Infrastructure — Portugal
Transport, communications, and energy.
Profile updated 2026-06-02
⚡ Infrastructure at a glance
Transport, communications, and energy. Key figure for Portugal: 64
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Transportation
- Airports - total
64
- Airports with Paved Runways
43
- Railways
2,062 Miles 3,319 Kilometers
- Roadways- total
51,512 Miles 82,900 Kilometers
- Roadways- paved
44,300 Miles 71,294 Kilometers
- Waterways
130 Miles 210 Kilometers
- Ports and Terminals
Aveiro, Funchal (Madeira Islands), Horta (Azores), Leixoes, Lisbon, Porto, Ponta Delgada (Azores), Praia da Vitoria (Azores), Setubal, Viana do Castelo
Communications
- Telephones
4,049,000
- Cell Phones
13,413,000
- Internet Users
3,549,000
- Internet Country Code
.pt
- Internet Hosts
3,267,000
- Broadcast Media
- Radio e Televisao de Portugal (RTP),the publicly-owned TV broadcaster, operates 2 domestic channels and external service channels to Africa
- overall, roughly 40 domestic TV stations
- viewers have widespread access to international broadcasters with more than half of all households connected to multi-channel cable or satellite TV systems
- publicly owned radio operates 3 national networks and provides regional and external services
- several privately owned national radio stations and some 300 regional and local commercial radio stations
- Telephone System
- general assessment: Portugal's telephone system has a state-of-the-art network with broadband,
- high-speed capabilities domestic: integrated network of coaxial cables, open-wire, microwave radio relay,
- and domestic satellite earth stations international: country code - 351; a combination of submarine cables provide connectivity to Europe, North and East Africa, South Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and the US; satellite earth stations - 3 Intelsat (2 Atlantic Ocean and 1 Indian Ocean), NA Eutelsat; tropospheric scatter to Azores
Energy
- Electricity Consumption- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
48,780,000,000
- Electricity Exports- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
1,313,000,000
- Electricity Imports- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
10,740,000,000
- Electricity Production- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
44,470,000,000
- Natural Gas Consumption - Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
5,143,000,000
- Natural Gas Imports- Cubic Meters (cu m)
5,185,000,000
- Natural Gas Production- Cubic Meters (cu m)
4,904,000,000
- Oil Consumption- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
259,700
- Oil Imports- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
222,300
- Oil Production- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
3,745