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Media > Telecommunications > Telephone Stats: compare key data on North Korea & South Korea

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STAT North Korea South Korea HISTORY
International calling code 850
Ranked 30th. 10 times more than South Korea
82
Ranked 45th.
Landlines 1.18 million
Ranked 71st.
29.47 million
Ranked 11th. 25 times more than North Korea
Main fixed phone lines per 100 people 4.77
Ranked 144th.
61.42
Ranked 5th. 13 times more than North Korea

Mobile phone > Mobile phones 2 million
Ranked 63th.
52.51 million
Ranked 26th. 26 times more than North Korea
Mobile phone > Mobile-cellular telephone subscriptions 1.7 million
Ranked 145th.
53.62 million
Ranked 26th. 32 times more than North Korea

Mobile phone > Mobile-cellular telephone subscriptions per thousand people 68.65
Ranked 196th.
1,072.4
Ranked 91st. 16 times more than North Korea

SOURCES: Wikipedia: Telephone numbers in Asia (States and territories with country calling codes); Wikipedia: List of countries by number of telephone lines in use; International Telecommunications Union; Wikipedia: List of countries by number of mobile phones in use; International Telecommunications Union. Source tables; International Telecommunications Union. Source tables. Population figures from World Bank: (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects, (2) United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Report (various years), (3) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (4) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (5) Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Statistics and Demography Programme, and (6) U.S. Census Bureau: International Database.

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