Infrastructure — Albania
Transport, communications, and energy.
Profile updated 2026-06-02
⚡ Infrastructure at a glance
Transport, communications, and energy. Key figure for Albania: 4
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Transportation
- Airports - total
4
- Airports with Paved Runways
4
- Heliports
1
- Roadways- total
11,185 Miles 18,000 Kilometers
- Roadways- paved
4,362 Miles 7,020 Kilometers
- Waterways
25 Miles 41 Kilometers
- Ports and Terminals
Durres, Sarande, Shengjin, Vlore
Communications
- Telephones
363,000
- Cell Phones
4,162,000
- Internet Users
471,200
- Internet Country Code
.al
- Internet Hosts
15,098
- Telephone System
- General Assessment: despite new investment in fixed lines, teledensity remains low with roughly 10 fixed lines per 100 people; mobile-cellular
- telephone use is widespread and generally effective Domestic: offsetting the shortage of fixed-line capacity, mobile-cellular phone service has been available since 1996; by 2011 multiple companies were providing mobile services and mobile teledensity had reached 100 per 100 persons; Internet broadband services were initiated in 2005 but growth has been slow; Internet cafes are popular in Tirana
- and have started to spread outside the capital International: Country Code - 355; submarine cable provides connectivity to Italy, Croatia, and Greece; the Trans-Balkan Line, a combination submarine cable and land fiber-optic system, provides additional connectivity to Bulgaria, Macedonia, and Turkey; international traffic carried by fiber-optic cable and, when necessary, by microwave radio relay from the Tirana exchange to Italy and Greece
Energy
- Electricity Consumption- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
6,593,000,000
- Electricity Imports- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
1,884,000,000
- Electricity Production- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
5,201,000,000
- Natural Gas Consumption - Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
30,000,000
- Natural Gas Reserves- Cubic Meters (cu m)
849,500,000
- Oil Consumption- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
38,390
- Oil Exports- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
23,320
- Oil Production- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
3,600
- Oil Reserves- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
172,400,000