Fixed telephone subscriptions in Post-demographic dividend
Post-demographic dividend: Fixed telephone subscriptions was 35.97 per 100 people in 2022. ▲ Rising
Fixed telephone subscriptions in Post-demographic dividend, 1960–2022
Source: World Telecommunication/ICT Indicators Database, International Telecommunication Union (ITU). Measured in per 100 people.
Analysis
Post-demographic dividend recorded 35.97 per 100 people for fixed telephone subscriptions in 2022.
The figure is up 0.5% on the previous year and down 22.4% over ten years.
Over the whole period, fixed telephone subscriptions in Post-demographic dividend peaked at 55.13 per 100 people in 2000 and was at its lowest, 11.89 per 100 people, in 1961.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 63 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 12.93 per 100 people | 11.89 per 100 people | 14.2 per 100 people | 10 |
| 1970s | 21.86 per 100 people | 17.74 per 100 people | 28.06 per 100 people | 10 |
| 1980s | 35.09 per 100 people | 29.62 per 100 people | 40.82 per 100 people | 10 |
| 1990s | 48.13 per 100 people | 42.43 per 100 people | 54.34 per 100 people | 10 |
| 2000s | 51.6 per 100 people | 47.59 per 100 people | 55.13 per 100 people | 10 |
| 2010s | 43.33 per 100 people | 37.53 per 100 people | 48.66 per 100 people | 10 |
| 2020s | 36.1 per 100 people | 35.8 per 100 people | 36.52 per 100 people | 3 |
More infrastructure data for Post-demographic dividend
- Fixed telephone subscriptions 385.20 million (2022)
- Mobile cellular subscriptions 124.35 per 100 people (2022)
- Mobile cellular subscriptions 1.39 billion (2022)
- Air transport, passengers carried 2.02 billion (2023)
- Air transport, registered carrier departures worldwide 17.87 million (2023)
- Air transport, freight 122,852 million ton-km (2023)
- Renewable internal freshwater resources, total 8,884 billion cubic meters (2022)
- Renewable internal freshwater resources per capita 8,008 cubic meters (2022)
- Annual freshwater withdrawals, domestic 17.3% (2022)
- Annual freshwater withdrawals, industry 41.9% (2022)
Frequently asked questions
- What is fixed telephone subscriptions in Post-demographic dividend?
- Fixed telephone subscriptions in Post-demographic dividend was 35.97 per 100 people in 2022, according to World Telecommunication/ICT Indicators Database, International Telecommunication Union (ITU).
- What is the highest fixed telephone subscriptions recorded in Post-demographic dividend?
- The highest recorded value was 55.13 per 100 people in 2000.
- What is the lowest fixed telephone subscriptions recorded in Post-demographic dividend?
- The lowest recorded value was 11.89 per 100 people in 1961.
- Is fixed telephone subscriptions rising or falling in Post-demographic dividend?
- Over the last ten years it is down 22.4%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Post-demographic dividend data come from?
- The figures come from World Telecommunication/ICT Indicators Database, International Telecommunication Union (ITU), published as part of Fixed telephone subscriptions (per 100 people). Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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About this data
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.