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At 9.1 billion, the number of mobile-cellular subscriptions exceeds the total world population by 12.1 per cent.
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- Publisher
- International Telecommunication Union · homepage ↗
- Report
- Measuring digital development: Facts and Figures 2024 - Subscriptions
- Type
- Report
- Published
- 27 November 2024
- Locator
- Third paragraph
- Retrieved
- 14 September 2026
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- Checked on
- 15 September 2026
- Extraction confidence
- 90%
- Last change
- 15 September 2026
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- International Telecommunication Union. (2024). Measuring digital development: Facts and Figures 2024 - Subscriptions. Retrieved 14 September 2026, from StatOrigin: https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2HY9T64ZTD2K066E4BAY4RJ
- MLA
- International Telecommunication Union. "Measuring digital development: Facts and Figures 2024 - Subscriptions." 2024, https://www.itu.int/itu-d/reports/statistics/2024/11/10/ff24-subscriptions/. Accessed 14 September 2026 via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2HY9T64ZTD2K066E4BAY4RJ.
- Chicago
- International Telecommunication Union. "Measuring digital development: Facts and Figures 2024 - Subscriptions." 2024. https://www.itu.int/itu-d/reports/statistics/2024/11/10/ff24-subscriptions/. Cited from StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2HY9T64ZTD2K066E4BAY4RJ.
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- @misc{itu2024mobile, author = {{International Telecommunication Union}}, title = {Measuring digital development: Facts and Figures 2024 - Subscriptions}, year = {2024}, howpublished = {StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org}, url = {https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2HY9T64ZTD2K066E4BAY4RJ}, note = {Original source: https://www.itu.int/itu-d/reports/statistics/2024/11/10/ff24-subscriptions/. Accessed 14 September 2026.} }
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