Country Comparison > Telephones - main lines in use per capita

Rank	Country	Telephones - main lines in use per capita
1	Monaco	112.81
2	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	76.42
3	Virgin Islands	72.68
4	Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)	70.51
5	Montserrat	60.06
6	Malta	57.86
7	France	57.83
8	Jersey	55.34
9	Guernsey	54.51
10	Taiwan	54.5
11	Hong Kong	54.38
12	Cayman Islands	53.82
13	Andorra	51.44
14	Portugal	50.28
15	Gibraltar	50.25
16	Japan	50.02
17	Saint Helena	49.87
18	Germany	48.46
19	Korea, South	48.08
20	Barbados	48.08
21	Greece	47.9
22	Belarus	47.62
23	United Kingdom	47.38
24	San Marino	46.94
25	Luxembourg	42.66
26	Spain	42.12
27	Guam	41.93
28	Austria	41.76
29	Anguilla	41.24
30	Palau	40.62
31	Northern Mariana Islands	39.66
32	Cook Islands	38.55
33	Faroe Islands	37.07
34	Iceland	36.67
35	Liechtenstein	36.63
36	New Zealand	36.58
37	Switzerland	35.84
38	Ireland	35.83
39	Canada	35.17
40	Israel	35.16
41	Bermuda	34.58
42	Iran	34.54
43	Mauritius	34.09
44	Slovenia	34.02
45	Belgium	33.85
46	Uruguay	33.57
47	Aruba	33.14
48	Saint Kitts and Nevis	33.01
49	Croatia	32.45
50	Netherlands	32.4
51	United States	32.37
52	Italy	32.36
53	Singapore	32.27
54	Hungary	31.57
55	Australia	30.6
56	Montenegro	30.07
57	Serbia	29.38
58	Grenada	29.19
59	New Caledonia	28.31
60	Moldova	26.79
61	Wallis and Futuna	25.31
62	Antigua and Barbuda	24.86
63	Trinidad and Tobago	24.69
64	Estonia	24.63
65	Gaza Strip	24.62
66	Bosnia and Herzegovina	24
67	United Arab Emirates	23.82
68	Puerto Rico	23.8
69	Libya	23.49
70	Bahamas, The	23.23
71	Russia	21.99
72	French Polynesia	21.61
73	Laos	20.49
74	Seychelles	20.45
75	British Virgin Islands	20.44
76	Malaysia	20
77	Saint Lucia	19.99
78	Brunei	19.68
79	Macau	19.42
80	Nauru	19.42
81	Venezuela	19.2
82	Sweden	19.03
83	Macedonia	18.92
84	American Samoa	18.17
85	Poland	18.04
86	Romania	17.51
87	Mexico	17.47
88	Tuvalu	17.44
89	Guyana	17.39
90	Denmark	17.33
91	Panama	17.25
92	Kazakhstan	17.16
93	Argentina	17.13
94	Azerbaijan	16.52
95	Bahrain	16.39
96	West Bank	16.29
97	Qatar	16.04
98	Syria	15.97
99	Brazil	15.86
100	Suriname	15.8
101	Armenia	15.32
102	Chile	14.41
103	Bulgaria	13.98
104	Colombia	13.8
105	Czech Republic	13.77
106	Lebanon	13.76
107	Turkey	13.76
108	El Salvador	13.62
109	Jamaica	13.51
110	Lithuania	13.49
111	Cuba	13.34
112	China	13.28
113	Georgia	12.94
114	Greenland	12.6
115	Oman	12.57
116	Ecuador	12.49
117	Slovakia	12.38
118	Costa Rica	12.37
119	Tunisia	12.32
120	Kuwait	12.3
121	Mongolia	12.16
122	Latvia	12.07
123	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	11.73
124	Turkmenistan	11.72
125	Sri Lanka	11.54
126	Dominican Republic	11.16
127	Guatemala	11.04
128	Turks and Caicos Islands	10.9
129	Uzbekistan	10.68
130	Algeria	10.61
131	Norway	10.46
132	Cape Verde	10.33
133	Ukraine	9.97
134	Peru	9.71
135	Fiji	8.62
136	Egypt	8.53
137	Albania	8.41
138	Iraq	6.89
139	Tonga	6.36
140	Micronesia, Federated States of	6.27
141	Bolivia	6.18
142	Kosovo	6.07
143	Botswana	6.03
144	Morocco	5.58
145	Namibia	5.5
146	Tajikistan	5.31
147	Honduras	4.97
148	Finland	4.85
149	Belize	4.66
150	Kyrgyzstan	4.62
151	Korea, North	4.62
152	Samoa	4.3
153	Paraguay	4.3
154	Yemen	4.19
155	Marshall Islands	4.07
156	Philippines	3.79
157	Vietnam	3.76
158	Djibouti	3.76
159	Thailand	3.74
160	Dominica	3.71
161	Swaziland	3.62
162	Cameroon	3.48
163	Jordan	3.47
164	Indonesia	3.47
165	Nicaragua	3.47
166	South Africa	3.43
167	Maldives	3.14
168	Nepal	2.82
169	Bhutan	2.8
170	Sao Tome and Principe	2.19
171	Eritrea	1.92
172	Gambia, The	1.89
173	Papua New Guinea	1.84
174	Zimbabwe	1.78
175	India	1.52
176	Mauritania	1.34
177	Vanuatu	1.25
178	Senegal	1.24
179	Mali	1.17
180	Comoros	1.16
181	Pakistan	1.12
182	Solomon Islands	1.04
183	Ethiopia	1.01
184	Gabon	1
185	Burma	0.96
186	Ghana	0.93
187	Bangladesh	0.88
188	Equatorial Guinea	0.81
189	Somalia	0.64
190	Togo	0.53
191	Zambia	0.52
192	Niger	0.51
193	Uganda	0.43
194	Lesotho	0.4
195	Angola	0.38
196	Burkina Faso	0.36
197	Afghanistan	0.34
198	Cambodia	0.34
199	Congo, Republic of the	0.32
200	Sudan	0.31
201	Benin	0.29
202	Madagascar	0.25
203	Mozambique	0.2
204	Liberia	0.17
205	Burundi	0.17
206	East Timor	0.16
207	Tanzania	0.13
208	Kenya	0.13
209	Rwanda	0.09
210	Malawi	0.07
211	Nigeria	0.07
212	Haiti	0.05
213	Central African Republic	0.05
214	Chad	0.04
215	Sierra Leone	0.04
216	Kiribati	0.02
217	Guinea	0
218	Congo, Democratic Republic of the	0
219	South Sudan	0
220	Guinea-Bissau	0

Definition: This entry gives the estimated number of fixed telephone lines per 100 people.

Source: CIA World Factbook - Unless otherwise noted, information in this page is accurate as of January 1, 2020

See also: Telephones - main lines in use per capita map