Nigeria vs Rwanda: Fixed telephone subscriptions

Nigeria
0.0441 per 100 people
in 2024
Rwanda
0.0649 per 100 people
in 2024
Nigeria rank
199th
Rwanda rank
198th

Fixed telephone subscriptions over time

  • Nigeria
  • Rwanda
00.250.50.7511.2196019922024

How they compare

Rwanda currently reports 0.0649 per 100 people against 0.0441 per 100 people in Nigeria, a difference of 0.0208 per 100 people.

That makes Rwanda's figure about 1.5 times Nigeria's.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 57 shared years of data; in 1960 it was Rwanda ahead.

Globally, Nigeria ranks 199th and Rwanda ranks 198th 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.