Sub-Saharan Africa (all income levels) | 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.
Sub-Saharan Africa (all income levels) | Telephone (mainlines and mobile phone) subscribers (per 1,000 people)
| year | value |
|---|---|
| 1960 | 5.07806721 |
| 1961 | |
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| 1970 | 6.28812363 |
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| 1975 | 7.13367129 |
| 1976 | 7.04482171 |
| 1977 | 7.37458998 |
| 1978 | 8.00181546 |
| 1979 | 8.34916388 |
| 1980 | 8.66396505 |
| 1981 | 7.10646232 |
| 1982 | 7.41497436 |
| 1983 | 7.73980737 |
| 1984 | 7.86833629 |
| 1985 | 8.14088688 |
| 1986 | 8.61349361 |
| 1987 | 8.84860789 |
| 1988 | 9.17905801 |
| 1989 | 9.57519637 |
| 1990 | 10.03454755 |
| 1991 | 10.21926162 |
| 1992 | 10.15205254 |
| 1993 | 10.42849838 |
| 1994 | 11.34734282 |
| 1995 | 12.16428106 |
| 1996 | 13.48093417 |
| 1997 | 15.83454275 |
| 1998 | 19.52166473 |
| 1999 | 24.32917301 |
| 2000 | 31.27899194 |
| 2001 | 39.34983564 |
| 2002 | 50.69250633 |
| 2003 | 65.17398671 |
| 2004 | 90.15099843 |
| 2005 | 136.52907361 |
| 2006 | 195.32280105 |
| 2007 | 250.5590529 |
| 2008 | 339.16027711 |
| 2009 | 399.85379611 |
| 2010 | 472.41911999 |
| 2011 | 553.27530488 |
| 2012 |
Sub-Saharan Africa (all income levels) | 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.