Infrastructure — Sudan
Transport, communications, and energy.
Profile updated 2026-06-02
⚡ Infrastructure at a glance
Transport, communications, and energy. Key figure for Sudan: 74
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Transportation
- Airports - total
74
- Airports with Paved Runways
16
- Heliports
6
- Railways
3,715 Miles 5,978 Kilometers
- Roadways- total
7,394 Miles 11,900 Kilometers
- Roadways- paved
2,684 Miles 4,320 Kilometers
- Waterways
2,528 Miles 4,068 Kilometers
- Ports and Terminals
Juba, Khartoum, Kusti, Malakal, Nimule, Port Sudan, Sawakin
Communications
- Telephones
370,400
- Cell Phones
7,464,000
- Internet Users
1,500,000
- Internet Country Code
.sd
- Internet Hosts
70
- Broadcast Media
- the Sudanese Government directly controls TV and radio, requiring that both media reflect government policies
- TV has a permanent military censor
- a private radio station is in operation
- Telephone System
- general assessment: well-equipped system by regional standards and being upgraded; cellular communications started in 1996 and have expanded s
- ubstantially with wide coverage of most major cities domestic: consists of microwave radio relay, cable, fiber optic, radiotelephone communications, tropospheric scatter, and a d
- omestic satellite system with 14 earth stations international: country code - 249; linked to the EASSy and FLAG fiber-optic submarine cable systems; satellite earth stations - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean), 1 Arabsat
Energy
- Electricity Consumption- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
3,438,000,000
- Electricity Production- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
4,040,000,000
- Natural Gas Reserves- Cubic Meters (cu m)
21,240,000,000
- Oil Consumption- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
95,450
- Oil Exports- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
97,270
- Oil Production- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
401,300
- Oil Reserves- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
1,250,000,000