The evidence
What the source says
As a result, 66 per cent of people living in urban areas worldwide already have access to a 5G network, compared with just 40 per cent of those in rural areas, representing a gap of 26 percentage points.
The figure above was extracted from this passage. If it does not match, the extraction is wrong and we want to know.
Chain of custody
Provenance and verification
Everything needed to check this number yourself, without taking our word for it.
Source
- Publisher
- International Telecommunication Union · homepage ↗
- Report
- Measuring digital development: Facts and Figures 2025 - Mobile network coverage
- Type
- Report
- Published
- 17 November 2025
- Locator
- Seventh paragraph
- Retrieved
- 14 September 2026
- Link status
- Reachable
- Report licence
- See the source
Verification
- Status
- Verified · automated check
- Checked by
- Automated check (quote contains value)
- Checked on
- 15 September 2026
- Extraction confidence
- 88%
- Last change
- 15 September 2026
Cite & reuse
Cite this figure
Published under CC BY 4.0. Attribute the original publisher; the citations below do that for you and link to this permanent record.
- APA
- International Telecommunication Union. (2025). Measuring digital development: Facts and Figures 2025 - Mobile network coverage. Retrieved 14 September 2026, from StatOrigin: https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2HY9T64ZTD2K066E4BAY4QV
- MLA
- International Telecommunication Union. "Measuring digital development: Facts and Figures 2025 - Mobile network coverage." 2025, https://www.itu.int/itu-d/reports/statistics/2025/10/15/ff25-mobile-network-coverage/. Accessed 14 September 2026 via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2HY9T64ZTD2K066E4BAY4QV.
- Chicago
- International Telecommunication Union. "Measuring digital development: Facts and Figures 2025 - Mobile network coverage." 2025. https://www.itu.int/itu-d/reports/statistics/2025/10/15/ff25-mobile-network-coverage/. Cited from StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2HY9T64ZTD2K066E4BAY4QV.
- BibTeX
- @misc{itu2025population, author = {{International Telecommunication Union}}, title = {Measuring digital development: Facts and Figures 2025 - Mobile network coverage}, year = {2025}, howpublished = {StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org}, url = {https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2HY9T64ZTD2K066E4BAY4QV}, note = {Original source: https://www.itu.int/itu-d/reports/statistics/2025/10/15/ff25-mobile-network-coverage/. Accessed 14 September 2026.} }
Keep exploring
Related
This figure in context
Go further
Record last modified 15 September 2026. Value type: estimate. Update cadence: annual. This page is permanently addressable at statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2HY9T64ZTD2K066E4BAY4QV.