Gender gap among non-owners of mobile phones
RecordSTO-CH855T2X53-APA04HFM3V-PP4QXY
Global · 2023
Gender gap among non-owners of mobile phones worldwide was 35% in 2023 (ITU).
Gender gap among non-owners of mobile phones: every country and year, and how it is measured
- Publisher
- ITU
- Authority tier
- T1 Official
- Report
- Facts and Figures 2023
- Locator
- Mobile phone ownership
- Retrieved
- 17 Sep 2026
- Status
- Verified
What the source says
Among those not owning a mobile phone, women outnumber men by 35 per cent.
Checked: the figure 35%is stated in this passage. If it does not match, the extraction is wrong and we want to know.
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APA
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_CH855T2X53APA04HFM3VPP4QXY
Other formats: MLA, Chicago, BibTeX
- MLA
- 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_CH855T2X53APA04HFM3VPP4QXY.
- Chicago
- 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_CH855T2X53APA04HFM3VPP4QXY.
- BibTeX
- @misc{itu2023genderpp4qxy, author = {{International Telecommunication Union}}, title = {Facts and Figures 2023}, year = {2023}, howpublished = {StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org}, url = {https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_CH855T2X53APA04HFM3VPP4QXY}, 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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Primary source
- Publisher
- International Telecommunication Union · homepage ↗
- Authority tier
- Tier 1 · Multilateral Official
- Report
- Facts and Figures 2023
- Type
- Press release
- Published
- 10 October 2023
- 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_CH855T2X53APA04HFM3VPP4QXY