Bulgaria vs Sweden: Fixed telephone subscriptions

Bulgaria

8.17 per 100 people

in 2024

Sweden

7.51 per 100 people

in 2024

Bulgaria rank

120th

Sweden rank

122nd

Fixed telephone subscriptions over time

Bulgaria
Sweden

How they compare

Bulgaria currently reports 8.17 per 100 people against 7.51 per 100 people in Sweden, a difference of 0.6564 per 100 people.

That makes Bulgaria's figure about 1.1 times Sweden's.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 46 shared years of data; in 1979 it was Sweden ahead.

Globally, Bulgaria ranks 120th and Sweden ranks 122nd of 213 countries.

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About this data

Indicator: Fixed telephone subscriptions (per 100 people)
Unit: per 100 people
Source: World Telecommunication/ICT Indicators Database, International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage: 260 places, 14,528 data points, 1960–2025
Last refreshed: 06 August 2026

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.