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Afghanistan vs Papua New Guinea: Fixed telephone subscriptions

Afghanistan
181,963
in 2023
Papua New Guinea
172,691
in 2022
Afghanistan rank
118th
Papua New Guinea rank
119th

Fixed telephone subscriptions over time

  • Afghanistan
  • Papua New Guinea
050.0k100.0k150.0k200.0k196019912023

How they compare

Afghanistan currently reports 181,963 against 172,691 in Papua New Guinea, a difference of 9,272.

That makes Afghanistan's figure about 1.1 times Papua New Guinea's.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 52 shared years of data; in 1965 it was Afghanistan ahead.

Globally, Afghanistan ranks 118th and Papua New Guinea ranks 119th of 213 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Fixed telephone subscriptions
Source
World Telecommunication/ICT Indicators Database, International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
260 places, 14,482 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.