Countries Ranked by Number of Telephone Lines in Use

This list orders countries by their total number of telephone lines, or telephone circuits, in use. The information mostly is obtained from The World Factbook and includes the total number of telephone lines per country and the date this number was measured.

Rank	Country	Telephone Lines	Year
1	China	365,400,000	2007
2	United States	163,200,000	2007
3	Germany	53,750,000	2007
4	Japan	51,232,000	2007
5	Russia	43,900,000	2006
6	Brazil	39,400,000	2007
7	India	38,760,000	2008
8	France	35,533,000	2007
9	United Kingdom	33,682,000	2007
10	Italy	26,890,000	2006
11	South Korea	23,905,000	2007
12	Iran	23,835,000	2007
13	Canada	21,000,000	2006
14	Mexico	19,754,000	2007
15	Spain	18,583,000	2007
16	Turkey	18,413,000	2007
17	Indonesia	17,828,000	2007
18	Taiwan	14,313,000	2007
19	Ukraine	12,858,000	2007
20	Egypt	11,229,000	2007
21	Vietnam	10,800,000	2007
22	Poland	10,336,000	2007
23	Australia	9,760,000	2007
24	Argentina	9,500,000	2007
25	Colombia	7,936,000	2007
26	Netherlands	7,334,000	2007
27	Thailand	7,024,000	2007
28	Greece	6,227,000	2007
29	Sweden	5,506,000	2007
30	Venezuela	5,082,000	2007
31	Switzerland	5,000,000	2007
32	Belgium	4,668,000	2007
33	South Africa	4,642,000	2007
34	Pakistan	4,546,000	2008
35	Malaysia	4,350,000	2007
36	Romani	4,300,000	2007
37	Portugal	4,139,000	2007
38	Saudi Arabia	3,996,000	2007
39	Hong Kong	3,875,000	2007
40	Belarus	3,672,000	2007
41	Philippines	3,633,000	2006
42	Syria	3,452,000	2007
43	Chile	3,379,000	2007
44	Austria	3,374,000	2007
45	Hungary	3,251,000	2007
46	Kazakhstan	3,237,000	2007
47	Algeria	3,068,000	2007
48	Israel	3,005,000	2006
49	Serbia	2,993,000	2007
50	Czech Republic	2,888,000	2006
51	Denmark	2,824,000	2007
52	Sri Lanka	2,742,000	2007
53	Peru	2,673,000	2007
54	Morocco	2,394,000	2007
55	Bulgaria	2,300,000	2007
56	Ireland	2,112,000	2007
57	Norway	1,988,000	2007
58	Singapore	1,859,000	2007
59	Croatia	1,825,000	2007
60	Ecuador	1,805,000	2007
61	Uzbekistan	1,793,000	2005
62	Finland	1,740,000	2007
63	New Zealand	1,706,000	2007
64	Nigeria	1,580,000	2007
65	Iraq	1,547,000	2005
66	Costa Rica	1,437,000	2007
67	United Arab Emirates	1,385,000	2007
68	Guatemala	1,355,000	2006
69	Tunisia	1,273,000	2007
70	Azerbaijan	1,254,000	2007
71	Bangladesh	1,187,000	2007
72	North Korea	1,180,000	2007
73	Slovakia	1,151,000	2007
74	El Salvador	1,080,000	2007
75	Moldova	1,080,000	2007
76	Bosnia and Herzegovina	1,065,000	2007
77	Cuba	1,043,000	2007
78	Puerto Rico	1,038,000	2005
79	Yemen	968,300	2006
80	Uruguay	965,200	2007
81	Dominican Republic	907,000	2007
82	Ethiopia	880,100	2007
83	Slovenia	857,100	2007
84	Libya	852,300	2005
85	Lithuania	799,400	2007
86	Nepal	766,400	2007
87	Cote d'Ivoire	730,000	2007
88	Honduras	713,600	2006
89	Lebanon	681,400	2006
90	Bolivia	678,200	2007
91	Latvia	644,000	2007
92	Armenia	603,900	2006
93	Jordan	585,500	2007
94	Georgia	544,000	2007
95	Kuwait	517,000	2006
96	Burma	503,900	2005
97	Estonia	495,500	2007
98	Panama	491,900	2007
99	Kyrgyzstan	482,100	2007
100	Macedonia	463,600	2007

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