Lebanon - Telephone lines

Fixed telephone subscriptions

The value for Fixed telephone subscriptions in Lebanon was 875,480 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 38 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 1,816,262 in 2016 and a minimum value of 320,000 in 1982.

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.

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Year Value
1982 320,000
1983 328,400
1984 337,100
1985 346,000
1986 355,100
1987 364,500
1988 374,100
1989 384,000
1990 394,100
1991 404,500
1992 415,200
1993 426,100
1994 437,300
1995 448,800
1996 460,579
1997 561,651
1998 566,000
1999 571,000
2000 576,000
2001 626,000
2002 678,840
2003 700,000
2004 630,000
2005 634,740
2006 681,381
2007 697,540
2008 750,000
2009 803,740
2010 838,000
2011 855,000
2012 867,000
2013 870,000
2014 965,723
2015 1,012,849
2016 1,816,262
2017 907,881
2018 893,529
2019 882,175
2020 875,480

Fixed telephone subscriptions (per 100 people)

The value for Fixed telephone subscriptions (per 100 people) in Lebanon was 12.83 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 38 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 27.05 in 2016 and a minimum value of 12.28 in 1982.

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
1982 12.28
1983 12.52
1984 12.78
1985 13.05
1986 13.35
1987 13.66
1988 13.93
1989 14.08
1990 14.06
1991 13.84
1992 13.50
1993 13.13
1994 12.85
1995 12.72
1996 12.76
1997 15.35
1998 15.32
1999 15.24
2000 14.99
2001 15.69
2002 16.23
2003 15.95
2004 13.79
2005 13.51
2006 14.32
2007 14.63
2008 15.74
2009 16.70
2010 16.92
2011 16.44
2012 15.66
2013 14.71
2014 15.42
2015 15.50
2016 27.05
2017 13.31
2018 13.03
2019 12.87
2020 12.83

Classification

Topic: Infrastructure Indicators

Sub-Topic: Communications