Infrastructure — São Tomé and Príncipe
Transport, communications, and energy.
Profile updated 2026-06-02
⚡ Infrastructure at a glance
Transport, communications, and energy. Key figure for São Tomé and Príncipe: 2
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Transportation
- Airports - total
2
- Airports with Paved Runways
2
- Roadways- total
199 Miles 320 Kilometers
- Roadways- paved
135 Miles 218 Kilometers
- Ports and Terminals
Santo Antonio, Sao Tome
Communications
- Telephones
7,800
- Cell Phones
30,100
- Internet Users
23,000
- Internet Country Code
.st
- Internet Hosts
1,514
- Broadcast Media
- 1 government-owned TV station
- 1 government-owned radio station
- 3 independent local radio stations authorized in 2005 with 2 operating at the end of 2006
- transmissions of multiple international broadcasters are available
- Telephone System
- general assessment: local telephone network of adequate q
- uality with most lines connected to digital switches domestic: combined fixed-line and mobile-cellular te
- ledensity roughly 65 telephones per 100 persons international: country code - 239; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean)
Energy
- Electricity Consumption- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
101,400,000
- Electricity Production- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
19,000,000
- Oil Consumption- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
904