Low income's fixed telephone subscriptions was 7 million in 2025, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is down 14.63% from 8.2 million in 2015 (1.57% a year on average, compounded).
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 7 million | 2025 |
| Five years earlier | 6 million | 2020 |
| Ten years earlier | 8.2 million | 2015 |
| Highest | 8.5 million | 2016 |
| Lowest | 163,776 | 1966 |
| Average since 2016 | 6.83 million | 2016–2025 |
| First recorded | 163,776 |
What the numbers say
In 2025, Low income's fixed telephone subscriptions rose 16.7% on 2024 (from 6 million to 7 million).
Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1979 to 2024), the average change was +6.9% and a typical year strayed about 15.8% from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.6 standard deviations above that average, so it was an ordinary year: it sits within the range of normal year-to-year movement.
On record, the biggest yearly rise was 78.8% in 1983 and the biggest yearly fall was 22.1% in 2020. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.
From 2016 to 2025 the straight-line trend is downward, about 226,061 a year. A straight line explains 52% of the movement over 10 observed years.
Worked out from the yearly values above. How the checks work: standard deviation, z-scores and straight-line trends.
How it compares
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| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Low income | 7 million | 2025 |
| World | 815 million | 2025 |
What this measures
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.
Limitations: Operators have traditionally been the main source of telecommunications data, so information on subscriptions has been widely available for most countries. This gives a general idea of access, but a more precise measure is the penetration rate - the share of households with access to telecommunications. During the past few years more information on information and communication technology use has become available from household and business surveys. Also important are data on actual use of telecommunications services. Ideally, statistics on telecommunications (and other information and communications technologies) should be compiled for all three measures: subscriptions, access, and use.
Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a sum.
All 45 values
| Year | Fixed telephone subscriptions |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 7,000,000 |
| 2024 | 6,000,000 |
| 2023 | 6,000,000 |
| 2022 | 6,000,000 |
| 2021 | 6,000,000 |
| 2020 | 6,000,000 |
| 2019 | 7,700,000 |
| 2018 | 7,500,000 |
| 2017 | 7,600,000 |
| 2016 | 8,500,000 |
| 2015 |
Fixed telephone subscriptions in nearby economies
- Afghanistan — 181,963 (2023)
- Algeria — 6.93 million (2024)
- Bahrain — 256,054 (2024)
- Djibouti — 28,673 (2023)
- Egypt, Arab Rep. — 13.25 million (2024)
- Iran, Islamic Rep. — 28.23 million (2024)
- Iraq — 5.28 million (2024)
- Israel — 2.56 million (2023)
- Jordan — 485,928 (2024)
- Kuwait — 572,621 (2023)
- Lebanon — 924,461 (2022)
More infrastructure data for Low income
- Fixed telephone subscriptions (per 100 people) — 1 (2025)
- Air transport, registered carrier departures worldwide — 220,720 (2023)
- Air transport, passengers carried — 22.26 million (2023)
- Industrial design applications, nonresident, by count — 1,359 (2024)
- Industrial design applications, resident, by count — 1,282 (2024)
- Patent applications, nonresidents — 1,155 (2024)
- Patent applications, residents — 7,341 (2024)
- Air transport, freight (million ton-km) — 4,095 (2023)
- Mobile cellular subscriptions — 445 million (2025)
Reading data like this
Questions people ask
- What is Low income's fixed telephone subscriptions?
- 7 million in 2025, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).
- How has it changed since 1966?
- It is up 4,174% from 163,776 in 1966 (6.57% a year on average, compounded). The highest value was 8.5 million in 2016 and the lowest 163,776 in 1966.
- Is the latest change in fixed telephone subscriptions unusual for Low income?
- In 2025, Low income's fixed telephone subscriptions rose 16.7% on 2024 (from 6 million to 7 million). Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1979 to 2024), the average change was +6.9% and a typical year strayed about 15.8% from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.6 standard deviations above that average, so it was an ordinary year: it sits within the range of normal year-to-year movement.
- Where does this data come from?
- The World Bank's World Development Indicators, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: World Telecommunication/ICT Indicators Database, International Telecommunication Union (ITU).
Source
World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator IT.MLT.MAIN, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: World Telecommunication/ICT Indicators Database, International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Figures are fetched from the World Bank API and refreshed monthly; see the series on data.worldbank.org. The full definition and method are in the World Bank's metadata glossary. Comparisons use the same World Bank release.
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