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Sub-Saharan Africa Compared by Media > Telephones > Main lines in use

DEFINITION: The total number of main telephone lines in use.

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# COUNTRY AMOUNT DATE GRAPH HISTORY
1 South Africa 4.13 million 2011
2 Ethiopia 829,000 2011
3 Nigeria 719,400 2011
4 Cameroon 669,000 2011
5 Sudan 483,600 2011
6 Uganda 464,800 2011
7 Mauritius 374,600 2011
8 Zimbabwe 356,000 2011
9 Senegal 346,400 2011
10 Angola 303,200 2011
11 Ghana 284,700 2011
12 Kenya 283,500 2011
13 Cote d'Ivoire 268,200 2011
14 Togo 240,000 2011
15 Malawi 173,500 2011
16 Tanzania 161,100 2011
17 Benin 152,700 2011
18 Botswana 149,600 2011
19 Burkina Faso 141,500 2011
20 Namibia 140,000 2011
21 Madagascar 138,100 2011
22 Mali 104,700 2011
23 Somalia 100,000 2010
24 Mozambique 88,100 2011
25 Niger 85,900 2011
26 Zambia 85,700 2011
27 Swaziland 75,800 2011
28 Cape Verde 74,500 2011
29 Mauritania 72,300 2011
30 Eritrea 58,500 2011
31 Democratic Republic of the Congo 57,000 2011
32 The Gambia 50,400 2011
33 Rwanda 38,900 2011
34 Lesotho 38,600 2011
35 Chad 31,200 2011
36 Burundi 30,000 2011
37 Seychelles 27,900 2011
38 Comoros 23,600 2011
39 Gabon 22,500 2011
40 Djibouti 18,400 2011
41 Guinea 18,000 2011
42 Sierra Leone 14,000 2010
43 Equatorial Guinea 13,500 2010
44 Sao Tome and Principe 8,000 2011
45 Central African Republic 5,400 2011
46 Guinea-Bissau 5,000 2010
47 Liberia 3,200 2011

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