Infrastructure — Greece
Transport, communications, and energy.
Profile updated 2026-06-02
⚡ Infrastructure at a glance
Transport, communications, and energy. Key figure for Greece: 77
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Transportation
- Airports - total
77
- Airports with Paved Runways
68
- Heliports
9
- Railways
1,583 Miles 2,548 Kilometers
- Roadways- total
72,638 Miles 116,900 Kilometers
- Roadways- paved
25,698 Miles 41,357 Kilometers
- Waterways
4 Miles 6 Kilometers
- Ports and Terminals
Agioi Theodoroi, Aspropyrgos, Pachi, Piraeus, Thessaloniki
Communications
- Telephones
5,745,000
- Cell Phones
12,128,000
- Internet Users
4,971,000
- Internet Country Code
.gr
- Internet Hosts
3,201,000
- Broadcast Media
- broadcast media dominated by the private sector
- roughly 150 private TV channels, about a dozen of the private channels broadcast at the national or regional level
- 3 publicly owned terrestrial TV channels with national coverage, 1 publicly owned satellite channel, and 3 stations designed for digital terrestrial transmissions
- multi-channel satellite and cable TV services available
- upwards of 1,500 radio stations, nearly all of them privately owned
- state-run broadcaster has 7 national stations, 2 international stations, and 19 regional stations
- Telephone System
- general assessment: adequate, modern networks reach all areas;
- good mobile telephone and international service domestic: microwave radio relay trunk system; extensive open-wire connections;
- submarine cable to offshore islands international: country code - 30; landing point for the SEA-ME-WE-3 optical telecommunications submarine cable that provides links to Europe, Middle East, and Asia; a number of smaller submarine cables provide connectivity to various parts of Europe, the Middle East, and Cyprus; tropospheric scatter; satellite earth stations - 4 (2 Intelsat - 1 Atlantic Ocean and 1 Indian Ocean, 1 Eutelsat, and 1 Inmarsat - Indian Ocean region)
Energy
- Electricity Consumption- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
58,710,000,000
- Electricity Exports- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
2,571,000,000
- Electricity Imports- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
8,517,000,000
- Electricity Production- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
57,110,000,000
- Natural Gas Consumption - Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
4,200,000,000
- Natural Gas Imports- Cubic Meters (cu m)
4,376,000,000
- Natural Gas Production- Cubic Meters (cu m)
6,000,000
- Natural Gas Reserves- Cubic Meters (cu m)
991,100,000
- Oil Consumption- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
343,400
- Oil Exports- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
17,020
- Oil Imports- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
405,500
- Oil Production- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
1,751
- Oil Reserves- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
10,000,000