#1 World Bank Data / ITU
World Bank Mobile Cellular Subscriptions (IT.CEL.SETS) Indicator
- Coverage
- Roughly 265 World Bank member countries and economies…
Industry hub · Wireless telecommunication services data provider
Wireless Telecommunication Services Data Providers
Datadory covers wireless telecommunication services data provider with 5 datasets spanning World Bank Mobile Cellular Subscriptions (IT.CEL.SETS) Indicator , World Bank WDI - Mobile cellular subscriptions and ITU World Telecommunication/ICT Indicators Database - Global & Regional Time Series (2005-2025) . Delivered daily, weekly, or hourly — your call.
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The manifest
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#2 World Bank Data / ITU
World Bank WDI - Mobile cellular subscriptions
- Coverage
- 265 rows covering roughly 217 national economies plus…
#3 International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
ITU World Telecommunication/ICT Indicators Database - Global & Regional Time Series (2005-2025)
- Coverage
- World, six ITU BDT regions (Africa
#4
Hugging Face Datasets Hub - Fashion/Apparel Datasets
- Coverage
- Global
#5
Kaggle Datasets Hub - Furniture Search
- Coverage
- Global - coverage follows publishers rather than a…
The lay of the water
Where wireless telecommunication services data provider data actually comes from.
Wireless Telecommunication Services is the catalog's thinnest slice: zero datasets originate here, and all five records arrive pooled in from adjacent industries — Alternative Carriers, Integrated Telecommunication Services, Communications Equipment, plus two general-purpose discovery hubs tagged in from Apparel Retail and Home Furnishings.
Thin does not mean shallow, because institutional statistical publishers carry the substance.
World Bank Data ships the core pair: indicator IT.CEL.SETS in raw counts and IT.CEL.SETS.P2 per 100 people, together spanning 1960–2025 across 265 economy rows — roughly 217 sovereign economies plus regional and income aggregates.
The per-capita panel alone holds 13,017 non-empty observations in a verified wide table of 265 rows by 66 year columns.
On the absolute series, the United States posts 390,990,000 for 2024 against 386,106,000 for 2023, while the world aggregate lands at 111.5 per 100 inhabitants.
The International Telecommunication Union supplies the authoritative aggregates layer: one compact workbook of regional and global ICT series for 2005–2025, spanning broadband, mobile-network population coverage and internet use.
It estimates roughly 6 billion people — 74% of world population — online in 2025, leaving about 2.2 billion offline, and it is the only record in this pool splitting population covered by a mobile-cellular network into total, urban and rural.
Two discovery hubs round out the pool.
Hugging Face indexes 1,012,353 machine-learning datasets hub-wide with faceted filters for modality, task and size; Kaggle layers community-published tables behind usability scores and per-dataset provenance metadata.
An industry with zero homegrown records sounds like a gap until you see who carries the numbers: for wireless markets, the substance lives at the UN-agency layer, and Datadory routes it to you whole.
Pick your catch
Three to start with. The rest of the board is above.
Wireless telecommunication services data provider Roughly 265 World Bank member… · 1960-2025 (annual observations
World Bank Mobile Cellular Subscriptions (IT.CEL.SETS) Indicator
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Wireless telecommunication services data provider 265 rows covering roughly 217 national… · 1960-2025 (annual)
World Bank WDI - Mobile cellular subscriptions
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Wireless telecommunication services data provider World, six ITU BDT regions (Africa · Annual, 2005-2025 (a separate…
ITU World Telecommunication/ICT Indicators Database - Global & Regional Time Series (2005-2025)
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Wireless telecommunication services data provider Global · Continuously growing repository
Hugging Face Datasets Hub - Fashion/Apparel Datasets
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Wireless telecommunication services data provider Global - coverage follows publishers… · Living catalog - each record carries…
Kaggle Datasets Hub - Furniture Search
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Who fishes here
Quant researchers build backtestable macro features from the country-year panels: periodicity running back to 1960 puts six-plus decades of penetration history alongside rates and output series in one frame.
Market researchers size markets by country, benchmarking absolute scale across borders on IT.CEL.SETS before narrowing to per-capita comparisons on IT.CEL.SETS.P2 — the 2024 United States reading of 390,990,000 means little until it sits next to the 111.5 world average per 100 inhabitants.
Policy teams and NGOs quantify the digital divide for briefs and decks: 74% of the world online in 2025, roughly 2.2 billion people offline, and low-income economies' mobile-network population coverage climbing from 80.7% in 2015 to 88.0% in 2020.
Machine-learning engineers source training corpora and benchmark tasks through the discovery hubs, filtering by modality, task and size.
Developers embed country statistics straight into apps and dashboards, paginating the panels down to a single economy-year reading.
Journalists, academics and students anchor citations to the institutional series — best data for wireless telecommunication services teams collects that shortlist.
Choosing between them
Three attributes decide it here.
Grain: the World Bank panels run country-year at national level; the ITU workbook runs indicator-by-aggregate-group, trading country detail for income-group and regional roll-ups.
Depth: the cellular series reach back to 1960; the ITU aggregates begin in 2005.
Match the horizon to the cycle you are studying — adoption curves predate the aggregate layer by forty-five years.
Shape: the per-capita panel arrives wide, 66 year columns per row; the absolute series and the ITU workbook suit long-format tooling.
Wide flatters spreadsheets; long flatters warehouses.
When two records overlap, take the normalized series for cross-country charts and the absolute series for market-size sums — and remember the discovery hubs index corpora, not telecom statistics, so they complement rather than compete.
Frequently asked questions
How many countries does the mobile cellular data cover?
Both World Bank series carry 265 economy rows — roughly 217 sovereign economies plus regional and income aggregates such as the Arab World and the Euro area. Observations run annually from 1960 to 2025, and the per-capita panel alone holds 13,017 non-empty readings.
What is the global mobile penetration rate?
The ITU aggregates put the world at 111.5 per 100 inhabitants by the end of its 2005–2025 series, up from 2,205.3 million in 2005. The same workbook tracks fixed telephone lines falling from 1,243.2 million in 2005 to 10.2 per 100 inhabitants.
How far back does mobile phone data go?
To 1960. The World Bank's per-capita series starts at zero worldwide in 1960 and climbs to 111.5 in the 2025 world aggregate — 66 year columns per economy row, which is several complete technology generations of documented history.
Which publisher tracks network rollout in developing markets?
The International Telecommunication Union estimates population covered by a mobile-cellular network in low-income countries rising from 80.7% in 2015 to 88.0% in 2020, split total, urban and rural — the only three-way split in this pool.
How big is the offline population?
Roughly 2.2 billion people. The ITU puts about 6 billion — 74% of world population — online in 2025, a gap the aggregates quantify cleanly enough for policy briefs, client decks and market-entry memos alike.
Where does the underlying data come from?
Institutional statistical publishers: the World Bank compiles both cellular series from the International Telecommunication Union, and the ITU publishes the regional and global aggregates layer itself. Two discovery hubs — Hugging Face and Kaggle — complete the pool for machine-learning work.
Why keep the per-capita series as its own record?
Normalization changes the question you can ask. Absolute volume favors big populations; readings per 100 people put a 100-million-person market and a 5-million-person market on the same axis, which is what cross-country charts need.
Can I sample a record before committing?
Yes — name the indicator, the economies and the year range, and the sample returns rows in exactly the field shapes documented on each dataset page. Delivered to your warehouse or as files, daily, weekly, or hourly, your call.
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