---
id: "phone_e164"
kind: "pattern"
status: "draft"
is_pii: true
categories: ["pii", "common", "telecom"]
langs: ["common"]
quality: 80
url: "http://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/phone_e164"
---

# Phone number in E.164 format (`phone_e164`)

> **Draft.** Draft records have not been reviewed yet and may be incomplete or wrong; do not treat them as authoritative for legal or compliance decisions.

International telephone number written in the format of ITU-T Recommendation E.164: a plus sign followed by at most 15 digits, without spaces or punctuation. The digits start with a country code of one to three digits, which never starts with 0. This compact form is used by SIP, SMS gateways, ENUM and many APIs.

- Pattern of: `phone`
- Personal data (PII): yes
- Categories: Personally identifiable information (pii), Common (common), Telecommunications (telecom)
- Countries: global
- Languages: Common to most languages (common)

## Detection

Regular expression (Python `re`):

```
^\+[1-9]\d{1,14}$
```

## Examples

- `+12025550143` — United States; 555-0100 to 555-0199 are reserved for fiction
- `+442079460958` — United Kingdom; 020 7946 0000 to 0999 are reserved for drama
- `+1 202 555 0143` (invalid example) — Spaces are not part of the E.164 form
- `12025550143` (invalid example) — The leading plus sign is missing

## Translations

- ru: Номер телефона в формате E.164: Международный номер телефона в формате рекомендации МСЭ-Т E.164 — знак плюс и не более 15 цифр без пробелов и разделителей. Начинается с кода страны из одной–трёх цифр, который не начинается с 0.

## Sources

- wikipedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.164>
- doc: <https://www.itu.int/rec/T-REC-E.164/>

## Quality

Score 80/100. Missing: mapping (Wikidata, Schema.org, ...), detector coverage.

JSON: <http://registry.apicrafter.io/api/v1/datatypes/phone_e164.json> · Edit: <https://github.com/apicrafter/metacrafter-registry/edit/main/data/datatypes/any/telecom/phone_e164.yaml>