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Telephone average cost of call to US (US$ per three minutes) by country

Cost of international call to U.S. is the cost of a three-minute, peak rate, fixed line call from the country to the United States.

Countries reporting
50
Highest
0.3756 US$ per three minutes
Côte d'Ivoire
Lowest
0 US$ per three minutes
Libya
Median
0.1433 US$ per three minutes
Years covered
26
1982–2007
Data points
885

What the numbers show

Telephone average cost of call to US (US$ per three minutes) is currently reported for 50 countries. The highest value is 0.3756 US$ per three minutes in Côte d'Ivoire; the lowest is 0 US$ per three minutes in Libya.

The median across all reporting countries is 0.1433 US$ per three minutes, and the mean is 0.142 US$ per three minutes.

Over the past decade 31 countries rose and 18 fell. The largest increase was in Lesotho (up 645.6%), and the largest decrease in Algeria (down 100.0%).

Telephone average cost of call to US: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Côte d'Ivoire 0.3756 US$ per three minutes 2007 up 242.5% volatile
2 Mozambique 0.3483 US$ per three minutes 2007 up 488.3% volatile
3 Cameroon 0.313 US$ per three minutes 2007 up 356.7% volatile
4 Angola 0.2957 US$ per three minutes 2007 up 238.6% volatile
5 Gabon 0.2869 US$ per three minutes 2006 up 63.1% rising
6 Uganda 0.2644 US$ per three minutes 2007 up 38.3% rising
7 Morocco 0.2441 US$ per three minutes 2007 up 142.3% rising
8 Lesotho 0.2427 US$ per three minutes 2007 up 645.6% volatile
9 Tanzania, United Republic of 0.241 US$ per three minutes 2007 up 145.8% volatile
10 Mauritania 0.2217 US$ per three minutes 2007 up 84.6% falling
11 Central African Republic 0.2087 US$ per three minutes 2007 down 66.2% falling
11 Burkina Faso 0.2087 US$ per three minutes 2007 up 103.0% rising
13 Senegal 0.2066 US$ per three minutes 2007 up 141.1% rising
14 Madagascar 0.1921 US$ per three minutes 2007 up 95.6% volatile
15 South Africa 0.1916 US$ per three minutes 2007 up 185.7% volatile
16 Togo 0.1878 US$ per three minutes 2007 up 85.8% volatile
17 Namibia 0.1874 US$ per three minutes 2007 up 292.4% volatile
18 Rwanda 0.1794 US$ per three minutes 2006 up 31.1% falling
19 Botswana 0.1662 US$ per three minutes 2007 up 451.3% volatile
20 Ghana 0.1603 US$ per three minutes 2007 up 64.4% volatile
21 Niger 0.1565 US$ per three minutes 2007 up 23.1% falling
22 Zambia 0.1499 US$ per three minutes 2007 up 64.2% volatile
23 Mali 0.1481 US$ per three minutes 2007 up 1.7% falling
24 Guinea-Bissau 0.1456 US$ per three minutes 1997 up 80.2% rising
25 Chad 0.1434 US$ per three minutes 2006 down 26.6% falling
26 Nigeria 0.1431 US$ per three minutes 2007 down 45.7% falling
27 Comoros 0.1391 US$ per three minutes 2007 down 18.8% falling
28 Seychelles 0.1299 US$ per three minutes 2007 down 21.8% falling
29 Congo 0.1261 US$ per three minutes 1994 — falling
30 Sao Tome and Principe 0.1108 US$ per three minutes 2007 up 380.4% volatile
31 Somalia 0.1028 US$ per three minutes 2005 up 72.7% rising
32 Malawi 0.0897 US$ per three minutes 2007 up 146.0% rising
33 Djibouti 0.0844 US$ per three minutes 2006 down 57.1% falling
34 Kenya 0.0817 US$ per three minutes 2007 up 37.1% rising
35 Eswatini 0.0809 US$ per three minutes 2007 down 50.3% falling
36 Burundi 0.07 US$ per three minutes 2006 up 63.0% flat
37 Guinea 0.0674 US$ per three minutes 2004 down 40.1% falling
38 Mauritius 0.0655 US$ per three minutes 2007 up 37.9% rising
39 Sudan 0.0552 US$ per three minutes 2006 up 92.0% volatile
40 Cape Verde 0.0512 US$ per three minutes 2006 down 6.0% falling
41 Zimbabwe 0.045 US$ per three minutes 2000 down 8.2% falling
42 Eritrea 0.039 US$ per three minutes 2006 up 32.7% rising
43 Benin 0.0313 US$ per three minutes 2007 down 72.3% falling
44 Sierra Leone 0.0286 US$ per three minutes 2002 down 68.3% falling
45 Gambia 0.0283 US$ per three minutes 2002 down 72.0% volatile
46 Tunisia 0.0234 US$ per three minutes 2007 down 28.1% volatile
47 Ethiopia 0.023 US$ per three minutes 2006 down 27.0% volatile
48 Egypt 0.0179 US$ per three minutes 2007 down 39.2% falling
49 Algeria 0 US$ per three minutes 2007 down 100.0% volatile
49 Libya 0 US$ per three minutes 2006 down 100.0% falling

Regions and income groups

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

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About this data

Indicator
Telephone average cost of call to US (US$ per three minutes)
Unit
US$ per three minutes
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
56 places, 885 data points, 1982–2007
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Cost of international call to U.S. is the cost of a three-minute, peak rate, fixed line call from the country to the United States.