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South Korea vs Upper middle income: Fixed telephone subscriptions

South Korea
21.29 million
in 2024
Upper middle income
313.00 million
in 2025
South Korea rank
11th
Upper middle income rank
9th

Fixed telephone subscriptions over time

  • South Korea
  • Upper middle income
0100.0M200.0M300.0M400.0M196519952025

How they compare

Upper middle income currently reports 313.00 million against 21.29 million in South Korea, a difference of 291.71 million.

That makes Upper middle income's figure about 14.7 times South Korea's.

Across all 35 years both countries report, Upper middle income has been ahead every year.

South Korea ranks 11th and Upper middle income ranks 9th 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.