The given bar chart illustrates how many fixed-line telephones were owned per thousand of the population in nine different countries over a span of 5 years, commencing in 2000. Overall, all countries, except for Indonesia and Vietnam, witnessed a downward trend in telephone ownership over the shown timeframe. Notably, Singapore had the highest rate of wired telephone access throughout the entire period.
In 2000, the number of landline telephones in Singapore peaked at above 450 per thousand, followed by Brunei Darussalam ranking second with a phone ownership rate of 250 per thousand. However, both figures declined by 30 per thousand over the next 4 years. Conversely, the figures for Cambodia and Vietnam rose slightly to 50 per thousand in 2004 despite their initially low levels of phone penetration.
Turning to the other nations, approximately 80 landline telephones per thousand were recorded in Philippines and Thailand, while the figures for remaining countries were below 50 per thousand. In the last year, Philippines’s telephone numbers dropped to 60 per thousand, whereas no people used fixed-line phones anymore in Indonesia, Laos, and Thailand. Meanwhile, only Myanmar remained relatively constant at 10 per thousand in the phone ownership rate throughout the period.