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Mobile phone subscriptions

Mobile phone subscriptions

Subscriptions per 100 people. Above 100 means some people have more than one.

050100150200200020052010201520202025South Korea173China132World112North Korea24.1

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North Korea: 24.1 per 100 people (2022)
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Free North Korea (2026). “Mobile phone subscriptions”. Data from International Telecommunication Union (ITU), via World Bank (2026), via Our World in Data. https://liberatenorthkorea.org/data/mobile-phones
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