{"id":10266,"slug":"charted-markets-mobile-subs-2021-2024","title":"Mobile-cellular subscriptions per 100 people, Spotify’s four charted African markets, 2021 to 2024","source":"World Bank open data, indicator IT.CEL.SETS.P2, per-country series for Nigeria, South Africa, Morocco and Egypt","source_url":"https:\/\/api.worldbank.org\/v2\/country\/all\/indicator\/IT.CEL.SETS.P2?format=json","source_type":"official","method":"The four-year history of World Bank indicator IT.CEL.SETS.P2 for the only four markets Spotify currently publishes a daily African chart for, pulled directly from the World Bank API's per-country endpoint for NGA, ZAF, MAR and EGY, 14 November 2026, each value rounded to two decimal places. Shows that Nigeria's reading fell sharply between 2023 and 2024 while the other three charted markets' readings did not move in the same way over the same window.","unit":"","license":"Afrobeats Wire's compilation and analysis are licensed CC BY 4.0. Rights in the underlying source data remain with the source named above.","confidence":"high","retrieved":"2026-11-14 14:05:18","n":16,"first_party":0,"columns":[{"key":"country","label":"Country","type":"text"},{"key":"iso","label":"ISO","type":"text"},{"key":"year","label":"Year","type":"number"},{"key":"value","label":"Mobile-cellular subscriptions per 100 people","type":"number"}],"rows":[{"country":"Nigeria","iso":"NG","year":2021,"value":89.29},{"country":"Nigeria","iso":"NG","year":2022,"value":99.59},{"country":"Nigeria","iso":"NG","year":2023,"value":98.48},{"country":"Nigeria","iso":"NG","year":2024,"value":70.76},{"country":"South Africa","iso":"ZA","year":2021,"value":163.13},{"country":"South Africa","iso":"ZA","year":2022,"value":160.73},{"country":"South Africa","iso":"ZA","year":2023,"value":171.51},{"country":"South Africa","iso":"ZA","year":2024,"value":179.34},{"country":"Morocco","iso":"MA","year":2021,"value":138.91},{"country":"Morocco","iso":"MA","year":2022,"value":141.87},{"country":"Morocco","iso":"MA","year":2023,"value":148.16},{"country":"Morocco","iso":"MA","year":2024,"value":153.06},{"country":"Egypt","iso":"EG","year":2021,"value":84.09},{"country":"Egypt","iso":"EG","year":2022,"value":90.68},{"country":"Egypt","iso":"EG","year":2023,"value":92.83},{"country":"Egypt","iso":"EG","year":2024,"value":97.13}]}