Infrastructure — Guatemala
Transport, communications, and energy.
Profile updated 2026-06-02
⚡ Infrastructure at a glance
Transport, communications, and energy. Key figure for Guatemala: 291
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Transportation
- Airports - total
291
- Airports with Paved Runways
16
- Heliports
1
- Railways
206 Miles 332 Kilometers
- Roadways- total
7,146 Miles 11,501 Kilometers
- Roadways- paved
4,223 Miles 6,797 Kilometers
- Waterways
615 Miles 990 Kilometers
- Ports and Terminals
Champerico, Puerto Barrios, Puerto Quetzal, San Jose, Santo Tomas de Castilla
Communications
- Telephones
1,413,000
- Cell Phones
10,150,000
- Internet Users
1,320,000
- Internet Country Code
.gt
- Internet Hosts
196,870
- Broadcast Media
- 4 privately owned national terrestrial TV channels dominate TV broadcasting
- multi-channel satellite and cable services are available
- 1 government-owned radio station and hundreds of privately owned radio stations
- Telephone System
- general assessment: fai
- rly modern network centered in the city of Guatemala domestic: state-owned telecommunications company privatized in the late 1990s opening the way for competition; fixed-line teledensity roughly 10 per 100 persons; fixed-line investments are being concentrated on improving rural connectivity; mobile-cellu
- lar teledensity approaching 140 per 100 persons international: country code - 502; landing point for both the Americas Region Caribbean Ring System (ARCOS-1) and the SAM-1 fiber optic submarine cable system that, together, provide connectivity to South and Central America, parts of the Caribbean, and the US; connected to Central American Microwave System; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean)
Energy
- Electricity Consumption- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
7,115,000,000
- Electricity Exports- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
131,900,000
- Electricity Imports- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
8,110,000
- Electricity Production- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
8,425,000,000
- Natural Gas Reserves- Cubic Meters (cu m)
2,960,000,000
- Oil Consumption- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
80,810
- Oil Exports- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
10,960
- Oil Production- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
22,300
- Oil Reserves- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
83,070,000