asked the Taoiseach if he will give such later information in relation to telephone statistics as may be available in the form of the reply to Question No. 79 of 3rd March, 1964.
Written Answers. - Telephone Statistics.
87.
The information requested by the Deputy, which has been extracted from "The World's Telephones 1964" issued by the American Telephone and Telegraph Company and relates to 1st January, 1964, is as follows:
|
Area |
Telephones per 1,000 population |
|
NORTH AMERICA: |
|
|
Canada |
348.9 |
|
Greenland |
0 |
|
St. Pierre and Miquelon |
80.0 |
|
United States 1 |
442.6 |
|
MIDDLE AMERICA: |
|
|
Bahamas |
120.5 |
|
Barbados |
52.2 |
|
Bermuda 4 |
389.4 |
|
British Honduras |
9.7 |
|
Canal Zone 2 |
231.7 |
|
Cayman Islands |
4.0 |
|
Costa Rica (Est.) |
14.9 |
|
Cuba |
30.8 |
|
Dominican Republic |
8.1 |
|
E1 Salvador (Est.) |
7.4 |
|
Guadeloupe and Dependencies |
17.8 |
|
Guatemala (Est.) |
4.8 |
|
Haiti |
1.0 |
|
Honduras |
4.5 |
|
Jamaica |
25.2 |
|
Leeward Islands: |
|
|
Antigua |
19.1 |
|
Montserrat (Est.) |
16.9 |
|
St. Kitts |
10.6 |
|
Total |
15.0 |
|
Martinique |
25.3 |
|
Mexico |
16.9 |
|
Netherlands Antilles |
83.9 |
|
Nicaragua (Est.) |
8.9 |
|
Panama |
32.8 |
|
Puerto Rico |
67.7 |
|
Trinidad and Tobago |
37.6 |
|
Turks and Caicos Islands |
21.7 |
|
Virgin Islands (UK) |
9.3 |
|
Virgin Islands (US) |
183.3 |
|
Windward Islands: |
|
|
Dominica |
13.1 |
|
Grenada |
19.4 |
|
St. Lucia |
10.3 |
|
St. Vincent |
6.5 |
|
Total |
12.4 |
|
SOUTH AMERICA: |
|
|
Argentina |
65.0 |
|
Bolivia (Est.) |
5.4 |
|
Brazil |
15.7 |
|
British Guiana (Est.) |
16.4 |
|
Chile |
28.3 |
|
Colombia |
24.4 |
|
Ecuador |
9.2 |
|
Falkland Islands and Dependencies |
223.5 |
|
French Guiana |
34.3 |
|
Paraguay |
6.6 |
|
Peru |
10.5 |
|
Surinam |
19.7 |
|
Uruguay |
66.0 |
|
Venezuela |
29.3 |
|
EUROPE: |
|
|
Albania (Est.) |
3.4 |
|
Andorra |
63.6 |
|
Austria |
120.4 |
|
Belgium |
147.0 |
|
Bulgaria |
27.8 |
|
Channel Islands: |
|
|
Guernsey and Dependencies |
311.4 |
|
Jersey |
333.0 |
|
Total |
323.7 |
|
Czechoslovakia |
92.7 |
|
Denmark |
263.4 |
|
Finland |
159.8 |
|
France |
110.9 |
|
Germany, Eastern |
88.2 |
|
Germany, Federal Republic |
131.2 |
|
Gilbraltar 4 |
145.7 |
|
Greece |
41.9 |
|
Hungary |
50.0 |
|
Iceland |
256.4 |
|
Ireland |
67.8 |
|
Italy |
99.9 |
|
Liechtenstein |
317.7 |
|
Luxemburg |
207.6 |
|
Malta |
64.1 |
|
Monaco (Est.) |
481.8 |
|
Netherlands |
168.0 |
|
Norway |
227.7 |
|
Poland |
35.2 |
|
Portugal |
53.5 |
|
Rumania (Est.) |
20.0 |
|
San Marino |
65.6 |
|
Spain |
73.2 |
|
Sweden |
422.5 |
|
Switzerland |
339.5 |
|
Turkey |
9.5 |
|
USSR (Est.) |
28.7 |
|
United Kingdom 5 |
174.1 |
|
Yugoslavia (Est.) |
17.2 |
|
AFRICA: |
|
|
Algeria |
15.2 |
|
Angola |
2.5 |
|
Ascension Island 4 |
178.2 |
|
Basutoland |
0.8 |
|
Bechuanaland |
2.5 |
|
Burundi (Est.) |
0.9 |
|
Cameroon |
0.9 |
|
Cape Verde Islands |
1.4 |
|
Central African Republic (Est.) |
1.8 |
|
Chad |
0.9 |
|
Comoro Islands |
1.3 |
|
Congo (Brazzaville) |
8.5 |
|
Congo (Leopoldville) (Est.) |
2.0 |
|
Dahomey |
1.4 |
|
Ethiopia |
0.8 |
|
Gabon |
6.1 |
|
Gambia |
2.7 |
|
Ghana |
4.1 |
|
Guinea (Est.) |
1.2 |
|
Ifni |
4.9 |
|
Ivory Coast (Est.) |
3.3 |
|
Kenya |
5.3 |
|
Liberia (Est.) |
2.7 |
|
Libya |
9.5 |
|
Malawi |
2.1 |
|
Mali |
0.9 |
|
Mauritania |
0.8 |
|
Mauritius and Dependencies |
15.7 |
|
Morocco |
1.1 |
|
Mozambique |
2.5 |
|
Niger (Est.) |
0.5 |
|
Nigeria |
1.1 |
|
Portuguese Guinea |
1.7 |
|
Réunion |
20.7 |
|
Rhodesia |
22.6 |
|
Rwanda |
0.2 |
|
Sahara, Spanish |
21.6 |
|
St. Helena |
27.6 |
|
Sao Tomé and Principe |
7.9 |
|
Sénégal |
7.1 |
|
Seychelles |
6.2 |
|
Sierra Leone (Est.) |
2.5 |
|
Somalia (Est.) |
1.1 |
|
Somaliland, French |
21.3 |
|
South Africa 5 |
61.6 |
|
South West Africa |
35.7 |
|
Spanish Equatorial Region |
4.5 |
|
Spanish North Africa |
50.8 |
|
Sudan |
2.5 |
|
Swaziland (Est.) |
10.1 |
|
Tanganyika and Zanzibar: |
|
|
Tanganyika |
1.9 |
|
Zanzibar |
5.8 |
|
Total |
2.0 |
|
Togo |
1.6 |
|
Tunisia |
6.9 |
|
Uganda |
2.3 |
|
United Arab Republic (Est.) |
9.3 |
|
Upper Volta (Est.) |
0.4 |
|
Zambia |
8.2 |
|
ASIA: |
|
|
Aden (Est.) |
29.5 |
|
Afghanistan (Est.) |
0.6 |
|
Bahrain |
31.0 |
|
Bhutan |
0 |
|
Brunei (Est.) |
12.8 |
|
Burma |
0.9 |
|
Cambodia |
0.6 |
|
Ceylon (Est.) |
3.8 |
|
China, Mainland 3 |
0.5 |
|
China, Taiwan |
11.2 |
|
Cyprus |
41.8 |
|
Hong Kong |
48.9 |
|
India 5 |
1.5 |
|
Indonesia |
1.5 |
|
Iran (Est.) |
7.1 |
|
Iraq 5 |
8.6 |
|
Israel |
76.3 |
|
Japan 5 |
110.6 |
|
Jordan (Est.) |
13.3 |
|
Korea, North |
N.A. |
|
Korea, Republic of |
6.2 |
|
Kuwait (Est.) |
51.1 |
|
Laos |
0.5 |
|
Lebanon (Est.) |
51.6 |
|
Macao |
15.2 |
|
Malaysia: |
|
|
Malaya |
12.8 |
|
Sabah |
10.0 |
|
Sarawak |
8.1 |
|
Singapore |
41.1 |
|
Total |
17.0 |
|
Maldive Islands |
0 |
|
Mongolia |
11.9 |
|
Muscat and Oman |
0.5 |
|
Nepal (Est.) |
0.2 |
|
Pakistan |
1.1 |
|
Philippine Republic |
4.8 |
|
Portuguese Timor |
1.0 |
|
Qatar |
73.3 |
|
Ryuku Islands 4 |
23.0 |
|
Saudi Arabia 6 (Est.) |
4.0 |
|
Sikkim |
1.5 |
|
South Arabia, Protectorate of |
0 |
|
Syria |
12.7 |
|
Thailand 7 |
1.9 |
|
Trucial Oman |
7.0 |
|
Viet-Nam, North |
N.A. |
|
Viet-Nam, Republic of (Est.) |
1.3 |
|
West Iran |
3.4 |
|
Yemen |
0.2 |
|
OCEANIA: |
|
|
Australia 6 |
231.1 |
|
British Solomon Islands |
3.8 |
|
Canton Islands |
200.0 |
|
Caroline Islands |
13.9 |
|
Christmas Island 6 |
30.0 |
|
Cocos (Keeling) Islands |
63.0 |
|
Cook Islands |
19.6 |
|
Fiji Islands |
20.6 |
|
Gilbert and Ellice Islands |
0 |
|
Guam |
207.0 |
|
Mariana Islands (less Guam) |
35.0 |
|
Marshall Islands |
59.6 |
|
Midway Islands |
410.0 |
|
Nauru |
0 |
|
New Caledonia |
45.4 |
|
New Hebrides Condominium |
7.7 |
|
New Zealand 5 |
350.0 |
|
Niue Island |
23.8 |
|
Norfolk Island |
33.0 |
|
Papua and New Guinea |
4.0 |
|
Pitcairn Island |
0 |
|
Polynesia, French |
24.8 |
|
Samoa, American |
31.0 |
|
Samoa, Western |
10.2 |
|
Tokelau Islands |
0 |
|
Tonga (Friendly) Islands |
9.0 |
|
United States: Hawaii |
392.1 |
|
Wake Island |
120.0 |
1. Data for the State of Alaska included but not for the State of Hawaii, shown in Oceania.
2. Data are for 30 June, 1963 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, 1964.
6. Data are for 30 June, 1963.
7. Data are for 30 September, 1963.