Infrastructure — Sweden
Transport, communications, and energy.
Profile updated 2026-06-02
⚡ Infrastructure at a glance
Transport, communications, and energy. Key figure for Sweden: 231
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Transportation
- Airports - total
231
- Airports with Paved Runways
149
- Heliports
2
- Railways
7,228 Miles 11,633 Kilometers
- Roadways- total
360,124 Miles 579,564 Kilometers
- Roadways- paved
84,161 Miles 135,444 Kilometers
- Waterways
1,275 Miles 2,052 Kilometers
- Ports and Terminals
Gavle, Goteborg, Halmstad, Helsingborg, Hudiksvall, Kalmar, Karlshamn, Lulea, Malmo, Solvesborg, Stockholm, Sundsvall
Communications
- Telephones
5,146,000
- Cell Phones
10,371,000
- Internet Users
7,000,000
- Internet Country Code
.se
- Internet Hosts
4,396,000
- Broadcast Media
- publicly owned TV broadcaster operates 2 terrestrial networks plus regional stations
- multiple privately owned TV broadcasters operating nationally, regionally, and locally
- about 50 local TV stations
- widespread access to pan-Nordic and international broadcasters through multi-channel cable and satellite TV
- publicly owned radio broadcaster operates 3 national stations and a network of 25 regional channels
- roughly 100 privately owned local radio stations with some consolidating into near national networks
- an estimated 900 community and neighborhood radio stations broadcast intermittently
- Telephone System
- general assessment: highly developed telecommunications infrastructure; ranked among leading countries for fixed-line, mobile-cellular,
- Internet and broadband penetration domestic: coaxial and multiconductor cables carry most of the voice traffic; parallel microwave radio relay s
- ystems carry some additional telephone channels international: country code - 46; submarine cables provide links to other Nordic countries and Europe; satellite earth stations - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean), 1 Eutelsat, and 1 Inmarsat (Atlantic and Indian Ocean regions); note - Sweden shares the Inmarsat earth station with the other Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, and Norway)
Energy
- Electricity Consumption- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
134,500,000,000
- Electricity Exports- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
14,710,000,000
- Electricity Imports- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
12,750,000,000
- Electricity Production- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
143,800,000,000
- Natural Gas Consumption - Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
1,530,000,000
- Natural Gas Imports- Cubic Meters (cu m)
1,129,000,000
- Oil Consumption- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
316,000
- Oil Imports- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
398,100
- Oil Production- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
2,441