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Average cost of local call	0.02		[141st of 151]
Book production, titles by the Universal Decimal Classification > Applied sciences	614		[18th of 77]
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Book production, titles by the Universal Decimal Classification > Literature	998		[19th of 77]
SOURCE: Source: UNESCO UIS Data | UNESCO Institute for Statistics		View time series
Book production, titles by the Universal Decimal Classification > Religion, theology	547		[9th of 73]
SOURCE: Source: UNESCO UIS Data | UNESCO Institute for Statistics		View time series
Cinema attendance	336,000		[71st of 78]
SOURCE: Source: UNESCO UIS Data | UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Fax machines	4 per 1,000 people		[46th of 103]
SOURCE: UNESCO Institute for Statistics, March 11, 2003
Films produced	22		[30th of 50]
DEFINITION: Amount of films created in specified country as catalogued by IMDB
SOURCE: The Information for Development Program
Households with television > %	88.91 %		[57th 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	19,545,000		[21st 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	34.88 per 100 people		[33rd of 43]
DEFINITION: Mobile cellular per 100 population (2002).
SOURCE: World Development Indicators database
Newspapers and periodicals > Circulation > Daily	2,191,000		[22nd of 90]
SOURCE: International Telecommunication Union		View time series
Newspapers and periodicals > Number of titles > Daily	31		[35th of 106]
SOURCE: Source: UNESCO UIS Data | UNESCO Institute for Statistics		View time series
Number of PCs	4,900		[23rd of 169]
DEFINITION: The number of PC(personal computer) thousands in 2004.
SOURCE: Source: UNESCO UIS Data | UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Phone subscribers	509.92		[60th 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	9,100,000		[34th of 188]
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Radios	10,900,000		[34th of 221]
SOURCE: Source: UNESCO UIS Data | UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Television broadcast stations	88		[7th of 89]
DEFINITION: This entry gives the total number of separate broadcast stations plus any repeater stations.		View time series
SOURCE: CIA World Factbook, December 2003
Television receivers	3,600,000		[41st of 185]
SOURCE: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008		View time series
Televisions	10,800,000		[20th of 215]
DEFINITION: The total number of televisions
SOURCE: Source: UNESCO UIS Data | UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Website defacements	118		[17th of 129]
SOURCE: CIA World Factbook, December 2003

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