Infrastructure — Niger
Transport, communications, and energy.
Profile updated 2026-06-02
⚡ Infrastructure at a glance
Transport, communications, and energy. Key figure for Niger: 30
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Transportation
- Airports - total
30
- Airports with Paved Runways
10
- Heliports
1
- Roadways- total
11,774 Miles 18,949 Kilometers
- Waterways
186 Miles 300 Kilometers
- Ports and Terminals
none
Communications
- Telephones
65,000
- Cell Phones
900,000
- Internet Users
40,000
- Internet Country Code
.ne
- Internet Hosts
172
- Broadcast Media
- state-run TV station
- 3 private TV stations provide a mix of local and foreign programming
- state-run radio has only radio station with a national reach
- about 30 private radio stations operate locally
- as many as 100 community radio stations broadcast
- transmissions of multiple international broadcasters are available
- Telephone System
- general assessment: inadequate; small system of wire, radio telephone communications, and microwave radio relay
- links concentrated in the southwestern area of Niger domestic: combined fixed-line and mobile-cellular teledensity remains only about 30 per 100 persons despite a rapidly increasing cellular subscribership base; domestic satel
- lite system with 3 earth stations and 1 planned international: country code - 227; satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (1 Atlantic Ocean and 1 Indian Ocean)
Energy
- Electricity Consumption- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
589,500,000
- Electricity Imports- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
450,000,000
- Electricity Production- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
150,000,000
- Oil Consumption- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
5,629