List by rank

Rank		Country	Value
116		Afghanistan	280,000
223		Akrotiri	NA
106		Albania	353,600
51		Algeria	2,841,000
198		American Samoa	10,400
170		Andorra	35,400
140		Angola	98,200
207		Anguilla	6,200
222		Antarctica	0
165		Antigua and Barbuda	40,000
26		Argentina	9,460,000
93		Armenia	594,400
166		Aruba	38,300
25		Australia	9,940,000
42		Austria	3,564,000
71		Azerbaijan	1,189,000
132		Bahamas, The	133,100
124		Bahrain	193,300
73		Bangladesh	1,134,000
131		Barbados	134,900
43		Belarus	3,368,000
35		Belgium	4,719,000
173		Belize	33,900
150		Benin	76,300
156		Bermuda	57,700
176		Bhutan	31,500
89		Bolivia	646,300
77		Bosnia and Herzegovina	989,000
130		Botswana	136,900
223		Bouvet Island	NA
9		Brazil	38,800,000
223		British Indian Ocean Territory	NA
196		British Virgin Islands	11,700
148		Brunei	80,200
53		Bulgaria	2,399,000
141		Burkina Faso	94,800
97		Burma	503,900
177		Burundi	31,100
174		Cambodia	32,800
138		Cameroon	100,300
15		Canada	20,780,000
153		Cape Verde	71,600
167		Cayman Islands	38,000
200		Central African Republic	10,000
194		Chad	13,000
45		Chile	3,326,000
2		China	368,000,000
223		Christmas Island	NA
220		Cocos (Keeling) Islands	287
27		Colombia	7,865,000
191		Comoros	16,900
201		Congo, Democratic Republic of the	9,700
192		Congo, Republic of the	15,900
207		Cook Islands	6,200
223		Coral Sea Islands	NA
67		Costa Rica	1,351,000
118		Cote d'Ivoire	260,900
60		Croatia	1,832,000
80		Cuba	972,900
103		Cyprus	408,300
47		Czech Republic	3,217,300
48		Denmark	3,098,000
223		Dhekelia	NA
197		Djibouti	10,800
187		Dominica	21,000
82		Dominican Republic	897,000
62		Ecuador	1,754,000
23		Egypt	10,808,000
75		El Salvador	1,037,000
200		Equatorial Guinea	10,000
168		Eritrea	37,700
95		Estonia	541,900
85		Ethiopia	725,000
3		European Union	238,000,000
214		Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)	2,400
184		Faroe Islands	23,000
134		Fiji	112,500
58		Finland	1,920,000
10		France	34,630,000
158		French Polynesia	53,600
223		French Southern and Antarctic Lands	NA
169		Gabon	36,500
159		Gambia, The	52,900
108		Gaza Strip	349,000
94		Georgia	553,100
6		Germany	54,200,000
105		Ghana	356,400
182		Gibraltar	24,512
31		Greece	6,185,000
180		Greenland	25,300
178		Grenada	27,700
149		Guam	80,000
66		Guatemala	1,355,000
163		Guernsey	45,100
179		Guinea	26,300
199		Guinea-Bissau	10,200
135		Guyana	110,100
128		Haiti	145,300
223		Heard Island and McDonald Islands	NA
209		Holy See (Vatican City)	5,120
86		Honduras	708,400
40		Hong Kong	3,850,000
44		Hungary	3,350,000
123		Iceland	193,700
7		India	49,750,000
19		Indonesia	14,821,000
14		Iran	21,981,000
65		Iraq	1,547,000
55		Ireland	2,097,000
161		Isle of Man	51,000
49		Israel	3,005,000
13		Italy	25,049,000
112		Jamaica	319,000
223		Jan Mayen	NA
5		Japan	55,155,000
151		Jersey	73,900
91		Jordan	614,000
50		Kazakhstan	2,928,000
113		Kenya	293,400
211		Kiribati	4,500
79		Korea, North	980,000
12		Korea, South	26,866,000
96		Kuwait	510,300
101		Kyrgyzstan	440,400
143		Laos	90,067
88		Latvia	657,400
87		Lebanon	681,400
162		Lesotho	48,000
205		Liberia	6,900
100		Libya	483,000
189		Liechtenstein	20,000
84		Lithuania	792,400
120		Luxembourg	246,700
125		Macau	176,700
99		Macedonia	490,900
133		Madagascar	129,800
137		Malawi	102,700
37		Malaysia	4,342,000
175		Maldives	32,500
144		Mali	82,500
122		Malta	202,300
211		Marshall Islands	4,500
171		Mauritania	34,900
104		Mauritius	357,300
200		Mayotte	10,000
16		Mexico	19,861,000
195		Micronesia, Federated States of	12,400
76		Moldova	1,018,000
172		Monaco	34,000
127		Mongolia	156,000
107		Montenegro	353,300
223		Montserrat	NA
70		Morocco	1,266,000
154		Mozambique	67,000
129		Namibia	138,900
216		Nauru	1,900
92		Nepal	595,800
28		Netherlands	7,600,000
147		Netherlands Antilles	81,000
157		New Caledonia	55,300
63		New Zealand	1,729,000
119		Nicaragua	247,900
183		Niger	24,000
64		Nigeria	1,688,000
217		Niue	1,100
212		Norfolk Island	2,532
187		Northern Mariana Islands	21,000
57		Norway	2,055,000
117		Oman	278,300
32		Pakistan	5,240,000
206		Palau	6,700
102		Panama	432,900
155		Papua New Guinea	63,700
110		Paraguay	331,100
54		Peru	2,332,000
41		Philippines	3,633,000
221		Pitcairn Islands	1
22		Poland	11,475,000
38		Portugal	4,231,000
74		Puerto Rico	1,038,000
121		Qatar	228,300
38		Romania	4,231,000
8		Russia	40,100,000
186		Rwanda	22,000
223		Saint Barthelemy	NA
215		Saint Helena	2,200
181		Saint Kitts and Nevis	25,000
160		Saint Lucia	51,100
223		Saint Martin	NA
210		Saint Pierre and Miquelon	4,800
185		Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	22,600
190		Samoa	19,500
187		San Marino	21,000
203		Sao Tome and Principe	7,100
36		Saudi Arabia	4,500,000
114		Senegal	282,600
52		Serbia	2,719,000
188		Seychelles	20,700
183		Sierra Leone	24,000
59		Singapore	1,854,000
72		Slovakia	1,167,000
83		Slovenia	837,500
202		Solomon Islands	7,400
139		Somalia	100,000
34		South Africa	4,729,000
223		South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands	NA
18		Spain	18,385,000
56		Sri Lanka	2,087,000
90		Sudan	636,900
146		Suriname	81,500
223		Svalbard	NA
164		Swaziland	44,000
30		Sweden	6,379,000
33		Switzerland	5,040,000
46		Syria	3,243,000
20		Taiwan	14,497,000
115		Tajikistan	280,200
126		Tanzania	169,135
29		Thailand	7,073,000
213		Timor-Leste	2,500
145		Togo	82,100
219		Tokelau	300
193		Tonga	13,700
111		Trinidad and Tobago	325,500
69		Tunisia	1,268,000
17		Turkey	18,978,000
98		Turkmenistan	495,000
208		Turks and Caicos Islands	5,700
218		Tuvalu	900
136		Uganda	108,100
21		Ukraine	12,341,000
68		United Arab Emirates	1,310,000
11		United Kingdom	33,602,000
4		United States	172,000,000
78		Uruguay	987,000
61		Uzbekistan	1,793,000
204		Vanuatu	7,000
39		Venezuela	4,217,000
24		Vietnam	10,800,000
152		Virgin Islands	71,700
223		Wake Island	NA
216		Wallis and Futuna	1,900
108		West Bank	349,000
223		Western Sahara	NA
1		World	1,263,367,600
81		Yemen	968,400
142		Zambia	93,400
109		Zimbabwe	331,700

NOTE: The information regarding Telephones - main lines in use 2008 on this page is re-published from the CIA World Factbook 2008. No claims are made regarding theaccuracy of Telephones - main lines in use 2008 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Telephones - main lines in use 2008 should be addressed to the CIA.