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According to the Department of Telecommunications of India, there were 346.9 million wireless telephones in India as of December 2008. Using a total population of 1,147,995,904 (July 2008 estimate), the penetration rate of cell phones was 30.2%. For comparison purposes, the penetration rate as of December 2007 was only 20.7%. In other words, the number of mobile phones in India increased by 113 million in 12 months, an astounding 48.5% growth rate.

You may also want to compare India’s mobile phone penetration to China’s mobile phone penetration.

A complete list of mobile network operators in India has been uploaded to the India section of the site.

I just finished a major upgrade to the thematic map engine. It can now generate color-coded maps (choropleths) for individual countries. Check out the following examples:

• China – population by province
• India – population by state

I have population data for several other countries. I will soon make it easier to discover which country maps are available.