Infrastructure — Panama
Transport, communications, and energy.
Profile updated 2026-06-02
⚡ Infrastructure at a glance
Transport, communications, and energy. Key figure for Panama: 117
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Transportation
- Airports - total
117
- Airports with Paved Runways
57
- Heliports
3
- Roadways- total
9,406 Miles 15,137 Kilometers
- Roadways- paved
3,946 Miles 6,351 Kilometers
- Waterways
497 Miles 800 Kilometers
- Ports and Terminals
Balboa, Cristobal, Coco Solo, Manzanillo (part of Colon area), Vacamonte
Communications
- Telephones
537,100
- Cell Phones
2,392,000
- Internet Users
525,200
- Internet Country Code
.pa
- Internet Hosts
9,585
- Broadcast Media
- multiple privately owned TV networks and a government-owned educational TV station
- multi-channel cable and satellite TV subscription services are available
- more than 100 commercial radio stations
- Telephone System
- domestic and international facilities well-developed domestic: mobile-cellular
- telephone subscribership has increased rapidly international: country code - 507; landing point for the Americas Region Caribbean Ring System (ARCOS-1), the MAYA-1, and PAN-AM submarine cable systems that together provide links to the US and parts of the Caribbean, Central America, and South America; satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean); connected to the Central American Microwave System
Energy
- Electricity Consumption- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
5,805,000,000
- Electricity Exports- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
124,900,000
- Electricity Imports- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
8,740,000
- Electricity Production- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
6,546,000,000
- Oil Consumption- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
98,890