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The World Factbook 2002
  Field Listing - Telephones - main lines in use


This entry gives the total number of main telephone lines in use.
Country
Telephones - main lines in use
Afghanistan 29,000 (1998)
Albania 120,000 (2001)
Algeria 2.3 million (1998)
American Samoa 13,000 (1997)
Andorra 32,946 (December 1998)
Angola 69,700 (1997)
Anguilla 4,974 (2000)
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 10.05 million (2000)
Austria 4 million (consisting of 3,600,000 analog main lines plus 400,000 Integrated Services Digital Network connections); in addition, there are 100,000 Asymmetric Digital Services lines (2001)
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 51,000 (2000)
Bermuda 52,000 (1997)
Bhutan 6,000 (1997)
Bolivia 327,600 (1996)
Bosnia and Herzegovina 303,000 (1997)
Botswana 150,000 (2000)
Brazil 17.039 million (1997)
British Indian Ocean Territory NA
British Virgin Islands 10,000 (1996)
Brunei 79,000 (1996)
Bulgaria 3,186,731 (2001)
Burkina Faso 53,200 (2000)
Burma 250,000 (2000)
Burundi 20,000 (2000)
Cambodia 21,800 (mid-1998)
Cameroon 95,000 (2001)
Canada 18.5 million (1999)
Cape Verde 60,935 (2002)
Cayman Islands 19,000 (1995)
Central African Republic 10,000 (1997)
Chad 10,260 (2000)
Chile 2.603 million (1998)
China 135 million (2000)
Christmas Island NA
Cocos (Keeling) Islands 287 (1992)
Colombia 5,433,565 (December 1997)
Comoros 7,000 (2000)
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 in 1998
Cote d'Ivoire 263,700 (2000)
Croatia 1,721,139 (2000)
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 10,000 (2002)
Dominica 19,000 (1996)
Dominican Republic 709,000 (1997)
East Timor NA
Ecuador 1,115,272 (1999)
Egypt 3,971,500 (December 1998)
El Salvador 380,000 (1998)
Equatorial Guinea 4,000 (1996)
Eritrea 30,000 (2001)
Estonia 501,691 (2000)
Ethiopia 231,900 (2000)
Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) NA
Faroe Islands 24,851 (1999)
Fiji 80,901 (1999)
Finland 2.861 million (1997)
France 34.86 million (yearend 1998)
French Guiana 47,000 (1997)
French Polynesia 52,000 (1997)
Gabon 39,000 (2000)
Gambia, The 31,900 (2000)
Gaza Strip 95,729 (total for Gaza Strip and West Bank) (1997)
Georgia 620,000 (1997)
Germany 50.9 million (March 2001)
Ghana 240,000 (2001)
Gibraltar 19,000 (1997)
Greece 5.431 million (1997)
Greenland 25,617 (yearend 1999)
Grenada 27,000 (1997)
Guadeloupe 171,000 (1996)
Guam 84,134 (1998)
Guatemala 665,061 (June 2000)
Guernsey 44,000 (1996)
Guinea 37,000 (1998)
Guinea-Bissau 10,000 (2001)
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 1.92 million (2001)
Kenya 310,000 (2001)
Kiribati 3,800 (1999)
Korea, North 1.1 million (1997)
Korea, South 24 million (2000)
Kuwait 412,000 (1997)
Kyrgyzstan 351,000 (1997)
Laos 25,000 (1997)
Latvia 734,693 (2000)
Lebanon 700,000 (1999)
Lesotho 22,200 (2000)
Liberia 6,700 (2000)
Libya 380,000 (1996)
Liechtenstein 20,000 (1997)
Lithuania 1.142 million (2001)
Luxembourg 314,700 (1999)
Macau 176,902 (November 2001)
Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of 408,000 (1997)
Madagascar 55,000 (2000)
Malawi 38,000 (1999)
Malaysia 4.6 million (2000)
Maldives 21,000 (1999)
Mali 45,000 (2000)
Malta 187,000 (1997)
Man, Isle of 51,000 (1999)
Marshall Islands 4,186 (2001)
Martinique 170,000 (1997)
Mauritania 26,500 (2001)
Mauritius 245,000 (1998)
Mayotte 9,314 (1997)
Mexico 12.332 million (2000)
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 90,000 (December 2001)
Namibia 110,200 (2000)
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 1.92 million (2000)
Nicaragua 140,000 (1996)
Niger 20,000 (2001)
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 6,700 (2002)
Panama 396,000 (1997)
Papua New Guinea 61,152 (1999)
Paraguay 290,475 (2001)
Peru 1.509 million (1998)
Philippines 3.1 million (2000)
Pitcairn Islands 1 (there are 17 telephones on one party line) (1997)
Poland 8.07 million (1998)
Portugal 5.3 million (yearend 1998)
Puerto Rico 1.322 million (1997)
Qatar 142,000 (1997)
Reunion 268,500 (1999)
Romania 3.777 million (1997)
Russia 30 million (1998)
Rwanda 11,000 (1999)
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 8,183 (1998)
San Marino 18,000 (1998)
Sao Tome and Principe 3,000 (1997)
Saudi Arabia 3.1 million (1998)
Senegal 234,916 (2001)
Seychelles 19,635 (1997)
Sierra Leone 25,000 (2001)
Singapore 1.95 million (2000)
Slovakia 1,934,558 (1998)
Slovenia 722,000 (1997)
Solomon Islands 8,000 (1997)
Somalia NA
South Africa more than 5 million (2001)
Spain 17.336 million (1999)
Sri Lanka 494,509 (1998)
Sudan 400,000 (2000)
Suriname 64,000 (1997)
Svalbard NA
Swaziland 38,500 (2001)
Sweden 6.017 million (December 1998)
Switzerland 4.82 million (1998)
Syria 1.313 million (1997)
Taiwan 12.49 million (September 2000)
Tajikistan 363,000 (1997)
Tanzania 127,000 (1998)
Thailand 5.6 million (2000)
Togo 25,000 (1997)
Tokelau NA
Tonga 8,000 (1996)
Trinidad and Tobago 252,000 (1999)
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 have been 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 929,141 (2001)
Uzbekistan 1.98 million (1999)
Vanuatu 5,500 (1998)
Venezuela 2.6 million (however, 3,500,000 have been 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 130,000 (including more than 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)

This page was last updated on 1 January 2002
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