Infrastructure — Barbados
Transport, communications, and energy.
Profile updated 2026-06-02
⚡ Infrastructure at a glance
Transport, communications, and energy. Key figure for Barbados: 1
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Transportation
- Airports - total
1
- Airports with Paved Runways
1
- Roadways- total
994 Miles 1,600 Kilometers
- Roadways- paved
1,025 Miles 1,650 Kilometers
- Ports and Terminals
Bridgetown, Speightstown (Port Charles Marina)
Communications
- Telephones
135,700
- Cell Phones
237,100
- Internet Users
160,000
- Internet Country Code
.bb
- Internet Hosts
1,508
- Broadcast Media
- Government-owned Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) operates the lone terrestrial TV station
- CBC also operates a multi-channel cable TV subscription service
- roughly a dozen radio stations, consisting of a CBC-operated network operating alongside privately-owned radio stations
- Telephone System
- island-wide automatic telephone system Domestic: fixed-line teledensity of roughly 50 per 100 persons; mobile-cellular te
- lephone density approaching 125 per 100 persons International: country code - 1-246; landing point for the East Caribbean Fiber System (ECFS) submarine cable with links to 13 other islands in the eastern Caribbean extending from the British Virgin Islands to Trinidad; satellite earth stations - 1 (Intelsat - Atlantic Ocean); tropospheric scatter to Trinidad and Saint Lucia
Energy
- Electricity Consumption- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
939,900,000
- Electricity Production- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
1,003,000,000
- Natural Gas Consumption - Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
20,000,000
- Natural Gas Production- Cubic Meters (cu m)
20,000,000
- Natural Gas Reserves- Cubic Meters (cu m)
113,300,000
- Oil Consumption- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
8,339
- Oil Exports- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
764.5
- Oil Production- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
1,000
- Oil Reserves- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
2,260,000