asked the Taoiseach the number of telephones per thousand persons at the latest available date for every country for which statistics are available through OEEC, OECD and otherwise.
Written Answers. - Telephone Statistics.
78.
The information requested by the Deputy, which has been extracted from "The World Telephones 1961" issued by the American Telephone and Telegraph Company and relates to 1st January, 1961, is as follows:—
|
Area |
Telephones per 1,000 population |
|
NORTH AMERICA: |
|
|
Canada |
318.2 |
|
Greenland |
0 |
|
St. Pierre & Miquelon |
79.4 |
|
United States (1) |
408.0 |
|
MIDDLE AMERICA: |
|
|
Bahamas |
106.5 |
|
Bermuda |
306.7 |
|
British Honduras |
10.9 |
|
Canal Zone (2) |
363.9 |
|
Costa Rica |
13.3 |
|
Cuba |
29.4 |
|
Dominican Republic |
6.7 |
|
El Salvador |
6.1 |
|
Guadeloupe & Dependencies |
12.2 |
|
Guatemala |
4.7 |
|
Haiti |
1.3 |
|
Honduras |
3.0 |
|
Martinique |
21.3 |
|
Mexico |
14.8 |
|
Netherlands Antilles (Est.) |
68.6 |
|
Nicaragua |
5.5 |
|
Panama |
26.8 |
|
Puerto Rico |
40.2 |
|
Virgin Islands (U.K.) |
0.4 |
|
Virgin Islands (U.S.) |
122.0 |
|
West Indies Federation: |
|
|
Antigua |
14.7 |
|
Barbados |
40.8 |
|
Cayman Islands |
5.9 |
|
Dominica |
11.0 |
|
Grenada |
16.5 |
|
Jamaica |
20.6 |
|
Montserrat |
11.7 |
|
St. Kitts |
7.0 |
|
St. Lucia |
8.6 |
|
St. Vincent |
5.6 |
|
Trinidad & Tobago |
37.1 |
|
Turks & Caicos Islands |
21.7 |
|
SOUTH AMERICA |
|
|
Argentina |
61.3 |
|
Bolivia (Est.) |
6.9 |
|
Brazil |
15.4 |
|
British Guiana |
14.2 |
|
Chile |
26.3 |
|
Colombia |
20.6 |
|
Ecuador |
6.7 |
|
Falkland Islands and Dependencies |
220.0 |
|
French Guiana |
32.4 |
|
Paraguay |
6.0 |
|
Peru |
9.9 |
|
Surinam |
18.9 |
|
Uruguay (Est.) |
49.7 |
|
Venezuela |
29.8 |
|
EUROPE |
|
|
Albania (Est.) |
3.5 |
|
Andorra |
25.0 |
|
Austria |
98.8 |
|
Belgium |
124.5 |
|
Bulgaria (3) |
7.7 |
|
Channel Islands: |
|
|
Guernsey & Dependencies |
268.0 |
|
Jersey |
282.5 |
|
Total |
276.3 |
|
Czechoslovakia |
74.2 |
|
Denmark |
231.9 |
|
Finland |
135.5 |
|
France |
95.3 |
|
Germany, Democratic Republic |
75.4 |
|
Germany, Federal Republic |
107.1 |
|
Gibraltar (4) |
106.0 |
|
Greece |
26.6 |
|
Hungary (Est.) |
47.4 |
|
Iceland |
223.1 |
|
Ireland |
53.4 |
|
Italy |
78.0 |
|
Liechtenstein |
252.1 |
|
Luxemburg |
163.1 |
|
Malta and Goso (5) |
48.8 |
|
Monaco |
390.0 |
|
Netherlands |
139.6 |
|
Norway (2) |
201.9 |
|
Poland |
29.5 |
|
Portugal |
43.1 |
|
Rumania (6) |
7.7 |
|
San Marino |
32.7 |
|
Spain |
59.3 |
|
Sweden |
368.1 |
|
Switzerland |
306.5 |
|
Turkey (Est.) |
11.0 |
|
U.S.S.R. (Est.) |
19.9 |
|
United Kingdom (5) |
156.9 |
|
Yugoslavia |
13.8 |
|
AFRICA |
|
|
Algeria, 13 Depts. |
18.6 |
|
Sahara, 2 Depts. |
4.5 |
|
Total |
17.9 |
|
Angola |
1.9 |
|
Ascension Island |
133.6 |
|
Basutoland |
1.2 |
|
Bechuanaland |
2.3 |
|
Cameroon |
1.7 |
|
Cape Verde Islands |
0.9 |
|
Central African Republic |
1.1 |
|
Chad |
0.6 |
|
Comoro Islands |
0.2 |
|
Congo Republic (Formerly Belgian). |
2.0 |
|
Congo Republic |
5.9 |
|
Dahomey |
1.0 |
|
Egypt, United Arab Republic (Est.) |
9.4 |
|
Ethiopia |
0.6 |
|
Gabon |
4.2 |
|
Gambia |
2.2 |
|
Ghana |
3.4 |
|
Guinea (Est.) |
1.0 |
|
Ifni (Est.) |
2.7 |
|
Ivory Coast |
2.1 |
|
Kenya |
6.2 |
|
Liberia (Est.) |
1.6 |
|
Libya (Est.) |
12.1 |
|
Malagasy |
2.6 |
|
Mali, Republic of (Est.) |
0.7 |
|
Mauritania (Est.) |
0.4 |
|
Mauritius & Dependencies |
13.9 |
|
Morocco |
11.1 |
|
Mozambique |
1.9 |
|
Niger |
0.5 |
|
Nigeria |
1.2 |
|
Portuguese Guinea |
0.7 |
|
Reunion |
18.0 |
|
Rhodesia & Nyasaland: |
|
|
Northern Rhodesia |
9.3 |
|
Nyasaland |
1.8 |
|
Southern Rhodesia |
25.8 |
|
Total |
12.9 |
|
Ruanda-Urundi |
0.5 |
|
Sahara, Spanish |
9.6 |
|
St. Helena |
24.8 |
|
Suo Tomé & Principe |
5.6 |
|
Sénégal (Est.) |
5.3 |
|
Seychelles & Dependencies |
5.0 |
|
Sierra Leone (Est.) |
1.9 |
|
Somalia |
1.0 |
|
Somaliland, French |
12.0 |
|
South Africa, Republic of (5) |
59.2 |
|
South West Africa |
31.8 |
|
Spanish Equatorial Region |
5.0 |
|
Spanish North Africa |
49.7 |
|
Sudan |
2.1 |
|
Swaziland |
7.0 |
|
Tanganyika |
1.6 |
|
Togo |
1.2 |
|
Tunisia |
6.2 |
|
Uganda |
2.0 |
|
Upper Volta |
0.3 |
|
Zanzibar & Pemba |
5.8 |
|
ASIA: |
|
|
Aden Colony |
35.3 |
|
Aden Protectorate |
0 |
|
Afghanistan (Est.) |
0.6 |
|
Bahrein |
24.7 |
|
Bhutan |
0 |
|
Brunei |
8.3 |
|
Burma (Est.) |
0.6 |
|
Cambodia |
0.6 |
|
Ceylon |
3.8 |
|
China, Mainland (3) |
0.5 |
|
China, Taiwan |
9.1 |
|
Cyprus |
31.4 |
|
Hong Kong |
36.1 |
|
India (5) |
1.1 |
|
Indonesia |
1.3 |
|
Iran (Est.) |
5.2 |
|
Iraq (5) |
7.6 |
|
Israel |
54.7 |
|
Japan (5) |
58.8 |
|
Jordan (Est.) |
14.1 |
|
Korea, Republic of |
4.4 |
|
Kuwait |
62.8 |
|
Laos |
0.4 |
|
Lebanon |
39.8 |
|
Macao |
10.6 |
|
Malaya |
10.9 |
|
Maldive Islands |
0 |
|
Mongolia, Outer |
7.8 |
|
Muscatan and Oman |
0.4 |
|
Nepal |
0 |
|
Netherlands New Guinea |
3.2 |
|
North Borneo |
7.2 |
|
Pakistan |
0.8 |
|
Philippine Republic |
4.1 |
|
Portuguese India |
0.9 |
|
Portuguese Timor |
1.0 |
|
Qatar |
46.7 |
|
Ryukyu Islands (4) |
12.4 |
|
Sarawak |
5.9 |
|
Saudi Arabia (Est.) |
4.0 |
|
Sikkim |
0 |
|
Singapore |
35.9 |
|
Syria |
12.0 |
|
Thailand |
1.7 |
|
Tracial Oman |
5.8 |
|
Viet-Nam, Republic of |
1.1 |
|
Yemen |
0 |
|
OCEANIA: |
|
|
Australia |
213.2 |
|
British Solomon Islands |
2.8 |
|
Caroline Islands |
5.8 |
|
Christmas Islands |
16.7 |
|
Cocos (Keeling) Islands |
61.0 |
|
Cook Islands |
15.9 |
|
Fiji Islands |
18.0 |
|
Gilbert and Ellice Islands |
0 |
|
Guam |
215.2 |
|
Mariana Islands (less Guam) |
43.8 |
|
Marshall Islands |
48.4 |
|
Midway Islands |
378.3 |
|
Nauru |
0 |
|
New Caledonia & Dependencies. |
43.1 |
|
New Hebrides Condominium |
5.7 |
|
New Zealand (5) |
308.5 |
|
Niue Island |
17.6 |
|
Norfolk Island |
34.0 |
|
Papua and New Guinea |
3.1 |
|
Pitcairn Island |
0 |
|
Polynesia, French |
16.2 |
|
Samoa, American |
18.5 |
|
Samoa, Western |
8.3 |
|
Tokelau Islands |
0 |
|
Tonga (Friendly) Islands |
10.0 |
|
United States: Hawaii |
369.7 |
|
Wake Island |
120.0 |
(1) Date for the State of Alaska included but not for the State of Hawaii, shown in Oceania.
(2) Data are for 30 June 1960 and exclude telephones of the armed forces.
(3) Data are for 1 January 1948.
(4) Excluding telephones of the armed forces.
(5) Data are for 31 March 1961.
(6) Data are for 1 January 1947.