Infrastructure — Pakistan
Transport, communications, and energy.
Profile updated 2026-06-02
⚡ Infrastructure at a glance
Transport, communications, and energy. Key figure for Pakistan: 151
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Transportation
- Airports - total
151
- Airports with Paved Runways
108
- Heliports
23
- Railways
4,841 Miles 7,791 Kilometers
- Roadways- total
162,958 Miles 262,256 Kilometers
- Roadways- paved
117,575 Miles 189,218 Kilometers
- Ports and Terminals
Karachi, Port Muhammad bin Qasim
Communications
- Telephones
4,058,000
- Cell Phones
88,020,000
- Internet Users
17,500,000
- Internet Country Code
.pk
- Internet Hosts
330,466
- Broadcast Media
- media is government regulated
- 1 dominant state-owned TV broadcaster, Pakistan Television Corporation (PTV), operates a network consisting of 5 channels
- private TV broadcasters are permitted
- to date 69 foreign satellite channels are operational
- the state-owned radio network operates more than 40 stations
- nearly 100 commercially licensed privately owned radio stations provide programming mostly limited to music and talk shows
- Telephone System
- general assessment: the telecommunications infrastructure is improving dramatically with foreign and domestic investments in fixed-line and mobile-cellular networks; system consists of microwave radio relay, coaxial cable, fiber-optic cable, cellular, and satellite networks;
- domestic: mobile-cellular subscribership has skyrocketed, exceeding 110 million by the end of 2011, up from only about 300,000 in 2000; more than 90 percent of Pakistanis live within areas that have cell phone coverage and more than half of all Pakistanis have access to a cell phone; fiber systems are being constructed throughout the country to aid in network growth; fixed line availability has risen only marginally over the same period and there are still difficu
- lties getting fixed-line service to rural areas international: country code - 92; landing point for the SEA-ME-WE-3 and SEA-ME-WE-4 submarine cable systems that provide links to Asia, the Middle East, and Europe; satellite earth stations - 3 Intelsat (1 Atlantic Ocean and 2 Indian Ocean); 3 operational international gateway exchanges (1 at Karachi and 2 at Islamabad); microwave radio relay to neighboring countries
Energy
- Electricity Consumption- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
72,200,000,000
- Electricity Production- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
90,800,000,000
- Natural Gas Consumption - Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
42,900,000,000
- Natural Gas Production- Cubic Meters (cu m)
39,150,000,000
- Natural Gas Reserves- Cubic Meters (cu m)
679,600,000,000
- Oil Consumption- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
426,700
- Oil Imports- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
151,200
- Oil Production- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
63,000
- Oil Reserves- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
247,500,000