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# CHARTBOX: Mobile Money Subscribers in Sub-Saharan Africa
- URL: https://www.techloy.com/mobile-money-subscribers-in-sub-saharan-africa/
- Published: 2020-03-05T00:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2022-11-17T18:32:40.000Z
- Author: Techloy
- Tags: / Insights, Chartbox, Mobile, Mobile Money

The mobile money industry added a record 143 million registered customers in 2018, bringing its total to 866 million registered mobile money accounts in 90 countries, representing a 20% year-on-year increase from 2017, according to [GSMA’s State of the Industry Report on Mobile Money](https://www.gsma.com/r/state-of-the-industry-report/). 

While 34.5% of the world’s registered accounts were active in 2018, up from 33.9% in 2017, activity rates in Sub-Saharan Africa remained stable at 36.8%, largely unchanged from 2017, with the region adding over 17.5 million new active accounts in 2018, bringing its total active mobile money accounts to 145.8 million. 

This *Techloy* Chart highlights the user numbers behind Sub-Saharan Africa’s mobile money landscape, based on data from GSMA.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/c1/a6/c1a6d111-d951-41ad-a392-c1e841210b93/content/images/2022/11/1_0FUfS0-R0lb1OFhbqkDuKQ.png)

Chart by [Loy Okezie](https://www.techloy.com/author/loy/) / [Techloy.com](https://techloy.com/)