Infrastructure — Maldives
Transport, communications, and energy.
Profile updated 2026-06-02
⚡ Infrastructure at a glance
Transport, communications, and energy. Key figure for Maldives: 9
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Transportation
- Airports - total
9
- Airports with Paved Runways
7
- Roadways- total
55 Miles 88 Kilometers
- Ports and Terminals
Gan, Male
Communications
- Telephones
49,913
- Cell Phones
317,800
- Internet Users
33,000
- Internet Country Code
.mv
- Internet Hosts
2,164
- Broadcast Media
- state-owned radio and TV monopoly until recently
- state-owned TV operates 2 channels
- 3 privately owned TV stations
- state owns Voice of Maldives and operates both an entertainment and a music-based station
- 5 privately owned radio stations
- Telephone System
- general assessment: telephone services have improved; inter-atoll communication through microwave links; all inhabited islands and
- resorts are connected with telephone and fax service domestic: each island now has at least 1 public telephone, and there are mobile-cellular networks with a rapidly expanding subs
- cribership that has reached 135 per 100 persons international: country code - 960; linked to international submarine cable Fiber-Optic Link Around the Globe (FLAG); satellite earth station - 3 Intelsat (Indian Ocean)
Energy
- Electricity Consumption- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
542,000,000
- Electricity Production- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
542,000,000
- Oil Consumption- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
6,875