Latin America mobile phone user penetration rate 2013-2019, by country

The statistic shows the mobile phone user penetration rate in Latin America by country from 2013 to 2019. For 2017, the mobile phone user penetration rate in Argentina is forecast to reach 72 percent.Mobile penetration rate in Latin America – additional informationThe number of mobile phone users in Latin America is expected to pass the 400 million mark in 2016. By that time more than 60 percent of the population in Latin America is projected to own and use a mobile phone. By 2018, the mobile user penetration rate is expected to reach more than two thirds of the population in several Latin American countries. The number of smartphone users in Latin America is also forecast to grow strongly over the next few years, from around 156 million in 2015 to more than 240 million in 2019. According to the GfK, more than 100 million smartphones were sold in 2014 and 2015 and a similar amount is expected to be sold in 2016 as well.Though Mexico’s mobile phone uptake in general remained average compared with many of its neighbors in Latin America, the total number of mobile subscriptions in Mexico has been above 100 million since 2012, according to ITU. In 2015, there were more than 85 mobile subscriptions per 100 inhabitants, which put Mexico in fourth place among markets in Latin America. The share of mobile phone user population in each Latin American country is forecast to remain more or less unchanged through to 2019, with most of mobile users coming from Chile, Argentina and Colombia.Smartphone penetration rate in Latin America is set to follow a similar trend to be among those to see the most rapid growth in the coming years. By 2019, half of the mobile phone users are projected to be smartphone users in Latin America, up from one third in 2014. Latin America’s internet usage on smartphones is also growing during the same period, in part due to mobile broadband advancement and smartphone device adoption. Mobile phone internet user penetration rate in Latin America is expected to increase from about 60 percent in 2016 to over 70 percent in 2020.

本统计数据显示了2013年至2019年间拉丁美洲各国移动电话用户普及率。针对2017年，阿根廷的移动电话用户普及率预计将达到72%。关于拉丁美洲的移动电话普及率——附加信息，预计到2016年，拉丁美洲的移动电话用户数量将超过4亿。届时，拉丁美洲超过60%的人口预计将拥有并使用移动电话。到2018年，预计多个拉丁美洲国家的移动电话用户普及率将达到人口总数的三分之二以上。拉丁美洲的智能手机用户数量也预计在未来几年内将强劲增长，从2015年的约1.56亿增长到2019年的超过2.4亿。根据GfK数据，2014年和2015年共售出超过1亿部智能手机，预计2016年也将有类似的销量。尽管与拉丁美洲的其他邻国相比，墨西哥的移动电话普及率总体保持平均水平，但根据ITU的数据，自2012年以来，墨西哥的移动电话订阅总数已超过1亿。2015年，每100名居民中就有超过85个移动电话订阅，使墨西哥在拉丁美洲市场排名第四。预计到2019年，拉丁美洲各国的移动电话用户人口份额将基本保持不变，其中大部分用户来自智利、阿根廷和哥伦比亚。拉丁美洲的智能手机普及率预计将遵循相似趋势，在未来几年中将成为增长最快的地区之一。预计到2019年，拉丁美洲的移动电话用户中将有半数为智能手机用户，而2014年这一比例为三分之一。在同一时期，拉丁美洲智能手机上的互联网使用率也在增长，部分原因是移动宽带技术的进步和智能手机设备的普及。预计到2020年，拉丁美洲的移动电话互联网用户普及率将从2016年的约60%增长到超过70%。