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Average cost of local call	0.11		[30th of 151]
Book production, titles by the Universal Decimal Classification > Religion, theology	373		[17th of 73]
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Cable TV subscribers	199		[8th of 18]
DEFINITION: Cable TV subscribers per 1000 population .
SOURCE: Source: UNESCO UIS Data | UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Cinema attendance	15,800,000		[27th of 78]
SOURCE: OECD Communications Outlook 2005
Fax machines	41.63 per 1,000 people		[4th of 103]
SOURCE: UNESCO Institute for Statistics, March 11, 2003
Films produced	40		[21st of 50]
DEFINITION: Amount of films created in specified country as catalogued by IMDB
SOURCE: The Information for Development Program
Households with television > %	93.91 %		[33rd 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 phones	88.5 per 100 people		[6th of 43]
DEFINITION: Mobile cellular per 100 population (2002).
SOURCE: World Development Indicators database
Newspaper circulation	3,627,100		[11th of 51]
DEFINITION: A newspaper's circulation is the number of copies it distributes on an average day.Circulation is not always the same as copies sold, often called paid circulation, since some newspapers are distributed without cost to the reader.
SOURCE: International Telecommunication Union
Newspapers	90		[11th of 67]
DEFINITION: Daily newspapers
SOURCE: UNESCO Institute for Statistics, March 11, 2003
Newspapers and periodicals > Circulation > Daily	3,627,000		[16th of 90]
SOURCE: UNESCO Institute for Statistics, March 11, 2003		View time series
Newspapers and periodicals > Number of titles > Daily	90		[19th of 106]
SOURCE: Source: UNESCO UIS Data | UNESCO Institute for Statistics		View time series
Number of PCs	6,861		[20th of 169]
DEFINITION: The number of PC(personal computer) thousands in 2004.
SOURCE: Source: UNESCO UIS Data | UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Phone subscribers	1,529.41		[3rd 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	8,250,000		[37th of 188]
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Radios	8,250,000		[38th of 221]
SOURCE: Source: UNESCO UIS Data | UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Television broadcast stations	169		[10th 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	4,600,000		[33rd of 185]
SOURCE: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008		View time series
Television viewing	18 hours per person per wee		[13th of 13]
DEFINITION: Mean hours of television watched by each person per week.
SOURCE: Source: UNESCO UIS Data | UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Televisions	4,600,000		[34th of 215]
DEFINITION: The total number of televisions
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)

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