North America - Telephone lines

Fixed telephone subscriptions

The value for Fixed telephone subscriptions in North America was 114,891,000 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 213,409,100 in 2000 and a minimum value of 54,265,800 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 54,265,800
1961 54,265,800
1962 54,265,800
1963 54,265,800
1964 54,265,800
1965 63,570,540
1966 63,570,540
1967 63,570,540
1968 63,570,540
1969 63,570,540
1970 75,569,030
1971 75,569,030
1972 75,569,030
1973 75,569,030
1974 75,569,030
1975 88,810,500
1976 91,433,900
1977 94,365,380
1978 97,722,500
1979 100,881,500
1980 104,283,400
1981 115,877,200
1982 117,881,100
1983 121,108,500
1984 124,406,700
1985 128,496,300
1986 131,268,500
1987 136,266,400
1988 141,097,200
1989 146,188,700
1990 151,447,300
1991 155,266,800
1992 159,628,000
1993 164,865,000
1994 170,742,600
1995 177,272,400
1996 184,468,500
1997 192,578,800
1998 199,197,700
1999 209,936,900
2000 213,409,100
2001 212,752,900
2002 209,928,100
2003 203,599,300
2004 198,307,600
2005 193,361,400
2006 185,753,600
2007 176,757,800
2008 181,070,600
2009 171,638,700
2010 168,103,800
2011 161,593,000
2012 156,390,000
2013 150,226,000
2014 144,927,800
2015 140,472,300
2016 136,518,900
2017 130,787,900
2018 124,175,000
2019 120,251,000
2020 114,891,000

Fixed telephone subscriptions (per 100 people)

The value for Fixed telephone subscriptions (per 100 people) in North America was 31.15 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 68.32 in 2000 and a minimum value of 26.52 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 26.52
1961 26.52
1962 26.52
1963 26.52
1964 26.52
1965 28.97
1966 28.97
1967 28.97
1968 28.97
1969 28.97
1970 32.72
1971 32.72
1972 32.72
1973 32.72
1974 32.72
1975 36.67
1976 37.40
1977 38.23
1978 39.22
1979 40.10
1980 41.06
1981 45.20
1982 45.55
1983 46.36
1984 47.17
1985 48.25
1986 48.82
1987 50.18
1988 51.45
1989 52.78
1990 54.14
1991 54.96
1992 55.96
1993 57.22
1994 58.64
1995 60.22
1996 61.93
1997 63.87
1998 65.25
1999 67.96
2000 68.32
2001 67.42
2002 65.91
2003 63.35
2004 61.16
2005 59.09
2006 56.23
2007 52.98
2008 53.75
2009 50.46
2010 48.98
2011 46.69
2012 44.81
2013 42.71
2014 40.89
2015 39.35
2016 37.98
2017 36.14
2018 34.10
2019 32.81
2020 31.15

Classification

Topic: Infrastructure Indicators

Sub-Topic: Communications