What is the difference in telephone faults between Gambia and Sub-Saharan Africa (excluding high income)?

27.8 per 100 mainlines, with Gambia ahead.

How many years of comparable data are there for Gambia and Sub-Saharan Africa (excluding high income)?

5 years are reported by both, from 1992 to 1996.

Where does this data come from?

International Telecommunication Union, World Telecommunication/ICT Development Report and database, and World Bank estimates, published as Telephone faults (per 100 mainlines). Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.

Gambia vs Sub-Saharan Africa (excluding high income): Telephone faults

Gambia

76 per 100 mainlines

in 1996

Sub-Saharan Africa (excluding high income)

48.2 per 100 mainlines

in 2002

Gambia rank

4th

Sub-Saharan Africa (excluding high income) rank

4th

Telephone faults over time

Gambia
Sub-Saharan Africa (excluding high income)

How they compare

Gambia currently reports 76 per 100 mainlines against 48.2 per 100 mainlines in Sub-Saharan Africa (excluding high income), a difference of 27.8 per 100 mainlines.

That makes Gambia's figure about 1.6 times Sub-Saharan Africa (excluding high income)'s.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 5 shared years of data; in 1992 it was Gambia ahead.

Gambia ranks 4th and Sub-Saharan Africa (excluding high income) ranks 4th of 44 countries.

Sub-Saharan Africa (excluding high income) has averaged higher in every one of the 1 decades both report.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher telephone faults, Gambia or Sub-Saharan Africa (excluding high income)?: Gambia, at 76 per 100 mainlines against 48.2 per 100 mainlines in Sub-Saharan Africa (excluding high income) as of 1996.
What is the difference in telephone faults between Gambia and Sub-Saharan Africa (excluding high income)?: 27.8 per 100 mainlines, with Gambia ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Gambia and Sub-Saharan Africa (excluding high income)?: 5 years are reported by both, from 1992 to 1996.
How do Gambia and Sub-Saharan Africa (excluding high income) rank globally for telephone faults?: Gambia ranks 4th and Sub-Saharan Africa (excluding high income) ranks 4th of 44 countries.
Where does this data come from?: International Telecommunication Union, World Telecommunication/ICT Development Report and database, and World Bank estimates, published as Telephone faults (per 100 mainlines). Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.

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Indicator: Telephone faults (per 100 mainlines)
Unit: per 100 mainlines
Source: International Telecommunication Union, World Telecommunication/ICT Development Report and database, and World Bank estimates
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage: 50 places, 623 data points, 1982–2011
Last refreshed: 04 September 2026

Telephone mainline faults is the number of reported telephone faults for the year per 100 telephone mainlines.