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Radio sets (per 1,000 people) by country

Please cite the International Telecommunication Union for third-party use of these data. Radio sets per 1000 inhabitants is obtained by dividing the number of radio sets in use by the population and multiplying by 1000.

Countries reporting
53
Highest
718.99 per 1,000 people
Botswana
Lowest
0.2876 per 1,000 people
Liberia
Median
178.3 per 1,000 people
Years covered
39
1970–2008
Data points
1,538

What the numbers show

Radio sets (per 1,000 people) is currently reported for 53 countries. The highest value is 718.99 per 1,000 people in Botswana; the lowest is 0.2876 per 1,000 people in Liberia.

The median across all reporting countries is 178.3 per 1,000 people, and the mean is 219.65 per 1,000 people.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 2,500.

Over the past decade 41 countries rose and 11 fell. The largest increase was in Botswana (up 558.3%), and the largest decrease in Liberia (down 99.9%).

Radio sets: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Botswana 718.99 per 1,000 people 2002 up 558.3% volatile
2 Sudan 526.08 per 1,000 people 2002 up 74.0% rising
3 Seychelles 501.79 per 1,000 people 2002 up 5.8% rising
4 Eritrea 444.67 per 1,000 people 2008 up 1.6% rising
5 Tanzania 402.04 per 1,000 people 2002 up 68.4% rising
6 Benin 397.25 per 1,000 people 2007 up 255.0% volatile
7 Togo 395.97 per 1,000 people 2002 up 91.4% rising
8 Eswatini 387.69 per 1,000 people 2008 up 144.3% rising
9 Mauritius 383.37 per 1,000 people 2001 up 5.5% rising
10 Democratic Republic of Congo 381.01 per 1,000 people 2002 up 67.0% rising
11 Equatorial Guinea 380.96 per 1,000 people 1997 down 4.5% rising
12 Morocco 333.8 per 1,000 people 2001 up 27.9% rising
13 Sao Tome and Principe 312.15 per 1,000 people 2002 up 10.9% rising
14 Sierra Leone 302.06 per 1,000 people 2001 up 27.3% rising
15 Malawi 273.81 per 1,000 people 2002 up 15.8% rising
16 Libya 272.67 per 1,000 people 1997 up 23.4% rising
17 South Africa 247.86 per 1,000 people 2002 down 24.8% rising
18 Mozambique 240.75 per 1,000 people 2001 up 507.0% volatile
19 Algeria 228.99 per 1,000 people 2002 down 1.3% rising
20 Nigeria 221.42 per 1,000 people 2005 up 10.7% rising
21 Gabon 219.23 per 1,000 people 2005 up 40.2% rising
22 Kenya 208.85 per 1,000 people 2002 up 137.7% volatile
23 Namibia 201.68 per 1,000 people 2002 up 56.4% rising
24 Comoros 197.25 per 1,000 people 2002 up 20.8% rising
25 Egypt 185.94 per 1,000 people 2008 — rising
26 Cape Verde 183.55 per 1,000 people 2002 up 6.3% rising
27 Ethiopia 178.3 per 1,000 people 2001 down 7.0% rising
28 Burundi 171.08 per 1,000 people 2003 up 95.2% volatile
29 Tunisia 157.57 per 1,000 people 1999 down 16.4% rising
30 Uganda 155.9 per 1,000 people 2002 up 40.6% rising
31 Zambia 150.93 per 1,000 people 2002 up 77.1% rising
32 Gambia 149.74 per 1,000 people 2001 down 3.3% rising
33 Zimbabwe 144.24 per 1,000 people 2008 down 55.8% volatile
34 Rwanda 142.01 per 1,000 people 2002 up 46.9% volatile
35 Cote d'Ivoire 139.69 per 1,000 people 2002 up 65.4% rising
36 Ghana 137.53 per 1,000 people 2001 down 40.7% rising
37 Mali 135.4 per 1,000 people 2002 up 35.0% volatile
38 Mauritania 132.13 per 1,000 people 2002 down 9.9% rising
39 Madagascar 127.3 per 1,000 people 2002 up 9.7% falling
40 Cameroon 123.6 per 1,000 people 2002 up 2.1% rising
41 Congo 118.26 per 1,000 people 2001 up 11.6% rising
42 Senegal 114.35 per 1,000 people 2004 up 3.5% rising
43 Central African Republic 112.29 per 1,000 people 2002 up 28.3% rising
44 Chad 103.04 per 1,000 people 2002 up 58.2% rising
45 Burkina Faso 102.97 per 1,000 people 2004 up 21.7% volatile
46 Djibouti 91.47 per 1,000 people 2002 up 23.6% rising
47 Guinea 83.09 per 1,000 people 2002 up 29.8% rising
48 Angola 79.45 per 1,000 people 2002 up 210.0% volatile
49 Niger 66.63 per 1,000 people 2002 down 6.3% rising
50 Lesotho 66.54 per 1,000 people 2003 up 82.7% rising
51 Somalia 61.87 per 1,000 people 2001 up 23.5% volatile
52 Guinea-Bissau 45.75 per 1,000 people 2002 up 21.1% rising
53 Liberia 0.2876 per 1,000 people 2007 down 99.9% rising

Regions and income groups

Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.

About this data

Indicator
Radio sets (per 1,000 people)
Unit
per 1,000 people
Source
International Telecommunication Union, World Telecommunication Development Report and database, and World Bank estimates
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
58 places, 1,538 data points, 1970–2008
Last refreshed

Please cite the International Telecommunication Union for third-party use of these data. Radio sets per 1000 inhabitants is obtained by dividing the number of radio sets in use by the population and multiplying by 1000.