Infrastructure — Jamaica
Transport, communications, and energy.
Profile updated 2026-06-02
⚡ Infrastructure at a glance
Transport, communications, and energy. Key figure for Jamaica: 28
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Transportation
- Airports - total
28
- Airports with Paved Runways
11
- Roadways- total
13,745 Miles 22,121 Kilometers
- Roadways- paved
10,034 Miles 16,148 Kilometers
- Ports and Terminals
Alligator Pond, Discovery Bay, Kingston, Montego Bay, Ocho Rios, Port Antonio, Rocky Point, Port Esquivel (Longswharf)
Communications
- Telephones
302,300
- Cell Phones
2,495,000
- Internet Users
1,500,000
- Internet Country Code
.jm
- Internet Hosts
3,099
- Broadcast Media
- privately owned Radio Jamaica Limited and its subsidiaries operate multiple TV stations, subscription cable services, and radio stations
- 2 other privately owned television stations
- roughly 70 radio stations
- Telephone System
- fully automatic domestic telephone network domestic: the 1999 agreement to open the market for telecommunications services resulted in rapid growth in mobile-cellular telephone usage while the number of fixed-lines in use has declined; combined mobile-cellular t
- eledensity exceeded 110 per 100 persons in 2011 international: country code - 1-876; the Fibralink submarine cable network provides enhanced delivery of business and broadband traffic and is linked to the Americas Region Caribbean Ring System (ARCOS-1) submarine cable in the Dominican Republic; the link to ARCOS-1 provides seamless connectivity to US, parts of the Caribbean, Central America, and South America; the ALBA-1 fiber-optic submarine cable links Jamaica, Cuba, and Venezuela; satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean)
Energy
- Electricity Consumption- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
6,345,000,000
- Electricity Production- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
7,324,000,000
- Oil Consumption- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
78,520
- Oil Imports- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
22,940