Turkey - Telephone lines

Telephone lines

The value for Telephone lines in Turkey was 16,201,470 as of 2010. As the graph below shows, over the past 50 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 19,125,160 in 2004 and a minimum value of 180,030 in 1960.

Definition: Telephone lines are fixed telephone lines that connect a subscriber's terminal equipment to the public switched telephone network and that have a port on a telephone exchange. Integrated services digital network channels ands fixed wireless subscribers are included.

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

See also:

Year Value
1960 180,030
1965 243,361
1970 376,987
1975 680,585
1976 769,907
1977 851,353
1978 986,844
1979 1,092,137
1980 1,147,782
1981 1,301,558
1982 1,501,977
1983 1,673,227
1984 1,941,088
1985 2,247,884
1986 2,779,615
1987 3,696,872
1988 4,910,911
1989 5,861,517
1990 6,861,458
1991 8,151,740
1992 9,410,486
1993 10,935,520
1994 12,212,000
1995 13,127,000
1996 14,286,480
1997 15,579,000
1998 16,807,000
1999 17,912,000
2000 18,395,170
2001 18,904,490
2002 18,890,000
2003 18,916,720
2004 19,125,160
2005 18,978,220
2006 18,831,620
2007 18,201,010
2008 17,502,200
2009 16,534,360
2010 16,201,470

Telephone lines (per 100 people)

The value for Telephone lines (per 100 people) in Turkey was 22.27 as of 2010. As the graph below shows, over the past 50 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 29.29 in 2001 and a minimum value of 0.64 in 1960.

Definition: Telephone lines are fixed telephone lines that connect a subscriber's terminal equipment to the public switched telephone network and that have a port on a telephone exchange. Integrated services digital network channels ands fixed wireless subscribers are included.

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

See also:

Year Value
1960 0.64
1965 0.76
1970 1.06
1975 1.72
1976 1.90
1977 2.06
1978 2.34
1979 2.53
1980 2.60
1981 2.88
1982 3.25
1983 3.54
1984 4.01
1985 4.55
1986 5.52
1987 7.20
1988 9.39
1989 11.02
1990 12.68
1991 14.80
1992 16.80
1993 19.20
1994 21.09
1995 22.30
1996 23.88
1997 25.63
1998 27.22
1999 28.57
2000 28.91
2001 29.29
2002 28.86
2003 28.52
2004 28.44
2005 27.85
2006 27.27
2007 26.00
2008 24.68
2009 23.01
2010 22.27

Classification

Topic: Infrastructure Indicators

Sub-Topic: Communications