Africa | Telephone (mainlines and mobile phone) subscribers (per 1,000 people)

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.
Publisher
The World Bank
Origin
Africa
Records
53
Source
Africa | Telephone (mainlines and mobile phone) subscribers (per 1,000 people)
1960 5.57380301
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
1970 6.57899068
1971
1972
1973
1974
1975 7.40015204
1976 7.38821275
1977 7.76777899
1978 8.39855569
1979 8.85153242
1980 9.29797451
1981 8.14257555
1982 8.59342341
1983 9.13026459
1984 9.3834093
1985 10.2263795
1986 11.00963001
1987 11.34361738
1988 11.86366918
1989 12.63489132
1990 13.47963281
1991 14.16951267
1992 14.71075532
1993 15.58628727
1994 16.93825805
1995 18.21946056
1996 19.98960325
1997 22.8430277
1998 26.9574743
1999 32.95640239
2000 43.40253739
2001 56.27021842
2002 71.02264002
2003 89.49839298
2004 121.77531874
2005 184.24446887
2006 253.40976667
2007 323.99291549
2008 414.42364914
2009 487.034707
2010 569.27056457
2011 652.5268795
2012

Africa | Telephone (mainlines and mobile phone) subscribers (per 1,000 people)

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.
Publisher
The World Bank
Origin
Africa
Records
53
Source