Malawi - Telephone lines

Fixed telephone subscriptions

The value for Fixed telephone subscriptions in Malawi was 12,465 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 227,295 in 2012 and a minimum value of 3,500 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 3,500
1961 3,500
1962 3,500
1963 3,500
1964 3,500
1965 3,900
1966 3,900
1967 3,900
1968 3,900
1969 3,900
1970 6,000
1971 6,000
1972 6,000
1973 6,000
1974 6,000
1975 8,700
1976 9,540
1977 10,727
1978 11,792
1979 13,164
1980 14,555
1981 15,438
1982 16,445
1983 17,100
1984 18,233
1985 19,856
1986 21,228
1987 22,466
1988 23,600
1989 25,960
1990 26,640
1991 28,564
1992 30,804
1993 32,767
1994 33,081
1995 34,338
1996 35,471
1997 36,754
1998 37,371
1999 41,562
2000 46,444
2001 54,607
2002 73,100
2003 85,000
2004 93,000
2005 102,724
2006 130,000
2007 175,209
2008 111,333
2009 111,333
2010 152,108
2011 173,481
2012 227,295
2013 33,569
2014 18,963
2015 14,462
2016 11,234
2017 17,337
2018 14,992
2019 13,101
2020 12,465

Fixed telephone subscriptions (per 100 people)

The value for Fixed telephone subscriptions (per 100 people) in Malawi was 0.07 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 1.48 in 2012 and a minimum value of 0.07 in 2020.

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 0.10
1961 0.10
1962 0.10
1963 0.10
1964 0.10
1965 0.09
1966 0.09
1967 0.09
1968 0.09
1969 0.09
1970 0.13
1971 0.13
1972 0.13
1973 0.13
1974 0.13
1975 0.16
1976 0.17
1977 0.19
1978 0.20
1979 0.22
1980 0.23
1981 0.24
1982 0.25
1983 0.25
1984 0.26
1985 0.27
1986 0.28
1987 0.28
1988 0.27
1989 0.29
1990 0.28
1991 0.30
1992 0.32
1993 0.34
1994 0.34
1995 0.35
1996 0.35
1997 0.36
1998 0.35
1999 0.38
2000 0.42
2001 0.48
2002 0.62
2003 0.71
2004 0.76
2005 0.81
2006 1.00
2007 1.31
2008 0.81
2009 0.79
2010 1.05
2011 1.16
2012 1.48
2013 0.21
2014 0.12
2015 0.09
2016 0.07
2017 0.10
2018 0.08
2019 0.07
2020 0.07

Classification

Topic: Infrastructure Indicators

Sub-Topic: Communications