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India: Mobile cellular subscriptions

79.35per 100 people · 2024+10.3% since 2014

Mobile cellular telephone subscriptions are subscriptions to a public mobile telephone service that provide access to the PSTN using cellular technology. The indicator includes (and is split into) the number of postpaid subscriptions, and the number of active prepaid accounts (i.e. that have been used during the last three months). The indicator applies to all mobile cellular subscriptions that offer voice communications. It excludes subscriptions via data cards or USB modems, subscriptions to public mobile data services, private trunked mobile radio, telepoint, radio paging and telemetry services. Annual figures for India from 1960 to 2024.

19852024

Every year

YearValue (per 100 people)Note
202479.353
202380.563
202280.182
202181.604
202082.254
201982.898
201885.55
201785.97
201683.918
201575.379
201471.937
201368.397
201267.626
201170.873
201060.491
200942.846
200828.718
200719.621
200614.157
20057.807
20044.597
20033.017
20021.184
20010.607
20000.338
19990.181
19980.117
19970.088
19960.033
19950.008
19940
19930
19920
19910
19900
19890
19880
19870
19860
19850
19840
19830
19820
19810
19800
19790
19780
19770
19760
19750
19700
19650
19600

Source

Published by World Bank, produced by International Telecommunication Union. Licence: CC BY 4.0. Retrieved 2026-11-05.

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World Bank (2026). Mobile cellular subscriptions. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-mobile-cellular-subscriptions (accessed 2026-11-07). catalog snapshot 2026-11-05.

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