People coming online by mobile this year
Estimated range: 111,970,478 – 151,489,471 (±15%)
- 160 million Actual · 2025 · GSMA
- 5.07 new users per second, modelled
- Tier C (±15%) Indicative projection
- +0 Since you opened this page
Putting it in perspective
- Per second
- 5.07
- Per minute
- 304
- Per hour
- 18,252
- Per day
- 438,056
- Still to come this year
- 28,160,510
Counted in new users.
How this number is made
- Algorithm
- Annual flow spread
Evenly distributed across 31,557,600 seconds (365.25 days) of the year.
- Confidence Tier
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Tier C Indicative projection
GSMA State of Mobile Internet Connectivity model estimating unique subscriber additions across developing economies.
- Error Band
- ±15%
Modelled range: 111,970,478 to 151,489,471
- Annualized Validation
- ≤ 3.0% tolerance passed
Pace: 160,000,000 new users/yr vs cited reference 160,000,000 new users/yr (exact match)
- Basis
- Actual for 2025
- Record
- STO-5ER0AF6GTR
- Source
- GSMA, GSMA warns of emerging global AI divide as three billion people remain offline and smartphone component costs soar
“Around 160 million people came online in 2025, down from 190 million the previous year, while 3.1 billion people continue to live within the footprint of mobile broadband networks but do not use mobile internet – the “usage gap”.”
- Step 01
Take GSMA’s figure for 2025: 160 million.
- Step 02
Spread it evenly over a year of 31,557,600 seconds (365.25 days): about 5.07 new users per second.
- Step 03
Count from 00:00 UTC on 1 January of the current year, so the number resets every New Year.
- On screen
- The result of those steps, recomputed four times a second in your browser. Nothing on this page is fetched live from the publisher.
- Why this can't be exact
- Real activity is not spread evenly: it clusters in working hours, weekdays and seasons, so the count runs ahead or behind the true figure at any given moment. It runs at the 2025 pace until a figure for the current year is published. Digits beyond the first two or three are the model ticking, not extra precision.
Frequently asked questions
Which published figure is the counter based on?
GSMA’s figure for 2025: 160 million new users.
How is the live number calculated?
Take GSMA’s figure for 2025: 160 million. Spread it evenly over a year of 31,557,600 seconds (365.25 days): about 5.07 new users per second. Count from 00:00 UTC on 1 January of the current year, so the number resets every New Year.
How accurate is the counter?
Real activity is not spread evenly: it clusters in working hours, weekdays and seasons, so the count runs ahead or behind the true figure at any given moment. It runs at the 2025 pace until a figure for the current year is published. Digits beyond the first two or three are the model ticking, not extra precision.
Where does the data come from?
GSMA, “GSMA warns of emerging global AI divide as three billion people remain offline and smartphone component costs soar”. The record quotes the publisher’s own sentence, and nothing on the page is fetched live from the publisher.
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StatOrigin. (2026). People coming online by mobile this year [Live counter, extrapolated from GSMA]. Retrieved 28 Oct 2026, from https://statorigin.org/live/new-mobile-internet-users