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France vs India: Fixed telephone subscriptions

France
37.28 million
in 2023
India
39.24 million
in 2024
France rank
6th
India rank
4th

Fixed telephone subscriptions over time

  • France
  • India
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How they compare

India currently reports 39.24 million against 37.28 million in France, a difference of 1.95 million.

That makes India's figure about 1.1 times France's.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 64 shared years of data; in 1960 it was France ahead.

Globally, France ranks 6th 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.