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Average cost of local call	0.07		[76th of 151]
Book production, titles by the Universal Decimal Classification > Applied sciences	12,155		[2nd of 77]
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Book production, titles by the Universal Decimal Classification > Literature	11,924		[5th of 77]
SOURCE: Source: UNESCO UIS Data | UNESCO Institute for Statistics		View time series
Book production, titles by the Universal Decimal Classification > Religion, theology	1,078		[10th of 73]
SOURCE: Source: UNESCO UIS Data | UNESCO Institute for Statistics		View time series
Cable TV subscribers	147		[12th of 18]
DEFINITION: Cable TV subscribers per 1000 population .
SOURCE: Source: UNESCO UIS Data | UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Cinema attendance	145,000,000		[6th of 78]
SOURCE: OECD Communications Outlook 2005
Fax machines	93.31 per 1,000 people		[1st of 103]
SOURCE: UNESCO Institute for Statistics, March 11, 2003
Films produced	310		[3rd of 50]
DEFINITION: Amount of films created in specified country as catalogued by IMDB
SOURCE: The Information for Development Program
Households with television > %	99 %		[5th of 160]
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.		View time series
SOURCE: Internet Movie Database 2003
Mobile phone subscribers	94,745,000		[4th of 198]
DEFINITION: Mobile telephone subscribers are subscribers to a public mobile telephone service using cellular technology.		View time series
SOURCE: World Development Indicators database
Mobile phones	62.11 per 100 people		[26th of 43]
DEFINITION: Mobile cellular per 100 population (2002).
SOURCE: World Development Indicators database
Newspapers and periodicals > Circulation > Daily	71,896,000		[2nd of 90]
SOURCE: International Telecommunication Union		View time series
Newspapers and periodicals > Number of titles > Daily	110		[13th of 106]
SOURCE: Source: UNESCO UIS Data | UNESCO Institute for Statistics		View time series
Number of PCs	69,200		[1st of 169]
DEFINITION: The number of PC(personal computer) thousands in 2004.
SOURCE: Source: UNESCO UIS Data | UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Phone subscribers	1,184.84		[19th of 178]
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.
SOURCE: ITU
Radio receivers	120,500,000		[3rd of 188]
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Radios	120,500,000		[3rd of 221]
SOURCE: Source: UNESCO UIS Data | UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Television receivers	86,500,000		[3rd of 185]
SOURCE: CIA World Factbook, December 2003		View time series
Televisions	86,500,000		[3rd of 215]
DEFINITION: The total number of televisions
SOURCE: Source: UNESCO UIS Data | UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Website defacements	169		[9th of 129]
SOURCE: CIA World Factbook, December 2003

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