Infrastructure — Norway
Transport, communications, and energy.
Profile updated 2026-06-02
⚡ Infrastructure at a glance
Transport, communications, and energy. Key figure for Norway: 95
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Transportation
- Airports - total
95
- Airports with Paved Runways
67
- Heliports
1
- Railways
2,633 Miles 4,237 Kilometers
- Roadways- total
58,328 Miles 93,870 Kilometers
- Roadways- paved
47,071 Miles 75,754 Kilometers
- Waterways
980 Miles 1,577 Kilometers
- Ports and Terminals
Bergen, Drammen, Floro, Hammerfest, Harstad, Haugesund, Kristiansand, Larvik, Narvik, Oslo, Porsgrunn, Stavanger, Tromso, Trondheim
Communications
- Telephones
1,900,000
- Cell Phones
5,192,000
- Internet Users
3,800,000
- Internet Country Code
.no
- Internet Hosts
3,352,000
- Broadcast Media
- state-owned public radio-TV broadcaster operates 3 nationwide TV stations, 3 nationwide radio stations, and 16 regional radio stations
- roughly a dozen privately owned television stations broadcast nationally and roughly another 25 local TV stations broadcasting
- nearly 75% of households have access to multi-channel cable or satellite TV
- 2 privately owned radio stations broadcast nationwide and another 240 stations operate locally
- Telephone System
- general assessment: modern in all respects; one of the
- most advanced telecommunications networks in Europe domestic: Norway has a domestic satellite system; the prevalence of rural areas enc
- ourages the wide use of mobile-cellular systems international: country code - 47; 2 buried coaxial cable systems; submarine cables provide links to other Nordic countries and Europe; satellite earth stations - NA Eutelsat, NA Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean), and 1 Inmarsat (Atlantic and Indian Ocean regions); note - Norway shares the Inmarsat earth station with the other Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, and Sweden)
Energy
- Electricity Consumption- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
128,800,000,000
- Electricity Exports- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
17,290,000,000
- Electricity Imports- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
3,414,000,000
- Electricity Production- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
142,700,000,000
- Natural Gas Consumption - Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
5,506,000,000
- Natural Gas Exports- Cubic Meters (cu m)
107,300,000,000
- Natural Gas Production- Cubic Meters (cu m)
114,700,000,000
- Natural Gas Reserves- Cubic Meters (cu m)
2,070,000,000,000
- Oil Consumption- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
255,200
- Oil Exports- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
1,602,000
- Oil Imports- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
11,320
- Oil Production- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
3,220,000
- Oil Reserves- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
5,366,000,000