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Telephone mainlines (per 1,000 people) by country

Please cite the International Telecommunication Union for third-party use of these data. Telephone mainlines are fixed telephone lines connecting a subscriber to the telephone exchange equipment.

Countries reporting
53
Highest
324.56 per 1,000 people
Seychelles
Lowest
0.7632 per 1,000 people
Liberia
Median
14.09 per 1,000 people
Years covered
52
1960–2011
Data points
2,199

What the numbers show

Telephone mainlines (per 1,000 people) is currently reported for 53 countries. The highest value is 324.56 per 1,000 people in Seychelles; the lowest is 0.7632 per 1,000 people in Liberia.

The median across all reporting countries is 14.09 per 1,000 people, and the mean is 40.74 per 1,000 people.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 425.

Over the past decade 36 countries rose and 17 fell. The largest increase was in Uganda (up 499.4%), and the largest decrease in Liberia (down 67.0%).

Telephone mainlines: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Seychelles 324.56 per 1,000 people 2011 up 24.0% volatile
2 Mauritius 291.28 per 1,000 people 2011 up 13.9% volatile
3 Libya 155.7 per 1,000 people 2011 up 25.8% volatile
4 Cape Verde 148.83 per 1,000 people 2011 up 3.3% volatile
5 Tunisia 114.09 per 1,000 people 2011 up 4.5% volatile
6 Morocco 110.5 per 1,000 people 2011 up 170.2% volatile
7 Egypt 105.58 per 1,000 people 2011 up 8.6% volatile
8 Algeria 85.03 per 1,000 people 2011 up 40.1% volatile
9 South Africa 81.58 per 1,000 people 2011 down 25.6% rising
10 Botswana 73.66 per 1,000 people 2011 down 11.3% volatile
11 Eswatini 71.01 per 1,000 people 2011 up 113.0% volatile
12 Namibia 68.44 per 1,000 people 2011 up 12.9% rising
13 Sao Tome and Principe 47.23 per 1,000 people 2011 up 24.5% volatile
14 Togo 38.99 per 1,000 people 2011 up 297.0% volatile
15 Cameroon 33.4 per 1,000 people 2011 up 404.0% volatile
16 Comoros 31.3 per 1,000 people 2011 up 103.7% volatile
17 Gambia 28.4 per 1,000 people 2011 up 8.3% volatile
18 Zimbabwe 27.91 per 1,000 people 2011 up 38.3% rising
19 Senegal 27.13 per 1,000 people 2011 up 11.6% volatile
20 Mauritania 20.41 per 1,000 people 2011 up 123.4% volatile
21 Djibouti 20.37 per 1,000 people 2011 up 53.7% rising
22 Equatorial Guinea 19.33 per 1,000 people 2010 up 64.9% volatile
23 Lesotho 17.59 per 1,000 people 2011 up 63.6% volatile
24 Benin 16.78 per 1,000 people 2011 up 90.2% volatile
25 Angola 15.46 per 1,000 people 2011 up 189.6% volatile
26 Gabon 14.66 per 1,000 people 2011 down 50.2% rising
27 Sudan 14.09 per 1,000 people 2011 down 11.4% volatile
28 Uganda 13.47 per 1,000 people 2011 up 499.4% volatile
29 Cote d'Ivoire 13.31 per 1,000 people 2011 down 23.4% volatile
30 Ghana 11.4 per 1,000 people 2011 down 8.5% volatile
31 Malawi 11.28 per 1,000 people 2011 up 138.1% volatile
32 Eritrea 10.8 per 1,000 people 2011 up 31.7% rising
33 Somalia 10.72 per 1,000 people 2010 up 217.2% volatile
34 Ethiopia 9.78 per 1,000 people 2011 up 132.1% volatile
35 Burkina Faso 8.34 per 1,000 people 2011 up 81.8% volatile
36 Kenya 6.81 per 1,000 people 2011 down 29.3% rising
37 Mali 6.61 per 1,000 people 2011 up 50.6% volatile
38 Madagascar 6.49 per 1,000 people 2011 up 76.1% volatile
39 Zambia 6.36 per 1,000 people 2011 down 22.4% rising
40 Niger 5.34 per 1,000 people 2011 up 178.9% volatile
41 Nigeria 4.43 per 1,000 people 2011 down 6.5% volatile
42 Mozambique 3.68 per 1,000 people 2011 down 21.1% rising
43 Rwanda 3.55 per 1,000 people 2011 up 39.8% volatile
44 Burundi 3.5 per 1,000 people 2011 up 10.7% volatile
45 Tanzania 3.48 per 1,000 people 2011 down 31.6% rising
46 Congo 3.43 per 1,000 people 2011 down 49.9% rising
47 Guinea-Bissau 3.3 per 1,000 people 2010 down 63.2% rising
48 Chad 2.71 per 1,000 people 2011 up 115.8% volatile
49 Sierra Leone 2.39 per 1,000 people 2010 down 47.9% rising
50 Guinea 1.76 per 1,000 people 2011 down 41.5% rising
51 Central African Republic 1.21 per 1,000 people 2011 down 49.0% rising
52 Democratic Republic of Congo 0.8408 per 1,000 people 2011 up 329.6% volatile
53 Liberia 0.7632 per 1,000 people 2011 down 67.0% falling

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 mainlines (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
59 places, 2,199 data points, 1960–2011
Last refreshed

Please cite the International Telecommunication Union for third-party use of these data. Telephone mainlines are fixed telephone lines connecting a subscriber to the telephone exchange equipment.