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Phone use in India, state by state
Indian smartphone users spend nearly 5 hours a day on their phones — 4.95 in 2024. This page shows who is on one, in every state and union territory and by age, from the government's own 2025 survey. Hover a state, or pick one.
None of it is ours. The state and age figures are the Ministry of Statistics’ 2025 telecom survey; the hours are Sensor Tower’s, published by FICCI and EY. The only numbers we worked out ourselves — people counts, and hours a week — are labelled as ours wherever they appear, with the arithmetic in the sources.
Every figure checked against its source on .
- 1.23 trillionhours on phones across India in 2025, 9% more than the year before.2
- 97.0%of Indians aged 15–24 used a mobile phone in the last three months.3
- 92.7%of internet users aged 15 and over go online every day.3
No official source publishes phone hours state by state, so the map shows how many people use a phone, or go online, in each.
85.7%
of people aged 15+ across India used a mobile phone in the last three months.
That is about 92 crore people.4
India average: about 35 hours a week on the phone, per smartphone user.1
- On a smartphone*
- 82.7%
- Owns a phone
- 70.2%
- Rural
- 82.9%
- Urban
- 91.0%
- Women
- 79.8%
- Men
- 91.4%
Hover a state, or pick one, to see its figures.Tap a state, or pick one, to see its figures.
The younger the group, the closer it gets to everyone.
- 15–2497.0%94.3%
- 15–2997.1%93.6%
- 15 and over85.7%70.0%
used a mobile phone used the internet — in the last three months, as the survey groups ages.3
Every state and UT
| State / UT | Uses a phone | Ages 15–24 | Goes online | Ages 15–24 | On a smartphone* | Owns a phone |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andaman & Nicobar Islands † | 90.9% | 100.0% | 75.3% | 100.0% | 82.5% | 83.3% |
| Andhra Pradesh | 87.3% | 97.0% | 68.9% | 93.9% | 79.5% | 71.1% |
| Arunachal Pradesh † | 76.4% | 90.0% | 66.7% | 81.1% | 86.6% | 71.4% |
| Assam | 89.6% | 97.7% | 72.6% | 96.7% | 82.1% | 70.3% |
| Bihar | 87.0% | 97.7% | 71.1% | 94.1% | 81.9% | 67.5% |
| Chandigarh | 96.4% | 100.0% | 94.6% | 100.0% | 93.6% | 86.5% |
| Chhattisgarh | 72.2% | 96.5% | 60.4% | 88.8% | 87.0% | 56.7% |
| Dadra & Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu † | 91.2% | 93.8% | 85.6% | 93.3% | 98.2% | 78.4% |
| Delhi | 95.5% | 98.3% | 90.2% | 98.0% | 92.9% | 88.6% |
| Goa † | 92.0% | 93.2% | 71.8% | 100.0% | 88.3% | 88.7% |
| Gujarat | 83.6% | 97.1% | 71.1% | 93.5% | 86.7% | 69.3% |
| Haryana | 87.8% | 97.3% | 73.7% | 95.9% | 84.6% | 74.7% |
| Himachal Pradesh | 93.8% | 99.4% | 77.2% | 97.1% | 84.9% | 83.9% |
| Jammu & Kashmir | 86.3% | 98.8% | 70.3% | 95.7% | 81.5% | 72.7% |
| Jharkhand | 81.9% | 98.3% | 65.7% | 96.3% | 81.4% | 62.8% |
| Karnataka | 90.0% | 98.5% | 73.6% | 97.5% | 82.9% | 78.4% |
| Kerala | 94.2% | 99.9% | 77.9% | 99.6% | 84.8% | 88.4% |
| Ladakh † | 96.6% | 97.4% | 89.8% | 97.4% | 93.0% | 93.2% |
| Lakshadweep | 94.0% | 100.0% | 84.0% | 100.0% | 90.5% | 85.3% |
| Madhya Pradesh | 82.0% | 96.7% | 66.5% | 94.7% | 81.5% | 64.4% |
| Maharashtra | 85.8% | 96.5% | 73.9% | 95.1% | 87.3% | 75.3% |
| Manipur | 91.1% | 98.0% | 83.5% | 96.6% | 91.4% | 82.9% |
| Meghalaya | 91.8% | 95.7% | 81.7% | 94.8% | 90.0% | 80.5% |
| Mizoram | 96.4% | 100.0% | 92.7% | 99.3% | 95.6% | 90.2% |
| Nagaland | 90.2% | 99.6% | 75.0% | 97.1% | 82.0% | 82.4% |
| Odisha | 78.1% | 92.7% | 62.1% | 89.3% | 82.9% | 60.6% |
| Puducherry † | 90.7% | 99.6% | 69.3% | 92.0% | 76.3% | 87.1% |
| Punjab | 88.3% | 97.4% | 74.4% | 96.4% | 86.5% | 77.0% |
| Rajasthan | 84.6% | 97.6% | 70.9% | 94.1% | 84.5% | 66.4% |
| Sikkim | 93.1% | 97.5% | 87.0% | 97.9% | 91.7% | 87.2% |
| Tamil Nadu | 86.9% | 97.2% | 65.4% | 95.7% | 75.6% | 77.4% |
| Telangana | 88.3% | 98.4% | 72.2% | 97.1% | 82.3% | 77.5% |
| Tripura † | 71.2% | 83.0% | 59.5% | 76.0% | 88.8% | 57.2% |
| Uttar Pradesh | 83.4% | 95.8% | 67.7% | 91.8% | 82.0% | 63.1% |
| Uttarakhand | 89.2% | 99.6% | 77.1% | 99.4% | 87.6% | 74.6% |
| West Bengal | 87.5% | 98.2% | 65.5% | 95.7% | 75.6% | 67.3% |
| All India | 85.7% | 97.0% | 70.0% | 94.3% | 82.7% | 70.2% |
Sources
- FICCI–EY, Shape the future: Indian media and entertainment is scripting a new story, March 2025, p. 52. Sensor Tower’s average time in apps per smartphone user, 4.95 hours a day. The weekly figure on the map is ours: × 7.
- FICCI–EY, Stories, scale and impact: Unlocking India’s media and entertainment economy, March 2026, p. 36, from Sensor Tower data.
- Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, Comprehensive Modular Survey: Telecom, 2025 (NSS Report No. 593, 80th round, January–March 2025, Appendix A Tables 1–4). Ages 15 and over unless stated; the survey bands ages 15–24 and 15–29, which overlap. *Of people who used a phone, the share on a smartphone. MoSPI notes the survey was not designed for state-level estimates; † marks a state whose figure has a relative standard error above 5%, so read it as approximate.
- People counts are our calculation, rounded: the survey’s share times the projected population aged 15+ from the National Commission on Population (MoHFW, July 2020), Population Projections for India and States 2011–2036 (Table 18; the 1 March 2025 figure is read between its 2021 and 2026 projections. Shown only for the 22 states it gives an age breakdown of its own).
- Map: State boundaries as depicted by the Survey of India; shapes from the DataMeet India community, CC BY 4.0, simplified and reprojected.
What these numbers do not say
- How long anyone in a given state spends on the phone. No official source publishes phone hours by state or by age. The 4.95 hours a day is a national average per smartphone user, which is why the map shades by who uses a phone rather than by hours.
- That everyone counted has a smartphone.“Uses a phone” is any mobile phone in the last three months. “On a smartphone” is the share of those users who used one.
- Precise state rankings.MoSPI notes the survey was not designed for state-level estimates. States marked † have a relative standard error above 5%, and a state’s age bands rest on smaller samples than its total.
- Exact headcounts.People counts multiply the survey’s share by a population projected in 2020, before Covid, and are rounded. They are shown only for the 22 states the projection gives their own age breakdown.
- Anything about children under 15. The survey starts at 15.
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