The CIA World Factbook Edition 2008 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 2008 edition carries it in 238 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 2008 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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2008

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World

1 entry

World

1,263,367,600 (2005)

Africa

56 entries

Algeria

3.068 million (2007)

Angola

98,200 (2006)

Benin

110,300 (2007)

Botswana

136,900 (2006)

Burkina Faso

94,800 (2006)

Burundi

35,000 (2006)

Cape Verde now Cabo Verde

71,600 (2006)

Cameroon

130,700 (2006)

Central African Republic

12,000 (2006)

Chad

13,000 (2006)

Comoros

19,100 (2006)

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

9,700 (2006)

Congo, Republic of the now Republic of the Congo

15,900 (2005)

Cote d'Ivoire

730,000 (2007)

Djibouti

10,800 (2005)

Egypt

11.229 million (2007)

Equatorial Guinea

10,000 (2005)

Eritrea

37,500 (2006)

Swaziland now Eswatini

44,000 (2006)

Ethiopia

880,100 (2007)

Gabon

26,500 (2007)

Gambia, The now The Gambia

76,400 (2007)

Ghana

376,500 (2007)

Guinea

26,300 (2005)

Guinea-Bissau

4,600 (2007)

Kenya

264,800 (2007)

Lesotho

53,100 (2006)

Liberia

6,900 (2002)

Libya

852,300 (2005)

Madagascar

133,900 (2007)

Malawi

175,200 (2007)

Mali

85,000 (2007)

Mauritania

34,900 (2006)

Mauritius

357,300 (2006)

Mayotte

10,000 (2002)

Morocco

2.394 million (2007)

Mozambique

67,000 (2006)

Namibia

138,100 (2007)

Niger

24,000 (2005)

Nigeria

1.58 million (2007)

Rwanda

23,100 (2007)

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

2,200 (2002)

Sao Tome and Principe

7,700 (2007)

Senegal

269,100 (2007)

Seychelles

22,700 (2007)

Sierra Leone

24,000 (2002)

Somalia

100,000 (2007)

South Africa

4.642 million (2007)

Sudan

345,200 (2007)

Tanzania

165,013 (2008)

Togo

82,100 (2006)

Tunisia

1.273 million (2007)

Uganda

162,300 (2007)

Western Sahara

  • about 2,000 (1999 est.)

Zambia

91,800 (2007)

Zimbabwe

344,500 (2007)

Antarctic Region

1 entry

Antarctica

  • 0; note - information for US bases only (2001)

Arctic Region

3 entries

Greenland

36,000 (2006)

Iceland

186,700 (2007)

Svalbard

NA

Asia

23 entries

Afghanistan

280,000 (2005)

Armenia

603,900 (2006)

Azerbaijan

1.254 million (2007)

Bangladesh

1.187 million (2007)

Bhutan

29,900 (2007)

British Indian Ocean Territory

NA

China

365.4 million (2007)

Georgia

544,000 (2007)

India

38.76 million (2008)

Japan

51.232 million (2007)

Kazakhstan

3.237 million (2007)

Korea, North now North Korea

1.18 million (2007)

Korea, South now South Korea

23.905 million (2007)

Kyrgyzstan

482,100 (2007)

Maldives

33,200 (2007)

Mongolia

158,900 (2006)

Nepal

766,400 (2007)

Pakistan

4.546 million (2008)

Russia

43.9 million (2006)

Sri Lanka

2.742 million (2007)

Tajikistan

280,200 (2005)

Turkmenistan

398,100 (2005)

Uzbekistan

1.793 million (2005)

Central America and the Caribbean

29 entries

Anguilla

6,200 (2002)

Antigua and Barbuda

37,500 (2006)

Aruba

38,700 (2006)

Bahamas, The now The Bahamas

132,900 (2007)

Barbados

134,900 (2005)

Belize

33,900 (2007)

British Virgin Islands

11,700 (2002)

Cayman Islands

38,000 (2002)

Costa Rica

1.437 million (2007)

Cuba

1.043 million (2007)

Dominica

21,000 (2004)

Dominican Republic

907,000 (2007)

El Salvador

1.08 million (2007)

Grenada

27,700 (2006)

Guatemala

1.355 million (2006)

Haiti

150,000 (2006)

Honduras

713,600 (2006)

Jamaica

342,000 (2006)

Montserrat

NA

Netherlands Antilles

81,000 (2001)

Nicaragua

247,900 (2006)

Panama

491,900 (2007)

Puerto Rico

1.038 million (2005)

Saint Kitts and Nevis

25,000 (2004)

Saint Lucia

51,100 (2002)

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

22,800 (2007)

Trinidad and Tobago

323,800 (2007)

Turks and Caicos Islands

5,700 (2002)

Virgin Islands

71,700 (2005)

Europe

49 entries

Albania

353,600 (2005)

Andorra

37,200 (2007)

Austria

3.374 million (2007)

Belarus

3.672 million (2007)

Belgium

4.668 million (2007)

Bosnia and Herzegovina

1.065 million (2007)

Bulgaria

2.3 million (2007)

Croatia

1.825 million (2007)

Czech Republic now Czechia

2.888 million (2006)

Denmark

2.824 million (2007)

Estonia

495,500 (2007)

European Union

238 million (2005)

Faroe Islands

23,000 (2006)

Finland

1.74 million (2007)

France

  • 35.533 million; 34.8 million (metropolitan France) (2007)

Germany

53.75 million (2007)

Gibraltar

24,512 (2002)

Greece

6.227 million (2007)

Guernsey

45,100 (2005)

Holy See (Vatican City)

5,120 (2005)

Hungary

3.251 million (2007)

Ireland

2.112 million (2007)

Isle of Man

51,000 (1999)

Italy

26.89 million (2006)

Jersey

73,900 (2001)

Kosovo

106,300 (2006)

Latvia

644,000 (2007)

Liechtenstein

20,000 (2005)

Lithuania

799,400 (2007)

Luxembourg

248,200 (2007)

Malta

198,100 (2007)

Moldova

1.08 million (2007)

Monaco

34,000 (2005)

Montenegro

353,300 (2006)

Netherlands

7.334 million (2007)

Macedonia now North Macedonia

463,600 (2007)

Norway

1.988 million (2007)

Poland

10.336 million (2007)

Portugal

4.139 million (2007)

Romania

4.3 million (2007)

San Marino

21,000 (2006)

Serbia

2.993 million (2007)

Slovakia

1.151 million (2007)

Slovenia

857,100 (2007)

Spain

18.583 million (2007)

Sweden

5.506 million (2007)

Switzerland

5 million (2007)

Ukraine

12.858 million (2007)

United Kingdom

33.682 million (2007)

Middle East

17 entries

Bahrain

194,200 (2006)

Cyprus

area under government control:
376,000 (2007); area administered by Turkish Cypriots: 86,228 (2002)

Gaza Strip

  • 350,400 (includes West Bank) (2007)

Iran

23.835 million (2007)

Iraq

1.547 million (2005)

Israel

3.005 million (2006)

Jordan

585,500 (2007)

Kuwait

517,000 (2006)

Lebanon

681,400 (2006)

Oman

268,100 (2007)

Qatar

237,400 (2007)

Saudi Arabia

3.996 million (2007)

Syria

3.452 million (2007)

Turkey now Turkiye

18.413 million (2007)

United Arab Emirates

1.385 million (2007)

West Bank

  • 350,400 (includes Gaza Strip) (2007)

Yemen

968,300 (2006)

North America

5 entries

Bermuda

57,700 (2006)

Canada

21 million (2006)

Mexico

19.754 million (2007)

Saint Pierre and Miquelon

4,800 (2002)

United States

163.2 million (2007)

Oceania

25 entries

American Samoa

10,400 (2004)

Australia

9.76 million (2007)

Cook Islands

6,200 (2002)

Fiji

108,400 (2007)

French Polynesia

53,600 (2006)

Guam

65,500 (2003)

Kiribati

4,500 (2002)

Marshall Islands

4,500 (2004)

Micronesia, Federated States of now Federated States of Micronesia

8,700 (2007)

Nauru

1,900 (2002)

New Caledonia

60,200 (2007)

New Zealand

1.706 million (2007)

Niue

1,100 (2002 est.)

Norfolk Island

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

Northern Mariana Islands

21,000 (2000)

Palau

6,700 (2002)

Papua New Guinea

60,000 (2007)

Pitcairn Islands

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

Samoa

19,500 (2005)

Solomon Islands

7,600 (2006)

Tokelau

300 (2002)

Tonga

21,000 (2007)

Tuvalu

900 (2005)

Vanuatu

8,800 (2007)

Wallis and Futuna

1,900 (2002)

South America

13 entries

Argentina

9.5 million (2007)

Bolivia

678,200 (2007)

Brazil

39.4 million (2007)

Chile

3.379 million (2007)

Colombia

7.936 million (2007)

Ecuador

1.805 million (2007)

Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)

2,400 (2002)

Guyana

110,100 (2005)

Paraguay

453,800 (2007)

Peru

2.673 million (2007)

Suriname

81,500 (2006)

Uruguay

965,200 (2007)

Venezuela

5.082 million (2007)

Southeast Asia

16 entries

Brunei

79,200 (2007)

Burma now Burma (Myanmar)

503,900 (2005)

Cambodia

37,500 (2007)

Christmas Island

NA

Cocos (Keeling) Islands

287 (1992)

Hong Kong

3.875 million (2007)

Indonesia

17.828 million (2007)

Laos

94,800 (2007)

Macau

177,851 (2008)

Malaysia

4.35 million (2007)

Philippines

3.633 million (2006)

Singapore

1.859 million (2007)

Taiwan

14.313 million (2007)

Thailand

7.024 million (2007)

Timor-Leste

2,400 (2006)

Vietnam

10.8 million (2007)

Central Intelligence Agency. The World Factbook 2008, “Telephones - fixed lines”, all entries. Archived by The Factbook, thefactbook.org/fields/telephones-fixed-lines/2008.

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