Communications

Sierra Leone has 24,000 telephones in use. The cell phones used are 776,000. Sierra Leone has only two television broadcast stations. The use of Internet users is 10,000.

The United States has 172 million telephones in use. The cell phones used are 255 million. The United States has 2,218 television broadcast stations. The number of Internet users is 223 million.

Comparing the two, the United States is greatly more dependant on these communication sources. the numbers speak for themselves, Sierra Leone is still an underdeveloped country.

References: Encyclopedia of the Nations, "Sierra Leone", October 6th, 2008.