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Telephone faults (per 100 mainlines) by country

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

Countries reporting
44
Highest
136 per 100 mainlines
Djibouti
Lowest
0.04 per 100 mainlines
Rwanda
Median
22.05 per 100 mainlines
Years covered
30
1982–2011
Data points
623

What the numbers show

Telephone faults (per 100 mainlines) is currently reported for 44 countries. The highest value is 136 per 100 mainlines in Djibouti; the lowest is 0.04 per 100 mainlines in Rwanda.

The median across all reporting countries is 22.05 per 100 mainlines, and the mean is 31.44 per 100 mainlines.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 3,400.

Over the past decade 7 countries rose and 35 fell. The largest increase was in Sao Tome and Principe (up 1,087.6%), and the largest decrease in Guinea (down 99.9%).

Telephone faults: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Djibouti 136 per 100 mainlines 2004 up 3.8% falling
2 Zambia 108 per 100 mainlines 2004 down 12.8% rising
3 Uganda 80 per 100 mainlines 1998 down 78.9% volatile
4 Gambia 76 per 100 mainlines 1996 — falling
5 Niger 71.36 per 100 mainlines 2003 down 10.8% flat
6 Sao Tome and Principe 69 per 100 mainlines 2007 up 1,087.6% volatile
7 Equatorial Guinea 62 per 100 mainlines 1998 up 148.0% rising
8 Chad 60.75 per 100 mainlines 2001 down 62.3% falling
9 Cameroon 60 per 100 mainlines 1998 down 21.1% falling
10 Burundi 58.8 per 100 mainlines 2009 up 81.3% volatile
11 Mozambique 50 per 100 mainlines 2006 down 41.2% flat
12 South Africa 48.2 per 100 mainlines 2002 down 39.8% falling
13 Seychelles 42 per 100 mainlines 2011 up 600.0% volatile
14 Comoros 41.7 per 100 mainlines 2008 down 50.8% falling
15 Tunisia 40.2 per 100 mainlines 2011 up 38.6% volatile
16 Zimbabwe 40 per 100 mainlines 2011 down 65.8% volatile
17 Namibia 35 per 100 mainlines 2004 down 55.0% falling
18 Eritrea 33.1 per 100 mainlines 2011 down 47.1% falling
19 Botswana 30 per 100 mainlines 2008 down 19.4% falling
20 Tanzania 26 per 100 mainlines 2005 down 83.8% volatile
21 Mauritius 23 per 100 mainlines 2005 down 76.4% falling
21 Sierra Leone 23 per 100 mainlines 1998 up 38.6% rising
23 Morocco 21.1 per 100 mainlines 2011 down 14.9% volatile
24 Nigeria 20.6 per 100 mainlines 2003 down 93.7% volatile
25 Cote d'Ivoire 20.11 per 100 mainlines 2011 down 79.7% falling
26 Burkina Faso 18.35 per 100 mainlines 2004 down 79.3% falling
27 Lesotho 15 per 100 mainlines 2011 down 78.3% falling
28 Kenya 14.77 per 100 mainlines 2011 down 93.3% volatile
29 Gabon 13.43 per 100 mainlines 2005 down 70.2% falling
30 Madagascar 9.07 per 100 mainlines 2011 down 88.3% volatile
31 Benin 6 per 100 mainlines 2010 down 25.0% volatile
32 Mauritania 5.5 per 100 mainlines 2005 down 98.3% volatile
33 Sudan 5 per 100 mainlines 2009 unchanged volatile
33 Togo 5 per 100 mainlines 2007 down 92.9% volatile
35 Angola 4.7 per 100 mainlines 2008 down 87.3% volatile
36 Senegal 2.9 per 100 mainlines 2011 down 83.2% volatile
37 Cape Verde 2 per 100 mainlines 2011 down 95.7% volatile
38 Ethiopia 1.74 per 100 mainlines 2011 down 98.1% volatile
39 Guinea 1.57 per 100 mainlines 2002 down 99.9% volatile
40 Ghana 1.06 per 100 mainlines 2011 down 98.4% volatile
41 Algeria 0.8 per 100 mainlines 2004 down 98.9% volatile
42 Eswatini 0.3 per 100 mainlines 2011 down 99.6% volatile
43 Egypt 0.14 per 100 mainlines 2011 down 72.0% volatile
44 Rwanda 0.04 per 100 mainlines 2011 down 99.8% volatile

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
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

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