Low income - Telephone lines

Fixed telephone subscriptions

The value for Fixed telephone subscriptions in Low income was 7,787,319 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 54 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 9,529,705 in 2011 and a minimum value of 165,830 in 1966.

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
1966 165,830
1967 165,830
1968 165,830
1969 165,830
1970 264,261
1971 265,510
1972 265,510
1973 265,510
1974 265,510
1975 357,612
1976 389,236
1977 409,111
1978 430,251
1979 456,668
1980 544,949
1981 664,123
1982 726,214
1983 1,291,150
1984 1,371,489
1985 1,425,044
1986 1,473,716
1987 1,503,081
1988 1,530,269
1989 1,574,283
1990 1,647,570
1991 1,689,637
1992 1,737,107
1993 1,816,583
1994 1,979,063
1995 2,309,397
1996 2,637,374
1997 2,799,419
1998 3,092,861
1999 3,418,174
2000 3,790,775
2001 4,533,351
2002 5,334,269
2003 6,281,167
2004 6,837,764
2005 6,916,452
2006 7,486,472
2007 8,102,250
2008 8,379,740
2009 8,872,156
2010 9,289,039
2011 9,529,705
2012 9,415,454
2013 9,296,982
2014 8,630,365
2015 8,215,126
2016 8,515,319
2017 7,571,278
2018 3,748,526
2019 7,719,649
2020 7,787,319

Fixed telephone subscriptions (per 100 people)

The value for Fixed telephone subscriptions (per 100 people) in Low income was 1.22 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 54 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 1.84 in 2008 and a minimum value of 0.15 in 1966.

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
1966 0.15
1967 0.15
1968 0.15
1969 0.15
1970 0.18
1971 0.18
1972 0.18
1973 0.18
1974 0.18
1975 0.23
1976 0.23
1977 0.24
1978 0.26
1979 0.28
1980 0.31
1981 0.31
1982 0.34
1983 0.54
1984 0.56
1985 0.56
1986 0.57
1987 0.57
1988 0.56
1989 0.56
1990 0.57
1991 0.57
1992 0.56
1993 0.57
1994 0.60
1995 0.68
1996 0.76
1997 0.79
1998 0.84
1999 0.91
2000 0.98
2001 1.14
2002 1.30
2003 1.50
2004 1.68
2005 1.66
2006 1.76
2007 1.83
2008 1.84
2009 1.77
2010 1.81
2011 1.81
2012 1.74
2013 1.67
2014 1.52
2015 1.41
2016 1.42
2017 1.27
2018 0.86
2019 1.24
2020 1.22

Classification

Topic: Infrastructure Indicators

Sub-Topic: Communications