Telephone (mainlines and mobile phone) subscribers (per 1,000 people) - MDGs - Millenium Development Goals - African Development Indicators

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Please cite the International Telecommunication Union for third-party use of these data. Fixed lines are telephone mainlines connecting a customer's equipment to the public switched telephone network. Mobile phone subscribers refer to users of portable telephones subscribing to an automatic public mobile telephone service using cellular technology that provides access to the public switched telephone network. Source: International Telecommunication Union, World Telecommunication Development Report and database, and World Bank estimates.
Telephone (mainlines and mobile phone) subscribers (per 1,000 people) - MDGs - Millenium Development Goals - African Development Indicators (Most Recent Data)

Rank

Country

Value
1Seychelles (2008)1,257
2Mauritius (2008)1,102
3South Africa (2007)978.71
4Tunisia (2008)949.82
5Algeria (2007)904.84
6Botswana (2008)854.64
7Gabon (2007)840.78
8Morocco (2008)826.38
9Gambia (2008)731.84
10North Africa (2008)722.27
11Cape Verde (2008)701.2
12Mauritania (2008)677.55
13Egypt (2008)653.57
14Ivory Coast (2008)524.76
15Ghana (2008)501.66
16Libya (2005)481.95
17Senegal (2008)460.8
18Namibia (2007)451.13
19Kenya (2008)427.83
20Nigeria (2008)424.9
21Angola (2008)382.21
22Africa (2008)369.61
23Cameroon (2008)336.5
24Guinea-Bissau (2008)320.42
25Tanzania (2008)309.07
26Sub-Saharan Africa excluding South Africa (2008)302.73
27Sub-Saharan Africa (2008)302.73
28Zambia (2008)287.6
29Sudan (2008)279.16
30Uganda (2008)275.56
31Sub-Saharan Africa excluding South Africa and Nigeria (2008)265.58
32Mali (2008)263.55
33Madagascar (2008)261.63
34Togo (2008)261.34
35Swaziland (2006)258.61
36Benin (2007)240.09
37Sao Tome and Principe (2007)238.92
38Guinea (2007)213.21
39Lesotho (2006)206.05
40Mozambique (2008)205.84
41Equatorial Guinea (2005)175.59
42Republic of the Congo (2005)168.03
43Liberia (2007)155.78
44Democratic Republic of the Congo (2008)144.85
45Rwanda (2008)137.79
46Zimbabwe (2007)126.12
47Burkina Faso (2007)117.26
48Comoros (2006)91.16
49Malawi (2007)88.08
50Somalia (2007)80.5
51Djibouti (2005)68.18
52Burundi (2008)63.29
53Ethiopia (2008)50.51
54Chad (2006)45.77
55Eritrea (2008)29.83
56Central African Republic (2006)28.61
57Niger (2005)26.22
58Sierra Leone (2002)20.04
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