Infrastructure — Latvia
Transport, communications, and energy.
Profile updated 2026-06-02
⚡ Infrastructure at a glance
Transport, communications, and energy. Key figure for Latvia: 42
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Transportation
- Airports - total
42
- Airports with Paved Runways
18
- Heliports
1
- Railways
1,391 Miles 2,239 Kilometers
- Roadways- total
45,012 Miles 72,440 Kilometers
- Roadways- paved
9,139 Miles 14,707 Kilometers
- Waterways
186 Miles 300 Kilometers
- Ports and Terminals
Liepaja, Riga, Ventspils
Communications
- Telephones
644,000
- Cell Phones
2,217,000
- Internet Users
1,177,000
- Internet Country Code
.lv
- Internet Hosts
289,478
- Broadcast Media
- several national and regional commercial TV stations are foreign-owned, 2 national TV stations are publicly owned
- system supplemented by privately owned regional and local TV stations
- cable and satellite multi-channel TV services with domestic and foreign broadcasts available
- publicly owned broadcaster operates 4 radio networks with dozens of stations throughout the country
- dozens of private broadcasters also operate radio stations
- Telephone System
- general assessment: recent efforts focused on bringing competition to the telecommunications sector; the number of fixed lines is dec
- reasing as mobile-cellular telephone service expands domestic: number of telecommunications operators has grown rapidly since the fixed-line market opened to competition in 2003; combined fixed-line and mobile-cell
- ular subscribership roughly 150 per 100 persons international: country code - 371; the Latvian network is now connected via fiber optic cable to Estonia, Finland, and Sweden
Energy
- Electricity Consumption- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
6,822,000,000
- Electricity Exports- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
2,123,000,000
- Electricity Imports- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
4,643,000,000
- Electricity Production- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
4,620,000,000
- Natural Gas Consumption - Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
1,520,000,000
- Natural Gas Imports- Cubic Meters (cu m)
1,580,000,000
- Oil Consumption- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
31,340
