Mobile phone ownership rate (individuals aged 10+)
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Global · 2025
Mobile phone ownership rate worldwide (individuals aged 10+) was 82% in 2025 (ITU).
Mobile phone ownership rate (individuals aged 10+): every country and year, and how it is measured
- Publisher
- ITU
- Authority tier
- T1 Official
- Locator
- Opening paragraph
- Retrieved
- 14 Sep 2026
- Status
- Verified
What the source says
Globally, 82 per cent of individuals 10 years or older own a mobile phone.
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APA
International Telecommunication Union. (2025). Measuring digital development: Facts and Figures 2025 - Mobile phone ownership. Retrieved September 14, 2026, from https://www.itu.int/itu-d/reports/statistics/2025/10/15/ff25-mobile-phone-ownership/. Via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2HY9T64ZTD2K066E4BAY4R3
Other formats: MLA, Chicago, BibTeX
- MLA
- International Telecommunication Union. "Measuring digital development: Facts and Figures 2025 - Mobile phone ownership." 2025, https://www.itu.int/itu-d/reports/statistics/2025/10/15/ff25-mobile-phone-ownership/. Accessed 14 Sept. 2026 via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2HY9T64ZTD2K066E4BAY4R3.
- Chicago
- International Telecommunication Union. "Measuring digital development: Facts and Figures 2025 - Mobile phone ownership." 2025. https://www.itu.int/itu-d/reports/statistics/2025/10/15/ff25-mobile-phone-ownership/. Accessed September 14, 2026. Cited from StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2HY9T64ZTD2K066E4BAY4R3.
- BibTeX
- @misc{itu2025mobilebay4r3, author = {{International Telecommunication Union}}, title = {Measuring digital development: Facts and Figures 2025 - Mobile phone ownership}, year = {2025}, howpublished = {StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org}, url = {https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2HY9T64ZTD2K066E4BAY4R3}, note = {Original source: https://www.itu.int/itu-d/reports/statistics/2025/10/15/ff25-mobile-phone-ownership/. 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 phone ownership
- Type
- Report
- Published
- 17 November 2025
- Locator
- Opening paragraph
- Retrieved
- 14 September 2026
- Link status
- Reachable (HTTP 200)
- Report licence
- See the source
Verification
- Status
- Verified
- Review protocol
- Editorial review
- Checked on
- 15 September 2026
- Last revision
- 15 September 2026
- Permanent URL
- /stat/stat_01M2HY9T64ZTD2K066E4BAY4R3