Average cost of local call
0.11
0.09
DEFINITION:
Telephone average cost of local call (US$ per three minutes). Cost of local call is the cost of a three-minute call within the same exchange area using the subscriber's equipment (that is, not from a public phone).
Ranked 39th. 22% more than United States
Ranked 59th.
Book production, titles by the Universal Decimal Classification > Literature
8,539
13,221
SOURCE:
Source: UNESCO UIS Data | UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Ranked 7th in 1996.
Ranked 3rd in 1996. 55% more than Italy
Book production, titles by the Universal Decimal Classification > Religion, theology
2,232
3,803
SOURCE:
Source: UNESCO UIS Data | UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Ranked 5th in 1996.
Ranked 2nd in 1996. 70% more than Italy
Cable TV subscribers
1
252
DEFINITION:
Cable TV subscribers per 1000 population .
SOURCE:
OECD Communications Outlook 2005
Ranked 18th.
Ranked 6th. 251 times more than Italy
Cinema attendance
104,900,000
1,421,000,000
SOURCE:
UNESCO Institute for Statistics, March 11, 2003
Ranked 12th.
Ranked 2nd. 13 times more than Italy
Fax machines
25.45 per 1,000 people
55.28 per 1,000 people
SOURCE:
The Information for Development Program
Ranked 14th.
Ranked 2nd. 117% more than Italy
Films produced
134
611
DEFINITION:
Amount of films created in specified country as catalogued by IMDB
SOURCE:
Internet Movie Database 2003
Ranked 6th.
Ranked 2nd. 4 times more than Italy
Households with television > %
94.9 %
97.84 %
DEFINITION:
Households with television are the share of households with a television set. Some countries report only the number of households with a color television set, and therefore the true number may be higher than reported.
SOURCE:
World Development Indicators database
Ranked 32nd in 2002.
Ranked 14th in 2002. 3% more than Italy
Mobile phones
92.65 per 100 people
48.81 per 100 people
DEFINITION:
Mobile cellular per 100 population (2002).
SOURCE:
International Telecommunication Union
Ranked 4th. 90% more than United States
Ranked 29th.
Newspapers and periodicals > Circulation > Daily
6,273,000
55,945,000
SOURCE:
Source: UNESCO UIS Data | UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Ranked 10th in 2000.
Ranked 3rd in 2000. 8 times more than Italy
Newspapers and periodicals > Number of titles > Daily
89
1,476
SOURCE:
Source: UNESCO UIS Data | UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Ranked 20th in 2000.
Ranked 1st in 2000. 16 times more than Italy
Personal computers (per capita)
312.0
per 1,000 people
762.2
per 1,000 people
DEFINITION:
Personal computers are self-contained computers designed to be used by a single individual. Per capita figures expressed per 1,000 population.
SOURCE:
World Development Indicators database
Ranked 28th in 2004.
Ranked 4th in 2004. 144% more than Italy
Phone subscribers
1,310.82
1,117.9
DEFINITION:
Fixed line and mobile telephones (per 1,000 people). Fixed lines are telephone mainlines connecting a customer's equipment to the public switched telephone network. Mobile phone subscribers refer to users of portable telephones subscribing to an automatic public mobile telephone service using cellular technology that provides access to the public switched telephone network.
Ranked 11th. 17% more than United States
Ranked 22nd.
Radios
50,500,000
575,000,000
SOURCE:
CIA World Factbook, December 2003
Ranked 10th.
Ranked 1st. 10 times more than Italy
Radio receivers
50,500,000
575,000,000
SOURCE:
Source: UNESCO UIS Data | UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Ranked 10th in 1997.
Ranked 1st in 1997. 10 times more than Italy
Televisions
30,300,000
219,000,000
DEFINITION:
The total number of televisions
SOURCE:
CIA World Factbook, December 2003
Ranked 10th.
Ranked 2nd. 6 times more than Italy
Television receivers
30,300,000
219,000,000
SOURCE:
Source: UNESCO UIS Data | UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Ranked 10th in 1997.
Ranked 2nd in 1997. 6 times more than Italy
Television viewing
27 hours per person per wee
28 hours per person per wee
DEFINITION:
Mean hours of television watched by each person per week.
SOURCE:
Figures for European countries are from Andries van den Broek, 'Leisure across Europe. Comparing 14 populations, conveying 1 pattern' (Paper to International Association for Time Use Research, Annual Conference, Lisbon, 2002). The American figure is from Sanchez-Tabernero, Media Concentration in Europe. The Australian figure is from Australian Commercial Television 1986-1995 (Bureau of Transport and Communication Economics, AGPS, Canberra, 1996)
Ranked 3rd.
Ranked 1st. 4% more than Italy
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