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Jesse Ventura
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 | |
 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 | |
 Australia |
6,409,000 | 2022 | |
 Uzbekistan |
5,686,000 | 2022 | |
 Algeria |
5,576,000 | 2022 | |
 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 | |
 Belgium |
2,953,000 | 2022 | |
 Switzerland |
2,919,000 | 2022 | |
 Kazakhstan |
2,888,000 | 2022 | |
 Hungary |
2,845,000 | 2022 | |
 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 | |
 Czechia |
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 | |
 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 | |
 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
Notelist
- ^ Sum of CIA figures.
References
- ^ "Telephones - fixed lines". cia.gov. Retrieved 20 Oct 2024.