Ghana - Telephone lines

Fixed telephone subscriptions

The value for Fixed telephone subscriptions in Ghana was 307,668 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 55 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 376,509 in 2007 and a minimum value of 17,300 in 1965.

Definition: Fixed telephone subscriptions refers to the sum of active number of analogue fixed telephone lines, voice-over-IP (VoIP) subscriptions, fixed wireless local loop (WLL) subscriptions, ISDN voice-channel equivalents and fixed public payphones.

Source: International Telecommunication Union, World Telecommunication/ICT Development Report and database.

See also:

Year Value
1965 17,300
1966 17,300
1967 17,300
1968 17,300
1969 17,300
1970 23,400
1971 23,400
1972 23,400
1973 23,400
1974 23,400
1975 31,259
1976 32,979
1977 33,839
1978 35,396
1979 36,406
1980 37,694
1981 37,103
1982 37,151
1983 37,129
1984 38,104
1985 38,240
1986 38,472
1987 39,610
1988 40,442
1989 43,021
1990 44,243
1991 46,613
1992 47,761
1993 48,681
1994 50,007
1995 63,067
1996 77,886
1997 105,534
1998 133,426
1999 160,698
2000 212,548
2001 244,632
2002 275,039
2003 291,030
2004 313,326
2005 321,526
2006 356,355
2007 376,509
2008 143,900
2009 267,389
2010 277,897
2011 284,721
2012 284,981
2013 270,422
2014 260,407
2015 275,570
2016 251,490
2017 301,551
2018 278,379
2019 288,531
2020 307,668

Fixed telephone subscriptions (per 100 people)

The value for Fixed telephone subscriptions (per 100 people) in Ghana was 0.99 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 55 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 1.64 in 2007 and a minimum value of 0.22 in 1966.

Definition: Fixed telephone subscriptions refers to the sum of active number of analogue fixed telephone lines, voice-over-IP (VoIP) subscriptions, fixed wireless local loop (WLL) subscriptions, ISDN voice-channel equivalents and fixed public payphones.

Source: International Telecommunication Union, World Telecommunication/ICT Development Report and database.

See also:

Year Value
1965 0.22
1966 0.22
1967 0.22
1968 0.22
1969 0.22
1970 0.27
1971 0.27
1972 0.27
1973 0.27
1974 0.27
1975 0.31
1976 0.32
1977 0.33
1978 0.33
1979 0.34
1980 0.34
1981 0.33
1982 0.32
1983 0.31
1984 0.31
1985 0.30
1986 0.29
1987 0.29
1988 0.29
1989 0.30
1990 0.30
1991 0.31
1992 0.31
1993 0.30
1994 0.30
1995 0.37
1996 0.45
1997 0.59
1998 0.73
1999 0.85
2000 1.10
2001 1.24
2002 1.36
2003 1.40
2004 1.47
2005 1.47
2006 1.59
2007 1.64
2008 0.61
2009 1.11
2010 1.12
2011 1.12
2012 1.10
2013 1.02
2014 0.96
2015 0.99
2016 0.88
2017 1.04
2018 0.94
2019 0.95
2020 0.99

Classification

Topic: Infrastructure Indicators

Sub-Topic: Communications