Infrastructure — Lesotho
Transport, communications, and energy.
Profile updated 2026-06-02
⚡ Infrastructure at a glance
Transport, communications, and energy. Key figure for Lesotho: 24
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Transportation
- Airports - total
24
- Airports with Paved Runways
3
- Roadways- total
3,691 Miles 5,940 Kilometers
- Roadways- paved
664 Miles 1,069 Kilometers
- Ports and Terminals
none
Communications
- Telephones
40,000
- Cell Phones
456,000
- Internet Users
70,000
- Internet Country Code
.ls
- Internet Hosts
632
- Broadcast Media
- 1 state-owned TV station and 2 state-owned radio stations
- government controls most private broadcast media
- satellite TV subscription service available
- transmissions of multiple international broadcasters obtainable
- Telephone System
- general assessment: rudimentary system consisting of a modest number of landlines, a small microwave radio relay system, and a small radiotelephone communication system;
- mobile-cellular telephone system is expanding domestic: privatized in 2001, Telecom Lesotho was tasked with providing an additional 50,000 fixed-line connections within five years, a target not met; mobile-cellular service dominates the market and is expanding with a subscribership roughly 65 per 100 persons in 2011;
- rural services are scant international: country code - 266; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean)
Energy
- Electricity Consumption- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
516,900,000
- Electricity Imports- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
50,000,000
- Electricity Production- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
502,000,000
- Oil Consumption- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
1,777
