El Salvador: Mobile phone subscribers

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 El Salvador

Mobile phone subscribers, in millions

 Latest value 11.19
 Year 2024
 Measure million subscribers
 Data availability 1960 - 2024
 Average 3.38
 Min - Max 0.00 - 11.51
 Source The International Telecommunication Union
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The latest value from 2024 is 11.19 million subscribers, a decline from 11.34 million subscribers in 2023. In comparison, the world average is 56.44 million subscribers, based on data from 148 countries. Historically, the average for El Salvador from 1960 to 2024 is 3.38 million subscribers. The minimum value, 0 million subscribers, was reached in 1960 while the maximum of 11.51 million subscribers was recorded in 2022. See the global rankings for that indicator or use the country comparator to compare trends over time.
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 Recent values El Salvador: Mobile phone subscribers
 2024 11.19
 2023 11.34
 2022 11.51
 2021 11.07
 2020 9.95
 2019 10.40
 2018 9.43
 2017 9.48




Definition: 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.

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