Infrastructure — Nigeria
Transport, communications, and energy.
Profile updated 2026-06-02
⚡ Infrastructure at a glance
Transport, communications, and energy. Key figure for Nigeria: 54
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Transportation
- Airports - total
54
- Airports with Paved Runways
40
- Heliports
5
- Railways
2,178 Miles 3,505 Kilometers
- Roadways- total
120,049 Miles 193,200 Kilometers
- Roadways- paved
18,007 Miles 28,980 Kilometers
- Waterways
5,344 Miles 8,600 Kilometers
- Ports and Terminals
Calabar, Lagos, Onne, Port Harcourt, Sapele, Warri
Communications
- Telephones
1,419,000
- Cell Phones
40,395,000
- Internet Users
10,000,000
- Internet Country Code
.ng
- Internet Hosts
1,378
- Broadcast Media
- nearly 70 federal government-controlled national and regional TV stations
- all 36 states operate TV stations
- several private TV stations operational
- cable and satellite TV subscription services are available
- network of federal government-controlled national, regional, and state radio stations
- roughly 40 state government-owned radio stations typically carry their own programs except for news broadcasts
- about 20 private radio stations
- transmissions of international broadcasters are available
- Telephone System
- general assessment: further expansion and modernization of the fixed-line telephone network is needed;
- network quality remains a problem domestic: the addition of a second fixed-line provider in 2002 resulted in faster growth but subscribership remains only about 1 per 100 persons; mobile-cellular services growing rapidly, in part responding to the shortcomings of the fixed-line network; multiple cellular providers operate nationally with sub
- scribership base approaching 60 per 100 persons international: country code - 234; landing point for the SAT-3/WASC fiber-optic submarine cable that provides connectivity to Europe and Asia; satellite earth stations - 3 Intelsat (2 Atlantic Ocean and 1 Indian Ocean)
Energy
- Electricity Consumption- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
19,210,000,000
- Electricity Production- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
21,920,000,000
- Natural Gas Consumption - Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
5,030,000,000
- Natural Gas Exports- Cubic Meters (cu m)
25,960,000,000
- Natural Gas Production- Cubic Meters (cu m)
31,360,000,000
- Natural Gas Reserves- Cubic Meters (cu m)
5,153,000,000,000
- Oil Consumption- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
271,600
- Oil Exports- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
2,341,000
- Oil Production- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
2,451,000
- Oil Reserves- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
37,200,000,000