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Russia vs United Kingdom: Fixed telephone subscriptions

Russia
20.82 million
in 2023
United Kingdom
23.77 million
in 2024
Russia rank
12th
United Kingdom rank
9th

Fixed telephone subscriptions over time

  • Russia
  • United Kingdom
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How they compare

United Kingdom currently reports 23.77 million against 20.82 million in Russia, a difference of 2.96 million.

That makes United Kingdom's figure about 1.1 times Russia's.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 49 shared years of data; in 1975 it was United Kingdom ahead.

Globally, Russia ranks 12th and United Kingdom ranks 9th 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.