Gender gap in mobile phone ownership
RecordSTO-8EP1KVH51Z-DSS3VNSRV5-BQHCAH
Global · 2024
Gender gap in mobile phone ownership worldwide was about 7% in 2024 (ITU).
Gender gap in mobile phone ownership: every country and year, and how it is measured
- Publisher
- ITU
- Authority tier
- T1 Official
- Report
- Facts and figures 2024
- Locator
- Mobile phone ownership
- Retrieved
- 17 Sep 2026
- Status
- Verified
What the source says
Globally, women are about 7 per cent less likely to own a mobile phone than men – down from 9.4 per cent in 2021.
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APA
International Telecommunication Union. (2024). Facts and figures 2024. Retrieved September 17, 2026, from https://www.itu.int/itu-d/reports/statistics/2024/11/10/ff24-mobile-phone-ownership/. Via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_8EP1KVH51ZDSS3VNSRV5BQHCAH
Other formats: MLA, Chicago, BibTeX
- MLA
- International Telecommunication Union. "Facts and figures 2024." 2024, https://www.itu.int/itu-d/reports/statistics/2024/11/10/ff24-mobile-phone-ownership/. Accessed 17 Sept. 2026 via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_8EP1KVH51ZDSS3VNSRV5BQHCAH.
- Chicago
- International Telecommunication Union. "Facts and figures 2024." 2024. https://www.itu.int/itu-d/reports/statistics/2024/11/10/ff24-mobile-phone-ownership/. Accessed September 17, 2026. Cited from StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_8EP1KVH51ZDSS3VNSRV5BQHCAH.
- BibTeX
- @misc{itu2024genderbqhcah, author = {{International Telecommunication Union}}, title = {Facts and figures 2024}, year = {2024}, howpublished = {StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org}, url = {https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_8EP1KVH51ZDSS3VNSRV5BQHCAH}, note = {Original source: https://www.itu.int/itu-d/reports/statistics/2024/11/10/ff24-mobile-phone-ownership/. Accessed September 17, 2026.} }
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Primary source
- Publisher
- International Telecommunication Union · homepage ↗
- Authority tier
- Tier 1 · Multilateral Official
- Report
- Facts and figures 2024
- Type
- Press release
- Published
- 10 November 2024
- Locator
- Mobile phone ownership
- Retrieved
- 17 September 2026
- Link status
- Reachable (HTTP 200)
- Report licence
- See source
Verification
- Status
- Verified
- Review protocol
- Editorial review
- Checked on
- 17 September 2026
- Last revision
- 17 September 2026
- Permanent URL
- /stat/stat_8EP1KVH51ZDSS3VNSRV5BQHCAH