Access to a phone

Call me dubious, but I find it hard to believe that only one-third of the population of the US has access to a phone.

On second thought, the population of Luxembourg is clearly not larger than China...maybe someone should label that Y axis so that this chart means something!

Looks like this is telephone access per 100 people. In the US, there's about one phone per person on average then.

Dmitry is right, these data are per 100 people. If you look at the data set there is a detailed description of what these numbers signify and how the indicator is defined. http://www.swivel.com/data_...

this is a Web site. not a newspaper. if the graph is missing something click on the data in the legend (HINT: blue, underlined links). figure it out. and then comment back on the graph.

Did anyone else notice the 99% correlation between Mexico and China? :-O

does this include cellular phones?

it looks like it does include cellular phones.

Where did the China data come from? Not seeing any links to it from the graph or the underlying data table...

To see the original source data, click on the legend on the indicator you are interested in. In this case, all of the data came from the same data set. It is one uploaded by the OECD - and Official Source of data. http://swivel.com/data_sets... But that is a good point about it not showing under the graph.

it does include cellular phones i guess

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It really does I'm sure.
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You're right -- it does include cellular phone access. From the data set description:

For OECD Member countries, access paths are the sum of Standard Analogue Access Lines, ISDN channels and Mobile subscribers.