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Telephones - main lines in use Country profile category: Communications |
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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y Z |
Afghanistan: |
29,000 (1996)
note: there were 21,000 main lines in service in Kabul in 1998 |
Albania: | 87,000 (1997) |
Algeria: | 2.3 million (1998) |
American Samoa: | 13,000 (1997) |
Andorra: | 32,946 (December 1998) |
Angola: | 62,000 (1997) |
Anguilla: | 5,000 (1997) |
Antarctica: |
0
note: information for US bases only (2001) |
Antigua and Barbuda: | 28,000 (1996) |
Argentina: | 7.5 million (1998) |
Armenia: | 568,000 (1997) |
Aruba: | 33,000 (1997) |
Australia: | 9.58 million (1998) |
Austria: | 4 million (3,600,000 analog main lines plus 400,000 ISDN or Integrated Services Digital Network connections) (1999) |
Azerbaijan: | 663,000 (1997) |
Bahamas, The: | 96,000 (1997) |
Bahrain: | 152,000 (1997) |
Bangladesh: | 500,000 (2000) |
Barbados: | 108,000 (1997) |
Belarus: | 2.313 million (1997) |
Belgium: | 4.769 million (1997) |
Belize: | 31,000 (1997) |
Benin: | 36,000 (1997) |
Bermuda: | 52,000 (1997) |
Bhutan: | 6,000 (1997) |
Bolivia: | 327,600 (1996) |
Bosnia and Herzegovina: | 303,000 (1997) |
Botswana: | 86,000 (1997) |
Brazil: | 17.039 million (1997) |
British Indian Ocean Territory: | NA |
British Virgin Islands: | 10,000 (1996) |
Brunei: | 79,000 (1996) |
Bulgaria: | 3.255 million (2000) |
Burkina Faso: | 36,000 (1997) |
Burma: | 250,000 (2000) |
Burundi: | 16,000 (1997) |
Cambodia: | 21,800 (mid-1998) |
Cameroon: | 75,000 (1997) |
Canada: | 18.5 million (1999) |
Cape Verde: | 45,644 (2000) |
Cayman Islands: | 19,000 (1995) |
Central African Republic: | 10,000 (1997) |
Chad: | 7,000 (1997) |
Chile: | 2.603 million (1998) |
China: | 135 million (2000) |
Christmas Island: | NA |
Cocos (Keeling) Islands: | NA (1999) |
Colombia: | 5,433,565 (December 1997) |
Comoros: | 6,000 (1997) |
Congo, Democratic Republic of the: | 21,000 (1997) |
Congo, Republic of the: | 22,000 (1997) |
Cook Islands: | 5,000 (1997) |
Costa Rica: |
450,000 (1998)
note: 584,000 installed in 1997, but only about 450,000 were in use 1998 |
Cote d'Ivoire: | 219,283 (31 December 1999) |
Croatia: | 1.488 million (1997) |
Cuba: | 473,031 (2000) |
Cyprus: | Greek Cypriot area: 405,000 (1998); Turkish Cypriot area: 83,162 (1998) |
Czech Republic: | 3.869 million (2000) |
Denmark: | 4.785 million (1997) |
Djibouti: | 8,000 (1997) |
Dominica: | 19,000 (1996) |
Dominican Republic: | 709,000 (1997) |
Ecuador: | 899,000 (1997) |
Egypt: | 3,971,500 (December 1998) |
El Salvador: | 380,000 (1998) |
Equatorial Guinea: | 4,000 (1996) |
Eritrea: | 23,578 (2000) |
Estonia: | 476,078 (yearend 1998) |
Ethiopia: | 157,000 (1997) |
Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas): | NA |
Faroe Islands: | 24,851 (1999) |
Fiji: | 72,000 (1997) |
Finland: | 2.861 million (1997) |
France: | 34.86 million (yearend 1998) |
French Guiana: | 47,000 (1997) |
French Polynesia: | 52,000 (1997) |
Gabon: | 37,000 (1997) |
Gambia, The: | 31,900 (2000) |
Gaza Strip: | 95,729 (total for Gaza Strip and West Bank) (1997) |
Georgia: | 620,000 (1997) |
Germany: |
45.2 million (1997)
note: 46.5 million main lines were installed by yearend 1998 |
Ghana: | 200,000 (1998) |
Gibraltar: | 19,000 (1997) |
Greece: | 5.431 million (1997) |
Greenland: | 25,617 (end 1999) |
Grenada: | 27,000 (1997) |
Guadeloupe: | 171,000 (1996) |
Guam: | 84,134 (1998) |
Guatemala: | 665,061 (June 2000) |
Guernsey: | 44,000 (1996) |
Guinea: | 20,000 (1997) |
Guinea-Bissau: | 8,000 (1997) |
Guyana: | 70,000 (2000) |
Haiti: | 60,000 (1997) |
Holy See (Vatican City): | NA |
Honduras: | 234,000 (1997) |
Hong Kong: | 3.839 million (1999) |
Hungary: | 3.095 million (1997) |
Iceland: | 168,000 (1997) |
India: | 27.7 million (October 2000) |
Indonesia: | 5,588,310 (1998) |
Iran: | 6.313 million (1997) |
Iraq: | 675,000 (1997) |
Ireland: | 1.59 million (2001) |
Israel: | 2.8 million (1999) |
Italy: | 25 million (1999) |
Jamaica: | 353,000 (1996) |
Japan: | 60.381 million (1997) |
Jersey: | 65,500 (1997) |
Jordan: | 403,000 (1997) |
Kazakhstan: | 1.818 million (1997) |
Kenya: | 290,000 (1998) |
Kiribati: | 2,000 (1997) |
Korea, North: | 1.1 million (1997) |
Korea, South: | 24 million (1999) |
Kuwait: | 412,000 (1997) |
Kyrgyzstan: | 351,000 (1997) |
Laos: | 25,000 (1997) |
Latvia: | 748,000 (1997) |
Lebanon: | 700,000 (1999) |
Lesotho: | 20,000 (1997) |
Liberia: | 6,000 (1997) |
Libya: | 380,000 (1996) |
Liechtenstein: | 20,000 (1997) |
Lithuania: | 1.048 million (1997) |
Luxembourg: | 314,700 (1999) |
Macau: | 176,837 (2000) |
Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of: | 408,000 (1997) |
Madagascar: | 43,000 (1997) |
Malawi: | 37,000 (1997) |
Malaysia: | 4.5 million (1999) |
Maldives: | 21,000 (1999) |
Mali: | 23,000 (1997) |
Malta: | 187,000 (1997) |
Man, Isle of: | 51,000 (1999) |
Marshall Islands: | 3,000 (1996) |
Martinique: | 170,000 (1997) |
Mauritania: | 26,000 (2000) |
Mauritius: | 223,000 (1997) |
Mayotte: | 9,314 (1997) |
Mexico: | 9.6 million (1998) |
Micronesia, Federated States of: | 11,000 (2001) |
Moldova: | 627,000 (1997) |
Monaco: | 31,027 (1995) |
Mongolia: | 104,100 (1999) |
Montserrat: | 4,000 (1997) |
Morocco: | 1.391 million (1998) |
Mozambique: | 65,354 (2000) |
Namibia: | 100,848 (1997) |
Nauru: | 2,000 (1996) |
Nepal: | 236,816 (January 2000) |
Netherlands: | 9,132,400 (1999) |
Netherlands Antilles: | 76,000 (1995) |
New Caledonia: | 47,000 (1997) |
New Zealand: | 1.84 million (1997) |
Nicaragua: | 140,000 (1996) |
Niger: | 16,000 (1997) |
Nigeria: | 500,000 (2000) |
Niue: | 376 (1991) |
Norfolk Island: | 1,087 (1983) |
Northern Mariana Islands: | 21,000 (1996) |
Norway: | 2.735 million (1998) |
Oman: | 201,000 (1997) |
Pakistan: | 2.861 million (March 1999) |
Palau: | 1,500 (1988) |
Panama: | 396,000 (1997) |
Papua New Guinea: | 47,000 (1996) |
Paraguay: | 290,475 (2001) |
Peru: | 1.509 million (1998) |
Philippines: | 1.9 million (1997) |
Pitcairn Islands: | 1 (there are 17 telephones on one party line) (1997) |
Poland: | 8.07 million (1998) |
Portugal: | 5.3 million (end 1998) |
Puerto Rico: | 1.322 million (1997) |
Qatar: | 142,000 (1997) |
Reunion: | 236,500 (1997) |
Romania: | 3.777 million (1997) |
Russia: | 30 million (1998) |
Rwanda: | 15,000 (1995) |
Saint Helena: | 2,000 (1997) |
Saint Kitts and Nevis: | 17,000 (1997) |
Saint Lucia: | 37,000 (1997) |
Saint Pierre and Miquelon: | 4,000 (1997) |
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines: | 20,500 (1998) |
Samoa: | 8,000 (1997) |
San Marino: | 18,000 (1998) |
Sao Tome and Principe: | 3,000 (1997) |
Saudi Arabia: | 3.1 million (1998) |
Senegal: | 116,000 (1997) |
Seychelles: | 19,635 (1997) |
Sierra Leone: | 17,000 (1997) |
Singapore: | 1.928 million (November 2000) |
Slovakia: | 1,934,558 (1998) |
Slovenia: | 722,000 (1997) |
Solomon Islands: | 8,000 (1997) |
Somalia: | NA |
South Africa: | 5.075 million (1999) |
Spain: | 17.336 million (1999) |
Sri Lanka: | 494,509 (1998) |
Sudan: | 400,000 (2000) |
Suriname: | 64,000 (1997) |
Svalbard: | NA |
Swaziland: | 33,500 (2000) |
Sweden: | 6.017 million (December 1998) |
Switzerland: | 4.82 million (1998) |
Syria: | 1.313 million (1997) |
Tajikistan: | 363,000 (1997) |
Tanzania: | 127,000 (1998) |
Thailand: | 5.4 million (1998) |
Togo: | 25,000 (1997) |
Tokelau: | NA |
Tonga: | 8,000 (1996) |
Trinidad and Tobago: | 243,000 (1997) |
Tunisia: | 654,000 (1997) |
Turkey: | 19.5 million (1999) |
Turkmenistan: | 363,000 (1997) |
Turks and Caicos Islands: | 3,000 (1994) |
Tuvalu: | 1,000 (1997) |
Uganda: | 50,074; however, 80,868 main lines were installed (1998) |
Ukraine: | 9.45 million (April 1999) |
United Arab Emirates: | 915,223 (1998) |
United Kingdom: | 34.878 million (1997) |
United States: | 194 million (1997) |
Uruguay: | 850,000 (2000) |
Uzbekistan: | 1.98 million (1999) |
Vanuatu: | 4,000 (1996) |
Venezuela: | 2,600,000.00; however, 3,500,000 were installed (1998) |
Vietnam: | 2.6 million (2000) |
Virgin Islands: | 62,000 (1997) |
Wallis and Futuna: | 1,125 (1994) |
West Bank: | 95,729 (total for West Bank and Gaza Strip) (1997) |
Western Sahara: | about 2,000 (1999 est.) |
World: | NA |
Yemen: | 291,359 (1999) |
Yugoslavia: | 2.017 million (1995) |
Zambia: | 77,935 (in addition there are about 40,000 fixed telephones in wireless local loop connections) (1997) |
Zimbabwe: | 212,000 (in addition there are about 20,000 fixed telephones in wireless local loop connections) (1997) |
Taiwan: | 12.49 million (September 2000) |