Costa Rica - Telephone lines

Fixed telephone subscriptions

The value for Fixed telephone subscriptions in Costa Rica was 559,882 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 1,499,601 in 2009 and a minimum value of 10,000 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 10,000
1961 10,000
1962 10,000
1963 10,000
1964 10,000
1965 20,000
1966 20,000
1967 20,000
1968 20,000
1969 20,000
1970 40,000
1971 40,000
1972 40,000
1973 40,000
1974 40,000
1975 81,000
1976 90,800
1977 106,200
1978 123,100
1979 133,600
1980 157,400
1981 170,600
1982 188,559
1983 194,855
1984 202,459
1985 209,930
1986 214,706
1987 240,444
1988 256,521
1989 272,000
1990 281,433
1991 304,863
1992 326,789
1993 364,119
1994 430,000
1995 478,939
1996 525,682
1997 684,636
1998 742,415
1999 802,597
2000 898,734
2001 944,950
2002 1,037,986
2003 1,159,223
2004 1,343,193
2005 1,388,503
2006 1,329,505
2007 1,436,695
2008 1,437,733
2009 1,499,601
2010 1,060,384
2011 1,031,719
2012 995,089
2013 968,459
2014 881,217
2015 859,514
2016 838,346
2017 813,641
2018 767,835
2019 640,302
2020 559,882

Fixed telephone subscriptions (per 100 people)

The value for Fixed telephone subscriptions (per 100 people) in Costa Rica was 10.99 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 33.17 in 2009 and a minimum value of 0.75 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 0.75
1961 0.75
1962 0.75
1963 0.75
1964 0.75
1965 1.26
1966 1.26
1967 1.26
1968 1.26
1969 1.26
1970 2.17
1971 2.17
1972 2.17
1973 2.17
1974 2.17
1975 3.87
1976 4.23
1977 4.81
1978 5.44
1979 5.74
1980 6.59
1981 6.95
1982 7.47
1983 7.51
1984 7.60
1985 7.67
1986 7.64
1987 8.33
1988 8.66
1989 8.95
1990 9.02
1991 9.52
1992 9.94
1993 10.80
1994 12.43
1995 13.51
1996 14.47
1997 18.41
1998 19.52
1999 20.66
2000 22.68
2001 23.42
2002 25.31
2003 27.84
2004 31.79
2005 32.40
2006 30.60
2007 32.62
2008 32.21
2009 33.17
2010 23.17
2011 22.27
2012 21.23
2013 20.42
2014 18.38
2015 17.73
2016 17.11
2017 16.44
2018 15.36
2019 12.69
2020 10.99

Classification

Topic: Infrastructure Indicators

Sub-Topic: Communications