Infrastructure — Mauritania
Transport, communications, and energy.
Profile updated 2026-06-02
⚡ Infrastructure at a glance
Transport, communications, and energy. Key figure for Mauritania: 30
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Transportation
- Airports - total
30
- Airports with Paved Runways
9
- Railways
452 Miles 728 Kilometers
- Roadways- paved
1,962 Miles 3,158 Kilometers
- Ports and Terminals
Bogue, Kaedi, Nouadhibou, Nouakchott, Rosso
Communications
- Telephones
74,500
- Cell Phones
1,300,000
- Internet Users
30,000
- Internet Country Code
.mr
- Internet Hosts
23
- Broadcast Media
- broadcast media state-owned
- 1 state-run TV and 1 state-run radio network
- Television de Mauritanie, the state-run TV station, has an additional 6 regional TV stations that provide local programming
- Telephone System
- general assessment: limited system of cable and open-wire lines, minor microwave radio relay links, and radiotelephone communications stations;
- mobile-cellular services expanding rapidly domestic: Mauritel, the national telecommunications company, was privatized in 2001 but remains the monopoly provider of fixed-line services; fixed-line teledensity 2 per 100 persons; mobile-cellular network coverage extends mainly to urban areas with a teledensity of roughly 106 per 100 persons; mostly cable and open-wire lines; a domestic satellite telecommunications
- system links Nouakchott with regional capitals international: country code - 222; satellite earth stations - 3 (1 Intelsat - Atlantic Ocean, 2 Arabsat); fiber-optic and Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL) cables for Internet access
Energy
- Electricity Production- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
415,300,000
- Natural Gas Reserves- Cubic Meters (cu m)
28,320,000,000
- Oil Consumption- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
18,120
- Oil Exports- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
7,337
- Oil Reserves- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
20,000,000