Appendix 1: Asia's telephone density


Country           Lines per 1,000 people
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India                  7.7
Indonesia              8.1
China                  9.8
Philippines           10.3
Pakistan              10.8
Thailand              31.0
Malaysia             111.2
South Korea          363.4
Singapore            416.0
New Zealand          449.9
Japan                467.3
Australia            471.0
Hong Kong            486.2

Source: World Bank and International Telecommunication
Union. Adapted from "Communicating With Asia," The
Asian Wall Street Journal Weekly, September 19, 1994, p.10B.