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Rank	Country	Telephones - mobile cellular per capita
1	Qatar	279.5
2	United Arab Emirates	227.7
3	Saint Kitts and Nevis	210.81
4	Macau	197.55
5	Panama	193.31
6	Hong Kong	190.16
7	British Virgin Islands	187.66
8	Antigua and Barbuda	185.24
9	Cayman Islands	185.08
10	Suriname	184.93
11	Saudi Arabia	179.75
12	Vietnam	177.08
13	Montenegro	174.06
14	Libya	172.73
15	Anguilla	172.25
16	Russia	169.95
17	Kuwait	163.5
18	Finland	159.8
19	Austria	158.48
20	Singapore	156.89
21	Trinidad and Tobago	153.99
22	Dominica	152.12
23	Gaza Strip	149.92
24	Luxembourg	147.83
25	Bulgaria	147.67
26	Portugal	141.9
27	Italy	141.07
28	Botswana	140.41
29	Bahrain	139.46
30	Lithuania	137.57
31	Israel	136.51
32	Guatemala	136.09
33	Oman	134.75
34	Seychelles	134.44
35	Serbia	134.36
36	Grenada	134.34
37	Malaysia	133.99
38	Chile	132.63
39	United Kingdom	132.21
40	Argentina	131.67
41	Vanuatu	130.56
42	Bermuda	129.2
43	Kazakhstan	128.37
44	Germany	127.54
45	Denmark	127.43
46	Estonia	127.22
47	Spain	127.06
48	Uruguay	126.98
49	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	126.04
50	Aruba	126.02
51	Turks and Caicos Islands	125.78
52	Czech Republic	125.71
53	Switzerland	125.28
54	Maldives	124.74
55	Honduras	121.97
56	Faroe Islands	121.58
57	Barbados	121.34
58	Hungary	121.26
59	Taiwan	121.18
60	Azerbaijan	120.87
61	Belgium	120.22
62	Poland	119.53
63	New Zealand	119.14
64	Brazil	119.07
65	Norway	118.55
66	Ukraine	118.01
67	Sweden	117.55
68	Netherlands	115.52
69	Greece	114.49
70	Croatia	114.08
71	Iceland	113.5
72	Australia	112.51
73	Malta	112.4
74	Saint Lucia	111.88
75	Ireland	111.87
76	Belarus	111.67
77	Romania	110.91
78	Brunei	110.28
79	Jamaica	109.8
80	Slovakia	108.46
81	Armenia	108.19
82	El Salvador	107.16
83	Gibraltar	107.01
84	Gabon	106.27
85	Tunisia	105.99
86	Fiji	105.85
87	Slovenia	105.8
88	Thailand	105.73
89	Korea, South	104.65
90	Jordan	104.37
91	Macedonia	104.17
92	Venezuela	103.97
93	Albania	103.52
94	Latvia	103.34
95	Colombia	103.3
96	South Africa	102.69
97	Ecuador	102.17
98	Liechtenstein	102.13
99	Iran	101.61
100	Algeria	101.17
101	France	99.91
102	Greenland	99.48
103	Peru	98.54
104	Kyrgyzstan	97.11
105	New Caledonia	97.08
106	Bahamas, The	95.37
107	Costa Rica	95.22
108	Japan	95.22
109	Mauritius	92.74
110	Jersey	92.71
111	Morocco	91.59
112	Indonesia	91.56
113	Congo, Republic of the	91.54
114	United States	90.82
115	Dominican Republic	88.09
116	Mauritania	87.71
117	Egypt	85.05
118	Paraguay	84.55
119	Benin	83.27
120	Iraq	82.91
121	Gambia, The	82.9
122	Montserrat	82.69
123	Bolivia	82.55
124	Mongolia	82.53
125	Mexico	82.15
126	Cote d'Ivoire	80.99
127	Tajikistan	80.84
128	Sri Lanka	80.69
129	Turkey	80.42
130	Philippines	79.98
131	Monaco	79.78
132	San Marino	79.15
133	Cape Verde	76.81
134	Andorra	76.63
135	Samoa	76.09
136	Canada	75.98
137	Uzbekistan	75.9
138	French Polynesia	75.22
139	Puerto Rico	73.89
140	Virgin Islands	73.87
141	China	73.78
142	Moldova	73.25
143	Ghana	73.16
144	Namibia	72.79
145	Guyana	72.57
146	Lebanon	71.57
147	Angola	71.15
148	Palau	69.72
149	Georgia	69.18
150	Bosnia and Herzegovina	68.6
151	Bhutan	68.35
152	Cambodia	68.02
153	Guernsey	67.35
154	Zimbabwe	65.83
155	Cook Islands	65.71
156	Turkmenistan	65.47
157	Swaziland	65.19
158	India	64.1
159	Kenya	64.02
160	Nicaragua	64.01
161	Belize	63.22
162	Equatorial Guinea	63.04
163	Pakistan	62.98
164	Senegal	60.85
165	Guam	59
166	Afghanistan	58.85
167	Laos	58.57
168	Nigeria	58.5
169	Syria	57.96
170	Mali	57.84
171	Bangladesh	53.6
172	Cameroon	53.14
173	East Timor	53.07
174	Nauru	50.29
175	Tanzania	50.09
176	Sao Tome and Principe	48.19
177	Yemen	46.53
178	Burkina Faso	45.86
179	Liberia	45.64
180	Tonga	44.91
181	Haiti	44.27
182	Sudan	42.97
183	Zambia	41.7
184	Togo	40.73
185	Madagascar	39.91
186	Guinea	39.77
187	Uganda	39.63
188	Guinea-Bissau	38.73
189	Chad	34.07
190	Rwanda	33.89
191	Mozambique	33.34
192	Lesotho	32.79
193	Nepal	32.2
194	Papua New Guinea	31.52
195	Sierra Leone	31.06
196	Niue	27.83
197	Comoros	27.23
198	Kosovo	26.43
199	Northern Mariana Islands	26.2
200	Micronesia, Federated States of	25.6
201	Djibouti	25.49
202	Niger	24.87
203	Central African Republic	22.71
204	Congo, Democratic Republic of the	21.86
205	Malawi	21.29
206	Tuvalu	20.21
207	Burundi	19.38
208	Cuba	11.86
209	Kiribati	8.86
210	Ethiopia	7.65
211	Somalia	6.59
212	Marshall Islands	5.89
213	Solomon Islands	5.04
214	American Samoa	3.8
215	Eritrea	3.28
216	Burma	2.3

Definition: This entry gives the estimated number of mobile phone lines per 100 people. It is also known as the mobile phone penetration rate.

Source: CIA World Factbook - Unless otherwise noted, information in this page is accurate as of January 1, 2012

See also: Telephones - mobile cellular per capita map

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