Infrastructure — Ethiopia
Transport, communications, and energy.
Profile updated 2026-06-02
⚡ Infrastructure at a glance
Transport, communications, and energy. Key figure for Ethiopia: 57
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Transportation
- Airports - total
57
- Airports with Paved Runways
17
- Railways
423 Miles 681 Kilometers
- Roadways- total
27,563 Miles 44,359 Kilometers
- Roadways- paved
3,768 Miles 6,064 Kilometers
- Ports and Terminals
- None
- Ethiopia is landlocked and was by agreement with Eritrea using the ports of Assab and Massawa
- since the border dispute with Eritrea flared, Ethiopia has used the port of Djibouti for nearly all of its imports
Communications
- Telephones
915,100
- Cell Phones
1,208,000
- Internet Users
291,000
- Internet Country Code
.et
- Internet Hosts
151
- Broadcast Media
1 public TV station broadcasting nationally and 1 public radio broadcaster with stations in each of the 13 administrative districts; a few commercial radio stations and roughly a dozen community radio stations
- Telephone System
- General assessment: Inadequate telephone system with the Ethio Telecom maintaining a monopoly over telecommunication services; open-wire, microwave radio relay; radio communication in the HF, VHF, and UHF frequencies; 2 do
- mestic satellites provide the national trunk service Domestic: The number of fixed lines and mobile telephones is increasing from a small base; combined fixed and mobile-cel
- lular teledensity is roughly 15 per 100 persons International: Country code - 251; open-wire to Sudan and Djibouti; microwave radio relay to Kenya and Djibouti; satellite earth stations - 3 Intelsat (1 Atlantic Ocean and 2 Pacific Ocean)
Energy
- Electricity Consumption- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
3,130,000,000
- Electricity Production- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
3,460,000,000
- Natural Gas Reserves- Cubic Meters (cu m)
24,920,000,000
- Oil Consumption- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
49,080
- Oil Reserves- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
430,000
