Egypt - Telephone lines

Fixed telephone subscriptions

The value for Fixed telephone subscriptions in Egypt was 9,858,331 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 11,852,540 in 2008 and a minimum value of 220,503 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 220,503
1961 220,503
1962 220,503
1963 220,503
1964 220,503
1966 220,503
1967 220,503
1968 220,503
1969 220,503
1970 290,500
1971 290,500
1972 290,500
1973 290,500
1974 290,500
1975 345,000
1976 353,000
1977 362,000
1978 374,000
1979 392,000
1981 430,000
1982 477,407
1983 583,377
1984 640,610
1985 892,512
1986 1,076,450
1987 1,118,000
1988 1,200,623
1989 1,394,276
1990 1,602,067
1991 1,816,530
1992 2,027,680
1993 2,234,715
1994 2,456,161
1995 2,716,213
1996 3,024,947
1997 3,452,707
1998 3,971,518
1999 4,686,361
2000 5,483,601
2001 6,694,894
2002 7,794,763
2003 8,735,653
2004 9,464,147
2005 10,396,150
2006 10,807,680
2007 11,228,850
2008 11,852,540
2009 10,312,560
2010 9,618,123
2011 8,714,286
2012 8,557,497
2013 6,820,892
2014 6,315,915
2015 6,235,133
2016 6,118,250
2017 6,604,849
2018 7,865,286
2019 8,760,436
2020 9,858,331

Fixed telephone subscriptions (per 100 people)

The value for Fixed telephone subscriptions (per 100 people) in Egypt was 9.63 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 14.88 in 2008 and a minimum value of 0.83 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 0.83
1961 0.83
1962 0.83
1963 0.83
1964 0.83
1966 0.83
1967 0.83
1968 0.83
1969 0.83
1970 0.84
1971 0.84
1972 0.84
1973 0.84
1974 0.84
1975 0.89
1976 0.90
1977 0.90
1978 0.91
1979 0.93
1981 0.97
1982 1.05
1983 1.25
1984 1.34
1985 1.81
1986 2.13
1987 2.15
1988 2.25
1989 2.54
1990 2.85
1991 3.16
1992 3.46
1993 3.73
1994 4.02
1995 4.36
1996 4.76
1997 5.32
1998 6.00
1999 6.94
2000 7.97
2001 9.54
2002 10.90
2003 12.00
2004 12.76
2005 13.77
2006 14.06
2007 14.35
2008 14.88
2009 12.71
2010 11.62
2011 10.31
2012 9.90
2013 7.72
2014 6.98
2015 6.74
2016 6.48
2017 6.85
2018 7.99
2019 8.73
2020 9.63

Classification

Topic: Infrastructure Indicators

Sub-Topic: Communications