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China vs India: Fixed telephone subscriptions

China
166.51 million
in 2024
India
39.24 million
in 2024
China rank
1st
India rank
4th

Fixed telephone subscriptions over time

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  • India
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How they compare

China currently reports 166.51 million against 39.24 million in India, a difference of 127.27 million.

That makes China's figure about 4.2 times India's.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 50 shared years of data; in 1975 it was China ahead.

Globally, China ranks 1st and India ranks 4th 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.