Infrastructure — Australia
Transport, communications, and energy.
Profile updated 2026-06-02
⚡ Infrastructure at a glance
Transport, communications, and energy. Key figure for Australia: 480
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Transportation
- Airports - total
480
- Airports with Paved Runways
349
- Heliports
1
- Railways
23,889 Miles 38,445 Kilometers
- Roadways- total
511,523 Miles 823,217 Kilometers
- Roadways- paved
221,421 Miles 356,343 Kilometers
- Waterways
1,243 Miles 2,000 Kilometers
- Ports and Terminals
Adelaide, Brisbane, Cairns, Darwin, Devonport (Tasmania), Fremantle, Geelong, Hobart (Tasmania), Launceston (Tasmania), Mackay, Melbourne, Sydney, Townsville
Communications
- Telephones
9,020,000
- Cell Phones
21,260,000
- Internet Users
11,240,000
- Internet Country Code
.au
- Internet Hosts
13,361,000
- Broadcast Media
- Note: the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) runs multiple national and local radio networks and TV stations, as well as Australia Network, a TV service that broadcasts throughout the Asia-Pacific region and is the main public broadcaster
- Special Broadcasting Service (SBS), a second large public broadcaster, operates radio and TV networks broadcasting in multiple languages
- several large national commercial TV networks, a large number of local commercial TV stations, and hundreds of commercial radio stations are accessible
- cable and satellite systems are available
- Telephone System
- excellent domestic and international service Domestic: domestic satellite system; significant use of radiotelephone in areas of low population density;
- rapid growth of mobile telephones International: country code - 61; landing point for the SEA-ME-WE-3 optical telecommunications submarine cable with links to Asia, the Middle East, and Europe; the Southern Cross fiber optic submarine cable provides links to New Zealand and the United States; satellite earth stations - 10 Intelsat (4 Indian Ocean and 6 Pacific Ocean), 2 Inmarsat, 2 Globalstar, 5 other)
Energy
- Electricity Consumption- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
222,000,000,000
- Electricity Production- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
239,900,000,000
- Natural Gas Consumption - Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
33,390,000,000
- Natural Gas Exports- Cubic Meters (cu m)
30,270,000,000
- Natural Gas Imports- Cubic Meters (cu m)
10,920,000,000
- Natural Gas Production- Cubic Meters (cu m)
48,240,000,000
- Natural Gas Reserves- Cubic Meters (cu m)
1,219,000,000,000
- Oil Consumption- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
1,023,000
- Oil Exports- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
314,100
- Oil Imports- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
475,900
- Oil Production- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
530,000
- Oil Reserves- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
1,433,000,000