The CIA World Factbook Edition 2003 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 2003 edition carries it in 239 entries, in its Communications section, under the heading “Telephones - main lines in use”. Every entry is shown as that edition published it.
- entries in the 2003 edition
- 239
- 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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Entries with Telephones - fixed lines in each edition
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World
1 entryAfrica
57 entriesAntarctic Region
1 entryArctic Region
3 entriesAsia
23 entriesCentral America and the Caribbean
31 entriesCosta Rica
450,000 (1998)
note: 584,000 installed in 1997, but only about 450,000 were in use in 1998
Europe
46 entriesAustria
- 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)
Middle East
17 entriesIraq
675,000 (1997); note - an unknown number of telephone lines were damaged or destroyed during the March-April war
North America
5 entriesOceania
25 entriesSouth America
14 entriesSoutheast Asia
16 entriesCite this page
Central Intelligence Agency. The World Factbook 2003, “Telephones - fixed lines”, all entries. Archived by The Factbook, thefactbook.org/fields/telephones-fixed-lines/2003.