Namibia Number of Subscriber Mobile

1960 - 2023 | Yearly | Person | World Bank

Key information about Namibia Number of Subscriber Mobile

Namibia Number of Subscriber Mobile was reported at 2,600,000.000 Person in Dec 2023
This records a decrease from the previous number of 2,920,000.000 Person for Dec 2022
Namibia Number of Subscriber Mobile data is updated yearly, averaging 16,000.000 Person from Dec 1960 to 2023, with 52 observations
The data reached an all-time high of 2,920,000.000 Person in 2022 and a record low of 0.000 Person in 1994
Namibia Number of Subscriber Mobile data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank
The data is categorized under World Trend Plus’s Association: Telecommunication Sector – Table NA.World Bank.WDI: Telecommunication

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.;International Telecommunication Union (ITU) World Telecommunication/ICT Indicators Database;Sum;Please cite the International Telecommunication Union for third-party use of these data.

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What was Namibia's Number of Subscriber Mobile in 2023?

Namibia Number of Subscriber Mobile was reported at 2,600,000.000 Person in Dec 2023 See the table below for more data.

Last	Previous	Min	Max	Unit	Frequency	Range
2,600,000.000 2023	2,920,000.000 2022	0.000 1994	2,920,000.000 2022	Person	yearly	1960 - 2023

Number of Subscriber Mobile by Country Comparison

country/region	Last	Frequency	Range
Afghanistan (Person)	23,000,000.000 2023	yearly	1960 - 2023
Albania (Person)	2,610,000.000 2023	yearly	1960 - 2023
Algeria (Person)	51,500,000.000 2023	yearly	1960 - 2023
Andorra (Person)	126,214.000 2023	yearly	1960 - 2023
Angola (Person)	25,700,000.000 2023	yearly	1960 - 2023
Antigua and Barbuda (Person)	184,000.000 2021	yearly	1960 - 2021
Argentina (Person)	62,700,000.000 2023	yearly	1960 - 2023
Armenia (Person)	3,960,000.000 2023	yearly	1960 - 2023
Aruba (Person)	141,000.000 2021	yearly	1960 - 2021
Australia (Person)	29,100,000.000 2023	yearly	1960 - 2023
Austria (Person)	11,100,000.000 2023	yearly	1960 - 2023
Azerbaijan (Person)	11,000,000.000 2023	yearly	1960 - 2023
Bahamas (Person)	399,630.000 2023	yearly	1960 - 2023
Bahrain (Person)	2,420,000.000 2023	yearly	1960 - 2023
Bangladesh (Person)	191,000,000.000 2023	yearly	1960 - 2023
Barbados (Person)	323,482.000 2022	yearly	1960 - 2022
Belarus (Person)	11,800,000.000 2023	yearly	1960 - 2023
Belgium (Person)	12,100,000.000 2023	yearly	1960 - 2023
Belize (Person)	264,000.000 2021	yearly	1960 - 2021
Benin (Person)	16,400,000.000 2023	yearly	1960 - 2023
Bermuda (Person)	68,000.000 2021	yearly	1960 - 2021
Bhutan (Person)	751,989.000 2023	yearly	1960 - 2023
Bolivia (Person)	12,033,941.000 2021	yearly	1960 - 2021
Bosnia and Herzegovina (Person)	3,870,000.000 2023	yearly	1960 - 2023
Botswana (Person)	4,440,000.000 2023	yearly	1960 - 2023
Brazil (Person)	213,000,000.000 2023	yearly	1960 - 2023
Brunei (Person)	528,723.000 2022	yearly	1960 - 2022
Bulgaria (Person)	8,010,000.000 2023	yearly	1960 - 2023
Burkina Faso (Person)	24,678,315.000 2021	yearly	1960 - 2021
Burundi (Person)	8,650,000.000 2023	yearly	1960 - 2023
Cambodia (Person)	19,500,000.000 2022	yearly	1960 - 2022
Cameroon (Person)	26,200,000.000 2023	yearly	1960 - 2023
Canada (Person)	36,500,000.000 2023	yearly	1960 - 2023
Cape Verde (Person)	590,354.000 2023	yearly	1960 - 2023
Cayman Islands (Person)	100,000.000 2021	yearly	1960 - 2021
Central African Republic (Person)	1,830,000.000 2021	yearly	1960 - 2021
Chad (Person)	12,086,643.000 2022	yearly	1960 - 2022
Chile (Person)	26,700,000.000 2023	yearly	1960 - 2023
China (Person)	1,810,000,000.000 2023	yearly	1960 - 2023
Colombia (Person)	87,400,000.000 2023	yearly	1960 - 2023
Comoros (Person)	934,198.000 2023	yearly	1960 - 2023
Congo (Person)	5,870,000.000 2023	yearly	1960 - 2023
Costa Rica (Person)	7,440,000.000 2023	yearly	1960 - 2023
Croatia (Person)	4,560,000.000 2023	yearly	1960 - 2023
Cuba (Person)	7,670,000.000 2023	yearly	1960 - 2023
Cyprus (Person)	1,430,000.000 2023	yearly	1960 - 2023
Czech Republic (Person)	13,600,000.000 2023	yearly	1960 - 2023
Democratic Republic of Congo (Person)	49,800,000.000 2022	yearly	1960 - 2022
Denmark (Person)	7,500,000.000 2023	yearly	1960 - 2023
Djibouti (Person)	573,620.000 2023	yearly	1960 - 2023
Dominica (Person)	56,929.000 2022	yearly	1960 - 2022
Dominican Republic (Person)	10,400,000.000 2023	yearly	1960 - 2023
Ecuador (Person)	18,200,000.000 2023	yearly	1960 - 2023
Egypt (Person)	106,000,000.000 2023	yearly	1960 - 2023
El Salvador (Person)	11,508,619.000 2022	yearly	1960 - 2022
Equatorial Guinea (Person)	893,441.000 2022	yearly	1960 - 2022
Eritrea (Person)	1,801,000.000 2021	yearly	1960 - 2021
Estonia (Person)	2,050,000.000 2023	yearly	1960 - 2023
Swaziland (Person)	1,520,000.000 2023	yearly	1960 - 2023
Ethiopia (Person)	71,400,000.000 2022	yearly	1960 - 2022
Faroe Islands (Person)	59,213.000 2021	yearly	1960 - 2021
Fiji (Person)	991,500.000 2021	yearly	1960 - 2021
Finland (Person)	7,140,000.000 2023	yearly	1960 - 2023
France (Person)	77,400,000.000 2023	yearly	1960 - 2023
French Polynesia (Person)	327,667.000 2022	yearly	1960 - 2022
Gabon (Person)	3,000,000.000 2022	yearly	1960 - 2022
Gambia (Person)	2,680,000.000 2021	yearly	1960 - 2021
Georgia (Person)	5,910,000.000 2023	yearly	1960 - 2023
Germany (Person)	105,000,000.000 2023	yearly	1960 - 2023
Ghana (Person)	33,400,000.000 2023	yearly	1960 - 2023
Greece (Person)	11,300,000.000 2023	yearly	1960 - 2023
Greenland (Person)	66,605.000 2021	yearly	1960 - 2021
Grenada (Person)	101,018.000 2021	yearly	1960 - 2021
Guatemala (Person)	22,124,839.000 2021	yearly	1960 - 2021
Guinea (Person)	13,800,000.000 2021	yearly	1960 - 2021
Guinea-Bissau (Person)	2,760,000.000 2023	yearly	1960 - 2023
Guyana (Person)	856,000.000 2021	yearly	1960 - 2021
Haiti (Person)	7,319,000.000 2021	yearly	1960 - 2021
Honduras (Person)	7,920,000.000 2023	yearly	1960 - 2023
Hong Kong SAR, China (Person)	23,800,000.000 2023	yearly	1960 - 2023
Hungary (Person)	10,200,000.000 2023	yearly	1960 - 2023
Iceland (Person)	478,176.000 2023	yearly	1960 - 2023
India (Person)	1,140,000,000.000 2022	yearly	1960 - 2022
Indonesia (Person)	352,000,000.000 2023	yearly	1960 - 2023
Iran (Person)	151,000,000.000 2023	yearly	1960 - 2023
Iraq (Person)	45,700,000.000 2023	yearly	1960 - 2023
Ireland (Person)	5,760,000.000 2023	yearly	1960 - 2023
Israel (Person)	13,800,000.000 2022	yearly	1990 - 2022
Italy (Person)	78,500,000.000 2023	yearly	1960 - 2023
Ivory Coast (Person)	53,600,000.000 2023	yearly	1960 - 2023
Jamaica (Person)	3,270,000.000 2023	yearly	1960 - 2023
Japan (Person)	219,000,000.000 2023	yearly	1960 - 2023
Jordan (Person)	7,730,000.000 2023	yearly	1960 - 2023
Kazakhstan (Person)	25,800,000.000 2023	yearly	1960 - 2023
Kenya (Person)	66,700,000.000 2023	yearly	1960 - 2023
Kiribati (Person)	70,296.000 2023	yearly	1960 - 2023
South Korea (Person)	83,900,000.000 2023	yearly	1960 - 2023
Kuwait (Person)	8,110,000.000 2023	yearly	1960 - 2023
Kyrgyzstan (Person)	7,680,000.000 2023	yearly	1960 - 2023
Laos (Person)	4,820,000.000 2021	yearly	1960 - 2021

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Namibia Key Series

Government and Public Finance	Last	Frequency	Range
Forecast: Government Expenditure (NAD bn)	106.487 2024	yearly	1990 - 2024
Forecast: Government Net Debt (NAD bn)	170.344 2024	yearly	1993 - 2024
Forecast: Government Revenue (NAD bn)	89.606 2024	yearly	1990 - 2024

Foreign Trade	Last	Frequency	Range
Forecast: Exports of Goods Growth (%)	2.723 2028	yearly	1990 - 2028
Aluminum: Exports (USD th)	424.760 2023	yearly	1995 - 2023
Exports: Medicament (USD th)	1,301.932 2023	yearly	1995 - 2023
Exports: Medicinal and Pharmaceutical Product (USD th)	1,082.795 2023	yearly	1995 - 2023
Imports: Medicament (USD th)	119,827.383 2023	yearly	1995 - 2023
Imports: Medicinal and Pharmaceutical Product (USD th)	29,162.422 2023	yearly	1995 - 2023
Export Volume Index (2015=100)	125.161 2021	yearly	1990 - 2021
Export Value Index (2015=100)	164.641 2021	yearly	1990 - 2021
Import Volume Index (2015=100)	93.446 2021	yearly	1990 - 2021
Import Value Index (2015=100)	118.510 2021	yearly	1990 - 2021

Balance of Payments	Last	Frequency	Range
Forecast: Current Account Balance (USD bn)	-1.937 2029	yearly	1990 - 2029

More Indicators for Namibia

Indicators	Last	Frequency	Range
Namibia NA: GDP: % of GDP: Gross Fixed Capital Formation: Private Sector (%)	13.51 2016	yearly	2005 - 2016
Namibia NA: Adjusted Savings: Natural Resources Depletion: % of GNI (%)	2.36 2016	yearly	1990 - 2016
Namibia NA: GDP: USD: Adjusted Net National Income (USD mn)	9,294.36 2016	yearly	1990 - 2016
Namibia NA: GDP: Growth: Adjusted Net National Income (%)	-0.93 2016	yearly	1991 - 2016
Namibia NA: Coal Rents: % of GDP (%)	0.00 2016	yearly	1991 - 2016
Namibia NA: Forest Rents: % of GDP (%)	0.90 2016	yearly	1980 - 2016
Namibia NA: Mineral Rents: % of GDP (%)	3.35 2016	yearly	1980 - 2016
Namibia NA: Natural Gas Rents: % of GDP (%)	0.00 2016	yearly	1990 - 2016
Namibia NA: Oil Rents: % of GDP (%)	0.00 2016	yearly	1990 - 2016
Namibia NA: Total Natural Resources Rents: % of GDP (%)	4.25 2016	yearly	1980 - 2016
Namibia NA: GDP: Growth: GNI (%)	0.10 2017	yearly	1981 - 2017
Namibia NA: GDP: Real: Gross National Income (NAD mn)	106,813.05 2017	yearly	1980 - 2017
Namibia NA: GDP: Growth: GNI per Capita (%)	-2.04 2017	yearly	1981 - 2017
Namibia NA: GDP: Real: GNI per Capita (NAD)	42,155.38 2017	yearly	1980 - 2017
Namibia NA: Condom Use: Population Aged 15-24: Female: % of Females Aged 15-24 (%)	59.30 2013	yearly	2000 - 2013
Namibia NA: Condom Use: Population Aged 15-24: Male: % of Males Aged 15-24 (%)	79.20 2013	yearly	2000 - 2013
Namibia NA: Children: 0-14 Living with HIV (Person)	15,000.00 2016	yearly	1990 - 2016
Namibia NA: Lifetime Risk Of Maternal Death (%)	0.98 2015	yearly	1990 - 2015
Namibia NA: Maternal Mortality Ratio: National Estimate: per 100,000 Live Births (Ratio)	358.00 2013	yearly	1992 - 2013
Namibia NA: Newborns Protected Against Tetanus (%)	88.00 2016	yearly	1981 - 2016
Namibia NA: Poverty Gap at National Poverty Lines: % (%)	8.80 2009	yearly	1993 - 2009
Namibia NA: Poverty Headcount Ratio at National Poverty Lines: % of Population (%)	28.70 2009	yearly	1993 - 2009
Namibia NA: Poverty Gap at National Poverty Lines: Rural: % (%)	11.60 2009	yearly	1993 - 2009
Namibia NA: Poverty Headcount Ratio at National Poverty Lines: Rural: % of Rural... (%)	37.40 2009	yearly	1993 - 2009
Namibia NA: Poverty Gap at National Poverty Lines: Urban: % (%)	4.40 2009	yearly	1993 - 2009
Namibia NA: Poverty Headcount Ratio at National Poverty Lines: Urban: % of Urban... (%)	14.60 2009	yearly	1993 - 2009
Namibia NA: Employers: Modeled ILO Estimate: Female: % of Female Employment (%)	3.14 2017	yearly	1991 - 2017
Namibia NA: Employers: Modeled ILO Estimate: Male: % of Male Employment (%)	5.85 2017	yearly	1991 - 2017
Namibia NA: Employers: Modeled ILO Estimate: % of Total Employment (%)	4.53 2017	yearly	1991 - 2017
Namibia NA: Self-Employed: Modeled ILO Estimate: Female: % of Female Employment (%)	35.33 2017	yearly	1991 - 2017
Namibia NA: Self-Employed: Modeled ILO Estimate: Male: % of Male Employment (%)	24.63 2017	yearly	1991 - 2017
Namibia NA: Self-Employed: Modeled ILO Estimate: % of Total Employment (%)	29.83 2017	yearly	1991 - 2017
Namibia NA: Wage And Salaried Workers: Modeled ILO Estimate: Female: % of Female... (%)	64.67 2017	yearly	1991 - 2017
Namibia NA: Wage And Salary Workers: Modeled ILO Estimate: Male: % of Male Emplo... (%)	75.37 2017	yearly	1991 - 2017
Namibia NA: Wage And Salaried Workers: Modeled ILO Estimate: % of Total Employme... (%)	70.17 2017	yearly	1991 - 2017
Namibia NA: Contributing Family Workers: Modeled ILO Estimate: Female: % of Fema... (%)	5.05 2017	yearly	1991 - 2017
Namibia NA: Contributing Family Workers: Modeled ILO Estimate: Male: % of Male E... (%)	2.74 2017	yearly	1991 - 2017
Namibia NA: Contributing Family Workers: Modeled ILO Estimate: % of Total Employ... (%)	3.86 2017	yearly	1991 - 2017
Namibia NA: Female Headed Households (%)	43.90 2013	yearly	1992 - 2013
Namibia NA: BOP: Current Account: Secondary Income: Other Sectors: Payments (USD mn)	21.34 2017	yearly	1990 - 2017
Namibia NA: Net Bilateral Aid Flows from Development Assistance Committee Donors... (USD mn)	0.27 2016	yearly	1991 - 2016
Namibia NA: Net Official Flows from UN Agencies: IAEA (USD mn)	0.18 2016	yearly	2006 - 2016
Namibia NA: Electricity Production From Oil: Gas And Coal Sources: % of Total (%)	0.87 2014	yearly	1991 - 2014
Namibia NA: CO2 Emissions from Solid Fuel Consumption: % of Total (%)	1.86 2014	yearly	1990 - 2014
Namibia NA: HFC Gas Emissions: Thousand Metric Tons of CO2 Equivalent (Metric Ton th)	0.00 2010	yearly	1990 - 2010
Namibia NA: Agricultural Methane Emissions: Thousand Metric Tons of CO2 Equivale... (Metric Ton th)	4,546.51 2008	yearly	1969 - 2008
Namibia NA: Mortality Rate: Neonatal: per 1000 Live Births (Ratio)	17.80 2016	yearly	1969 - 2016
Namibia NA: IMF Account: Fund Position: Use of Fund Credit (UFC): USD (USD mn)	0.00 2017	yearly	1945 - 2017
Namibia NA: CO2 Emissions from Liquid Fuel Consumption: % of Total (%)	88.57 2014	yearly	1990 - 2014
Namibia NA: Population Living in Areas Where Elevation is Below 5 Meters: % of T... (%)	1.09 2010	yearly	1990 - 2010
Namibia NA: CO2 Emissions from Solid Fuel Consumption (kt)	69.67 2014	yearly	1990 - 2014
Namibia NA: Droughts, Floods, Extreme Temperatures: Average 1990-2009: % of Popu... (%)	3.40 2009	yearly	2009 - 2009
Namibia NA: Land Area Where Elevation is Below 5 Meters: % of Total Land Area (%)	0.20 2010	yearly	1990 - 2010
Namibia NA: CO2 Emissions from Liquid Fuel Consumption (kt)	3,325.97 2014	yearly	1990 - 2014
Namibia NA: Electricity Production From Renewable Sources: Excluding Hydroelectr... (%)	0.00 2014	yearly	1991 - 2014
Namibia NA: CO2 Emissions from Gaseous Fuel Consumption: % of Total (%)	0.00 2014	yearly	1990 - 2014
Namibia NA: Access to Electricity: % of Population (%)	51.78 2016	yearly	1990 - 2016
Namibia NA: CO2 Emissions from Gaseous Fuel Consumption (kt)	0.00 2014	yearly	1990 - 2014
Namibia NA: Electricity Production From Renewable Sources: Excluding Hydroelectr... (kWh)	0.00 2014	yearly	1991 - 2014
Namibia NA: Part Time Employment: Male: % of Total Male Employment (%)	11.85 2016	yearly	2012 - 2016
Namibia NA: Container Port Traffic: TEU (20 Foot Equivalent Units) (TEU)	373,100.00 2016	yearly	2007 - 2016
Namibia NA: Part Time Employment: % of Total Employment (%)	14.94 2016	yearly	2012 - 2016
Namibia NA: Part Time Employment: Female: % of Total Female Employment (%)	18.28 2016	yearly	2012 - 2016
Namibia NA: BOP: Grants: Technical Cooperation (USD mn)	37.03 2016	yearly	1972 - 2016
Namibia NA: Terrestrial & Marine Protected Areas: % of Total Territorial Area (%)	23.25 2016	yearly	1990 - 2016
Namibia NA: Time Required to Get Electricity (Day)	37.00 2017	yearly	2009 - 2017
Namibia NA: CO2 Emissions from Electricity and Heat Production: % of Total Fuel ... (%)	0.28 2014	yearly	1991 - 2014
Namibia NA: CO2 Emissions from Residential Buildings and Commercial and Public S... (%)	0.56 2014	yearly	1991 - 2014
Namibia NA: Antiretroviral Therapy Coverage: % of People Living with HIV (%)	64.00 2016	yearly	2000 - 2016
Namibia NA: Tertiary Education: Teachers: % Female (%)	41.20 2008	yearly	1991 - 2008
Namibia NA: CO2 Emissions from Transport: % of Total Fuel Combustion (%)	55.43 2014	yearly	1991 - 2014
Namibia NA: CO2 Emissions from Manufacturing Industries and Construction: % of T... (%)	9.19 2014	yearly	1991 - 2014
Namibia NA: Branches: per 100,000 Adults: Commercial Banks (Number)	14.70 2016	yearly	2004 - 2016
Namibia NA: Deposit Accounts: per 1000 Adults: Commercial Banks (Number)	1,272.79 2016	yearly	2004 - 2016
Namibia NA: Production Index: 2004-2006: Food (2004-2006=100)	92.56 2016	yearly	1961 - 2016
Namibia NA: Production Index: 2004-2006: Crop (2004-2006=100)	121.39 2016	yearly	1961 - 2016
Namibia NA: Intentional Homicides: per 100,000 People (Ratio)	16.90 2013	yearly	1996 - 2013
Namibia NA: Loan Accounts: per 1000 Adults: Commercial Banks (Number)	301.82 2016	yearly	2004 - 2016
Namibia NA: BOP: Grants: Excluding Technical Cooperation (USD mn)	134.30 2016	yearly	1972 - 2016
Namibia NA: Production Index: 2004-2006: Livestock (2004-2006=100)	83.51 2016	yearly	1961 - 2016
Namibia NA: CO2 Emissions from Other Sectors: Excluding Residential Buildings an... (%)	34.82 2014	yearly	1991 - 2014
Namibia NA: Labour Force Participation Rate: Modeled ILO Estimate: Ratio of Fema... (%)	89.74 2017	yearly	1990 - 2017
Namibia NA: Exports: Low- and Middle-Income Economies: % of Total Goods Exports:... (%)	0.19 2016	yearly	2000 - 2016
Namibia NA: Imports: Goods: by Reporting Economy (USD mn)	6,729.06 2016	yearly	2000 - 2016
Namibia NA: Imports: Low- and Middle-Income Economies: % of Total Goods Imports:... (%)	2.31 2016	yearly	2000 - 2016
Namibia NA: Central Government Debt: Total: % of GDP (%)	23.08 2015	yearly	2009 - 2015
Namibia NA: Exports: Low- and Middle-Income Economies: % of Total Goods Exports:... (%)	3.87 2016	yearly	2000 - 2016
Namibia NA: Imports: High-Income Economies: % of Total Goods Imports (%)	17.20 2016	yearly	2000 - 2016
Namibia NA: Researchers in R&D: per Million People (Ratio)	141.41 2014	yearly	2014 - 2014
Namibia NA: Exports: Low- and Middle-Income Economies: % of Total Goods Exports:... (%)	44.65 2016	yearly	2000 - 2016
Namibia NA: Exports: Low- and Middle-Income Economies: % of Total Goods Exports:... (%)	4.85 2016	yearly	2000 - 2016
Namibia NA: Imports: % of Total Goods Imports: The Arab World (%)	1.41 2016	yearly	2000 - 2016
Namibia NA: Exports: Low- and Middle-Income Economies: % of Total Goods Exports:... (%)	0.65 2016	yearly	2000 - 2016
Namibia NA: Exports: % of Total Goods Exports: The Arab World (%)	2.42 2016	yearly	2000 - 2016
Namibia NA: GDP: % of Manufacturing: Other Manufacturing (%)	46.51 2013	yearly	1994 - 2013
Namibia NA: Exports: Goods: by Reporting Economy (USD mn)	4,517.36 2016	yearly	2000 - 2016
Namibia NA: Imports: Low- and Middle-Income Economies: % of Total Goods Imports:... (%)	0.18 2016	yearly	2000 - 2016
Namibia NA: Imports: Low- and Middle-Income Economies: % of Total Goods Imports:... (%)	10.30 2016	yearly	2000 - 2016
Namibia NA: Exports: % of Total Goods Exports: Residual (%)	0.01 2016	yearly	2000 - 2016
Namibia NA: Imports: % of Total Goods Imports: Residual (%)	3.08 2016	yearly	2000 - 2016

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