Gender gap in mobile phone ownership

Women are about 8 per cent less likely to own a mobile phone than men, down from 10 per cent in 2020.

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International Telecommunication Union. (2023). Facts and Figures 2023. Retrieved September 17, 2026, from https://www.itu.int/itu-d/reports/statistics/2023/10/10/ff23-mobile-phone-ownership/. Via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_2EJE822AC7VW654KKM433W1KH6

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International Telecommunication Union. "Facts and Figures 2023." 2023, https://www.itu.int/itu-d/reports/statistics/2023/10/10/ff23-mobile-phone-ownership/. Accessed 17 Sept. 2026 via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_2EJE822AC7VW654KKM433W1KH6.

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International Telecommunication Union. "Facts and Figures 2023." 2023. https://www.itu.int/itu-d/reports/statistics/2023/10/10/ff23-mobile-phone-ownership/. Accessed September 17, 2026. Cited from StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_2EJE822AC7VW654KKM433W1KH6.

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@misc{itu2023gender3w1kh6, author = {{International Telecommunication Union}}, title = {Facts and Figures 2023}, year = {2023}, howpublished = {StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org}, url = {https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_2EJE822AC7VW654KKM433W1KH6}, note = {Original source: https://www.itu.int/itu-d/reports/statistics/2023/10/10/ff23-mobile-phone-ownership/. Accessed September 17, 2026.} }

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