Zimbabwe - Telephone lines

Fixed telephone subscriptions

The value for Fixed telephone subscriptions in Zimbabwe was 252,067 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 385,116 in 2009 and a minimum value of 55,000 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 55,000
1961 55,000
1962 55,000
1963 55,000
1964 55,000
1965 65,000
1966 65,000
1967 65,000
1968 65,000
1969 65,000
1970 75,000
1971 75,000
1972 75,000
1973 75,000
1974 75,000
1975 81,672
1976 84,681
1977 86,228
1978 90,675
1979 92,987
1980 95,615
1981 97,039
1982 98,732
1983 103,052
1984 103,840
1985 104,637
1986 108,098
1987 114,235
1988 116,058
1989 121,355
1990 123,665
1991 126,086
1992 127,072
1993 128,069
1994 134,812
1995 152,473
1996 174,985
1997 211,672
1998 236,530
1999 238,956
2000 249,400
2001 253,738
2002 287,854
2003 300,921
2004 317,000
2005 328,000
2006 335,561
2007 345,000
2008 348,000
2009 385,116
2010 379,000
2011 356,000
2012 301,650
2013 304,162
2014 329,475
2015 333,702
2016 305,720
2017 264,150
2018 268,849
2019 265,734
2020 252,067

Fixed telephone subscriptions (per 100 people)

The value for Fixed telephone subscriptions (per 100 people) in Zimbabwe was 1.70 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 3.07 in 2009 and a minimum value of 1.15 in 1993.

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 1.46
1961 1.46
1962 1.46
1963 1.46
1964 1.46
1965 1.45
1966 1.45
1967 1.45
1968 1.45
1969 1.45
1970 1.42
1971 1.42
1972 1.42
1973 1.42
1974 1.42
1975 1.30
1976 1.30
1977 1.28
1978 1.31
1979 1.30
1980 1.29
1981 1.26
1982 1.24
1983 1.25
1984 1.21
1985 1.18
1986 1.17
1987 1.20
1988 1.18
1989 1.20
1990 1.19
1991 1.18
1992 1.17
1993 1.15
1994 1.20
1995 1.34
1996 1.52
1997 1.82
1998 2.01
1999 2.02
2000 2.10
2001 2.13
2002 2.41
2003 2.51
2004 2.64
2005 2.72
2006 2.76
2007 2.81
2008 2.81
2009 3.07
2010 2.98
2011 2.76
2012 2.30
2013 2.28
2014 2.42
2015 2.42
2016 2.18
2017 1.86
2018 1.86
2019 1.81
2020 1.70

Classification

Topic: Infrastructure Indicators

Sub-Topic: Communications