High income - Telephone lines

Fixed telephone subscriptions

The value for Fixed telephone subscriptions in High income was 437,472,800 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 587,943,400 in 2001 and a minimum value of 83,841,650 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 83,841,650
1961 83,841,660
1962 83,841,660
1963 83,841,660
1964 83,841,660
1965 107,654,400
1966 107,735,500
1967 107,735,500
1968 107,735,500
1969 107,735,500
1970 146,019,500
1971 146,019,500
1972 146,019,500
1973 146,019,500
1974 146,019,500
1975 201,402,100
1976 212,837,100
1977 225,053,800
1978 238,494,800
1979 252,906,900
1980 266,452,700
1981 286,818,600
1982 297,833,600
1983 309,965,400
1984 321,968,300
1985 335,153,200
1986 346,531,400
1987 361,222,100
1988 377,552,300
1989 394,965,700
1990 414,723,200
1991 430,254,900
1992 445,766,700
1993 461,546,600
1994 479,097,300
1995 498,674,900
1996 518,651,600
1997 539,881,900
1998 551,830,500
1999 575,758,300
2000 587,721,400
2001 587,943,400
2002 586,606,500
2003 578,552,600
2004 570,711,300
2005 563,241,200
2006 552,270,300
2007 531,445,800
2008 530,580,300
2009 553,259,300
2010 547,086,300
2011 536,847,200
2012 526,023,500
2013 518,665,000
2014 501,344,200
2015 495,704,200
2016 488,130,600
2017 477,118,000
2018 462,409,800
2019 449,256,000
2020 437,472,800

Fixed telephone subscriptions (per 100 people)

The value for Fixed telephone subscriptions (per 100 people) in High income was 36.08 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 54.84 in 2000 and a minimum value of 11.77 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 11.77
1961 11.80
1962 11.82
1963 11.83
1964 11.84
1965 13.77
1966 13.73
1967 13.73
1968 13.72
1969 13.72
1970 17.46
1971 17.46
1972 17.45
1973 17.44
1974 17.43
1975 22.79
1976 23.88
1977 25.04
1978 26.32
1979 27.39
1980 28.63
1981 30.58
1982 31.51
1983 32.55
1984 33.57
1985 34.62
1986 35.62
1987 36.86
1988 38.26
1989 39.75
1990 41.36
1991 42.61
1992 43.84
1993 45.08
1994 46.48
1995 48.05
1996 49.65
1997 51.35
1998 52.15
1999 54.07
2000 54.84
2001 54.50
2002 54.02
2003 52.93
2004 51.85
2005 50.80
2006 49.44
2007 47.20
2008 46.75
2009 48.37
2010 47.49
2011 46.31
2012 45.08
2013 44.21
2014 43.63
2015 41.79
2016 40.97
2017 39.85
2018 38.47
2019 37.19
2020 36.08

Classification

Topic: Infrastructure Indicators

Sub-Topic: Communications