asked the Taoiseach if he will give such later information in relation to telephone statistics as is available in the form of a reply of 3rd April 1962.
Written Answers. - Telephone Statistics.
The information requested by the Deputy, which has been extracted form "The World's Telephones 1963" issued by the American Telephone and Telegraph Company and relates to 1st January, 1963, is as follows:
Area |
Telephones per 1,000 population |
NORTH AMERICA: |
|
Canada |
337.3 |
Greenland |
0 |
St. Pierre and Miquelon |
74.0 |
United States¹ |
430.5 |
MIDDLE AMERICA: |
|
Bahamas |
131.2 |
Barbados |
47.4 |
Bermuda4 |
372.3 |
British Honduras |
5.2 |
Canal Zone |
242.1 |
Cayman Islands |
3.6 |
Costa Rica |
14.3 |
Cuba (Est.) |
30.4 |
Dominican Republic |
7.6 |
El Salvador (Est.) |
7.0 |
Guadeloupe and Dependencies |
15.9 |
Guatemala |
4.7 |
Haiti (Est.) |
1.0 |
Honduras |
3.0 |
Jamaica |
24.5 |
Leeward Islands: |
|
Antigua |
17.7 |
Montserrat |
16.9 |
St. Kitts |
6.6 |
Total |
12.5 |
Martinique |
24.1 |
Mexico |
16.2 |
Netherlands Antilles |
80.8 |
Nicaragua |
7.3 |
Panama |
31.2 |
Puerto Rico |
56.5 |
Trinidad and Tobago (Est.) |
36.0 |
Turks and Caicos Islands |
21.7 |
Virgin Islands (UK) |
5.6 |
Virgin Islands (US) |
125.9 |
Windward Islands: |
|
Dominica |
12.4 |
Grenada |
18.9 |
St. Lucia |
9.9 |
St. Vincent |
7.3 |
Total |
12.2 |
SOUTH AMERICA: |
|
Argentina |
64.8 |
Bolivia (Est.) |
5.3 |
Brazil |
15.1 |
British Guiana |
15.1 |
Chile |
27.3 |
Colombia (Est.) |
23.4 |
Ecuador |
8.1 |
Falkland Islands and Dependencies |
215.0 |
French Guiana |
31.9 |
Paraguay |
6.5 |
Peru |
10.0 |
Surinam |
17.3 |
Uruguay |
61.1 |
Venezuela |
28.6 |
EUROPE: |
|
Albania (Est.) |
3.5 |
Andorra (Est.) |
20.0 |
Austria |
112.4 |
Belgium |
139.1 |
Bulgaria (Est.) |
25.7 |
Channel Islands: |
|
Guernsey and Dependencies |
296.6 |
Jersey |
315.6 |
Total |
307.7 |
Czechoslovakia |
86.8 |
Denmark |
253.9 |
Finland |
150.8 |
France |
105.2 |
Germany, Democratic Republic |
83.8 |
Germany, Federal Republic |
123.7 |
Gibraltar4 |
125.9 |
Greece |
35.8 |
Hungary |
47.6 |
Iceland |
239.6 |
Ireland |
64.2 |
Italy |
92.5 |
Liechtenstein |
292.7 |
Luxemburg |
194.9 |
Malta and Gozo5 |
54.9 |
Monaco |
481.7 |
Netherlands |
158.8 |
Norway |
221.2 |
Poland |
33.8 |
Portugal |
50.9 |
Rumania |
18.5 |
San Marino (Est.) |
61.8 |
Spain |
67.7 |
Sweden |
402.8 |
Switzerland |
329.0 |
Turkey |
9.1 |
USSR (Est.) |
25.9 |
United Kingdom5 |
167.2 |
Yugoslavia |
16.0 |
AFRICA: |
|
Algeria |
18.9 |
Angola |
2.2 |
Ascension Island4 |
221.1 |
Basutoland |
1.5 |
Bechuanaland |
3.2 |
Burundi |
0.9 |
Cameroon |
0.9 |
Cape Verde Islands |
1.1 |
Central African Republic |
1.2 |
Chad |
0.8 |
Comoro Islands |
0.3 |
Congo (Brazzaville) |
7.3 |
Congo (Leopoldville) (Est.) |
2.0 |
Dahomey |
1.0 |
Ethiopia |
0.7 |
Gabon |
5.3 |
Gambia |
3.1 |
Ghana |
4.0 |
Guinea (Est.) |
1.3 |
Ifni |
4.6 |
Ivory Coast |
3.1 |
Kenya |
4.9 |
Liberia (Est.) |
2.0 |
Libya (Est.) |
10.7 |
Malagasy |
2.8 |
Mali |
0.8 |
Mauritania (Est.) |
0.4 |
Mauritius and Dependencies |
14.5 |
Morocco |
10.7 |
Mozambique |
2.3 |
Niger |
0.5 |
Nigeria |
1.5 |
Portuguese Guinea |
0.9 |
Réunion |
19.7 |
Rhodesia and Nyasaland: |
|
Northern Rhodesia |
10.6 |
Nyasaland |
2.0 |
Southern Rhodesia |
22.5 |
Total |
12.8 |
Rwanda |
0.2 |
Sahara, Spanish |
21.6 |
St. Helena |
26.4 |
Sao Tomé and Principe |
6.6 |
Sénégal (Est.) |
7.6 |
Seychelles and Dependencies |
5.5 |
Sierra Leone (Est.) |
2.0 |
Somalia (Est.) |
1.0 |
Somaliland, French |
24.7 |
South Africa5 |
60.2 |
South West Africa |
32.7 |
Spanish Equatorial Region |
4.3 |
Spanish North Africa |
50.4 |
Sudan |
2.3 |
Swaziland |
8.8 |
Tanganyika |
1.8 |
Togo |
1.6 |
Tunisia |
7.0 |
Uganda |
2.1 |
United Arab Republic |
9.0 |
Upper Volta (Est.) |
0.3 |
Zanzibar and Pemba |
5.4 |
ASIA: |
|
Aden |
28.3 |
Afghanistan |
0.6 |
Bahrain |
28.3 |
Bhutan |
0 |
Brunei (Est.) |
9.9 |
Burma |
0.8 |
Cambodia |
0.6 |
Ceylon |
3.7 |
China, Mainland³ |
0.5 |
China, Taiwan |
10.5 |
Cyprus |
37.8 |
Hong Kong |
41.3 |
India5 |
1.3 |
Indonesia |
1.4 |
Iran (Est.) |
7.2 |
Iraq (Est.) |
8.4 |
Israel |
65.6 |
Japan5 |
77.2 |
Jordan (Est.) |
13.8 |
Korea, North |
N.A. |
Korea, Republic of |
5.3 |
Kuwait |
51.6 |
Laos |
0.4 |
Lebanon (Est.) |
40.6 |
Macao |
15.2 |
Malayasia, Federation of: |
|
Malaya |
12.2 |
Sabah |
9.6 |
Sarawak |
7.3 |
Malayasia, Federation of: |
|
Singapore |
38.6 |
Total |
16.1 |
Maldive Islands |
0 |
Mongolia |
10.3 |
Muscat and Oman |
0.5 |
Nepál |
0.1 |
Pakistan |
1.0 |
Philippine Republic |
4.6 |
Portuguese Timor |
1.0 |
Qatar |
63.6 |
Ryuku Islands4 (Est.) |
15.2 |
Saudi Arabia6 |
3.6 |
Sikkim |
0 |
South Arabia, Protectorate of |
0 |
Syria |
11.4 |
Thailand7 |
1.8 |
Trucial Oman |
5.2 |
Viet-Nam, Democratic Republic |
N.A. |
Viet-Nam, Republic of |
1.2 |
West Irian (Est.) |
3.6 |
Yemen |
0.1 |
OCEANIA |
|
Australia6 |
222.6 |
British Solomon Islands |
3.5 |
Canton Islands |
150.0 |
Caroline Islands |
13.9 |
Christmas Island6 |
32.2 |
Cocos (Keeling) Islands |
63.0 |
Cook Islands |
18.9 |
Fiji Islands |
20.2 |
Gilbert and Ellice Islands |
0 |
Guam |
245.0 |
Mariana Islands (less Guam) |
46.7 |
Marshall Islands |
74.1 |
Midway Islands |
408.3 |
Nauru |
0 |
New Caledonia and Dependencies |
48.2 |
New Hebrides Candominium |
6.7 |
New Zealand5 |
335.8 |
Niue Island |
20.4 |
Norfolk Island |
37.0 |
Papua and New Guinea |
3.7 |
Pitcairn Island |
0 |
Polynesia, French |
22.1 |
Samoa, American |
26.2 |
Samoa, Western |
9.6 |
Tokelau Islands |
0 |
Tonga (Friendly) Islands |
9.2 |
United States: Hawaii |
383.4 |
Wake Island |
105.6 |
¹Data for the State of Alaska included but not for the State of Hawaii, shown in Oceania.
²Data are for 30 June, 1962 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 1963
6 Data are for 30 June 1962.
7 Data are for 30 September 1962.