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Malawi vs Nigeria: Fixed telephone subscriptions

Malawi
0.0225 per 100 people
in 2024
Nigeria
0.0441 per 100 people
in 2024
Malawi rank
201st
Nigeria rank
199th

Fixed telephone subscriptions over time

  • Malawi
  • Nigeria
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How they compare

Nigeria currently reports 0.0441 per 100 people against 0.0225 per 100 people in Malawi, a difference of 0.0217 per 100 people.

That makes Nigeria's figure about 2.0 times Malawi's.

The two have swapped places 11 times across 57 shared years of data; in 1960 it was Malawi ahead.

Globally, Malawi ranks 201st and Nigeria ranks 199th 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.