Data for 2024

Smartphone Ownership, 2024

Name: Smartphone Ownership, 2024
Creator: World Bank Group
License: https://data360files.worldbank.org/data360-data/metadata/WB_FINDEX/WB_FINDEX_CON9A.json

Figures for 2024, as World Bank Group published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Smartphone Ownership, 2024 covers 140 countries on 3 measures. Sweden is highest, at 97.36489; Chad is lowest, at 8.66301. The middle country reads 78.77587.

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Smartphone Ownership · Data for 2024

HighestSweden

97.36489

LowestChad

8.66301

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the better end.

140countries
3measures per country
2024the year it describes
140distinct values15 decimals, as published
Sep 26, 2026read from the publisher
CC BY 4.0licence

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Smartphone Ownership, 2024, as published. World Bank Group ranks nobody on this measure; the position is derived here by ordering the published values. “=” marks a shared position.

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Smartphone Ownership, 2024: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
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1	Sweden`SWE`Northern Europe	97.36489	96.8837	97.8338
2	Norway`NOR`Northern Europe	97.33979	98.2069	96.4933
3	Denmark`DNK`Northern Europe	97.17041	96.1644	98.1739
4	Iceland`ISL`Northern Europe	96.97309	97.3100	96.6477
5	Estonia`EST`Northern Europe	95.24435	95.1695	95.3286
6	Saudi Arabia`SAU`Western Asia	94.52670	92.1584	95.8351
7	Bahrain`BHR`Western Asia	93.79620	91.1786	95.1648
8	Singapore`SGP`South-eastern Asia	92.68046	92.1297	93.2117
9	United States`USA`Northern America	92.63659	92.2280	93.0458
10	Hong Kong`HKG`Eastern Asia	92.43101	91.5231	93.5501
11	Finland`FIN`Northern Europe	92.34975	90.7660	93.9723
12	Spain`ESP`Southern Europe	92.21085	93.2039	91.1710
13	Mongolia`MNG`Eastern Asia	91.85374	93.4231	90.1156
14	Uruguay`URY`South America	91.28405	92.3859	90.0818
15	Italy`ITA`Southern Europe	90.49008	87.4920	93.6761
16	Cyprus`CYP`Western Asia	90.43578	90.9336	89.9498
17	Australia`AUS`Australia and New Zealand	90.32507	89.4303	91.2393
18	Malta`MLT`Southern Europe	90.04873	88.7961	91.2152
19	South Korea`KOR`Eastern Asia	89.84269	87.9275	91.7818
20	Kyrgyzstan`KGZ`Central Asia	89.76232	89.8411	89.6770
21	Netherlands`NLD`Western Europe	89.74072	87.1411	92.3809
22	Lebanon`LBN`Western Asia	89.56389	88.0506	91.1316
23	Malaysia`MYS`South-eastern Asia	89.42576	88.9165	89.9177
24	Taiwan`TWN`Eastern Asia	89.22585	88.1582	90.3302
25	Oman`OMN`Western Asia	89.12858	90.2441	88.5955
26	Lithuania`LTU`Northern Europe	89.01647	84.4244	94.0677
27	New Zealand`NZL`Australia and New Zealand	88.76195	86.8866	90.7241
28	Latvia`LVA`Northern Europe	88.68510	87.3432	90.3414
29	Czechia`CZE`Eastern Europe	88.30711	84.0990	92.6782
30	China`CHN`Eastern Asia	88.23648	87.9106	88.5464
31	Belgium`BEL`Western Europe	88.22639	88.1841	88.2708
32	Kosovo`XKX`Southern Europe	88.11610	89.5037	86.6555
33	Thailand`THA`South-eastern Asia	87.81855	87.2917	88.3645
34	Kuwait`KWT`Western Asia	87.29173	84.3537	88.8743
35	Chile`CHL`South America	86.94745	88.7960	84.9808
36	Hungary`HUN`Eastern Europe	86.93596	83.1192	91.1405
37	Türkiye`TUR`Western Asia	86.64070	83.6243	89.7079
38	Palestine`PSE`Western Asia	86.59574	86.4500	86.7375
39	Portugal`PRT`Southern Europe	86.37036	83.0692	89.8031
40	Croatia`HRV`Southern Europe	86.35794	84.1575	88.7952
41	Greece`GRC`Southern Europe	86.27675	82.5969	90.1675
42	United Kingdom`GBR`Northern Europe	85.44188	87.2861	83.4855
43	Vietnam`VNM`South-eastern Asia	85.43702	85.0600	85.8322
44	Slovenia`SVN`Southern Europe	85.40391	84.9317	85.9061
45	Ireland`IRL`Northern Europe	84.98297	79.6634	90.2822
46	Ukraine`UKR`Eastern Europe	84.60284	83.6907	85.5744
47	Germany`DEU`Western Europe	84.52754	82.7612	86.4332
48	Algeria`DZA`Northern Africa	84.33576	84.7470	83.9400
49	Canada`CAN`Northern America	84.06384	80.5527	87.5884
50	Russia`RUS`Eastern Europe	83.45150	80.7854	86.4166
51	Japan`JPN`Eastern Asia	83.33127	77.8511	89.1086
52	Venezuela`VEN`South America	83.32832	80.6097	86.0721
53	Israel`ISR`Western Asia	83.23436	82.3533	84.1432
54	Armenia`ARM`Western Asia	83.02801	86.2272	79.0653
55	France`FRA`Western Europe	82.63725	84.3672	80.7951
56	Paraguay`PRY`South America	82.55897	84.3364	80.6854
57	Slovakia`SVK`Eastern Europe	82.54803	79.5857	85.6998
58	Austria`AUT`Western Europe	82.31697	82.5119	82.1171
59	Georgia`GEO`Western Asia	82.30565	84.5390	79.6848
60	Bosnia and Herzegovina`BIH`Southern Europe	82.11423	80.3479	83.9758
61	Trinidad and Tobago`TTO`Caribbean	82.03716	81.4344	82.6300
62	Azerbaijan`AZE`Western Asia	81.36851	79.1676	83.6928
63	Kazakhstan`KAZ`Central Asia	81.12028	80.4478	81.8674
64	Poland`POL`Eastern Europe	80.90017	80.8587	80.9458
65	Costa Rica`CRI`Central America	80.70503	82.8112	78.5314
66	Belize`BLZ`Central America	80.09069	80.4051	79.7412
67	Montenegro`MNE`Southern Europe	79.76352	79.3113	80.2423
68	Albania`ALB`Southern Europe	79.36112	81.2813	77.2579
69	Switzerland`CHE`Western Europe	79.21815	76.6370	81.8665
70	North Macedonia`MKD`Southern Europe	78.95125	77.1519	80.8292
71	Serbia`SRB`Southern Europe	78.60049	77.7705	79.5090
72	Cambodia`KHM`South-eastern Asia	76.84771	74.4915	79.5380
73	Dominican Republic`DOM`Caribbean	76.47591	75.8488	77.1262
74	Bulgaria`BGR`Eastern Europe	76.47538	74.4002	78.7872
75	Romania`ROU`Eastern Europe	74.56336	72.9141	76.3498
76	Iran`IRN`Southern Asia	73.79187	75.5423	72.0450
77	Indonesia`IDN`South-eastern Asia	73.74225	73.0722	74.4068
78	Colombia`COL`South America	73.27679	71.8841	74.7917
79	Jordan`JOR`Western Asia	73.19281	71.5323	74.7281
80	El Salvador`SLV`Central America	73.16133	69.3466	77.9634
81	Brazil`BRA`South America	71.75576	71.3487	72.1993
82	Moldova`MDA`Eastern Europe	71.68310	70.4522	73.0996
83	Iraq`IRQ`Western Asia	71.13711	61.9902	79.6930
84	Uzbekistan`UZB`Central Asia	70.21799	66.0424	74.6853
85	Bolivia`BOL`South America	69.55680	65.7911	73.4290
86	Laos`LAO`South-eastern Asia	69.27768	72.3671	66.1862
87	Panama`PAN`Central America	69.25533	70.2653	68.1913
88	Philippines`PHL`South-eastern Asia	69.00377	71.5939	66.3310
89	Argentina`ARG`South America	67.76991	67.4450	68.1336
90	South Africa`ZAF`Southern Africa	67.51038	67.0538	68.0327
91	Nicaragua`NIC`Central America	67.51035	66.4799	68.6551
92	Morocco`MAR`Northern Africa	67.04293	63.3499	70.9420
93	Tunisia`TUN`Northern Africa	66.94847	62.5225	71.5655
94	Mauritius`MUS`Eastern Africa	66.34818	60.3967	72.3799
95	Libya`LBY`Northern Africa	65.74912	71.4739	60.1069
96	Tajikistan`TJK`Central Asia	64.70364	55.7805	74.1158
97	Ecuador`ECU`South America	64.57754	58.4383	71.3405
98	Mexico`MEX`Central America	64.50874	59.4673	69.9766
99	Honduras`HND`Central America	64.50335	65.4681	63.3092
100	Gambia`GMB`Western Africa	64.10048	66.4313	61.5805
101	Peru`PER`South America	63.49255	58.2629	68.7841
102	Guatemala`GTM`Central America	63.06848	58.3064	68.3142
103	Senegal`SEN`Western Africa	60.84116	58.4379	63.4830
104	Gabon`GAB`Middle Africa	59.89435	56.3702	63.2416
105	Nepal`NPL`Southern Asia	56.73378	51.8752	62.1093
106	Mauritania`MRT`Western Africa	56.61066	53.3930	60.2161
107	Egypt`EGY`Northern Africa	55.67421	44.5644	66.5477
108	Kenya`KEN`Eastern Africa	54.91352	48.7876	61.3202
109	Ghana`GHA`Western Africa	53.52557	46.9812	60.6141
110	Namibia`NAM`Southern Africa	51.83719	51.1684	52.5502
111	Zimbabwe`ZWE`Eastern Africa	49.70063	49.6004	49.8148
112	Eswatini`SWZ`Southern Africa	49.00432	46.5389	52.2206
113	Mali`MLI`Western Africa	48.54416	44.7880	52.4231
114	Comoros`COM`Eastern Africa	47.38542	41.9573	53.5980
115	Côte d’Ivoire`CIV`Western Africa	45.71155	40.3530	50.9058
116	Lesotho`LSO`Southern Africa	45.09189	44.6571	45.6023
117	Togo`TGO`Western Africa	45.07589	36.1280	54.3819
118	Botswana`BWA`Southern Africa	44.70564	42.5644	47.2867
119	Sri Lanka`LKA`Southern Asia	43.98572	43.4585	44.5840
120	India`IND`Southern Asia	41.96874	31.7792	51.9834
121	Cameroon`CMR`Middle Africa	41.61998	39.8844	43.4660
122	Bangladesh`BGD`Southern Asia	38.20831	33.6259	42.9240
123	Burkina Faso`BFA`Western Africa	37.23099	29.3120	46.1288
124	Nigeria`NGA`Western Africa	33.67638	29.1498	38.2012
125	Pakistan`PAK`Southern Asia	32.41208	9.1127	55.1264
126	Zambia`ZMB`Eastern Africa	29.44273	27.7108	31.3311
127	Benin`BEN`Western Africa	29.03248	25.2398	33.3497
128	Sierra Leone`SLE`Western Africa	28.53207	28.1123	28.9788
129	Uganda`UGA`Eastern Africa	27.43396	22.3402	33.3006
130	Republic of the Congo`COG`Middle Africa	26.58354	23.4265	29.7394
131	Guinea`GIN`Western Africa	26.56896	23.6021	29.5371
132	Liberia`LBR`Western Africa	22.68497	23.7858	21.5873
133	DR Congo`COD`Middle Africa	20.60127	16.4295	24.4996
134	Mozambique`MOZ`Eastern Africa	20.35153	17.7582	22.9660
135	Niger`NER`Western Africa	18.23916	15.0699	21.6055
136	Ethiopia`ETH`Eastern Africa	16.27787	10.8338	22.0856
137	Tanzania`TZA`Eastern Africa	15.60050	13.8764	17.5416
138	Malawi`MWI`Eastern Africa	13.68247	12.9085	14.5275
139	Madagascar`MDG`Eastern Africa	8.91160	—	—
140	Chad`TCD`Middle Africa	8.66301	—	—

02In 2024

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline, then the highest and lowest on each other measure.

Highest

1Sweden97.36489
2Norway97.33979
3Denmark97.17041
4Iceland96.97309
5Estonia95.24435

Lowest

140Chad8.66301
139Madagascar8.91160
138Malawi13.68247
137Tanzania15.60050
136Ethiopia16.27787

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 78.77587. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

Female
HighestNorway98.2069
LowestPakistan9.1127
Middle country: 77.4612
Male
HighestDenmark98.1739
LowestMalawi14.5275
Middle country: 79.5235

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