Infrastructure — Eritrea
Transport, communications, and energy.
Profile updated 2026-06-02
⚡ Infrastructure at a glance
Transport, communications, and energy. Key figure for Eritrea: 13
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Transportation
- Airports - total
13
- Airports with Paved Runways
4
- Heliports
1
- Railways
190 Miles 306 Kilometers
- Roadways- total
2,492 Miles 4,010 Kilometers
- Roadways- paved
543 Miles 874 Kilometers
- Ports and Terminals
Assab (Aseb), Massawa (Mits'iwa)
Communications
- Telephones
48,500
- Cell Phones
70,000
- Internet Users
120,000
- Internet Country Code
er
- Internet Hosts
1,241
- Broadcast Media
- Government controls broadcast media with private ownership prohibited
- 1 state-owned TV station
- state-owned radio operates 2 networks
- purchases of satellite dishes and subscriptions to international broadcast media are permitted
- Telephone System
- General assessment: inadequate; most fixed-line telephones are in Asmara; government is seeking international tenders to improve the system;
- cell phones in increasing use throughout the country Domestic: combined fixed-line and mobile-cellula
- r subscribership is less than 5 per 100 persons International: country code - 291
Energy
- Electricity Consumption- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
228,000,000
- Electricity Production- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
271,000,000
- Oil Consumption- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
4,480