Infrastructure — Czechia
Transport, communications, and energy.
Profile updated 2026-06-02
⚡ Infrastructure at a glance
Transport, communications, and energy. Key figure for Czechia: 128
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Transportation
- Airports - total
128
- Airports with Paved Runways
41
- Heliports
1
- Railways
5,884 Miles 9,469 Kilometers
- Roadways- total
81,195 Miles 130,671 Kilometers
- Waterways
413 Miles 664 Kilometers
- Ports and Terminals
Decin, Prague, Usti nad Labem
Communications
- Telephones
2,092,000
- Cell Phones
13,075,000
- Internet Users
4,400,000
- Internet Country Code
.cz
- Internet Hosts
3,494,000
- Broadcast Media
- Roughly 130 TV broadcasters operating some 350 channels with 4 publicly operated and the remainder in private hands
- 16 TV stations have national coverage with 4 being publicly operated
- cable and satellite TV subscription services are available
- 63 radio broadcasters are registered operating roughly 80 radio stations with 15 stations publicly operated
- 10 radio stations provide national coverage with the remainder local or regional
- Telephone System
- General assessment: Privatization and modernization of the Czech telecommunication system got a late start but are advancing steadily; virtually all exchanges are now digital; existing copper subscriber systems are enhanced with Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL) equipment to accommodate Internet and other digital signals; trunk systems
- include fiber-optic cable and microwave radio relay Domestic: Access to the fixed-line telephone network expanded throughout the 1990s but the number of fixed-line connections has been dropping since then; mobile telephone usage increased sharply beginning in the mid-1990s and the number of cellular telephone s
- ubscriptions now greatly exceeds the population International: Country code - 420; satellite earth stations - 6 (2 Intersputnik - Atlantic and Indian Ocean regions, 1 Intelsat, 1 Eutelsat, 1 Inmarsat, 1 Globalstar)
Energy
- Electricity Consumption- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
53,420,000,000
- Electricity Exports- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
22,230,000,000
- Electricity Imports- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
8,580,000,000
- Electricity Production- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
82,250,000,000
- Natural Gas Consumption - Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
8,158,000,000
- Natural Gas Exports- Cubic Meters (cu m)
7,400,000
- Natural Gas Imports- Cubic Meters (cu m)
7,471,000,000
- Natural Gas Production- Cubic Meters (cu m)
200,000,000
- Natural Gas Reserves- Cubic Meters (cu m)
1,922,000,000
- Oil Consumption- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
199,000
- Oil Exports- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
403.8
- Oil Imports- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
154,000
- Oil Production- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
12,380
- Oil Reserves- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
15,000,000