asked the Taoiseach if he will give particulars of telephone statistics for the latest available date in the form of a reply of 3rd April 1962.
Written Answers. - Telephone Statistics.
62.
The information requested by the Deputy which has been extracted from "The World Telephones 1962" issued by the American Telephone and Telegraph Company and which, in general, relates to 1st January 1962, is as follows:—
|
Area |
Telephones per 1,000 population |
|
NORTH AMERICA |
|
|
Canada |
326.6 |
|
Greenland |
— |
|
St. Pierre & Miquelon |
79.4 |
|
United States (1) |
418.0 |
|
MIDDLE AMERICA |
|
|
Bahamas |
121.4 |
|
Barbados |
44.7 |
|
Bermuda |
320.0 |
|
British Honduras |
11.1 |
|
Canal Zone (2) |
368.8 |
|
Cayman Islands |
3.6 |
|
Costa Rica |
13.3 |
|
Cuba |
30.2 |
|
Dominican Republic |
6.8 |
|
El Salvador |
7.1 |
|
Guadeloupe & Dependencies |
14.1 |
|
Guatemala (Est.) |
5.2 |
|
Haiti |
1.2 |
|
Honduras |
3.0 |
|
Jamaica |
23.3 |
|
Leeward Islands |
|
|
Antigua |
15.2 |
|
Monserrat |
16.5 |
|
St. Kitts |
6.9 |
|
Total |
11.5 |
|
Martinique |
22.7 |
|
Mexico |
15.5 |
|
Netherlands Antilles |
75.2 |
|
Nicaragua |
6.0 |
|
Panama |
29.7 |
|
Puerto Rico |
45.0 |
|
Trinidad & Tobago |
36.2 |
|
Turks & Caicoa Islands |
21.7 |
|
Virgin Islands (UK) |
3.9 |
|
Virgin Islands (US) |
126.0 |
|
Windward Islands: |
|
|
Dominica |
11.1 |
|
Grenada |
18.0 |
|
St. Lucia |
9.4 |
|
St. Vincent |
6.6 |
|
Total |
11.4 |
|
SOUTH AMERICA |
|
|
Argentina |
64.0 |
|
Bolivia |
5.2 |
|
Brazil |
14.2 |
|
British Guiana |
15.4 |
|
Chile |
25.8 |
|
Colombia |
22.1 |
|
Ecuador |
6.8 |
|
Falkland Islands & Dependencies |
220.0 |
|
French Guiana |
32.7 |
|
Paraguay |
6.2 |
|
Peru |
9.4 |
|
Surinam |
20.0 |
|
Uruguay |
47.4 |
|
Venezuela |
27.2 |
|
EUROPE |
|
|
Albania (Est.) |
3.6 |
|
Andorra (Est.) |
22.2 |
|
Austria |
106.0 |
|
Belgium |
131.3 |
|
Bulgaria (3) |
7.7 |
|
Channel Islands |
|
|
Guernsey & Dependencies |
281.3 |
|
Jersey |
300.7 |
|
Total |
292.6 |
|
Czechoslovakia |
80.6 |
|
Denmark |
242.8 |
|
Finland |
146.1 |
|
France |
100.7 |
|
Germany, Democratic Republic |
80.0 |
|
Germany, Federal Republic |
115.0 |
|
Gibraltar (4) |
124.5 |
|
Greece |
31.9 |
|
Hungary (5) |
35.5 |
|
Iceland |
234.1 |
|
Ireland |
58.3 |
|
Italy |
85.3 |
|
Liechtenstein |
280.2 |
|
Luxembourg |
182.4 |
|
Malta and Gozo (6) |
51.8 |
|
Monaco (Est.) |
409.1 |
|
Netherlands |
148.5 |
|
Norway |
213.3 |
|
Poland |
31.8 |
|
Portugal |
46.2 |
|
Rumania |
11.6 |
|
San Marino |
52.7 |
|
Spain |
63.7 |
|
Sweden |
385.1 |
|
Switzerland |
319.0 |
|
Turkey |
8.9 |
|
USSR |
23.3 |
|
United Kingdom (6) |
162.5 |
|
Yugoslavia |
14.6 |
|
AFRICA |
|
|
Algeria |
18.1 |
|
Angola |
2.0 |
|
Ascension Island (4) |
95.8 |
|
Basutoland |
1.4 |
|
Bechuanaland |
2.8 |
|
Burundi |
1.0 |
|
Cameroon (Est.) |
1.9 |
|
Cape Verde Islands |
1.1 |
|
Central African Republic |
1.0 |
|
Chad |
0.7 |
|
Comoro Islands (Est.) |
0.3 |
|
Congo (Brazzaville) |
6.3 |
|
Congo (Léopoldville) (Est.) |
2.1 |
|
Dahomey |
1.0 |
|
Egypt, United Arab Republic (Est.) |
9.1 |
|
Ethiopia |
0.6 |
|
Gabon |
4.5 |
|
Gambia (Est.) |
2.4 |
|
Ghana |
3.7 |
|
Guinea (Est.) |
1.3 |
|
Ifni |
2.4 |
|
Ivory Coast |
2.8 |
|
Kenya |
5.8 |
|
Liberia |
1.7 |
|
Libya |
10.1 |
|
Malagasy |
2.6 |
|
Mali (Est.) |
0.7 |
|
Mauritania (Est.) |
0.4 |
|
Mauritius & Dependencies |
14.2 |
|
Morocco |
10.8 |
|
Mozambique |
2.0 |
|
Niger (Est.) |
0.5 |
|
Nigeria |
1.3 |
|
Portuguese Guinea |
0.7 |
|
Réunion |
19.1 |
|
Rhodesia & Nyasaland |
|
|
Northern Rhodesia |
10.0 |
|
Nyasaland |
1.9 |
|
Southern Rhodesia |
26.3 |
|
Total |
13.3 |
|
Rwanda |
0.2 |
|
Sahara, Spanish (Est.) |
12.0 |
|
St. Helena |
26.4 |
|
Sao Tomé & Principe |
5.8 |
|
Sénégal |
7.5 |
|
Seychelles & Dependencies |
5.2 |
|
Sierra Leone |
1.8 |
|
Somalia |
1.0 |
|
Somaliland, French |
12.0 |
|
South Africa (6) |
58.9 |
|
South West Africa |
32.4 |
|
Spanish Equatorial Region |
5.0 |
|
Spanish North Africa |
50.2 |
|
Sudan |
2.2 |
|
Swaziland |
7.5 |
|
Tanganyika |
1.7 |
|
Togo |
1.5 |
|
Tunisia |
6.5 |
|
Uganda |
2.0 |
|
Upper Volta (Est.) |
0.3 |
|
Zanzibar & Pemba |
5.5 |
|
ASIA |
|
|
Aden Colony |
26.7 |
|
Aden Protectorate |
— |
|
Afghanistan (7) |
0.5 |
|
Bahrain |
26.5 |
|
Bhutan |
— |
|
Brunei |
9.0 |
|
Burma |
0.8 |
|
Cambodia |
0.7 |
|
Ceylon |
3.2 |
|
China, Mainland (3) |
0.5 |
|
China, Taiwan |
9.8 |
|
Cyprus |
32.9 |
|
Hong Kong |
39.8 |
|
India (6) |
1.2 |
|
Indonesia |
1.3 |
|
Iran (Est.) |
6.7 |
|
Iraq (6) |
7.6 |
|
Israel |
59.3 |
|
Japan (6) |
67.3 |
|
Jordan (Est.) |
13.5 |
|
Korea, Republic of |
4.7 |
|
Kuwait |
47.5 |
|
Laos |
0.4 |
|
Lebanon |
40.6 |
|
Macao |
11.7 |
|
Malaya |
11.4 |
|
Maldive Islands |
— |
|
Mongolia |
9.6 |
|
Muscat and Oman |
0.5 |
|
Nepál |
0.3 |
|
North Borneo |
8.2 |
|
Pakistan (Est.) |
0.9 |
|
Philippine Republic) |
4.4 |
|
Portuguese Timor |
0.9 |
|
Qatar |
51.0 |
|
Ryukyu Islands (4) |
12.8 |
|
Sarawak |
6.7 |
|
Saudi Arabia (2) |
4.2 |
|
Sikkim |
— |
|
Singapore |
37.0 |
|
Syria |
12.4 |
|
Thailand |
1.7 |
|
Trucial Oman (Est.) |
11.6 |
|
Viet-Nam, Republic of |
1.2 |
|
West New Guinea |
3.2 |
|
Yemen |
— |
|
OCEANIA |
|
|
Australia |
219.2 |
|
British Solomon Islands |
3.5 |
|
Canton Island |
187.5 |
|
Caroline Islands |
10.9 |
|
Christmas Island |
26.0 |
|
Cocos (Keeling) Islands |
63.0 |
|
Cook Islands |
18.4 |
(1) Data for the State of Alaska include but not for the State of Hawaii, shown in Oceania.
(2) Data are for 30 June, 1961 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 1 January 1957.
(6) Data are for 31 March 1962.
(7) Data are for 1 January 1955.