Japan vs Middle income: Fixed telephone subscriptions

Japan
59.33 million
in 2023
Middle income
415.79 million
in 2022
Japan rank
3rd
Middle income rank
6th

Fixed telephone subscriptions over time

  • Japan
  • Middle income
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How they compare

Middle income currently reports 415.79 million against 59.33 million in Japan, a difference of 356.47 million.

That makes Middle income's figure about 7.0 times Japan's.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 48 shared years of data; in 1975 it was Japan ahead.

Japan ranks 3rd and Middle income ranks 6th 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.