Papua New Guinea vs Uganda: Fixed telephone subscriptions

Papua New Guinea
172,691
in 2022
Uganda
195,975
in 2024
Papua New Guinea rank
119th
Uganda rank
116th

Fixed telephone subscriptions over time

  • Papua New Guinea
  • Uganda
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How they compare

Uganda currently reports 195,975 against 172,691 in Papua New Guinea, a difference of 23,284.

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

The two have swapped places 5 times across 57 shared years of data; in 1965 it was Uganda ahead.

Globally, Papua New Guinea ranks 119th and Uganda ranks 116th 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.