Infrastructure — Egypt
Transport, communications, and energy.
Profile updated 2026-06-02
⚡ Infrastructure at a glance
Transport, communications, and energy. Key figure for Egypt: 83
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Transportation
- Airports - total
83
- Airports with Paved Runways
72
- Heliports
7
- Railways
3,158 Miles 5,083 Kilometers
- Roadways- total
85,395 Miles 137,430 Kilometers
- Roadways- paved
78,754 Miles 126,742 Kilometers
- Waterways
2,175 Miles 3,500 Kilometers
- Ports and Terminals
Ayn Sukhnah, Alexandria, Damietta, El Dekheila, Port Said, Sidi Kurayr, Suez
Communications
- Telephones
8,714,000
- Cell Phones
83,425,000
- Internet Users
20,136,000
- Internet Country Code
.eg
- Internet Hosts
200,430
- Broadcast Media
- Mix of state-run and private broadcast media
- state-run TV operates 2 national and 6 regional terrestrial networks as well as a few satellite channels
- about 20 private satellite channels and a large number of Arabic satellite channels are available via subscription
- state-run radio operates about 70 stations belonging to 8 networks
- 2 privately owned radio stations operational
- Telephone System
- General assessment: underwent extensive upgrading during the 1990s; principal centers at Alexandria, Cairo, Al Mansurah, Ismailia, Suez, and Tanta are
- connected by coaxial cable and microwave radio relay Domestic: largest fixed-line system in the region; as of 2011 there were multiple mobile-cellular networks
- with a total of roughly 83 million subscribers International: country code - 20; landing point for Aletar, the SEA-ME-WE-3 and SEA-ME-WE-4 submarine cable networks, Link Around the Globe (FLAG) Falcon and FLAG FEA; satellite earth stations - 4 (2 Intelsat - Atlantic Ocean and Indian Ocean, 1 Arabsat, and 1 Inmarsat); tropospheric scatter to Sudan; microwave radio relay to Israel; a participant in Medarabtel
Energy
- Electricity Consumption- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
115,800,000,000
- Electricity Exports- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
1,118,000,000
- Electricity Imports- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
183,000,000
- Electricity Production- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
136,600,000,000
- Natural Gas Consumption - Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
46,170,000,000
- Natural Gas Exports- Cubic Meters (cu m)
10,510,000,000
- Natural Gas Production- Cubic Meters (cu m)
61,260,000,000
- Natural Gas Reserves- Cubic Meters (cu m)
2,186,000,000,000
- Oil Consumption- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
816,300
- Oil Exports- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
85,000
- Oil Imports- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
48,740
- Oil Production- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
711,500
- Oil Reserves- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
4,400,000,000