Infrastructure — Guinea
Transport, communications, and energy.
Profile updated 2026-06-02
⚡ Infrastructure at a glance
Transport, communications, and energy. Key figure for Guinea: 16
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Transportation
- Airports - total
16
- Airports with Paved Runways
4
- Railways
1,583 Miles 2,548 Kilometers
- Roadways- total
27,557 Miles 44,348 Kilometers
- Roadways- paved
2,698 Miles 4,342 Kilometers
- Waterways
808 Miles 1,300 Kilometers
- Ports and Terminals
Boke, Conakry, Kamsar
Communications
- Telephones
22,000
- Cell Phones
189,000
- Internet Users
50,000
- Internet Country Code
.gn
- Internet Hosts
14
- Broadcast Media
- Government maintains marginal control over broadcast media
- single state-run TV station
- state-run radio broadcast station also operates several stations in rural areas
- a steadily increasing number of privately owned radio stations, nearly all in Conakry, and about a dozen community radio stations
- foreign TV programming available via satellite and cable subscription services
- Telephone System
- General assessment: Inadequate system of open-wire lines, small radiotelephone communication stations,
- and new microwave radio relay system Domestic: Conakry reasonably well-served; coverage elsewhere remains inadequate and large companies tend to rely on their own systems for nationwide links; fixed-line teledensity less than 1 per 100 persons; mobile-cellular subscribers
- hip is expanding and exceeds 40 per 100 persons International: Country code - 224; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean)
Energy
- Electricity Consumption- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
790,500,000
- Electricity Production- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
850,000,000
- Oil Consumption- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
8,671
