Infrastructure — Sierra Leone
Transport, communications, and energy.
Profile updated 2026-06-02
⚡ Infrastructure at a glance
Transport, communications, and energy. Key figure for Sierra Leone: 8
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Transportation
- Airports - total
8
- Airports with Paved Runways
1
- Heliports
2
- Roadways- total
7,021 Miles 11,300 Kilometers
- Roadways- paved
562 Miles 904 Kilometers
- Waterways
497 Miles 800 Kilometers
- Ports and Terminals
Bonthe, Freetown, Pepel
Communications
- Telephones
32,800
- Cell Phones
776,000
- Internet Users
13,000
- Internet Country Code
.sl
- Internet Hosts
281
- Broadcast Media
- 1 government-owned TV station
- 1 private TV station began operating in 2005
- a pay-TV service began operations in late 2007
- 1 government-owned national radio station
- about two dozen private radio stations primarily clustered in major cities
- transmissions of several international broadcasters are available
- Telephone System
- marginal telephone service with poor infrastructure domestic: the national microwave radio relay trunk system connects Freetown to Bo and Kenema; while mobile-cellular service is growing rapidly from a small base,
- service area coverage remains limited international: country code - 232; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean)
Energy
- Electricity Consumption- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
74,400,000
- Electricity Production- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
80,000,000
- Oil Consumption- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
8,768