Africa Mobile Subscriber base - Total mobile connections in African countries

Africa is 2nd largest in terms of subscribers

The data given below considers 25 African countries which contain 91% of the continent’s mobile connections. It is not possible due to some regions to collect the data for all African countries.

Africa has become the second largest mobile country in the world, overtaking Latin America. Its now only second to Asia in terms of number of subscribers.

Over the last 10 years the mobile connections in Africa has grown an average of 30% per year.

Africa continues to be the fastest growing mobile market in the world

The African market is highly price competitive and has experienced significant price reductions in the recent years.

Country	Mobile subs.	%
Nigeria NGA Egypt EGY South Africa ZAF Algeria ALG  Morocco MAR  Kenya KEN Sudan1 SDN  Tanzania TZA  Ghana GHA Côte d’Ivoire CIV Uganda UGA DR Congo COD  Tunisia TUN  Ethiopia ETH Libya LBY Angola AGO  Cameroon CMR Mali MLI Senegal SEN Zimbabwe ZWE  Benin BEN Mozambique MOZ Burkina Faso BFA Zambia ZMB Madagascar MDG Others	89,343,017 80,616,921 59,474,500 36,741,368 36,522,899 26,135,115 24,628,765 23,334,395 20,049,412 17,991,035 14,754,199 14,098,685 12,254,728 11,902,288 11,158,560 10,797,078 10,658,991 10,000,229 9,686,372 8,281,749 7,996,577 7,750,845 6,740,148 6,544,630 6,147,499 56,190,285	14% 13% 10% 6%  6%  4%  4%  4%  3%  3%  2%  2%  2%  2%  2%  2%  2%  2%  2%  1%  1%  1%  1%  1%  1%  9%
Total	619,800,290	100%