Infrastructure — Kenya
Transport, communications, and energy.
Profile updated 2026-06-02
⚡ Infrastructure at a glance
Transport, communications, and energy. Key figure for Kenya: 197
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Transportation
- Airports - total
197
- Airports with Paved Runways
16
- Railways
1,284 Miles 2,066 Kilometers
- Roadways- total
99,965 Miles 160,878 Kilometers
- Roadways- paved
6,953 Miles 11,189 Kilometers
- Ports and Terminals
Kisumu, Lamu, Mombasa
Communications
- Telephones
664,100
- Cell Phones
11,440,000
- Internet Users
3,000,000
- Internet Country Code
.ke
- Internet Hosts
47,676
- Broadcast Media
- about a half-dozen privately owned TV stations and a state-owned TV broadcaster that operates 2 channels
- satellite and cable TV subscription services available
- state-owned radio broadcaster operates 2 national radio channels and provides regional and local radio services in multiple languages
- a large number of private radio stations, including provincial stations broadcasting in local languages
- transmissions of several international broadcasters available
- Telephone System
- general assessment: inadequate; fixed-line telephone system is small and inefficient; trunks are primarily microwave radio relay; business data commonly transfe
- rred by a very small aperture terminal (VSAT) system domestic: sole fixed-line provider, Telkom Kenya, is slated for privatization; multiple providers in the mobile-cellular segment of the market fostering a boom in mobile-cellular telephone usage with
- teledensity reaching 65 per 100 persons in 2011 international: country code - 254; landing point for the EASSy, TEAMS and SEACOM fiber-optic submarine cable systems; satellite earth stations - 4 Intelsat
Energy
- Electricity Consumption- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
4,863,000,000
- Electricity Exports- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
58,300,000
- Electricity Imports- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
22,500,000
- Electricity Production- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
5,223,000,000
- Oil Consumption- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
79,410
- Oil Imports- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
31,040