Public Utilities

Communication and Utilities Statistics - data from census of population and housing
  2005 [*] 2000 1995 1990
  Urban Rural Total Urban Rural Total Urban Rural Total Urban Rural Total
Number of radio receivers per 1,000 population 65.3 60.2 62.1 72.2 79.1 76.1       83.6 83.7 83.7
Households with electricity (%) 88.0 10.1 39.3                  
Number of television receivers per 1,000 population 19.9 5.0 10.6 55.2 19.3 34.9       18.3 4.7 9.5
Number of residential telephone lines per 100 population 32.9 2.4 13.8                  
Households with mobile phones (%) 17.7 0.8 7.2                  
Households with computer (%) 11.1 1.9 5.4                  
Access to Internet (%) 4.3 0.5 1.9                  
Households with Faxes (%) 1.9 0.3 0.9                  

Source: Kiribati National Statistics Office

Note: [*] - values refer to percentage of households