The graph shows the number of telephones owned per thousand of the population in different countries over a five -year period.
Overall, the numbers of phone owners per thousand of the population varied considerably. However, numbers tend to showed the rise and drop from the top to buttom from the decades. While most of the countries seem to have a large number of landline telephone and lowest in 2000 to 2004. Whereas, over a five-year period, Brunei darussalam and Singapore wins in this trend by having a significant levels landline phones owned by under a 500 per people.
By far the highest level of phone ownership was in Singapore, where just under 430 people per thousand were owners in 2004, This figure is slightly lower than 2000 figure of around 460 per thousand.In Brunei Darussalam the second levels of phone ownership were recorded and the numbers fluctuated around the 250 per thousand. While countries like, Cambodia and Vietnam had much lower levels of phone ownership and these increase upto 2004, rather than decreasing. In other remaining countries, the number of landline phone owners remained below the 100 per thousand level between 2000 and 2004.