Kenya - Telephone lines

Fixed telephone subscriptions

The value for Fixed telephone subscriptions in Kenya was 66,646 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 55 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 664,099 in 2009 and a minimum value of 28,000 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 28,000
1966 28,000
1967 28,000
1968 28,000
1969 28,000
1970 39,000
1971 39,000
1972 39,000
1973 39,000
1974 39,000
1975 53,000
1976 57,000
1977 62,400
1978 65,300
1979 69,700
1980 73,900
1981 80,200
1982 88,100
1983 95,700
1984 106,100
1985 118,361
1986 129,453
1987 137,505
1988 151,964
1989 162,894
1990 175,050
1991 200,000
1992 207,442
1993 214,759
1994 228,522
1995 256,434
1996 266,780
1997 271,816
1998 288,251
1999 290,000
2000 291,706
2001 309,379
2002 321,482
2003 328,358
2004 299,255
2005 286,729
2006 293,364
2007 463,766
2008 646,356
2009 664,099
2010 380,748
2011 283,546
2012 251,567
2013 204,354
2014 179,990
2015 85,496
2016 72,801
2017 69,861
2018 65,644
2019 70,394
2020 66,646

Fixed telephone subscriptions (per 100 people)

The value for Fixed telephone subscriptions (per 100 people) in Kenya was 0.12 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 55 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 1.62 in 2008 and a minimum value of 0.12 in 2020.

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 0.29
1966 0.29
1967 0.29
1968 0.29
1969 0.29
1970 0.35
1971 0.35
1972 0.35
1973 0.35
1974 0.35
1975 0.39
1976 0.40
1977 0.43
1978 0.43
1979 0.44
1980 0.45
1981 0.47
1982 0.50
1983 0.52
1984 0.55
1985 0.60
1986 0.63
1987 0.64
1988 0.69
1989 0.71
1990 0.74
1991 0.82
1992 0.82
1993 0.82
1994 0.85
1995 0.92
1996 0.93
1997 0.92
1998 0.95
1999 0.93
2000 0.91
2001 0.94
2002 0.95
2003 0.95
2004 0.84
2005 0.78
2006 0.78
2007 1.20
2008 1.62
2009 1.62
2010 0.91
2011 0.66
2012 0.57
2013 0.45
2014 0.39
2015 0.18
2016 0.15
2017 0.14
2018 0.13
2019 0.13
2020 0.12

Classification

Topic: Infrastructure Indicators

Sub-Topic: Communications