Canada vs North America: Fixed telephone subscriptions

Canada
10.97 million
in 2024
North America
89.00 million
in 2025
Canada rank
16th
North America rank
19th

Fixed telephone subscriptions over time

  • Canada
  • North America
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How they compare

North America currently reports 89.00 million against 10.97 million in Canada, a difference of 78.03 million.

That makes North America's figure about 8.1 times Canada's.

Across all 65 years both countries report, North America has been ahead every year.

Canada ranks 16th and North America ranks 19th of 212 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Fixed telephone subscriptions
Source
World Telecommunication/ICT Indicators Database, International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
260 places, 14,482 data points, 1960–2025
Last refreshed

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.