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Global unique mobile subscribers penetration 2016- 2025, by region

Unique mobile subscribers penetration rate as share of population worldwide from 2016 to 2025, by region

The data displays the distribution of unique subscriber penetration worldwide in 2016 and 2017, and forecast data for 2020 and 2025, by region. In 2016, in the Asia Pacific region, unique subscribers represented around 65% of SIMs owned, suggesting that many people owned multiple SIM cards. By 2020, the share of unique subscribers was expected to rise to 76%.

2016 84 78 81 70 65 59 44
2017 85 80 84 67 67 62 44
2020 86 81 84 70 69 65 48
2025 88 82 86 74 73 68 52