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Media > Telecommunications > Telephone > Fixed telephone lines: Countries Compared

DEFINITION: Fixed telephone lines.

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# COUNTRY AMOUNT DATE GRAPH HISTORY
1 China 278.86 million 2012
2 United States 139 million 2012
3 Japan 64.27 million 2012
4 Germany 50.7 million 2012
5 Brazil 44.31 million 2012
6 Russia 42.9 million 2012
7 France 39.29 million 2012
8 Indonesia 37.98 million 2012
9 United Kingdom 33.01 million 2012
10 India 31.08 million 2012
11 South Korea 30.1 million 2012
12 Iran 28.76 million 2012
13 Italy 21.66 million 2012
14 Mexico 20.22 million 2012
15 Spain 19.22 million 2012
16 Canada 18.01 million 2012
17 Turkey 13.86 million 2012
18 Ukraine 12.18 million 2012
19 Australia 10.47 million 2012
20 Vietnam 10.19 million 2012
21 Argentina 10 million 2012
22 Egypt 8.56 million 2012
23 Venezuela 7.65 million 2012
24 Netherlands 7.09 million 2012
25 Thailand 6.39 million 2012
26 Colombia 6.29 million 2012
27 Poland 6.12 million 2012
28 Pakistan 5.8 million 2012
29 Greece 5.46 million 2012
30 Saudi Arabia 4.8 million 2012
31 Romania 4.68 million 2012
32 Belgium 4.63 million 2012
33 Malaysia 4.59 million 2012
34 Portugal 4.56 million 2012
35 Syria 4.42 million 2012
36 Belarus 4.41 million 2012
37 Switzerland 4.38 million 2012
38 Hong Kong 4.36 million 2012
39 Kazakhstan 4.34 million 2012
40 Sweden 4.32 million 2012
41 South Africa 4.03 million 2012
42 Philippines 3.94 million 2012
43 Israel 3.59 million 2012
44 Sri Lanka 3.45 million 2012
45 Peru 3.42 million 2012
46 Austria 3.34 million 2012
47 Morocco 3.28 million 2012
48 Chile 3.28 million 2012
49 Algeria 3.2 million 2012
50 Serbia 2.98 million 2012
51 Hungary 2.96 million 2012
52 Denmark 2.43 million 2012
53 Ecuador 2.31 million 2012
54 Bulgaria 2.25 million 2012
55 Czech Republic 2.1 million 2012
56 Ireland 2.01 million 2012
57 Singapore 1.99 million 2012
58 United Arab Emirates 1.97 million 2012
59 Uzbekistan 1.96 million 2012
60 New Zealand 1.88 million 2012
61 Iraq 1.87 million 2012
62 Guatemala 1.74 million 2012
63 Azerbaijan 1.73 million 2012
64 Croatia 1.64 million 2012
65 Norway 1.47 million 2012
66 Georgia 1.28 million 2012
67 Cuba 1.22 million 2012
68 Moldova 1.21 million 2012
69 Tunisia 1.11 million 2012
70 Yemen 1.1 million 2012
71 Dominican Republic 1.07 million 2012
72 El Salvador 1.06 million 2012
73 Costa Rica 1.02 million 2012
74 Uruguay 1.01 million 2012
75 Slovakia 974,762 2012
76 Bangladesh 961,589 2012
77 Finland 890,000 2012
78 Bolivia 880,625 2012
79 Bosnia and Herzegovina 878,442 2012
80 Lebanon 878,105 2012
81 Nepal 845,000 2012
82 Slovenia 824,771 2012
83 Libya 814,000 2012
84 Ethiopia 797,501 2012
85 Puerto Rico 780,229 2012
86 Cameroon 737,445 2012
87 Lithuania 667,262 2012
88 Panama 640,057 2012
89 Honduras 610,506 2012
90 Cambodia 584,475 2012
91 Armenia 584,228 2012
92 Turkmenistan 575,000 2012
93 Burma 556,000 2012
94 Kuwait 510,000 2012
95 Latvia 501,000 2012
96 Kyrgyzstan 488,853 2012
97 Estonia 448,212 2012
98 Jordan 434,437 2012
99 Sudan 424,586 2012
100 Nigeria 418,166 2012
101 Republic of Macedonia 407,896 2012
102 Palestine 406,000 2012
103 Tajikistan 393,000 2012
104 Paraguay 376,030 2012
105 Cyprus 373,196 2012
106 Mauritius 349,100 2012
107 Senegal 338,167 2012
108 Qatar 327,000 2012
109 Nicaragua 320,000 2012
110 Uganda 314,956 2012
111 Albania 312,000 2012
112 Oman 304,545 2012
113 Angola 303,000 2012
114 Zimbabwe 301,650 2012
115 Bahrain 289,990 2012
116 Trinidad and Tobago 286,605 2012
117 Ghana 284,981 2012
118 Cote d'Ivoire 267,997 2012
119 Luxembourg 266,700 2012
120 Jamaica 264,465 2012
121 Kenya 251,567 2012
122 Malta 229,736 2012
123 Malawi 227,295 2012
124 Togo 225,000 2012
125 Iceland 189,000 2012
126 Mongolia 176,706 2012
127 Tanzania 176,367 2012
128 Namibia 171,249 2012
129 Montenegro 163,000 2012
130 Macau 162,533 2012
131 Botswana 160,488 2012
132 Benin 156,715 2012
133 Guyana 154,207 2012
134 Barbados 144,000 2012
135 Madagascar 143,690 2012
136 Burkina Faso 141,358 2012
137 Papua New Guinea 139,000 2012
138 The Bahamas 137,000 2012
139 Laos 112,000 2012
140 Mali 111,979 2012
141 Niger 100,537 2012
142 Somalia 100,000 2012
143 Netherlands Antilles 90,000 2010
144 Fiji 88,417 2012
145 Mozambique 88,140 2012
146 Suriname 83,000 2012
147 Zambia 82,542 2012
148 New Caledonia 80,000 2012
149 Virgin Islands 75,800 2010
150 Brunei 70,933 2012
151 Cape Verde 70,220 2012
152 Bermuda 69,000 2012
153 Guam 67,000 2012
154 Mauritania 65,069 2012
155 Gambia 64,196 2012
156 Eritrea 60,090 2012
157 Democratic Republic of the Congo 58,197 2012
158 French Polynesia 55,000 2012
159 Haiti 50,000 2012
160 Swaziland 48,645 2012
161 Monaco 44,495 2012
162 Rwanda 44,363 2012
163 Lesotho 43,097 2012
164 Aruba 43,000 2012
165 Andorra 39,000 2012
166 Cayman Islands 37,392 2012
167 Saint Lucia 36,842 2012
168 Antigua and Barbuda 35,000 2012
169 Tonga 30,000 2012
170 Chad 29,886 2012
171 Seychelles 28,865 2012
172 Grenada 28,500 2012
173 Bhutan 27,005 2012
174 Belize 25,415 2012
=175 Comoros 24,000 2012
=175 Faeroe Islands 24,000 2012
177 Maldives 23,140 2012
178 Northern Mariana Islands 23,000 2012
=179 Saint Kitts and Nevis 20,000 2012
=179 Liechtenstein 20,000 2012
181 Samoa 19,500 2005
182 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 19,379 2012
183 Greenland 18,910 2012
184 San Marino 18,700 2012
=185 Djibouti 18,000 2012
=185 Sierra Leone 18,000 2012
=185 Guinea 18,000 2012
188 Burundi 17,394 2012
189 Gabon 17,000 2012
190 Equatorial Guinea 14,868 2012
191 Dominica 14,579 2012
192 Afghanistan 13,500 2012
193 British Virgin Islands 12,268 2012
=194 Mayotte 10,000 2012
=194 American Samoa 10,000 2012
196 Kiribati 9,000 2012
197 Federated States of Micronesia 8,400 2012
198 Solomon Islands 8,060 2012
199 Sao Tome and Principe 8,000 2012
200 Cook Islands 7,775 2012
201 Palau 7,280 2012
202 Anguilla 6,000 2012
203 Vanuatu 5,800 2012
204 Central African Republic 5,641 2012
205 Marshall Islands 5,510 2004
206 Guinea-Bissau 5,000 2012
207 Turks and Caicos Islands 4,000 2012
=208 Montserrat 3,000 2012
=208 East Timor 3,000 2012
210 Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) 1,981 2012
211 Tuvalu 1,450 2012
212 Niue 1,000 2012
213 Tokelau 300 2010
214 South Sudan 150 2012
215 Liberia 10 2012
216 Nauru 0.0 2012

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Interesting observations about Media > Telecommunications > Telephone > Fixed telephone lines

  • China has had the highest telecommunications > telephone > fixed telephone lines since 2002.
  • United States has ranked in the top 2 for telecommunications > telephone > fixed telephone lines since 1990.
  • Nauru has ranked last for telecommunications > telephone > fixed telephone lines since 2010.
  • Germany has ranked in the top 4 for telecommunications > telephone > fixed telephone lines since 1990.
  • Japan has ranked in the top 4 for telecommunications > telephone > fixed telephone lines since 1990.
  • Brazil has ranked in the top 7 for telecommunications > telephone > fixed telephone lines since 2001.
  • Russia has ranked in the top 6 for telecommunications > telephone > fixed telephone lines since 2005.
  • France has ranked in the top 9 for telecommunications > telephone > fixed telephone lines since 1990.
  • United Kingdom has ranked in the top 10 for telecommunications > telephone > fixed telephone lines since 1990.
  • India has ranked in the top 10 for telecommunications > telephone > fixed telephone lines since 1998.
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