Infrastructure — Iraq
Transport, communications, and energy.
Profile updated 2026-06-02
⚡ Infrastructure at a glance
Transport, communications, and energy. Key figure for Iraq: 102
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Transportation
- Airports - total
102
- Airports with Paved Runways
72
- Heliports
16
- Railways
1,473 Miles 2,370 Kilometers
- Roadways- total
37,048 Miles 59,623 Kilometers
- Waterways
3,280 Miles 5,279 Kilometers
- Ports and Terminals
Umm Qasr, Khawr az Zubayr, and Al Basrah have limited functionality
Communications
- Telephones
1,108,000
- Cell Phones
14,021,000
- Internet Users
54,000
- Internet Country Code
.iq
- Internet Hosts
9
- Broadcast Media
- the number of private radio and TV stations has increased rapidly since 2003
- government-owned TV and radio stations are operated by the publicly funded Iraqi Public Broadcasting Service
- private broadcast media are mostly linked to political, ethnic, or religious groups
- satellite TV is available to an estimated 70% of viewers and many of the broadcasters are based abroad
- transmissions of multiple international radio broadcasters are accessible
- Telephone System
- general assessment: the 2003 liberation of Iraq severely disrupted telecommunications throughout Iraq including international connections; widespread government efforts to rebuild domestic and international communications through fiber optic links are in progress; the mobile cellular market has expanded rapid
- ly to some 27 million subscribers by the end of 2012 domestic: repairs to switches and lines destroyed during 2003 continue; additional switching capacity is improving access; 3 GSM operators since 2007 have expanded beyond their regional roots and offer near country-wide access to second-generation services; third-generation mobile services are not available nationwide; wireless local loop is available in some metropolitan areas and additional licenses have been issued with the hope of o
- vercoming the lack of fixed-line infrastructure international: country code - 964; satellite earth stations - 4 (2 Intelsat - 1 Atlantic Ocean and 1 Indian Ocean, 1 Intersputnik - Atlantic Ocean region, and 1 Arabsat (inoperative)); local microwave radio relay connects border regions to Jordan, Kuwait, Syria, and Turkey; international terrestrial fiber-optic connections have been established with Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Kuwait, Jordan, and Iran; links to the Fiber-Optic Link Around the Globe (FLAG) and the Gulf Bridge International (GBI) submarine fiber-optic cables have been established
Energy
- Electricity Consumption- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
52,000,000,000
- Electricity Imports- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
5,600,000,000
- Electricity Production- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
46,390,000,000
- Natural Gas Consumption - Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
1,300,000,000
- Natural Gas Production- Cubic Meters (cu m)
880,000,000
- Natural Gas Reserves- Cubic Meters (cu m)
3,158,000,000,000
- Oil Consumption- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
818,000
- Oil Exports- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
2,390,000
- Oil Production- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
2,093,000
- Oil Reserves- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
141,400,000,000