Infrastructure — Ecuador
Transport, communications, and energy.
Profile updated 2026-06-02
⚡ Infrastructure at a glance
Transport, communications, and energy. Key figure for Ecuador: 432
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Transportation
- Airports - total
432
- Airports with Paved Runways
104
- Heliports
2
- Railways
600 Miles 965 Kilometers
- Roadways- total
27,135 Miles 43,670 Kilometers
- Roadways- paved
4,022 Miles 6,472 Kilometers
- Waterways
932 Miles 1,500 Kilometers
- Ports and Terminals
Esmeraldas, Guayaquil, La Libertad, Manta, Puerto Bolivar, San Lorenzo
Communications
- Telephones
2,004,000
- Cell Phones
10,086,000
- Internet Users
1,549,000
- Internet Country Code
.ec
- Internet Hosts
67,975
- Broadcast Media
- Ecuador has multiple TV networks and many local channels, as well as more than 300 radio stations
- many TV and radio stations are privately owned
- the government owns or controls 5 national TV stations and multiple radio stations
- broadcast media required by law to give the government free air time to broadcast programs produced by the state
- Telephone System
- general assessment: elementary fixed-line service, bu
- t increasingly sophisticated mobile-cellular network domestic: fixed-line services provided by multiple telecommunications operators; fixed-line teledensity stands at about 15 per 100 persons; mobile-cellular use has surged and
- subscribership has reached 100 per 100 persons international: country code - 593; landing points for the PAN-AM and South America-1 submarine cables that provide links to the west coast of South America, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, and extending onward to Aruba and the US Virgin Islands in the Caribbean; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean)
Energy
- Electricity Consumption- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
15,810,000,000
- Electricity Exports- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
20,680,000
- Electricity Imports- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
1,120,000,000
- Electricity Production- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
16,420,000,000
- Natural Gas Consumption - Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
330,000,000
- Natural Gas Imports- Cubic Meters (cu m)
25,000
- Natural Gas Production- Cubic Meters (cu m)
240,000,000
- Natural Gas Reserves- Cubic Meters (cu m)
6,994,000,000
- Oil Consumption- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
280,000
- Oil Exports- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
413,000
- Oil Imports- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
154,000
- Oil Production- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
493,200
- Oil Reserves- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
8,240,000,000