France vs Japan: Fixed telephone subscriptions

France

56.11 per 100 people

in 2023

Japan

47.7 per 100 people

in 2023

France rank

5th

Japan rank

8th

Fixed telephone subscriptions over time

France
Japan

How they compare

France currently reports 56.11 per 100 people against 47.7 per 100 people in Japan, a difference of 8.41 per 100 people.

That makes France's figure about 1.2 times Japan's.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 64 shared years of data; in 1960 it was France ahead.

Globally, France ranks 5th and Japan ranks 8th 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.