Sweden - Telephone lines

Fixed telephone subscriptions

The value for Fixed telephone subscriptions in Sweden was 1,478,610 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 6,389,000 in 1998 and a minimum value of 1,478,610 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.

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Year Value
1960 2,089,300
1961 2,089,300
1962 2,089,300
1963 2,089,300
1964 2,089,300
1965 2,927,000
1966 2,927,000
1967 2,927,000
1968 2,927,000
1969 2,927,000
1970 3,603,000
1971 3,603,000
1972 3,603,000
1973 3,603,000
1974 3,603,000
1975 4,209,000
1976 4,356,000
1977 4,495,000
1978 4,595,000
1979 4,678,000
1980 4,820,000
1981 4,895,050
1982 4,965,900
1983 5,016,791
1984 5,127,591
1985 5,242,497
1986 5,373,000
1987 5,480,500
1988 5,601,000
1989 5,716,000
1990 5,848,700
1991 5,957,000
1992 5,929,000
1993 5,910,000
1994 5,967,000
1995 6,013,000
1996 6,032,000
1997 6,254,000
1998 6,389,000
1999 6,093,000
2000 6,056,000
2001 5,954,000
2002 5,849,000
2003 5,780,000
2004 5,688,000
2005 5,635,000
2006 5,547,000
2007 5,500,000
2008 5,338,000
2009 5,140,000
2010 4,734,480
2011 4,482,202
2012 4,169,083
2013 3,928,425
2014 3,778,569
2015 3,554,665
2016 3,104,305
2017 2,617,672
2018 2,163,913
2019 1,750,989
2020 1,478,610

Fixed telephone subscriptions (per 100 people)

The value for Fixed telephone subscriptions (per 100 people) in Sweden was 14.64 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 72.02 in 1998 and a minimum value of 14.64 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
1960 27.92
1961 27.92
1962 27.92
1963 27.92
1964 27.92
1965 37.79
1966 37.79
1967 37.79
1968 37.79
1969 37.79
1970 44.73
1971 44.73
1972 44.73
1973 44.73
1974 44.73
1975 51.35
1976 52.97
1977 54.48
1978 55.51
1979 56.36
1980 57.96
1981 58.80
1982 59.62
1983 60.21
1984 61.48
1985 62.73
1986 64.08
1987 65.08
1988 66.17
1989 67.13
1990 68.27
1991 69.07
1992 68.25
1993 67.57
1994 67.82
1995 68.05
1996 68.09
1997 70.52
1998 72.02
1999 68.67
2000 68.19
2001 66.92
2002 65.57
2003 64.57
2004 63.27
2005 62.34
2006 60.98
2007 60.02
2008 57.79
2009 55.19
2010 50.42
2011 47.35
2012 43.69
2013 40.84
2014 38.99
2015 36.40
2016 31.56
2017 26.43
2018 21.70
2019 17.45
2020 14.64

Classification

Topic: Infrastructure Indicators

Sub-Topic: Communications