OECD members - Telephone lines

Fixed telephone subscriptions

The value for Fixed telephone subscriptions in OECD members was 448,400,900 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 598,744,400 in 2001 and a minimum value of 84,305,590 in 1960.

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
1960 84,305,590
1961 84,305,610
1962 84,305,610
1963 84,305,610
1964 84,305,610
1965 108,382,500
1966 108,382,500
1967 108,382,500
1968 108,382,500
1969 108,382,500
1970 146,429,000
1971 146,429,000
1972 146,429,000
1973 146,429,000
1974 146,429,000
1975 201,636,600
1976 212,935,400
1977 225,062,000
1978 238,314,600
1979 252,346,900
1980 265,337,500
1981 285,134,200
1982 295,754,500
1983 307,413,400
1984 319,285,500
1985 332,478,900
1986 343,934,700
1987 359,053,800
1988 375,983,500
1989 393,858,900
1990 414,137,100
1991 430,566,200
1992 446,973,000
1993 464,351,600
1994 483,181,200
1995 503,086,900
1996 523,441,400
1997 545,600,800
1998 559,018,400
1999 583,731,600
2000 596,941,500
2001 598,744,400
2002 598,406,200
2003 591,281,900
2004 584,878,100
2005 578,337,700
2006 567,520,500
2007 545,918,700
2008 544,526,000
2009 563,111,900
2010 555,736,300
2011 543,487,600
2012 532,307,500
2013 521,874,900
2014 510,807,700
2015 502,009,400
2016 494,600,300
2017 483,361,400
2018 469,633,700
2019 457,339,000
2020 448,400,900

Fixed telephone subscriptions (per 100 people)

The value for Fixed telephone subscriptions (per 100 people) in OECD members was 32.74 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 49.79 in 2000 and a minimum value of 10.87 in 1964.

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
1960 10.88
1961 10.88
1962 10.88
1963 10.87
1964 10.87
1965 12.67
1966 12.64
1967 12.62
1968 12.59
1969 12.57
1970 16.14
1971 16.09
1972 16.05
1973 16.02
1974 15.98
1975 20.95
1976 21.91
1977 22.94
1978 24.06
1979 24.99
1980 26.05
1981 27.75
1982 28.53
1983 29.41
1984 30.29
1985 31.22
1986 32.09
1987 33.24
1988 34.52
1989 35.87
1990 37.35
1991 38.52
1992 39.66
1993 40.86
1994 42.18
1995 43.57
1996 44.98
1997 46.53
1998 47.32
1999 49.05
2000 49.79
2001 49.57
2002 49.18
2003 48.24
2004 47.37
2005 46.49
2006 45.28
2007 43.23
2008 42.80
2009 43.94
2010 43.06
2011 41.83
2012 40.70
2013 39.65
2014 38.57
2015 37.68
2016 36.90
2017 35.85
2018 34.63
2019 33.55
2020 32.74

Classification

Topic: Infrastructure Indicators

Sub-Topic: Communications