Brazil - Telephone lines

Fixed telephone subscriptions

The value for Fixed telephone subscriptions in Brazil was 30,653,810 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 45,038,120 in 2013 and a minimum value of 650,000 in 1960.

Definition: Fixed telephone subscriptions refers to the sum of active number of analogue fixed telephone lines, voice-over-IP (VoIP) subscriptions, fixed wireless local loop (WLL) subscriptions, ISDN voice-channel equivalents and fixed public payphones.

Source: International Telecommunication Union, World Telecommunication/ICT Development Report and database.

See also:

Year Value
1960 650,000
1961 650,000
1962 650,000
1963 650,000
1964 650,000
1965 850,000
1966 850,000
1967 850,000
1968 850,000
1969 850,000
1970 1,250,000
1971 1,250,000
1972 1,250,000
1973 1,250,000
1974 1,250,000
1975 2,201,242
1976 2,510,000
1977 3,060,000
1978 3,720,000
1979 4,290,073
1980 4,950,000
1981 5,330,000
1982 5,822,397
1983 6,300,000
1984 6,700,000
1985 7,201,516
1986 7,451,000
1987 7,810,000
1988 8,270,000
1989 8,790,000
1990 9,409,000
1991 10,075,920
1992 10,841,000
1993 11,303,000
1994 12,269,000
1995 13,263,000
1996 15,105,890
1997 17,038,820
1998 19,986,560
1999 24,985,000
2000 30,926,270
2001 37,430,780
2002 38,810,680
2003 39,205,000
2004 39,578,900
2005 39,852,600
2006 38,800,200
2007 39,399,620
2008 41,235,250
2009 41,497,000
2010 42,141,420
2011 43,025,840
2012 44,305,300
2013 45,038,120
2014 44,128,190
2015 43,677,140
2016 42,003,950
2017 40,375,700
2018 38,311,920
2019 33,712,880
2020 30,653,810

Fixed telephone subscriptions (per 100 people)

The value for Fixed telephone subscriptions (per 100 people) in Brazil was 14.42 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 22.40 in 2013 and a minimum value of 0.90 in 1961.

Definition: Fixed telephone subscriptions refers to the sum of active number of analogue fixed telephone lines, voice-over-IP (VoIP) subscriptions, fixed wireless local loop (WLL) subscriptions, ISDN voice-channel equivalents and fixed public payphones.

Source: International Telecommunication Union, World Telecommunication/ICT Development Report and database.

See also:

Year Value
1960 0.90
1961 0.90
1962 0.90
1963 0.90
1964 0.90
1965 1.02
1966 1.02
1967 1.02
1968 1.02
1969 1.02
1970 1.31
1971 1.31
1972 1.31
1973 1.31
1974 1.31
1975 2.05
1976 2.29
1977 2.72
1978 3.23
1979 3.64
1980 4.10
1981 4.31
1982 4.60
1983 4.87
1984 5.06
1985 5.32
1986 5.40
1987 5.54
1988 5.76
1989 6.01
1990 6.31
1991 6.64
1992 7.03
1993 7.21
1994 7.70
1995 8.19
1996 9.18
1997 10.19
1998 11.77
1999 14.50
2000 17.69
2001 21.12
2002 21.62
2003 21.56
2004 21.51
2005 21.41
2006 20.62
2007 20.72
2008 21.47
2009 21.40
2010 21.53
2011 21.78
2012 22.23
2013 22.40
2014 21.76
2015 21.36
2016 20.37
2017 19.43
2018 18.29
2019 15.97
2020 14.42

Classification

Topic: Infrastructure Indicators

Sub-Topic: Communications