List of countries by number of telephone lines in use
This is a list of countries by number of telephone lines. Data are from the CIA World Factbook unless otherwise specified.[1]
| Location | Lines | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| World | 876,144,000 | [a] | |
 China | 179,414,000 | 2022 | |
 United States | 91,623,000 | 2022 | |
 Japan | 60,721,000 | 2022 | |
 Germany | 38,580,000 | 2022 | |
 France | 37,740,000 | 2022 | |
 United Kingdom | 29,798,000 | 2022 | |
 Iran | 29,342,000 | 2022 | |
 India | 27,450,000 | 2022 | |
 Brazil | 27,258,000 | 2022 | |
 Mexico | 27,185,000 | 2022 | |
 Russia | 23,864,000 | 2021 | |
 South Korea | 22,810,000 | 2022 | |
 Italy | 19,982,000 | 2022 | |
 Spain | 18,687,000 | 2022 | |
 Egypt | 11,600,000 | 2022 | |
.svg.png){kind=small} Canada | 11,312,000 | 2022 | |
 Turkey | 11,198,000 | 2022 | |
 Taiwan | 10,000,000 | 2023 | |
 Malaysia | 8,453,000 | 2022 | |
 Indonesia | 8,424,000 | 2022 | |
 Argentina | 7,615,000 | 2022 | |
 Colombia | 7,588,000 | 2022 | |
 Saudi Arabia | 6,773,000 | 2022 | |
.svg.png){kind=small} Australia | 6,409,000 | 2022 | |
 Uzbekistan | 5,686,000 | 2022 | |
 Algeria | 5,576,000 | 2022 | |
.svg.png){kind=small} Portugal | 5,437,000 | 2022 | |
 Poland | 5,277,000 | 2022 | |
 Greece | 4,907,000 | 2022 | |
 Philippines | 4,885,000 | 2022 | |
 Netherlands | 4,570,000 | 2022 | |
 Thailand | 4,368,000 | 2022 | |
 Belarus | 4,230,000 | 2022 | |
 Hong Kong | 3,673,000 | 2022 | |
 Israel | 3,574,000 | 2022 | |
 Austria | 3,544,000 | 2022 | |
 Venezuela | 3,147,000 | 2022 | |
.svg.png){kind=small} Belgium | 2,953,000 | 2022 | |
.svg.png){kind=small} Switzerland | 2,919,000 | 2022 | |
 Kazakhstan | 2,888,000 | 2022 | |
 Hungary | 2,845,000 | 2022 | |
.svg.png){kind=small} Syria | 2,821,000 | 2021 | |
 Pakistan | 2,799,000 | 2022 | |
 Morocco | 2,645,000 | 2022 | |
 Sri Lanka | 2,582,000 | 2022 | |
 Serbia | 2,539,000 | 2022 | |
 Iraq | 2,392,000 | 2022 | |
 Vietnam | 2,391,000 | 2022 | |
 United Arab Emirates | 2,286,000 | 2022 | |
 Romania | 2,222,000 | 2022 | |
 Chile | 2,217,000 | 2022 | |
 Guatemala | 1,918,000 | 2022 | |
 Singapore | 1,906,000 | 2022 | |
 Peru | 1,798,000 | 2022 | |
 Tunisia | 1,790,000 | 2022 | |
 Ukraine | 1,739,000 | 2022 | |
 Ecuador | 1,644,000 | 2022 | |
 Azerbaijan | 1,641,000 | 2022 | |
 Cuba | 1,574,000 | 2022 | |
 Ireland | 1,498,000 | 2022 | |
 South Africa | 1,310,000 | 2022 | |
 Laos | 1,300,000 | 2021 | |
 Sweden | 1,261,000 | 2021 | |
 Uruguay | 1,259,000 | 2022 | |
 Yemen | 1,240,000 | 2021 | |
 Croatia | 1,235,000 | 2022 | |
 Libya | 1,218,000 | 2022 | |
 Czech Republic | 1,214,000 | 2022 | |
 North Korea | 1,180,000 | 2021 | |
 Dominican Republic | 1,144,000 | 2022 | |
 Moldova | 951,000 | 2022 | |
 Cameroon | 929,000 | 2022 | |
 Lebanon | 875,000 | 2021 | |
 El Salvador | 863,000 | 2022 | |
 Ethiopia | 862,000 | 2022 | |
 Panama | 811,000 | 2022 | |
 Turkmenistan | 802,000 | 2021 | |
 New Zealand | 757,000 | 2022 | |
 Puerto Rico | 739,000 | 2022 | |
 Nepal | 726,000 | 2021 | |
 Denmark | 712,000 | 2022 | |
 Bulgaria | 691,000 | 2022 | |
 Slovenia | 676,000 | 2022 | |
 Bosnia and Herzegovina | 651,000 | 2022 | |
 Kuwait | 573,000 | 2022 | |
 Oman | 563,000 | 2022 | |
 Bolivia | 550,000 | 2021 | |
 Slovakia | 541,000 | 2022 | |
 Burma | 535,000 | 2022 | |
 Qatar | 524,000 | 2022 | |
 Tajikistan | 502,000 | 2021 | |
 Costa Rica | 492,000 | 2022 | |
 Mongolia | 475,000 | 2022 | |
 Jordan | 466,000 | 2022 | |
 Mauritius | 462,000 | 2022 | |
 West Bank | 458,000 | 2022 | |
| Gaza Strip | 458,000 | 2022 | |
 Jamaica | 447,000 | 2022 | |
 North Macedonia | 436,000 | 2022 | |
.svg.png){kind=small} Honduras | 414,000 | 2022 | |
 Kosovo | 383,763 | 2022 | |
 Armenia | 366,000 | 2022 | |
 Ghana | 330,000 | 2022 | |
 Trinidad and Tobago | 326,000 | 2022 | |
 Mali | 307,000 | 2022 | |
 Georgia | 301,000 | 2022 | |
 Kyrgyzstan | 299,000 | 2021 | |
 Senegal | 297,000 | 2022 | |
 Cyprus | 297,000 | 2022 | |
 Zimbabwe | 291,000 | 2022 | |
 Bangladesh | 274,000 | 2022 | |
 Estonia | 266,000 | 2022 | |
 Ivory Coast | 263,000 | 2022 | |
 Luxembourg | 261,000 | 2022 | |
 Malta | 259,000 | 2022 | |
 Bahrain | 253,000 | 2022 | |
 Lithuania | 250,000 | 2022 | |
 Nicaragua | 216,000 | 2022 | |
 Montenegro | 191,000 | 2022 | |
 Finland | 186,000 | 2022 | |
 Albania | 177,000 | 2022 | |
 Latvia | 174,000 | 2022 | |
 Paraguay | 169,000 | 2022 | |
 Papua New Guinea | 166,000 | 2021 | |
 Sudan | 156,000 | 2022 | |
 Afghanistan | 146,000 | 2021 | |
 Norway | 140,000 | 2022 | |
 French Polynesia | 139,000 | 2022 | |
 Guyana | 125,000 | 2021 | |
 Brunei | 122,000 | 2022 | |
 Barbados | 121,000 | 2022 | |
 Uganda | 117,000 | 2022 | |
 Suriname | 108,000 | 2022 | |
 Nigeria | 97,000 | 2022 | |
 Zambia | 96,000 | 2022 | |
 Angola | 94,000 | 2022 | |
 Iceland | 93,000 | 2022 | |
 Botswana | 92,000 | 2022 | |
 Macau | 92,000 | 2022 | |
 Somalia | 91,000 | 2022 | |
 Namibia | 86,000 | 2022 | |
 Bahamas | 86,000 | 2022 | |
 Tanzania | 85,000 | 2022 | |
 Burkina Faso | 81,000 | 2021 | |
 US Virgin Islands | 76,000 | 2021 | |
 Guam | 70,000 | 2021 | |
.svg.png){kind=small} Togo | 66,000 | 2022 | |
 Eritrea | 66,000 | 2021 | |
 Kenya | 63,000 | 2022 | |
 Gambia | 60,000 | 2021 | |
 Niger | 58,000 | 2021 | |
 Cape Verde | 57,000 | 2022 | |
 Curacao | 53,000 | 2021 | |
 Andorra | 51,000 | 2022 | |
 Fiji | 49,000 | 2021 | |
 Jersey | 48,122 | 2021 | |
 Mauritania | 48,000 | 2022 | |
 New Caledonia | 46,000 | 2021 | |
 Monaco | 45,000 | 2022 | |
 Gabon | 43,000 | 2022 | |
 Eswatini | 38,000 | 2022 | |
 Cambodia | 38,000 | 2022 | |
 Cayman Islands | 36,000 | 2021 | |
 Aruba | 35,000 | 2021 | |
 Guernsey | 33,930 | 2021 | |
 Mozambique | 29,000 | 2022 | |
 Djibouti | 28,000 | 2022 | |
 Antigua and Barbuda | 27,000 | 2021 | |
 Grenada | 26,000 | 2021 | |
 Madagascar | 26,000 | 2022 | |
 Bermuda | 25,000 | 2021 | |
 British Virgin Islands | 23,000 | 2021 | |
 Bhutan | 20,000 | 2022 | |
 Northern Mariana Islands | 20,000 | 2021 | |
 Seychelles | 19,000 | 2022 | |
 Belize | 19,000 | 2021 | |
 Republic of the Congo | 17,000 | 2020 | |
 Gibraltar | 17,000 | 2022 | |
 San Marino | 16,000 | 2022 | |
 Saint Kitts and Nevis | 16,000 | 2021 | |
 Faroe Islands | 15,000 | 2021 | |
 Burundi | 15,000 | 2022 | |
 Saint Lucia | 14,000 | 2021 | |
 Maldives | 13,000 | 2022 | |
 Equatorial Guinea | 11,000 | 2022 | |
 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 11,000 | 2022 | |
 Tonga | 11,000 | 2021 | |
 Liechtenstein | 11,000 | 2022 | |
 Rwanda | 10,000 | 2022 | |
 American Samoa | 10,000 | 2021 | |
 Malawi | 9,000 | 2022 | |
 Palau | 8,000 | 2022 | |
 Cook Islands | 7,000 | 2021 | |
 Lesotho | 7,000 | 2022 | |
 Solomon Islands | 7,000 | 2021 | |
 Dominica | 7,000 | 2021 | |
 Micronesia | 7,000 | 2021 | |
 Comoros | 7,000 | 2022 | |
 Greenland | 6,000 | 2020 | |
 Anguilla | 6,000 | 2021 | |
 Liberia | 6,000 | 2021 | |
 Haiti | 6,000 | 2021 | |
 Samoa | 5,000 | 2022 | |
 Chad | 5,000 | 2022 | |
 Guinea-Bissau | 4,800 | 2009 | |
| Saint Pierre and Miquelon | 4,800 | 2015 | |
| Saint Helena, Ascension, and Tristan da Cunha | 4,000 | 2021 | |
 Turks and Caicos Islands | 4,000 | 2021 | |
| Wallis and Futuna | 3,000 | 2021 | |
 Vanuatu | 3,000 | 2022 | |
 Montserrat | 3,000 | 2020 | |
 Sao Tome and Principe | 3,000 | 2022 | |
 East Timor | 2,000 | 2022 | |
 Marshall Islands | 2,000 | 2014 | |
 Central African Republic | 2,000 | 2021 | |
 Tuvalu | 2,000 | 2021 | |
 Benin | 2,000 | 2022 | |
 Falkland Islands | 2,000 | 2021 | |
 Niue | 1,000 | 2021 | |
 Tokelau | 300 | 2010 | |
 Sierra Leone | 269 | 2021 | |
 Guinea | 0 | 2021 | |
 Kiribati | 0 | 2022 | |
 Democratic Republic of the Congo | 0 | 2021 |
See also
- List of sovereign states by number of broadband Internet subscriptions
- List of countries by number of Internet users
- List of countries by smartphone penetration
- List of mobile network operators
- List of multiple-system operators
- List of telecommunications companies
Notes
- ^ Sum of CIA figures.
References
- ^ "Telephones - fixed lines". cia.gov. Retrieved 20 Oct 2024.