Ethiopia vs Uganda: Fixed telephone subscriptions

Ethiopia
0.5798 per 100 people
in 2024
Uganda
0.3918 per 100 people
in 2024
Ethiopia rank
177th
Uganda rank
180th

Fixed telephone subscriptions over time

  • Ethiopia
  • Uganda
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How they compare

Ethiopia currently reports 0.5798 per 100 people against 0.3918 per 100 people in Uganda, a difference of 0.1879 per 100 people.

That makes Ethiopia's figure about 1.5 times Uganda's.

The two have swapped places 5 times across 64 shared years of data; in 1960 it was Uganda ahead.

Globally, Ethiopia ranks 177th and Uganda ranks 180th 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

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.