5G population coverage, rural areas
RecordSTO-01M2HY9T64-ZTD2K066E4-BAY4QV
Global · 2025
5G population coverage, rural areas worldwide was 40% in 2025 (ITU).
5G population coverage, rural areas: every country and year, and how it is measured
- Publisher
- ITU
- Authority tier
- T1 Official
- Locator
- Seventh paragraph
- Retrieved
- 14 Sep 2026
- Status
- Verified · automated check
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.
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APA
International Telecommunication Union. (2025). Measuring digital development: Facts and Figures 2025 - Mobile network coverage. Retrieved September 14, 2026, from https://www.itu.int/itu-d/reports/statistics/2025/10/15/ff25-mobile-network-coverage/. Via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2HY9T64ZTD2K066E4BAY4QV
Other formats: MLA, Chicago, BibTeX
- 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 Sept. 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/. Accessed September 14, 2026. Cited from StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2HY9T64ZTD2K066E4BAY4QV.
- BibTeX
- @misc{itu2025populationbay4qv, 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 September 14, 2026.} }
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Primary source
- Publisher
- International Telecommunication Union · homepage ↗
- Authority tier
- Tier 1 · Multilateral Official
- 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 (HTTP 200)
- Report licence
- See the source
Verification
- Status
- Verified · automated check
- Review protocol
- Automated check (quote contains value)
- Checked on
- 15 September 2026
- Last revision
- 15 September 2026
- Permanent URL
- /stat/stat_01M2HY9T64ZTD2K066E4BAY4QV