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Mobile cellular subscriptions (per 100 people): Vietnam, 1960–2024
- Latest (2024)
- 127.6 subscriptions
- Source
- World Bank
- Code
- IT.CEL.SETS.P2
- Frequency
- Yearly
Definition
Mobile cellular telephone subscriptions are subscriptions to a public mobile telephone service that provide access to the PSTN using cellular technology. The indicator includes (and is split into) the number of postpaid subscriptions, and the number of active prepaid accounts (i.e. that have been used during the last three months). The indicator applies to all mobile cellular subscriptions that offer voice communications. It excludes subscriptions via data cards or USB modems, subscriptions to public mobile data services, private trunked mobile radio, telepoint, radio paging and telemetry services.
What the series shows
The series runs from 1960 to 2024 (53 years of data). It moved from 0.0 to 127.6 subscriptions. The highest value was 148.5 in 2014 and the lowest 0.0 in 1960. The comparison below sets Vietnam against 9 neighbouring economies on the latest available year.
Using it in a thesis
Indicators like this one are typical control or explanatory variables in macro and finance theses: merge the CSV with your other series on the year column, check for missing years before running a regression, and log-transform level variables that grow over time. If you use the series in a panel with other countries, take every country from the same source and vintage so the definitions match. Cite the original publisher, not this site, as shown below.
Values by year
| Year | Value (subscriptions) |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 127.6 |
| 2023 | 131.0 |
| 2022 | 137.9 |
| 2021 | 136.8 |
| 2020 | 141.7 |
| 2019 | 140.2 |
| 2018 | 146.1 |
| 2017 | 126.1 |
| 2016 | 128.3 |
| 2015 | 129.6 |
| 2014 | 148.5 |
| 2013 | 136.6 |
| 2012 | 147.1 |
| 2011 | 143.9 |
| 2010 | 127.6 |
| 2009 | 113.6 |
| 2008 | 87.9 |
| 2007 | 53.8 |
| 2006 | 23.0 |
| 2005 | 11.8 |
| 2004 | 6.2 |
| 2003 | 3.4 |
| 2002 | 2.4 |
| 2001 | 1.6 |
| 2000 | 1.0 |
| 1999 | 0.4 |
| 1998 | 0.3 |
| 1997 | 0.2 |
| 1996 | 0.1 |
| 1995 | 0.0 |
| 1994 | 0.0 |
| 1993 | 0.0 |
| 1992 | 0.0 |
| 1991 | 0.0 |
| 1990 | 0.0 |
| 1989 | 0.0 |
| 1988 | 0.0 |
| 1987 | 0.0 |
| 1986 | 0.0 |
| 1985 | 0.0 |
| 1984 | 0.0 |
| 1983 | 0.0 |
| 1982 | 0.0 |
| 1981 | 0.0 |
| 1980 | 0.0 |
| 1979 | 0.0 |
| 1978 | 0.0 |
| 1977 | 0.0 |
| 1976 | 0.0 |
| 1975 | 0.0 |
| 1970 | 0.0 |
| 1965 | 0.0 |
| 1960 | 0.0 |
Comparison with other countries
| Country | Latest year | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Vietnam | 2024 | 127.6 |
| Thailand | 2024 | 160.6 |
| Indonesia | 2024 | 122.5 |
| Malaysia | 2024 | 139.7 |
| Philippines | 2024 | 115.3 |
| Singapore | 2024 | 170.8 |
| Cambodia | 2024 | 116.1 |
| Laos | 2023 | 64.8 |
| Myanmar | 2024 | 114.3 |
| China | 2024 | 131.8 |
How to cite (APA 7)
World Bank. (2026). Mobile cellular subscriptions (per 100 people), Vietnam [Data set]. World Development Indicators. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/IT.CEL.SETS.P2?locations=VN
Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Retrieved 2026-11-02. The CSV has one row per period
with the variable name it_cel_sets_p2, ready for Stata, R or SPSS.