Mobile phone has become a prime tool of choice for the people to establish communication with their friends and family members. By providing capability for user to connect with social media sites, mobile phones have dominated the desktop computers in numbers.
The number of mobile phone users over the globe are increasing at a constant level due to low call rates and availability of low-price mobile phones. Among various countries using the mobile phones, China and India are the only two countries where 85.21% and 70.42% people from total population make use of the mobile phone.
In present days, a single person is owning more than one or two mobile phones which results in the increase of mobile phone usage. It is considered that mobile phone has a great role to play in the communication sector by increasing its revenue by a huge mark in last few years.
Below placed is the list of few countries over the globe that have highest number of mobile phone users.
China:
Total population: 1,349,585,838
Number of mobile phones: 1,150,000,000
Percentage of total population using phone: 85.21
India:
Total population: 1,220,200,200
Number of mobile phones: 327,557,529
Percentage of total population using phone: 70.42
United States:
Total population: 310,866,000
Number of mobile phones: 327,577,529
Percentage of total population using phone: 103.9
Brazil:
Total population: 192,379,287
Number of mobile phones: 263,040,000
Percentage of total population using phone: 136.7
Russia, Pakistan, Japan, Germany and Philippines are few among the list with highest rate of mobile usage.
