Japan: Mobile phone subscribers

The latest value from 2023 is 221.92 million subscribers, an increase from 210.75 million subscribers in 2022. In comparison, the world average is 52.73 million subscribers, based on data from 165 countries. Historically, the average for Japan from 1960 to 2023 is 67.72 million subscribers. The minimum value, 0 million subscribers, was reached in 1960 while the maximum of 221.92 million subscribers was recorded in 2023. See the global rankings for that indicator or use the country comparator to compare trends over time.

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.