisher’s licence lets you do, what it asks of you, and a credit line and citation ready to copy.
Licence · checked September 26, 2026
- Share and redistribute it
- Adapt it and build on it
- Use it commercially
- Credit the publisher
- Say what you changed
Share, adapt and use commercially. Credit the publisher and say if you changed anything.
A credit line
Source: World Bank Group, Smartphone Ownership, via Nations Inquiry.
Cite this dataset
World Bank Group. Smartphone Ownership, Smartphone Ownership, 2024 [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/smartphone-ownership
The publisher’s own citation: World Bank. The Global Findex Database 2025. Washington, DC: World Bank Group.
Plain-language summary, not legal advice. The licence text is what binds.
06Where it is used
Around the site
Where these numbers appear on this site, and the datasets nearest to it.
Charted
Smartphone Ownership by countryWho is highest, the map, the spread, who rose and fell, and the records.
Subjects
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07Questions
Smartphone Ownership: questions and answers
What is the Smartphone Ownership?
Smartphone ownership is the share of adults whose main phone is a smartphone, from the World Bank's Global Findex survey. Where basic phones carry calls and text-based mobile money, a smartphone is what opens the internet, apps and most digital services — so this is the sharper of the two phone measures.
Which years of the Smartphone Ownership can I download?
One: Smartphone Ownership, 2024, as a CSV file.
Does World Bank Group rank countries on it?
No. World Bank Group publishes values only. The positions shown on this site are derived by ordering the published values, and are labelled as ours.
Can I use it commercially?
Yes, under CC BY 4.0, with credit to World Bank Group. The licence text is linked on this page.