Infrastructure — Rwanda
Transport, communications, and energy.
Profile updated 2026-06-02
⚡ Infrastructure at a glance
Transport, communications, and energy. Key figure for Rwanda: 7
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Transportation
- Airports - total
7
- Airports with Paved Runways
4
- Roadways- total
2,920 Miles 4,700 Kilometers
- Roadways- paved
750 Miles 1,207 Kilometers
- Ports and Terminals
Cyangugu, Gisenyi, Kibuye
Communications
- Telephones
33,500
- Cell Phones
635,100
- Internet Users
100,000
- Internet Country Code
.rw
- Internet Hosts
815
- Broadcast Media
- government owns and operates the only TV station
- government-owned and operated Radio Rwanda has a national reach
- 9 private radio stations
- transmissions of multiple international broadcasters are available
- Telephone System
- general assessment: small, inadequate telephone system primarily serves business, education,
- and government domestic: the capital, Kigali, is connected to the centers of the provinces by microwave radio relay and, recently, by cellular telephone service; much of the network depends on wire and HF radiotelephone; combined fixed-line and mobile-cellular telephone density has increase
- d and now exceeds 40 telephones per 100 persons international: country code - 250; international connections employ microwave radio relay to neighboring countries and satellite communications to more distant countries; satellite earth stations - 1 Intelsat (Indian Ocean) in Kigali (includes telex and telefax service)
Energy
- Electricity Consumption- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
231,600,000
- Electricity Exports- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
10,000,000
- Electricity Imports- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
130,000,000
- Electricity Production- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
120,000,000
- Natural Gas Reserves- Cubic Meters (cu m)
566,300,000,000
- Oil Consumption- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
5,245