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This is a list of countries by smartphone penetration. These numbers are based on the top countries by percentage of population owning a smartphone (so smaller countries are absent) and come from Newzoo's Global Mobile Market Report (the numbers were last updated in June 2021).
It is common for each SIM card has a separate phone number, so phones with multiple SIM cards will have multiple phone numbers. As another caveat, some mobile phone numbers may be used by machines as a modem , such as intrusion detection systems, home automation, or leak detection, and some numbers may be used as a local micro-cell.
India's telecommunication network is the second largest in the world by number of telephone users [3] (both fixed and mobile phones) with over 1.19 billion subscribers as of September 2024. [4] It has one of the lowest call tariffs in the world enabled by multiple large-scale telecom operators and the ensuant hyper-competition between them.
Rank Country/Territory Penetration 1 South Korea 97.49% 2 Japan 94.70% 3 Norway 92.16% 4 Hong Kong 90.34% 5 United States 90.32% 6 Netherlands 89.64% 7 Hungary 89.26% 8 Kuwait
List of countries by smartphone penetration; List of multiple-system operators; List of telecommunications companies. List of telecommunications companies in the Americas; List of telecommunications companies in Asia and Oceania; List of telecommunications companies in Europe; List of telecommunications companies in the Middle East and Africa
Internet users are defined as persons who accessed the Internet in the last 12 months from any device, including mobile phones. [Note 1] Percentage is the percentage of a country's population that are Internet users. Estimates are derived either from household surveys or from Internet subscription data. [4]
The term "smart phone" (in two words) was not coined until a year after the introduction of the Simon, appearing in print as early as 1995, describing AT&T's PhoneWriter Communicator. [14] [non-primary source needed] The term "smartphone" (as one word) was first used by Ericsson in 1997 to describe a new device concept, the GS88. [15]
Smartphone penetration vs. desktop use differs substantially by country. Some countries, like Russia, still have smartphone use as low as 22.35% (as a fraction of all web use), [134] but in most western countries, smartphone use is close to 50% of all web use. This doesn't mean that only half of the population has a smartphone, could mean ...