Infrastructure — Qatar
Transport, communications, and energy.
Profile updated 2026-06-02
⚡ Infrastructure at a glance
Transport, communications, and energy. Key figure for Qatar: 6
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Transportation
- Airports - total
6
- Airports with Paved Runways
4
- Heliports
1
- Roadways- total
6,108 Miles 9,830 Kilometers
- Ports and Terminals
Doha, Halul Island, Umm Sa'id (Musay'id)
Communications
- Telephones
285,300
- Cell Phones
1,264,000
- Internet Users
351,000
- Internet Country Code
.qa
- Internet Hosts
822
- Broadcast Media
- TV and radio broadcast licensing and access to local media markets are state controlled
- home of the satellite TV channel Al-Jazeera, which was originally owned and financed by the Qatari government, but has evolved to independent corporate status
- Al-Jazeera claims editorial independence in broadcasting
- local radio transmissions include state, private, and international broadcasters on FM frequencies in Doha
- Telephone System
- modern system centered in Doha domestic: combined fixed and mobile-cellular telephone subscr
- ibership exceeds 130 telephones per 100 persons international: country code - 974; landing point for the Fiber-Optic Link Around the Globe (FLAG) submarine cable network that provides links to Asia, Middle East, Europe, and the US; tropospheric scatter to Bahrain; microwave radio relay to Saudi Arabia and the UAE; satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (1 Atlantic Ocean and 1 Indian Ocean) and 1 Arabsat
Energy
- Electricity Consumption- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
13,730,000,000
- Electricity Production- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
15,110,000,000
- Natural Gas Consumption - Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
19,530,000,000
- Natural Gas Exports- Cubic Meters (cu m)
113,700,000,000
- Natural Gas Production- Cubic Meters (cu m)
133,200,000,000
- Natural Gas Reserves- Cubic Meters (cu m)
252,000,000,000,000
- Oil Consumption- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
189,700
- Oil Exports- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
1,389,000
- Oil Production- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
790,500
- Oil Reserves- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
25,380,000,000