The CIA World Factbook Edition 2005 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 2005 edition carries it in 240 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 2005 edition: 240
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).

the entry has the field in that editionnot in that editionthe open editionEach entry below ends in its editions with Telephones - fixed lines, 1990 to 2025. Point at a year above to follow it down; choose one in a row to read that edition’s text there.

2005

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Entries with Telephones - fixed lines in each edition

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World

1 entry

World

843,923,500 (2003)

Africa

57 entries

Algeria

2,199,600 (2003)

Angola

96,300 (2003)

Benin

66,500 (2003)

Botswana

142,400 (2002)

Burkina Faso

65,400 (2003)

Burundi

23,900 (2003)

Cape Verde now Cabo Verde

71,700 (2003)

Cameroon

110,900 (2002)

Central African Republic

9,000 (2002)

Chad

11,800 (2002)

Comoros

13,200 (2003)

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

10,000 (2002)

Congo, Republic of the now Republic of the Congo

7,000 (2003)

Cote d'Ivoire

328,000 (2003)

Djibouti

9,500 (2003)

Egypt

9.6 million (2005)

Equatorial Guinea

9,600 (2003)

Eritrea

38,100 (2003)

Swaziland now Eswatini

46,200 (2003)

Ethiopia

435,000 (2003)

Gabon

38,400 (2003)

Gambia, The now The Gambia

38,400 (2002)

Ghana

302,300 (2003)

Guinea

26,200 (2003)

Guinea-Bissau

10,600 (2003)

Kenya

328,400 (2003)

Lesotho

28,600 (2002)

Liberia

7,000 (2001)

Libya

750,000 (2003)

Madagascar

59,600 (2003)

Malawi

85,000 (2003)

Mali

56,600 (2002)

Mauritania

31,500 (2002)

Mauritius

348,200 (2003)

Mayotte

10,000 (2001)

Morocco

1,219,200 (2003)

Mozambique

83,700 (2002)

Namibia

127,400 (2003)

Niger

22,400 (2002)

Nigeria

853,100 (2003)

Reunion

300,000 est (2001)

Rwanda

23,200 (2002)

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

2,200 (2002)

Sao Tome and Principe

7,000 (2003)

Senegal

228,800 (2003)

Seychelles

21,700 (2002)

Sierra Leone

24,000 (2002)

Somalia

100,000 (2002 est.)

South Africa

4.844 million (2002)

Sudan

900,000 (2003)

Tanzania

149,100 (2003)

Togo

60,600 (2003)

Tunisia

1,163,800 (2003)

Uganda

61,000 (2003)

Western Sahara

about 2,000 (1999 est.)

Zambia

88,400 (2003)

Zimbabwe

300,900 (2003)

Antarctic Region

1 entry

Antarctica

note: information for US bases only (2001)

Arctic Region

3 entries

Greenland

26,000 (2001)

Iceland

190,700 (2003)

Svalbard

Asia

23 entries

Afghanistan

33,100 (2002)

Armenia

562,600 (2003)

Azerbaijan

923,800 (2002)

Bangladesh

740,000 (2003)

Bhutan

25,200 (2003)

British Indian Ocean Territory

China

263 million (2003)

Georgia

650,500 (2003)

India

48.917 million (2003)

Japan

71.149 million (2002)

Kazakhstan

2,081,900 (2002)

Korea, North now North Korea

1.1 million (2001)

Korea, South now South Korea

22.877 million (2003)

Kyrgyzstan

394,800 (2002)

Maldives

28,700 (2002)

Mongolia

142,300 (2004)

Nepal

371,800 (2003)

Pakistan

3,982,800 (2003)

Russia

35.5 million (2002)

Sri Lanka

881,400 (2002)

Tajikistan

242,100 (2003)

Turkmenistan

374,000 (2002)

Uzbekistan

1,717,100 (2003)

Central America and the Caribbean

31 entries

Anguilla

6,200 (2002)

Antigua and Barbuda

38,000 (2002)

Aruba

37,100 (2002)

Bahamas, The now The Bahamas

131,700 (2003)

Barbados

134,000 (2003)

Belize

33,300 (2003)

British Virgin Islands

11,700 (2002)

Cayman Islands

38,000 (2002)

Costa Rica

1.132 million (2002)

Cuba

574,400 (2002)

Dominica

23,700 (2002)

Dominican Republic

901,800 (2003)

El Salvador

752,600 (2003)

Grenada

33,500 (2002)

Guadeloupe

210,000 (2001)

Guatemala

846,000 (2002)

Haiti

130,000 (2002)

Honduras

322,500 (2002)

Jamaica

444,400 (2002)

Martinique

172,000 est (2001)

Montserrat

Netherlands Antilles

81,000 (2001)

Nicaragua

171,600 (2002)

Panama

386,900 (2002)

Puerto Rico

1,329,500 (2002)

Saint Kitts and Nevis

23,500 (2002)

Saint Lucia

51,100 (2002)

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

27,300 (2002)

Trinidad and Tobago

325,100 (2002)

Turks and Caicos Islands

5,700 (2002)

Virgin Islands

69,400 (2002)

Europe

47 entries

Albania

255,000 (2003)

Andorra

35,000 (2001)

Austria

3.881 million (2003)

Belarus

3,071,300 (2003)

Belgium

5,120,400 (2002)

Bosnia and Herzegovina

938,000 (2003)

Bulgaria

2,868,200 (2002)

Croatia

1.825 million (2002)

Czech Republic now Czechia

3.626 million (2003)

Denmark

3,610,100 (2003)

Estonia

475,000 (2002)

European Union

238,763,162 (2002)

Faroe Islands

23,000 (2002)

Finland

2.548 million (2003)

France

33,905,400 (2003)

Germany

54.35 million (2003)

Gibraltar

24,512 (2002)

Greece

5,205,100 (2003)

Guernsey

55,000 (2001)

Holy See (Vatican City)

Hungary

3,666,400 (2002)

Ireland

1.955 million (2003)

Man, Isle of now Isle of Man

51,000 (1999)

Italy

26.596 million (2003)

Jersey

73,900 (2001)

Latvia

653,900 (2003)

Liechtenstein

19,900 (2002)

Lithuania

824,200 (2003)

Luxembourg

355,400 (2002)

Malta

208,300 (2003)

Moldova

706,900 (2002)

Monaco

33,700 (2002)

Netherlands

10.004 million (2002)

Macedonia now North Macedonia

560,000 (2002)

Norway

3.343 million (2002)

Poland

12.3 million (2003)

Portugal

4,278,800 (2003)

Romania

4.3 million (2003)

San Marino

20,600 (2002)

Serbia and Montenegro

2,611,700 (2003)

Slovakia

1,294,700 (2003)

Slovenia

812,300 (2003)

Spain

17,567,500 (2003)

Sweden

6,579,200 (2002)

Switzerland

5.419 million (2002)

Ukraine

10,833,300 (2002)

United Kingdom

34.898 million (2002)

Middle East

17 entries

Bahrain

185,800 (2003)

Cyprus

Republic of Cyprus:: 427,400 (2002); north Cyprus: 86,228 (2002)

Gaza Strip

95,729 (total for Gaza Strip and West Bank) (1997)

Turkey now Turkiye

18,916,700 (2003)

United Arab Emirates

1,135,800 (2003)

West Bank

301,600 (total for West Bank and Gaza Strip) (2002)

Yemen

542,200 (2002)

North America

5 entries

Oceania

25 entries

Micronesia, Federated States of now Federated States of Micronesia

10,100 (2001)

2,532; note - a mix of analog (2500) and digital (32) circuits (2004)

1 (there are 17 telephones on one party line); (2004)

South America

14 entries

Southeast Asia

16 entries

Brunei

90,000 (2002)

Burma now Burma (Myanmar)

357,300 (2003)

East Timor now Timor-Leste

Vietnam

4.402 million (2003)

Central Intelligence Agency. The World Factbook 2005, “Telephones - fixed lines”, all entries. Archived by The Factbook, thefactbook.org/fields/telephones-fixed-lines/2005.

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