Burkina Faso - Telephone lines

Fixed telephone subscriptions

The value for Fixed telephone subscriptions in Burkina Faso was 75,039 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 50 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 152,461 in 2009 and a minimum value of 1,500 in 1970.

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.

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Year Value
1970 1,500
1971 1,500
1972 1,500
1973 1,500
1974 1,500
1975 2,400
1976 2,600
1977 4,000
1978 4,000
1979 4,000
1980 4,000
1981 6,670
1982 7,180
1983 7,488
1984 7,797
1985 7,950
1986 9,582
1987 11,556
1988 12,804
1989 14,494
1990 16,183
1991 17,844
1992 19,784
1993 21,873
1994 26,328
1995 30,043
1996 34,055
1997 36,258
1998 41,218
1999 47,338
2000 53,217
2001 58,036
2002 61,908
2003 66,639
2004 85,225
2005 91,191
2006 94,758
2007 116,746
2008 148,157
2009 152,461
2010 143,963
2011 141,529
2012 141,358
2013 137,421
2014 124,595
2015 75,075
2016 75,727
2017 76,000
2018 76,760
2019 75,291
2020 75,039

Fixed telephone subscriptions (per 100 people)

The value for Fixed telephone subscriptions (per 100 people) in Burkina Faso was 0.36 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 50 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 1.01 in 2008 and a minimum value of 0.03 in 1970.

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
1970 0.03
1971 0.03
1972 0.03
1973 0.03
1974 0.03
1975 0.04
1976 0.04
1977 0.06
1978 0.06
1981 0.10
1982 0.10
1983 0.10
1984 0.10
1985 0.10
1986 0.12
1987 0.14
1988 0.15
1989 0.17
1990 0.18
1991 0.20
1992 0.21
1993 0.23
1994 0.27
1995 0.30
1996 0.33
1997 0.34
1998 0.38
1999 0.42
2000 0.46
2001 0.49
2002 0.50
2003 0.53
2004 0.65
2005 0.68
2006 0.69
2007 0.82
2008 1.01
2009 1.01
2010 0.92
2011 0.88
2012 0.85
2013 0.80
2014 0.71
2015 0.41
2016 0.41
2017 0.40
2018 0.39
2019 0.37
2020 0.36

Classification

Topic: Infrastructure Indicators

Sub-Topic: Communications