The Mobile Economy – West Africa 2018

Mobile adoption has grown rapidly in West Africa in recent years, helped by the expansion of mobile networks to underserved communities and the increasing affordability of services and device costs. By the end of 2017, there were 176 million unique subscribers across the West Africa sub-region, comprising the 15 member states of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). Overall subscriber penetration reached 47% in 2017, up from 28% at the start of this decade. Despite the remarkable subscriber growth in the sub-region in recent years, and indeed across Sub-Saharan Africa, more than half of the region’s population do not yet subscribe to a mobile service.

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• The Mobile Economy – West Africa 2018 (Report – English)
• The Mobile Economy – West Africa 2018 (Report – French)
• The Mobile Economy – West Africa 2018 (Infographics – English)