Infrastructure — Italy
Transport, communications, and energy.
Profile updated 2026-06-02
⚡ Infrastructure at a glance
Transport, communications, and energy. Key figure for Italy: 129
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Transportation
- Airports - total
129
- Airports with Paved Runways
98
- Heliports
5
- Railways
12,586 Miles 20,255 Kilometers
- Roadways- total
303,043 Miles 487,700 Kilometers
- Waterways
1,491 Miles 2,400 Kilometers
- Ports and Terminals
Augusta, Cagliari, Genoa, Livorno, Taranto, Trieste, Venice Oil Terminals: Melilli (Santa Panagia) oil terminal, Sarroch oil terminal
Communications
- Telephones
22,116,000
- Cell Phones
96,005,000
- Internet Users
29,235,000
- Internet Country Code
.it
- Internet Hosts
25,662,000
- Broadcast Media
- Two Italian media giants dominate - the publicly owned Radiotelevisione Italiana (RAI) with 3 national terrestrial stations and privately owned Mediaset with 3 national terrestrial stations
- a large number of private stations and Sky Italia - a satellite TV network
- RAI operates 3 AM/FM nationwide radio stations
- some 1,300 commercial radio stations
- Telephone System
- General Assessment: modern, well-developed, fast; fully automated telephone, telex,
- and data services Domestic: high-
- capacity cable and microwave radio relay trunks International: country code - 39; a series of submarine cables provide links to Asia, the Middle East, Europe, North Africa, and the United States; satellite earth stations - 3 Intelsat (with a total of 5 antennas - 3 for the Atlantic Ocean and 2 for the Indian Ocean), 1 Inmarsat (Atlantic Ocean region), and NA Eutelsat
Energy
- Electricity Consumption- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
313,800,000,000
- Electricity Exports- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
1,787,000,000
- Electricity Imports- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
47,520,000,000
- Electricity Production- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
302,600,000,000
- Natural Gas Consumption - Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
68,700,000,000
- Natural Gas Exports- Cubic Meters (cu m)
324,000,000
- Natural Gas Imports- Cubic Meters (cu m)
67,800,000,000
- Natural Gas Production- Cubic Meters (cu m)
7,800,000,000
- Natural Gas Reserves- Cubic Meters (cu m)
62,350,000,000
- Oil Consumption- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
1,454,000
- Oil Exports- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
6,300
- Oil Imports- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
1,591,000
- Oil Production- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
99,200
- Oil Reserves- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
521,300,000