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@2150 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
72,000 (1998)
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
600,000 (2002)
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
865,000 (2002)
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
131,000 (September 2001)
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
18,000 (2002)
Cambodia
21,800 (mid-1998)
Cameroon
95,000 (2001)
Canada
20,802,900 (1999)
Cape Verde
60,935 (2002)
Cayman Islands
19,000 (1995)
Central African Republic
9,500 (2000)
Chad
9,700 (1999)
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
20,000 (2000)
Congo, Republic of the
22,000 (1998)
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
6,000 (1998)
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
2,847,900 (2001)
France
34.86 million (yearend 1998)
French Guiana
47,000 (1997)
French Polynesia
52,000 (1997)
Gabon
39,000 (1998)
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
196,984 (2001)
India
27.7 million (October 2000)
Indonesia
5,588,310 (1998)
Iran
6.313 million (1997)
Iraq
675,000 (1997); note - an unknown number of telephone lines
were damaged or destroyed during the March-April war
Ireland
1.6 million (2002)
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
500,000 (1998)
Liechtenstein
20,072 (2000)
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
45,000 (2000)
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
280,900 (2000)
Mayotte
12,000 (1998)
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 (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 est.)
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
1.8 million (2000)
Philippines
6.98 million (2001)
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
600,000 note - 90% in Kigali (2002)
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
4,600 (2000)
Saudi Arabia
3.9 million (2002 est.)
Senegal
234,916 (2001)
Serbia and Montenegro
2.017 million (1995)
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
15,000 (2000)
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
65,000 (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)
Zambia
130,000 (including approximately 40,000 fixed telephones in
wireless local loop connections) (2002)
Zimbabwe
212,000 (in addition, there are about 20,000 fixed
telephones in wireless local loop connections) (1997)