The CIA World Factbook Edition 2000 Communications

Telephones - mobile cellular In 26 editions of 36.

Telephones - mobile cellular was published in 26 editions of the CIA World Factbook, from 2000 to 2025. The 2000 edition carries it in 236 entries, in its Communications section. Every entry is shown as that edition published it.

entries in the 2000 edition
236
the first edition with it
2000
the latest edition with it
2025

Published as “Telephones - mobile cellular” (2000 to 2025).

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

Entries with Telephones - mobile cellular in each edition

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World

1 entry

World

NA

Africa

57 entries

Algeria

33,500 (1999)

Angola

1,994 (1995)

Benin

1,050 (1995)

Botswana

NA

Burkina Faso

0 (1995)

Burundi

343 (1995)

Cape Verde now Cabo Verde

0 (1995)

Cameroon

2,800 (1995)

Central African Republic

79 (1995)

Chad

0 (1995)

Comoros

0 (1995)

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

10,000 (1995)

Congo, Republic of the now Republic of the Congo

NA

Cote d'Ivoire

  • more than 60,000 (December 1998)

Djibouti

NA

Egypt

380,000 (1999)

Equatorial Guinea

0 (1995)

Eritrea

0 (1995)

Swaziland now Eswatini

0 (1996)

Ethiopia

4,000 (1999)

Gabon

4,000 (1995)

Gambia, The now The Gambia

4,485 (1998)

Ghana

30,000 (yearend 1998)

Guinea

950 (1995)

Guinea-Bissau

NA

Kenya

6,000 (1999)

Lesotho

0 (1995)

Liberia

0 (1995)

Libya

NA

Madagascar

0 (1995)

Malawi

382 (1995)

Mali

0 (1995)

Mauritania

0 (1995)

Mauritius

11,735 (1995)

Mayotte

0 (1999)

Morocco

116,645 (1998)

Mozambique

NA

Namibia

20,000 (1998)

Niger

0 (1995)

Nigeria

10,000 (1999)

Reunion

42,000 (1998)

Rwanda

NA

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

0 (1994)

Sao Tome and Principe

NA

Senegal

122 (1995)

Seychelles

2,249 (1997)

Sierra Leone

NA

Somalia

NA

South Africa

  • over 2,000,000 (1999)

Sudan

3,000 (1998)

Tanzania

30,000 (1999)

Togo

NA

Tunisia

50,000 (1998)

Uganda

9,000 (1998)

Western Sahara

0 (1999)

Zambia

6,000 (1998)

Zimbabwe

70,000 (1999)

Antarctic Region

1 entry

Arctic Region

3 entries

Greenland

2,308 (1995)

Iceland

65,746 (1997)

Svalbard

NA

Asia

22 entries

Afghanistan

NA

Armenia

NA

Azerbaijan

6,000 (1995)

Bangladesh

41,000 (1998)

Bhutan

NA

China

23.4 million (1998)

Georgia

150 (1995)

India

1.9 million (April 1998)

Japan

36.5 million (1998)

Kazakhstan

4,600 (1995)

Korea, North now North Korea

0 (1999)

Korea, South now South Korea

8.6 million (1998)

Kyrgyzstan

NA

Maldives

300 (1999)

Mongolia

NA

Nepal

NA

Pakistan

158,000 (1998)

Russia

645,000 (1999)

Sri Lanka

228,604 (1999)

Tajikistan

NA

Turkmenistan

NA

Uzbekistan

26,000 (1998)

Central America and the Caribbean

31 entries

Anguilla

NA

Antigua and Barbuda

NA

Aruba

1,718 (1995)

Bahamas, The now The Bahamas

2,400 (1993)

Barbados

4,614 (1995)

Belize

1,237 (1995)

British Virgin Islands

NA

Cayman Islands

2,534 (1995)

Costa Rica

46,500 (December 1996)

Cuba

1,939 (1995)

Dominica

NA

Dominican Republic

33,000 (1995)

El Salvador

13,475 (1995)

Grenada

400 (1995)

Guadeloupe

814 (1990)

Guatemala

29,999 (1995)

Haiti

0 (1995)

Honduras

0 (1995)

Jamaica

45,178 (1995)

Martinique

NA

Montserrat

70 (1994)

Netherlands Antilles

11,727 (1995)

Nicaragua

4,400 (1995)

Panama

0 (1995)

Puerto Rico

171,000 (1995)

Saint Kitts and Nevis

0 (1995)

Saint Lucia

1,000 (1995)

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

83 (1993)

Trinidad and Tobago

5,615 (1995)

Turks and Caicos Islands

0 (1994)

Virgin Islands

2,000 (1992)

Europe

46 entries

Albania

3,100 (1999)

Andorra

8,618 (1997)

Austria

2.31 million (1998)

Belarus

8,000 (1999)

Belgium

664,000 (1999)

Bosnia and Herzegovina

4,000 (1999)

Bulgaria

300,000 (1999)

Croatia

187,000 (yearend 1998)

Czech Republic now Czechia

965,476 (1998)

Denmark

1.347 million (1999)

Estonia

246,000 (yearend 1998)

Faroe Islands

2,558 (1995)

Finland

2,162,574 (1997)

France

11.078 million (yearend 1998)

Germany

15.318 million (April 1999)

Gibraltar

1,161 (1999)

Greece

328,500 (1997)

Guernsey

NA

Holy See (Vatican City)

NA

Hungary

1.269 million (1995)

Ireland

941,775 (1999)

Man, Isle of now Isle of Man

NA

Italy

17.7 million (1998)

Jersey

NA

Latvia

175,348 (1999)

Liechtenstein

NA

Lithuania

297,500 (1998)

Luxembourg

95,400 (1999)

Malta

15,650 (1999)

Moldova

14 (1995)

Monaco

2,560 (1994)

Netherlands

1.016 million (1996)

Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of now North Macedonia

NA

Norway

1,676,763 (1997)

Poland

1.58 million (1998)

Portugal

887,216 (1999)

Romania

52,000 (1999)

San Marino

3,010 (1998)

Serbia and Montenegro

38,552 (1999)

Slovakia

641,000 (1998)

Slovenia

57,342 (1999)

Spain

8.394 million (1999)

Sweden

3.835 million (October 1998)

Switzerland

810,170 (1999)

Ukraine

236,000 (1998)

United Kingdom

13 million (yearend 1998)

Middle East

17 entries

Bahrain

130,000 (1999 est.)

Cyprus

Greek Cypriot area:
68,000 (1998); Turkish Cypriot area: 70,000 (1999)

Gaza Strip

NA

Iran

265,000 (August 1998)

Iraq

NA

Israel

2.5 million (1999)

Jordan

75,000 (1999)

Kuwait

150,000 (1996)

Lebanon

120,000 (1995)

Oman

120,000 (1999)

Qatar

18,469 (1995)

Saudi Arabia

1 million

note: in 1998, the government contracted for the installation of 575,000 additional Group Speciale Mobile (GSM) cellular telephone lines over 15 months to raise the total number of subscribers to more than one million; Riyadh planned to further expand the GSM system in 1999 by adding an additional one million lines (1998)

Syria

NA

Turkey now Turkiye

3.2 million (1998)

United Arab Emirates

1 million (1999)

West Bank

NA

Yemen

8,250 (1995)

North America

5 entries

Bermuda

6,324 (1995)

Canada

3 million (1999)

Mexico

2.02 million (1998)

Saint Pierre and Miquelon

0 (1994)

United States

55.312 million (1997)

Oceania

24 entries

American Samoa

1,200 (1994)

Australia

5.29 million (1998)

Cook Islands

0 (1994)

Fiji

4,300 (1998)

French Polynesia

4,000 (1995)

Guam

55,000 (1998)

Kiribati

0 (1995)

Marshall Islands

280 (1994)

Micronesia, Federated States of now Federated States of Micronesia

NA

Nauru

450 (1994)

New Caledonia

825 (1995)

New Zealand

588,000 (1998)

Niue

0 (1991)

Norfolk Island

0 (1983)

Northern Mariana Islands

1,200 (1995)

Palau

0 (1988)

Papua New Guinea

0 (1995)

Samoa

1,200 (1994)

Solomon Islands

230 (1995)

Tokelau

0 (1999)

Tonga

114 (1995)

Tuvalu

0 (1994)

Vanuatu

121 (1995)

Wallis and Futuna

0 (1994)

South America

14 entries

Argentina

1.8 million (1997)

Bolivia

7,229 (1995)

Brazil

4 million (1997)

Chile

197,300 (1995)

Colombia

1,800,229 (December 1998)

Ecuador

49,776 (1995)

Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)

NA

French Guiana

NA

Guyana

1,243 (1995)

Paraguay

15,807 (1995)

Peru

504,995 (1998)

Suriname

3,671 (1995)

Uruguay

40,000 (1995)

Venezuela

2 million (1998)

Southeast Asia

15 entries

Brunei

57,000 (1998)

Burma now Burma (Myanmar)

2,007 (1995)

Cambodia

34,880 (1998)

Christmas Island

0 (1999)

Cocos (Keeling) Islands

0 (1999)

Hong Kong

2.4 million (July 1998)

Indonesia

1.2 million (1998)

Laos

1,600 (1997)

Macau

55,000 (1998)

Malaysia

2.17 million (1998)

Philippines

1.959 million (1998)

Singapore

1.02 million (1998)

Taiwan

10.2 million (October 1999)

Thailand

2.3 million (1998)

Vietnam

178,000 (1998)

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Central Intelligence Agency. The World Factbook 2000, “Telephones - mobile cellular”, all entries. Archived by The Factbook, thefactbook.org/fields/telephones-mobile-cellular/2000.

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