3 Mobile ownership and expenditure 3.1 Mobile ownership demographics Mobile phone ownership has nearly doubled from 39% to 61% over a year (Figure 34), indicating the rapidly increasing mobile ownership in Myanmar.4 2015 2016 61 39 100% 80% 60% Mobile owner Mobile non-owner 40% 20% 39 61 0% Figure 34: Mobile ownership- 2015 vs. 2016 (% of 15-65 population) 4 Note: Mobile ownership refers to having both at least one active SIM and mobile device ICTs in Myanmar: 2016 47