New Zealand - Telephone lines

Fixed telephone subscriptions

The value for Fixed telephone subscriptions in New Zealand was 858,000 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 1,880,000 in 2012 and a minimum value of 537,035 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 537,035
1961 537,035
1962 537,035
1963 537,035
1964 537,035
1965 715,000
1966 715,000
1967 715,000
1968 715,000
1969 715,000
1970 841,000
1971 841,000
1972 841,000
1973 841,000
1974 841,000
1975 987,000
1976 1,054,996
1977 1,070,702
1978 1,092,148
1979 1,102,740
1980 1,136,453
1981 1,173,276
1982 1,197,726
1983 1,225,569
1984 1,259,761
1985 1,295,022
1986 1,327,766
1987 1,370,000
1988 1,406,000
1989 1,444,000
1990 1,469,000
1991 1,493,000
1992 1,534,000
1993 1,593,000
1994 1,658,000
1995 1,719,000
1996 1,726,600
1997 1,776,400
1998 1,809,000
1999 1,833,400
2000 1,831,000
2001 1,823,000
2002 1,765,000
2003 1,798,000
2004 1,800,500
2005 1,729,000
2006 1,761,645
2007 1,746,874
2008 1,750,000
2009 1,870,000
2010 1,880,000
2011 1,880,000
2012 1,880,000
2013 1,850,000
2014 1,850,000
2015 1,850,000
2016 1,760,000
2017 1,790,000
2018 1,073,000
2019 967,000
2020 858,000

Fixed telephone subscriptions (per 100 people)

The value for Fixed telephone subscriptions (per 100 people) in New Zealand was 17.79 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 48.02 in 1999 and a minimum value of 17.79 in 2020.

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 22.63
1961 22.63
1962 22.63
1963 22.63
1964 22.63
1965 27.22
1966 27.22
1967 27.22
1968 27.22
1969 27.22
1970 29.84
1971 29.84
1972 29.84
1973 29.84
1974 29.84
1975 32.02
1976 33.94
1977 34.29
1978 34.90
1979 35.17
1980 36.12
1981 37.07
1982 37.56
1983 38.11
1984 38.85
1985 39.62
1986 40.35
1987 41.38
1988 42.19
1989 42.96
1990 43.23
1991 43.32
1992 43.79
1993 44.69
1994 45.76
1995 46.78
1996 46.45
1997 47.34
1998 47.81
1999 48.02
2000 47.45
2001 46.65
2002 44.53
2003 44.70
2004 44.13
2005 41.81
2006 42.09
2007 41.27
2008 40.91
2009 43.25
2010 43.02
2011 42.55
2012 42.07
2013 40.94
2014 40.50
2015 40.09
2016 37.77
2017 38.07
2018 22.62
2019 20.22
2020 17.79

Classification

Topic: Infrastructure Indicators

Sub-Topic: Communications