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Nine Million Telephones— Added During Year
A record number of more than 9 million telephones were added throughout the world in 1962 bringing to 159,200,000 the number of telephones in use throughout the world. Thte information was made available by the American Telephone and Telegraph Company in its annual publication "The World's Telephones." All figures in the report were as of January 1, 1963, since it takes a year to obtain and compile the data, said Harry Lindsey local managed of the Chesapeake and Potomac Tele phone Company of Virginia. India had a greater percentage gain of telephones in 1962 than any other country, but it still ranked last among the 27 nations reporting 500,000 or more telephones. Its percentage boost was 16.3 while Japan reported a rise of 15.9%. New York City’s some 4,798,371 telephones outranked 20 of the 27 top countries in the report. Countries outside the United States accounted for 61 per cent of the total increase compared with 51 per cent a decade earlier. Per hundred persons the United States^iad 43.1 telephones. Sweden was next with 40.3, than Canada with 33.7. Leading the world in total number of telephones with 80,969,000, the U. S. was followed by the United Kingdom, 8,911,000; Japan, 7,356,007; West Germany, 7,047,031; Canada, 6,330,000; Russia, 5,796,200; France, 4,977,797; Italy, 4,654,744; and Australia 2,282,478.
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