São Tomé and Principe - Telephone lines

Fixed telephone subscriptions

The value for Fixed telephone subscriptions in São Tomé and Principe was 2,790.00 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 8,035.00 in 2012 and a minimum value of 352.00 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 352.00
1961 352.00
1962 352.00
1963 352.00
1964 352.00
1966 352.00
1967 352.00
1968 352.00
1969 352.00
1971 352.00
1972 352.00
1973 352.00
1974 352.00
1975 500.00
1976 500.00
1977 600.00
1978 600.00
1981 798.00
1982 1,222.00
1983 1,555.00
1984 1,765.00
1985 1,874.00
1986 2,001.00
1987 2,117.00
1988 2,240.00
1989 2,200.00
1990 2,200.00
1991 2,218.00
1992 2,360.00
1993 2,386.00
1994 2,460.00
1995 2,499.00
1996 2,596.00
1997 4,300.00
1998 4,295.00
1999 4,526.00
2000 4,614.00
2001 5,441.00
2002 6,366.00
2003 6,970.00
2004 7,050.00
2005 7,112.00
2006 7,593.00
2007 7,654.00
2008 7,643.00
2009 7,694.00
2010 7,804.00
2011 7,960.00
2012 8,035.00
2013 6,976.00
2014 6,800.00
2015 6,441.00
2016 5,733.00
2017 5,569.00
2018 5,299.00
2019 4,784.00
2020 2,790.00

Fixed telephone subscriptions (per 100 people)

The value for Fixed telephone subscriptions (per 100 people) in São Tomé and Principe was 1.27 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 4.70 in 2006 and a minimum value of 0.55 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 0.55
1961 0.55
1962 0.55
1963 0.55
1964 0.55
1966 0.55
1967 0.55
1968 0.55
1969 0.55
1971 0.55
1972 0.55
1973 0.55
1974 0.55
1975 0.60
1976 0.58
1977 0.68
1978 0.66
1981 0.82
1982 1.23
1983 1.54
1984 1.72
1985 1.79
1986 1.86
1987 1.92
1988 1.98
1989 1.89
1990 1.85
1991 1.82
1992 1.89
1993 1.88
1994 1.90
1995 1.90
1996 1.94
1997 3.17
1998 3.12
1999 3.23
2000 3.24
2001 3.76
2002 4.32
2003 4.63
2004 4.59
2005 4.52
2006 4.70
2007 4.60
2008 4.47
2009 4.37
2010 4.33
2011 4.31
2012 4.26
2013 3.63
2014 3.47
2015 3.23
2016 2.82
2017 2.69
2018 2.51
2019 2.22
2020 1.27

Classification

Topic: Infrastructure Indicators

Sub-Topic: Communications