Central Africa
Central Africa’s fixed telephone networks by line count and density
Cameroon and Gabon had nearly identical fixed telephone subscription totals in 2024. Cameroon recorded 67,507 and Gabon 67,119. Gabon’s rate per 100 residents was more than eleven times Cameroon’s because their population denominators differed.
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Subscriptions
Scale · 0 to 67,507
Density
Scale · 0 per 100 to 2.64 per 100
Switch between counts and subscriptions per 100 residents. Each measure uses its own scale.
Similar totals yielded very different densities
Gabon’s 67,119 recorded subscriptions in 2024 amounted to 2.64 per 100 residents. Cameroon’s 67,507 amounted to 0.23 per 100. Gabon’s rate had been 1.79 in 2022, when it recorded 43,395 subscriptions. Source 1 Source 2
Cameroon’s series has a large break
The published total drops from 896,183 in 2022 to 67,507 in 2024, with no observation in 2023. The series does not establish how much of the difference came from network changes or changes in reporting. Source 1
Published zeros and missing values describe different records
Chad published 1,863 subscriptions in 2022 and zero in 2023 and 2024. DR Congo’s published 2024 value was zero. The latest paired values for the Central African Republic and the Republic of the Congo were from 2022. Source 1 Source 2
Fixed telephony extends beyond copper lines
The ITU includes several fixed voice technologies such as managed fixed VoIP, fixed wireless and satellite voice subscriptions tied to a fixed location. The density divides subscriptions by population and does not show how many households or unique people subscribe. Source 3 Source 2