Gender parity score for mobile phone ownership
RecordSTO-SWHV7E2WKC-CG31QKEFEM-F2A50J
Global · 2025
Gender parity score for mobile phone ownership worldwide was 0.9 ratio in 2025 (ITU).
- Publisher
- ITU
- Authority tier
- T1 Official
- Locator
- Final paragraph
- Retrieved
- 14 Sep 2026
- Status
- Verified
What the source says
Globally, 78 per cent of females and 87 per cent of males aged 10 and over own a mobile phone, translating into a gender parity score of 0.90 (i.e. skewed against women), which is slightly lower than the corresponding 0.92 score for Internet use.
Checked: the figure 0.9 ratiois stated in this passage. If it does not match, the extraction is wrong and we want to know.
Cite this figure
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_SWHV7E2WKCCG31QKEFEMF2A50J
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_SWHV7E2WKCCG31QKEFEMF2A50J.
- 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_SWHV7E2WKCCG31QKEFEMF2A50J.
- BibTeX
- @misc{itu2025mobilef2a50j, 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_SWHV7E2WKCCG31QKEFEMF2A50J}, note = {Original source: https://www.itu.int/itu-d/reports/statistics/2025/10/15/ff25-mobile-phone-ownership/. Accessed September 14, 2026.} }
Data published under CC BY 4.0. The citation credits the original publisher and links to this permanent record.
Provenance and verification
Everything needed to check this number yourself, without taking our word for it.
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
- Final paragraph
- Retrieved
- 14 September 2026
- Link status
- Reachable (HTTP 200)
- Report licence
- See the source
Verification
- Status
- Verified
- Review protocol
- editorial:judge-fix-v1:2026-09-27
- Checked on
- 27 September 2026
- Last revision
- 27 September 2026
- Permanent URL
- /stat/stat_SWHV7E2WKCCG31QKEFEMF2A50J