Malaysia - Telephone lines

Fixed telephone subscriptions

The value for Fixed telephone subscriptions in Malaysia was 7,467,900 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 7,467,900 in 2020 and a minimum value of 48,021 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 48,021
1961 48,021
1962 48,021
1963 48,021
1964 48,021
1965 79,000
1966 79,000
1967 79,000
1968 79,000
1969 79,000
1970 104,000
1971 104,000
1972 104,000
1973 104,000
1974 104,000
1975 169,000
1976 194,259
1977 227,564
1978 271,010
1979 325,154
1980 395,640
1981 488,670
1982 585,390
1983 700,097
1984 849,129
1985 958,598
1986 1,042,827
1987 1,131,719
1988 1,247,687
1989 1,388,183
1990 1,585,744
1991 1,816,860
1992 2,091,578
1993 2,410,721
1994 2,863,755
1995 3,332,447
1996 3,771,314
1997 4,223,042
1998 4,384,148
1999 4,430,799
2000 4,628,000
2001 4,709,564
2002 4,669,903
2003 4,571,561
2004 4,446,265
2005 4,365,647
2006 4,342,100
2007 4,350,000
2008 4,514,000
2009 4,524,000
2010 4,609,800
2011 4,522,900
2012 4,588,900
2013 4,535,800
2014 4,410,200
2015 4,489,500
2016 4,837,200
2017 6,580,800
2018 7,429,000
2019 7,405,100
2020 7,467,900

Fixed telephone subscriptions (per 100 people)

The value for Fixed telephone subscriptions (per 100 people) in Malaysia was 23.07 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 23.56 in 2018 and a minimum value of 0.59 in 1961.

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 0.59
1961 0.59
1962 0.59
1963 0.59
1964 0.59
1965 0.83
1966 0.83
1967 0.83
1968 0.83
1969 0.83
1970 0.96
1971 0.96
1972 0.96
1973 0.96
1974 0.96
1975 1.39
1976 1.56
1977 1.78
1978 2.07
1979 2.42
1980 2.87
1981 3.46
1982 4.05
1983 4.72
1984 5.59
1985 6.15
1986 6.50
1987 6.85
1988 7.33
1989 7.92
1990 8.80
1991 9.81
1992 11.01
1993 12.37
1994 14.33
1995 16.27
1996 17.94
1997 19.58
1998 19.82
1999 19.55
2000 19.95
2001 19.86
2002 19.29
2003 18.51
2004 17.65
2005 16.99
2006 16.57
2007 16.28
2008 16.57
2009 16.31
2010 16.34
2011 15.79
2012 15.79
2013 15.39
2014 14.77
2015 14.83
2016 15.76
2017 21.16
2018 23.56
2019 23.18
2020 23.07

Classification

Topic: Infrastructure Indicators

Sub-Topic: Communications