Netherlands - Telephone lines

Fixed telephone subscriptions

The value for Fixed telephone subscriptions in Netherlands was 4,937,000 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 9,889,000 in 2000 and a minimum value of 1,043,656 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.

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Year Value
1960 1,043,656
1961 1,043,660
1962 1,043,660
1963 1,043,660
1964 1,043,660
1965 1,504,000
1966 1,504,000
1967 1,504,000
1968 1,504,000
1969 1,504,000
1970 2,202,000
1971 2,202,000
1972 2,202,000
1973 2,202,000
1974 2,202,000
1975 3,335,500
1976 3,612,100
1977 3,932,800
1978 4,279,900
1979 4,604,800
1980 4,892,100
1981 5,103,300
1982 5,291,000
1983 5,462,000
1984 5,643,000
1985 5,823,000
1986 6,029,000
1987 6,234,000
1988 6,466,000
1989 6,690,000
1990 6,940,000
1991 7,175,000
1992 7,395,000
1993 7,634,000
1994 7,859,000
1995 8,124,000
1996 8,431,000
1997 8,860,000
1998 9,337,000
1999 9,613,000
2000 9,889,000
2001 8,158,000
2002 8,026,000
2003 7,846,000
2004 7,861,000
2005 7,600,000
2006 7,450,000
2007 7,404,300
2008 7,317,200
2009 7,256,000
2010 7,232,000
2011 7,133,000
2012 7,182,000
2013 7,125,486
2014 6,946,000
2015 6,951,528
2016 6,774,000
2017 6,551,000
2018 5,900,000
2019 5,560,000
2020 4,937,000

Fixed telephone subscriptions (per 100 people)

The value for Fixed telephone subscriptions (per 100 people) in Netherlands was 28.81 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 62.09 in 2000 and a minimum value of 9.12 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 9.12
1961 9.12
1962 9.12
1963 9.12
1964 9.12
1965 12.28
1966 12.28
1967 12.28
1968 12.28
1969 12.28
1970 16.94
1971 16.94
1972 16.94
1973 16.94
1974 16.94
1975 24.38
1976 26.19
1977 28.31
1978 30.61
1979 32.73
1980 34.58
1981 35.88
1982 37.01
1983 38.02
1984 39.09
1985 40.12
1986 41.31
1987 42.46
1988 43.77
1989 44.99
1990 46.37
1991 47.63
1992 48.76
1993 50.00
1994 51.14
1995 52.52
1996 54.17
1997 56.59
1998 59.30
1999 60.71
2000 62.09
2001 50.93
2002 49.82
2003 48.43
2004 48.26
2005 46.43
2006 45.32
2007 44.86
2008 44.16
2009 43.64
2010 43.35
2011 42.62
2012 42.77
2013 42.30
2014 41.12
2015 41.04
2016 39.89
2017 38.49
2018 34.58
2019 32.52
2020 28.81

Classification

Topic: Infrastructure Indicators

Sub-Topic: Communications