List of countries by number of mobile phones in use

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This list ranks the countries of the world by the number of mobile phones in use.

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Rank	Country or region	Number of mobile phones	Population	% of population	Last updated date
	World	Over 5.6 billion	7,012,000,000^[1]	80	2011^[2]
1	China	975,700,000	1,341,000,000^[3]	71.0	Dec 2011^[4]
2	India	893,843,534	1,210,193,422^[5]	74.15	Dec 2011 ^[6]
3	United States	327,577,529	310,866,000^[7]	103.9	June 2011^[8]
4	Indonesia	250,100,000	237,556,363	105.28	May 2009^[9]
5	Brazil	242,200,000	192 376 496^[10]	125.79	December 2011^[11]
6	Russia	224,260,000	142,905,200^[12]	154.5	July 2011^[13]
7	Japan	121,246,700	127,628,095	95.1	June 2011^[14]
8	Pakistan	108,894,518	171,901,000	65.4	Jun 2011^[15]
9	Germany	107,000,000	81,882,342	130.1	2009^[16]
10	Mexico	100,000,000	112,336,538	89	Dec. 2011^[17]
11	Nigeria	90,583,306	140,000,000	64.7	Feb.2011^[18]
12	Italy	88,580,000	60,090,400	147.4	Dec.2008^[19]
13	Philippines	86,000,000	94,013,200	91.5	October 2011^[20]
14	Bangladesh	84,076,000	150,093,000	48.6	Mar. 2011^[21]
15	United Kingdom	75,750,000	61,612,300	122.9	Dec. 2008^[22]
16	Vietnam	72,300,000	90,549,390	79	October 2010^[23]
17	Turkey	66,000,000	71,517,100	92.2	2009^[24]
18	France	58,730,000	65,073,842	90.2	Dec. 2008^[25]
19	Thailand	69,000,000	65,001,021	105	2010^[26]
20	Iran	68,000,000	75,078,000	91.2	2011^[27]
21	Ukraine	54,377,000	46,143,700	117.9	April. 2009^[28]
22	Spain	50,890,000	45,828,172	111.0	Dec. 2008^[29]
23	Argentina	50,409,800	40,134,425	125.6	2010^[30]
24	Poland	47,153,200	38,186,860^[31]	123.48	2010^[32]
25	South Korea	47,000,000	48,333,000	97.2	2009^[33]
26	Colombia	46,147,937	45,393,050	101.6	2011^[34]
27	South Africa	42,300,000	47,850,700	101.3	2008 Q3 www.cellular-news.com^{[citation needed]}
28	Egypt	71,460,000	78,300,000	91.3	Egypt Ministry of Communications & IT, February 2011^[35]
29	Algeria	33,000,000	35,000,000	94.2	2011^[36]
30	Venezuela	27,400,000	28,200,000	98.0	2008^{[citation needed]}
31	Peru	27,100,000	29,000,000	95.5	Dec. 2010^[37]
32	Taiwan	25,412,000	22,974,347	110.6	2008^{[citation needed]}
33	Romania	22,800,000	21,438,000	108.5	March 2008^{[citation needed]}
34	Canada	24,037,372	34,238,035	70.2	Q3 2010^[38]
35	Morocco	27,050,000	32,993,000	81.9	Q1 2010^[39]
36	Netherlands	20,000,000	16,515,057	121.1	Nov. 2009^[40]
37	Australia	21,260,000	21,179,211	100.4	Jun 2007^[41]
38	Saudi Arabia	46,000,000	27,137,000	169.5	Jun 2010^[42]
39	Malaysia	30,379,000	28,250,000	106	2010^[43]
40	Chile	21,000,000	17,094,270	122.9	Dec. 2010^[44]
41	Guatemala	17,571,895	14,713,763	119.4	Jun. 2010^[45]
42	Sri Lanka	17,359,312	21,000,000	80.95	Dec. 2010^[46]
43	Portugal	14,500,000	10,632,000	137.0	2008^{[citation needed]}
44	Nepal	14,240,670	28,500,000	53.5	Mar. 2011^[47]
45	Hong Kong	13,264,896	7,008,900^[48]	187.9	Nov. 2010^[49]
46	Belgium	11,822,000	10,414,000	113.6	2009^{[citation needed]}
47	Hungary	11,833,000	10,020,000	118.3	Sept. 2010^{[citation needed]}
48	Bulgaria	10,655,000	7,600,000	140.2	2008^[47]
49	Israel	9,319,000	7,310,000	127.5	2008^[47]
50	Denmark	7,000,000	5,543,819	126.2	February 2008^[50]
51	Azerbaijan	7,000,000	8,900,000	78.7	November 2009^[51]
52	Jordan	6,010,000	5,950,000	101.0	March 2010^[52]
53	Singapore	7,289,000	5,076,700	143.5	December 2010^[53]
54	New Zealand	4,620,000	4,252,277	108.6	2008^[54]
55	Estonia	1,982,000	1,340,602	147.8	April 2009^{[citation needed]}
56	Lebanon	2,720,000	4,224,000	64.4	Oct 2010^[55]
57	Lithuania	4,960,000	3,341,966	148.4	February 2010^[56]
58	Montenegro	1,294,167	672,180	192.53	Dec 2009^[57]
59	North Korea	1,000,000	24,051,218	3-4	2011