Japan vs Portugal: Fixed telephone subscriptions

Japan

47.7 per 100 people

in 2023

Portugal

53 per 100 people

in 2024

Japan rank

8th

Portugal rank

6th

Fixed telephone subscriptions over time

Japan
Portugal

How they compare

Portugal currently reports 53 per 100 people against 47.7 per 100 people in Japan, a difference of 5.3 per 100 people.

That makes Portugal's figure about 1.1 times Japan's.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 64 shared years of data; in 1960 it was Japan ahead.

Globally, Japan ranks 8th and Portugal ranks 6th 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.