Infrastructure — Kazakhstan
Transport, communications, and energy.
Profile updated 2026-06-02
⚡ Infrastructure at a glance
Transport, communications, and energy. Key figure for Kazakhstan: 96
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Transportation
- Airports - total
96
- Airports with Paved Runways
63
- Heliports
3
- Railways
9,527 Miles 15,333 Kilometers
- Roadways- total
60,533 Miles 97,418 Kilometers
- Roadways- paved
54,146 Miles 87,140 Kilometers
- Waterways
2,485 Miles 4,000 Kilometers
- Ports and Terminals
Aqtau (Shevchenko), Atyrau (Gur'yev), Oskemen (Ust-Kamenogorsk), Pavlodar, Semey (Semipalatinsk)
Communications
- Telephones
3,763,000
- Cell Phones
12,588,000
- Internet Users
1,901,000
- Internet Country Code
.kz
- Internet Hosts
53,984
- Broadcast Media
- state owns nearly all radio and TV transmission facilities and operates national TV and radio networks
- nearly all nationwide TV networks are wholly or partly owned by the government
- some former state-owned media outlets have been privatized
- households with satellite dishes have access to foreign media
- a small number of commercial radio stations operate along with state-run radio stations
- recent legislation requires all media outlets to register with the government and all TV providers to broadcast in digital format by 2015
- Telephone System
- general assessment: inherited an outdated telecommunications
- network from the Soviet era requiring modernization domestic: intercity by landline and microwave radio relay; number of fixed-line connections is gradually increasing and fixed-line teledensity now roughly 25 per 100 persons; mobile-cellular usage has increased rapidly and the
- subscriber base now exceeds 140 per 100 persons international: country code - 7; international traffic with other former Soviet republics and China carried by landline and microwave radio relay and with other countries by satellite and by the Trans-Asia-Europe (TAE) fiber-optic cable; satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat
Energy
- Electricity Consumption- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
77,900,000,000
- Electricity Exports- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
3,617,000,000
- Electricity Imports- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
1,940,000,000
- Electricity Production- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
78,400,000,000
- Natural Gas Consumption - Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
10,200,000,000
- Natural Gas Exports- Cubic Meters (cu m)
9,700,000,000
- Natural Gas Imports- Cubic Meters (cu m)
10,700,000,000
- Natural Gas Production- Cubic Meters (cu m)
20,200,000,000
- Natural Gas Reserves- Cubic Meters (cu m)
2,407,000,000,000
- Oil Consumption- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
244,200
- Oil Exports- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
1,406,000
- Oil Imports- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
119,600
- Oil Production- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
1,300,000
- Oil Reserves- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
30,000,000,000