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  Field Listing - Telephones - main lines in use


Country
Telephones - main lines in use
Afghanistan 280,000 (2005)
Albania 255,000 (2003)
Algeria 2.572 million (2005)
American Samoa 15,000 (2001)
Andorra 35,400 (2005)
Angola 94,300 (2005)
Anguilla 6,200 (2002)
Antarctica 0; note - information for US bases only (2001)
Antigua and Barbuda 38,000 (2004)
Argentina 8.8 million (2005)
Armenia 600,000 (2006)
Aruba 37,100 (2002)
Australia 11.46 million (2005)
Austria 3.705 million (2005)
Azerbaijan 1.091 million (2005)
Bahamas, The 139,900 (2004)
Bahrain 196,500 (2005)
Bangladesh 1.07 million (2005)
Barbados 134,900 (2005)
Belarus 3,284,300 (2005)
Belgium 4.801 million (2004)
Belize 33,300 (2005)
Benin 76,300 (2005)
Bermuda 56,000 (2002)
Bhutan 32,700 (2005)
Bolivia 646,300 (2005)
Bosnia and Herzegovina 968,900 (2005)
Botswana 132,000 (2005)
Brazil 42.382 million (2004)
British Indian Ocean Territory NA
British Virgin Islands 11,700 (2002)
Brunei 90,000 (2002)
Bulgaria 2.483 million (2005)
Burkina Faso 97,400 (2005)
Burma 476,200 (2005)
Burundi 27,700 (2004)
Cambodia 36,400 (2003)
Cameroon 99,400 (2004)
Canada 18.276 million (2005)
Cape Verde 71,400 (2005)
Cayman Islands 38,000 (2002)
Central African Republic 10,000 (2004)
Chad 13,000 (2004)
Chile 3.436 million (2005)
China 350.433 million (2005)
Christmas Island NA
Cocos (Keeling) Islands 287 (1992)
Colombia 7,678,800 (2005)
Comoros 16,900 (2005)
Congo, Democratic Republic of the 10,600 (2005)
Congo, Republic of the 13,800 (2004)
Cook Islands 6,200 (2002)
Costa Rica 1.388 million (2005)
Cote d'Ivoire 257,900 (2004)
Croatia 1.89 million (2005)
Cuba 849,900 (2005)
Cyprus area under government control: 420,000 (2005); area administered by Turkish Cypriots: 86,228 (2002)
Czech Republic 3,217,300 (2005)
Denmark 3.35 million (2005)
Djibouti 11,100 (2004)
Dominica 21,000 (2004)
Dominican Republic 894,500 (2005)
East Timor NA
Ecuador 1.701 million (2005)
Egypt 10.396 million (2005)
El Salvador 971,500 (2005)
Equatorial Guinea 10,000 (2005)
Eritrea 37,700 (2005)
Estonia 442,000 (2005)
Ethiopia 610,300 (2005)
European Union 238 million (2005)
Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) 2,400 (2002)
Faroe Islands 23,800 (2005)
Fiji 102,000 (2003)
Finland 2.12 million (2005)
France 38.433 million; 35.7 million (metropolitan France) (2005)
French Polynesia 53,400 (2005)
Gabon 39,100 (2005)
Gambia, The 44,000 (2005)
Gaza Strip 349,000 (includes West Bank) (2005)
Georgia 683,200 (2004)
Germany 55.046 million (2005)
Ghana 321,500 (2005)
Gibraltar 24,512 (2002)
Greece 6.303 million (2005)
Greenland 25,300 (2002)
Grenada 32,700 (2004)
Guam 84,134 (2001)
Guatemala 1.132 million (2004)
Guernsey 55,100 (2004)
Guinea 26,200 (2003)
Guinea-Bissau 10,600 (2003)
Guyana 110,100 (2005)
Haiti 140,000 (2004)
Holy See (Vatican City) 5,120 (2005)
Honduras 494,400 (2005)
Hong Kong 3.795 million (2005)
Hungary 3.356 million (2005)
Iceland 193,900 (2005)
India 49.75 million (2005)
Indonesia 12.772 million (2005)
Iran 18.986 million (2005)
Iraq 1.547 million (2005)
Ireland 2.033 million (2005)
Isle of Man 51,000 (1999)
Israel 2.936 million (2005)
Italy 25.049 million (2005)
Jamaica 342,000 (2005)
Japan 58.78 million (2005)
Jersey 73,900 (2001)
Jordan 628,200 (2005)
Kazakhstan 2.5 million (2004)
Kenya 281,800 (2005)
Kiribati 4,500 (2002)
Korea, North 980,000 (2003)
Korea, South 23.745 million (2005)
Kuwait 510,300 (2005)
Kyrgyzstan 438,200 (2005)
Laos 90,067 (2006)
Latvia 731,000 (2005)
Lebanon 990,000 (2005)
Lesotho 48,000 (2005)
Liberia 6,900 (2002)
Libya 750,000 (2003)
Liechtenstein 19,900 (2002)
Lithuania 801,100 (2005)
Luxembourg 244,500 (2005)
Macau 174,400 (2005)
Macedonia 533,200 (2005)
Madagascar 66,900 (2005)
Malawi 102,700 (2005)
Malaysia 4.366 million (2005)
Maldives 32,181 (2006)
Mali 75,000 (2005)
Malta 202,100 (2005)
Marshall Islands 5,510 (2004)
Mauritania 41,000 (2005)
Mauritius 359,000 (2005)
Mayotte 10,000 (2002)
Mexico 19.512 million (2005)
Micronesia, Federated States of 12,400 (2005)
Moldova 929,400 (2005)
Monaco 33,700 (2002)
Mongolia 156,000 (2005)
Montenegro 177,663 (2005)
Montserrat NA
Morocco 1.341 million (2005)
Mozambique 69,700 (2004)
Namibia 127,900 (2004)
Nauru 1,900 (2002)
Nepal 448,600 (2005)
Netherlands 7.6 million (2005)
Netherlands Antilles 81,000 (2001)
New Caledonia 55,300 (2005)
New Zealand 1.8 million (2004)
Nicaragua 220,900 (2005)
Niger 24,000 (2005)
Nigeria 1.223 million (2005)
Niue 1,100 (2002 est.)
Norfolk Island 2,532; note - a mix of analog (2500) and digital (32) circuits (2004)
Northern Mariana Islands 21,000 (2000)
Norway 2.129 million (2005)
Oman 265,200 (2005)
Pakistan 5,162,798 (2006)
Palau 6,700 (2002)
Panama 440,100 (2005)
Papua New Guinea 62,000 (2002)
Paraguay 320,300 (2005)
Peru 2.25 million (2005)
Philippines 3.438 million (2004)
Pitcairn Islands 1 (there are 17 telephones on one party line); (2004)
Poland 11.803 million (2005)
Portugal 4.234 million (2005)
Puerto Rico 1.112 million (2004)
Qatar 205,400 (2005)
Romania 4.391 million (2005)
Russia 40.1 million (2005)
Rwanda 23,000 (2004)
Saint Helena 2,200 (2002)
Saint Kitts and Nevis 25,000 (2004)
Saint Lucia 51,100 (2002)
Saint Pierre and Miquelon 4,800 (2002)
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 22,500 (2005)
Samoa 13,300 (2003)
San Marino 20,600 (2002)
Sao Tome and Principe 7,000 (2004)
Saudi Arabia 4.5 million (2006)
Senegal 266,600 (2005)
Serbia 2.685 million (2004)
Seychelles 21,400 (2005)
Sierra Leone 24,000 (2002)
Singapore 1.848 million (2005)
Slovakia 1.197 million (2005)
Slovenia 816,400 (2005)
Solomon Islands 7,400 (2005)
Somalia 100,000 (2005)
South Africa 4.729 million (2005)
Spain 18.322 million (2005)
Sri Lanka 1.51 million (2006)
Sudan 670,000 (2005)
Suriname 81,100 (2004)
Svalbard NA
Swaziland 35,000 (2005)
Sweden 6.447 million (2004)
Switzerland 5.123 million (2005)
Syria 2.903 million (2005)
Taiwan 13.615 million (2005)
Tajikistan 245,200 (2004)
Tanzania 148,400 (2004)
Thailand 7.035 million (2005)
Togo 58,600 (2005)
Tokelau 300 (2002)
Tonga 11,200 (2002)
Trinidad and Tobago 323,500 (2005)
Tunisia 1.258 million (2005)
Turkey 18.978 million (2005)
Turkmenistan 495,000 (2006)
Turks and Caicos Islands 5,700 (2002)
Tuvalu 700 (2002)
Uganda 100,800 (2005)
Ukraine 12.142 million (2004)
United Arab Emirates 1.237 million (2005)
United Kingdom 32.943 million (2005)
United States 268 million (2003)
Uruguay 1 million (2004)
Uzbekistan 1.717 million (2003)
Vanuatu 6,800 (2004)
Venezuela 3.605 million (2005)
Vietnam 15.845 million (2005)
Virgin Islands 70,900 (2004)
Wallis and Futuna 1,900 (2002)
West Bank 349,000 (includes Gaza Strip) (2005)
Western Sahara about 2,000 (1999 est.)
World 1,263,367,600 (2005)
Yemen 900,000 (2006)
Zambia 94,700 (2005)
Zimbabwe 328,000 (2005)

This page was last updated on 15 March, 2007
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