The CIA World Factbook Edition 1999 Communications

Telephones - fixed lines In 31 editions of 36.

Telephones - fixed lines was published in 31 editions of the CIA World Factbook, from 1994 to 2025. The 1999 edition carries it in 238 entries, in its Communications section, under the heading “Telephones”. Every entry is shown as that edition published it.

entries in the 1999 edition
238
the first edition with it
1994
the latest edition with it
2025

Published as “Telephones - main lines in use” (2000 to 2014), “Telephones - fixed lines” (2015 to 2025), “Telephones” (1996 to 1999) and “telephone” (1994).

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1999

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World

1 entry

World

NA

Africa

57 entries

Algeria

  • 1,381,342 (5,200 cellular telephone subscribers) (1997)

Angola

78,000 (1991 est.)

Benin

  • 38,354 (6,286 cellular telephone subscribers) (1998 est.)

Botswana

19,109 (1985 est.)

Burkina Faso

21,000 (1993 est.)

Burundi

7,200 (1987 est.)

Cape Verde now Cabo Verde

22,900 (1995 est.)

Cameroon

36,737 (1991 est.)

Central African Republic

16,867 (1992 est.)

Chad

5,000 (1987 est.)

Comoros

4,000 (1993 est.)

Congo, Democratic Republic of the now Democratic Republic of the Congo

34,000 (1991 est.)

Congo, Republic of the now Republic of the Congo

18,000 (1983 est.)

Cote d'Ivoire

200,000 (1988 est.)

Djibouti

7,200 (1986 est.)

Egypt

  • 3.168 million (1996);
  • 70,000 digital cellular telephone subscribers (1998);
  • 7,400 analog cellular telephone subscribers (1997)

Equatorial Guinea

2,000 (1987 est.)

Eritrea

NA

Swaziland now Eswatini

  • NA; 45,000 cellular telephone subscribers (1993 est.)

Ethiopia

100,000 (1983 est.)

Gabon

22,000 (1991 est.)

Gambia, The now The Gambia

11,000 (1991 est.)

Ghana

100,000 (1997 est.)

Guinea

18,000 (1994 est.)

Guinea-Bissau

13,120 (1997 est.)

Kenya

  • 383,676 (1997); 3,077 cellular telephone subscribers (1998)

Lesotho

12,000 (1991 est.)

Liberia

  • fewer than 25,000 (1998 est.)

Libya

411,000 (1999 est.)

Madagascar

34,000 (1994)

Malawi

43,000 (1985 est.)

Mali

11,000 (1982 est.)

Mauritania

17,000 (1991 est.)

Mauritius

107,000 (1993)

Mayotte

450

Morocco

1,312,596 (1999 est.)

Mozambique

70,000 (1998 est.)

Namibia

89,722 (1992 est.)

Niger

14,000 (1995 est.)

Nigeria

405,100 (1995 est.)

Reunion

219,000 (1995)

Rwanda

6,400 (1983 est.)

Saint Helena now Saint Helena, Ascension, and Tristan da Cunha

550

Sao Tome and Principe

2,200 (1986 est.)

Senegal

81,988 (1995 est.)

Seychelles

13,000 (1995 est.)

Sierra Leone

17,526 (1991 est.)

Somalia

9,000 (1991 est.)

South Africa

4.2 million (1997)

Sudan

77,215 (1983 est.)

Tanzania

88,000 (1994)

Togo

  • 47,000 (10,000 cellular telephone subscribers) (1998 est.)

Tunisia

  • 560,000 (1996 est.); 3,185 cellular telephone subscribers (1998 est.)

Uganda

61,600 (1990 est.)

Western Sahara

2,000

Zambia

80,900 (1987 est.)

Zimbabwe

301,000 (1990 est.)

Antarctic Region

1 entry

Antarctica

NA

Arctic Region

3 entries

Greenland

19,600 (1995 est.)

Iceland

143,600 (1993 est.)

Svalbard

NA

Asia

23 entries

Afghanistan

31,200 (1983 est.)

Armenia

730,000 (1998 est.)

Azerbaijan

1.414 million (1998)

Bangladesh

249,800 (1994 est.)

Bhutan

4,620 (1991 est.)

British Indian Ocean Territory

NA

China

105 million (1998 est.)

Georgia

760,000 (1996 est.)

India

12 million (1996)

Japan

64 million (1987 est.)

Kazakhstan

2 million (1997)

Korea, North now North Korea

1.4 million (1998 est.)

Korea, South now South Korea

16.6 million (1993)

Kyrgyzstan

356,000 (1996 est.)

Maldives

8,523 (1992 est.)

Mongolia

93,600 (1998)

Nepal

115,911 (1996 est.)

Pakistan

2.828 million (1998)

Russia

23.8 million (1997 est.)

Sri Lanka

  • 352,681 (1997 est.); 114,888 cellular telephone subscribers (1997 est.)

Tajikistan

303,000 (1991 est.)

Turkmenistan

NA

Uzbekistan

1.475 million (1998 est.)

Central America and the Caribbean

31 entries

Anguilla

890

Antigua and Barbuda

6,700

Aruba

22,922 (1993 est.)

Bahamas, The now The Bahamas

200,000 (1997 est.)

Barbados

87,343 (1991 est.)

Belize

29,000 (1996 est.)

British Virgin Islands

6,291 (1990 est.)

Cayman Islands

21,584 (1993 est.)

Costa Rica

281,042 (1983 est.)

Cuba

229,000

Dominica

14,613 (1993 est.)

Dominican Republic

190,000 (1987 est.)

El Salvador

350,000 (1997 est.)

Grenada

5,650 (1988 est.)

Guadeloupe

64,916 (1984 est.)

Guatemala

210,000 (1993 est.)

Haiti

50,000 (1990 est.)

Honduras

105,000 (1992 est.)

Jamaica

350,000 (1997 est.)

Martinique

209,672 (1994 est.)

Montserrat

3,000

Netherlands Antilles

NA

Nicaragua

66,810 (1993 est.)

Panama

273,000 (1991 est.)

Puerto Rico

1.389 million (1996 est.)

Saint Kitts and Nevis

3,800 (1986 est.)

Saint Lucia

26,000 (1992 est.)

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

6,189 (1983 est.)

Trinidad and Tobago

170,000 (1992 est.)

Turks and Caicos Islands

1,359 (1988 est.)

Virgin Islands

60,000 (1990 est.)

Europe

46 entries

Albania

55,000

Andorra

21,258 (1983 est.)

Austria

3.47 million (1986 est.)

Belarus

2.55 million (October 1998)

Belgium

  • 5.691 million (1992 est.); 1.7 million cellular telephone subscribers (1998)

Bosnia and Herzegovina

727,000

Bulgaria

2,773,293 (1993 est.)

Croatia

1.216 million (1993 est.)

Czech Republic now Czechia

3,349,539 (1993 est.)

Denmark

3.2 million (1995 est.); 822,000 cellular telephone subscribers

Estonia

531,000 (1997)

Faroe Islands

  • 22,500 (3,500 cellular telephone subscribers) (1996)

Finland

2.5 million (1995 est.)

France

35 million (1987 est.)

Germany

44 million

Gibraltar

19,356 (1994)

Greece

5,571,293 (1993 est.)

Guernsey

41,850 (1983 est.)

Holy See (Vatican City)

2,000

Hungary

  • 2.16 million (267,000 cellular telephone subscribers) (1996)

Ireland

900,000 (1987 est.)

Man, Isle of now Isle of Man

46,000 (1996)

Italy

25.6 million (1996 est.)

Jersey

61,447 (1983 est.)

Latvia

710,848 (1997)

Liechtenstein

22,857 (1996 est.)

Lithuania

1.08 million (1998)

Luxembourg

279,736 (1997)

Malta

191,876 (1992 est.)

Moldova

600,000 (1998 est.)

Monaco

53,180 (1994 est.)

Netherlands

8.431 million (1998 est.); 3.4 million cellular telephone subscribers (1998 est.)

Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of now North Macedonia

125,000

Norway

  • 2.39 million (1994 est.); 470,000 cellular telephone subscribers (1994)

Poland

8.2 million (1996)

Portugal

3.7 million (1996 est.)

Romania

2.6 million (1993 est.)

San Marino

15,000 (1995 est.)

Serbia and Montenegro

700,000

Slovakia

1,362,178 (1992 est.)

Slovenia

691,240 (1997 est.)

Spain

12.6 million (1990 est.)

Sweden

13 million (1996 est.)

Switzerland

  • 5.24 million (1996 est.); 307,000 cellular telephone subscribers (1994 est.)

Ukraine

12,531,277 (1998)

United Kingdom

29.5 million (1987 est.)

Middle East

17 entries

Bahrain

73,552 (1987 est.)

Cyprus

Greek Cypriot area:
367,000 (1996 est.); Turkish

Gaza Strip

NA; 3.1% of Palestinian households have telephones

Iran

8,991,797 (1997 est.)

Iraq

632,000 (1987 est.)

Israel

2.6 million (1996)

Jordan

425,000 (1998)

Kuwait

408,000 (1998)

Lebanon

150,000 (1990 est.)

Oman

150,000 (1994 est.)

Qatar

160,717 (1992 est.)

Saudi Arabia

1.46 million (1993)

Syria

541,465 (1992 est.)

Turkey now Turkiye

17 million (in addition, there are 1.5 million cellular telephone subscribers) (1997 est.)

United Arab Emirates

677,793 (1993 est.)

West Bank

NA; 3.1% of Palestinian households have telephones

Yemen

131,655 (1992 est.)

North America

5 entries

Bermuda

54,000 (1991 est.)

Canada

15.3 million (1990)

Mexico

11,890,868 (1993 est.)

Saint Pierre and Miquelon

3,650 (1994 est.)

United States

182.558 million (1987 est.)

Oceania

25 entries

American Samoa

9,000 (1994 est.)

Australia

8.7 million (1987 est.)

Cook Islands

4,180 (1994)

Fiji

60,017 (1987 est.)

French Polynesia

33,200 (1983 est.)

Guam

74,317 (March 1997)

Kiribati

1,400 (1984 est.)

Marshall Islands

2,000 (1997 est.)

Micronesia, Federated States of now Federated States of Micronesia

960

Nauru

2,000 (1989 est.)

New Caledonia

38,748 (1993 est.)

New Zealand

1.7 million (1986 est.)

Niue

276 (1992 est.)

Norfolk Island

1,087 (1983 est.)

Northern Mariana Islands

13,618 (1993 est.)

Palau

1,500 (1988 est.)

Papua New Guinea

63,212 (1986 est.)

Pitcairn Islands

24

Samoa

7,500 (1988 est.)

Solomon Islands

5,000 (1991 est.)

Tokelau

NA

Tonga

6,000 (1994 est.)

Tuvalu

130 (1983 est.)

Vanuatu

4,000 (1994 est.)

Wallis and Futuna

340 (1985 est.)

South America

14 entries

Argentina

4.6 million (1990)

Bolivia

144,300 (1987 est.)

Brazil

14,426,673 (1992 est.)

Chile

1.5 million (1994 est.)

Colombia

1.89 million (1986 est.)

Ecuador

586,300 (1994 est.)

Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)

1,180 (1991 est.)

French Guiana

31,000 (1990 est.)

Guyana

33,000 (1987 est.)

Paraguay

88,730 (1985 est.)

Peru

779,306 (1990 est.)

Suriname

43,522 (1992 est.)

Uruguay

767,333 (1997)

Venezuela

1.44 million (1987 est.)

Southeast Asia

15 entries

Brunei

90,000 (1997 est.)

Burma now Burma (Myanmar)

122,195 (1993 est.)

Cambodia

7,000 (1981 est.)

Christmas Island

NA

Cocos (Keeling) Islands

NA

Hong Kong

4.47 million (1998)

Indonesia

1,276,600 (1993 est.)

Laos

28,000 (1998 est.)

Macau

200,000 (1997 est.)

Malaysia

2,550,957 (1992 est.)

Philippines

1.9 million (1997)

Singapore

1.4 million (1997 est.)

Taiwan

11.526 million (1998 est.)

Thailand

1,553,200 (1994 est.)

Vietnam

800,000 (1995 est.)

Central Intelligence Agency. The World Factbook 1999, “Telephones - fixed lines”, all entries. Archived by The Factbook, thefactbook.org/fields/telephones-fixed-lines/1999.

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