Infrastructure — Belgium
Transport, communications, and energy.
Profile updated 2026-06-02
⚡ Infrastructure at a glance
Transport, communications, and energy. Key figure for Belgium: 41
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Transportation
- Airports - total
41
- Airports with Paved Runways
26
- Heliports
1
- Railways
2,009 Miles 3,233 Kilometers
- Roadways- total
95,699 Miles 154,012 Kilometers
- Roadways- paved
74,884 Miles 120,514 Kilometers
- Waterways
1,269 Miles 2,043 Kilometers
- Ports and Terminals
Antwerp (one of the world's busiest ports), Brugge, Gent, Hasselt, Liege, Mons, Namur, Oostende, Zeebrugge
Communications
- Telephones
4,225,000
- Cell Phones
10,230,000
- Internet Users
5,220,000
- Internet Country Code
.be
- Internet Hosts
4,465,000
- Broadcast Media
- A segmented market with the three major communities (Flemish, French, and German-speaking) each having responsibility for their own broadcast media
- multiple TV channels exist for each community
- additionally, in excess of 90% of households are connected to cable and can access broadcasts of TV stations from neighboring countries
- each community has a public radio network co-existing with private broadcasters
- Telephone System
- General Assessment: highly developed, technologically advanced, and completely automated domestic
- and international telephone and telegraph facilities Domestic: nationwide mobile-cellular telephone system; extensive cable network;
- limited microwave radio relay network International: country code - 32; landing point for a number of submarine cables that provide links to Europe, the Middle East, and Asia; satellite earth stations - 7 (Intelsat - 3)
Energy
- Electricity Consumption- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
84,880,000,000
- Electricity Exports- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
6,561,000,000
- Electricity Imports- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
17,160,000,000
- Electricity Production- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
82,170,000,000
- Natural Gas Consumption - Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
13,460,000,000
- Natural Gas Exports- Cubic Meters (cu m)
21,180,000,000
- Natural Gas Imports- Cubic Meters (cu m)
38,900,000,000
- Oil Consumption- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
664,400
- Oil Imports- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
667,700
- Oil Production- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
13,060