Nepal - Telephone lines

Fixed telephone subscriptions

The value for Fixed telephone subscriptions in Nepal was 726,000 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 45 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 861,299 in 2017 and a minimum value of 7,100 in 1975.

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
1975 7,100
1976 7,700
1977 8,600
1978 9,100
1979 10,200
1980 11,400
1981 12,800
1982 14,290
1983 16,496
1984 18,592
1985 20,691
1986 26,000
1987 30,404
1988 38,000
1989 45,457
1990 57,320
1991 64,894
1992 68,886
1993 72,683
1994 75,637
1995 83,713
1996 112,645
1997 139,989
1998 208,387
1999 253,035
2000 266,890
2001 298,062
2002 327,673
2003 371,816
2004 417,944
2005 484,640
2006 611,544
2007 701,126
2008 805,061
2009 812,615
2010 841,698
2011 845,542
2012 831,703
2013 829,097
2014 837,266
2015 846,940
2016 858,237
2017 861,299
2018 799,368
2019 762,000
2020 726,000

Fixed telephone subscriptions (per 100 people)

The value for Fixed telephone subscriptions (per 100 people) in Nepal was 2.49 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 45 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 3.15 in 2016 and a minimum value of 0.05 in 1975.

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
1975 0.05
1976 0.06
1977 0.06
1978 0.06
1979 0.07
1980 0.08
1981 0.08
1982 0.09
1983 0.10
1984 0.11
1985 0.12
1986 0.15
1987 0.17
1988 0.21
1989 0.25
1990 0.30
1991 0.33
1992 0.35
1993 0.35
1994 0.36
1995 0.39
1996 0.51
1997 0.62
1998 0.90
1999 1.08
2000 1.11
2001 1.22
2002 1.33
2003 1.48
2004 1.64
2005 1.88
2006 2.35
2007 2.66
2008 3.02
2009 3.02
2010 3.12
2011 3.13
2012 3.08
2013 3.08
2014 3.11
2015 3.14
2016 3.15
2017 3.12
2018 2.85
2019 2.66
2020 2.49

Classification

Topic: Infrastructure Indicators

Sub-Topic: Communications