IDA blend - Telephone lines

Fixed telephone subscriptions

The value for Fixed telephone subscriptions in IDA blend was 8,175,658 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 11,388,170 in 2009 and a minimum value of 148,725 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 148,725
1961 148,725
1962 148,725
1963 148,725
1964 148,725
1966 226,048
1967 226,048
1968 226,048
1969 226,048
1971 305,785
1972 305,785
1973 305,785
1974 305,785
1981 1,418,049
1982 1,493,970
1983 1,651,493
1984 1,808,572
1985 1,936,485
1986 2,117,326
1987 2,308,980
1988 2,500,124
1989 2,851,206
1990 3,027,973
1991 3,402,630
1992 3,666,314
1993 4,018,499
1994 4,395,728
1995 4,792,276
1996 5,093,205
1997 5,345,795
1998 5,559,848
1999 5,899,264
2000 6,253,724
2001 6,556,730
2002 7,146,275
2003 7,750,593
2004 8,366,607
2005 9,333,634
2006 9,901,008
2007 9,583,704
2008 9,212,880
2009 11,388,170
2010 10,763,050
2011 10,130,670
2012 9,966,535
2013 10,432,310
2014 9,655,301
2015 8,424,072
2016 8,510,093
2017 8,162,551
2018 7,975,110
2019 8,006,994
2020 8,175,658

Fixed telephone subscriptions (per 100 people)

The value for Fixed telephone subscriptions (per 100 people) in IDA blend was 1.43 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 2.56 in 2009 and a minimum value of 0.16 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 0.16
1961 0.16
1962 0.16
1963 0.16
1964 0.16
1966 0.19
1967 0.19
1968 0.19
1969 0.19
1971 0.23
1972 0.23
1973 0.23
1974 0.23
1981 0.67
1982 0.68
1983 0.73
1984 0.78
1985 0.81
1986 0.86
1987 0.91
1988 0.95
1989 1.06
1990 1.09
1991 1.19
1992 1.25
1993 1.34
1994 1.42
1995 1.51
1996 1.57
1997 1.60
1998 1.63
1999 1.68
2000 1.74
2001 1.78
2002 1.90
2003 2.01
2004 2.12
2005 2.31
2006 2.39
2007 2.26
2008 2.12
2009 2.56
2010 2.36
2011 2.17
2012 2.09
2013 2.13
2014 1.93
2015 1.64
2016 1.62
2017 1.52
2018 1.49
2019 1.43
2020 1.43

Classification

Topic: Infrastructure Indicators

Sub-Topic: Communications