Infrastructure — Syria
Transport, communications, and energy.
Profile updated 2026-06-02
⚡ Infrastructure at a glance
Transport, communications, and energy. Key figure for Syria: 90
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Transportation
- Airports - total
90
- Airports with Paved Runways
29
- Heliports
6
- Railways
1,275 Miles 2,052 Kilometers
- Roadways- total
43,417 Miles 69,873 Kilometers
- Roadways- paved
39,184 Miles 63,060 Kilometers
- Waterways
559 Miles 900 Kilometers
- Ports and Terminals
Baniyas, Jablah, Latakia, Tartus
Communications
- Telephones
3,871,000
- Cell Phones
6,700,000
- Internet Users
3,470,000
- Internet Country Code
.sy
- Internet Hosts
8,114
- Broadcast Media
- state-run TV and radio broadcast networks
- state operates 2 TV networks and a satellite channel
- roughly two-thirds of Syrian homes have a satellite dish providing access to foreign TV broadcasts
- 3 state-run radio channels
- first private radio station launched in 2005
- private radio broadcasters prohibited from transmitting news or political content
- Telephone System
- general assessment: fair system currently undergoing significant improvement and digital upgrades, including fiber-optic technology and expansion of the network to rural areas; the armed insurgency that began in 2011 has led to major disruptions to the network and has caused t
- elephone and Internet outages throughout the country domestic: the number of fixed-line connections has increased markedly since 2000; mobile-cellular service growing with telephone s
- ubscribership nearly 60 per 100 persons in 2011 international: country code - 963; submarine cable connection to Egypt, Lebanon, and Cyprus; satellite earth stations - 1 Intelsat (Indian Ocean) and 1 Intersputnik (Atlantic Ocean region); coaxial cable and microwave radio relay to Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, and Turkey; participant in Medarabtel
Energy
- Electricity Consumption- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
27,350,000,000
- Electricity Imports- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
1,400,000,000
- Electricity Production- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
40,500,000,000
- Natural Gas Consumption - Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
9,630,000,000
- Natural Gas Imports- Cubic Meters (cu m)
250,000,000
- Natural Gas Production- Cubic Meters (cu m)
7,870,000,000
- Natural Gas Reserves- Cubic Meters (cu m)
240,700,000,000
- Oil Consumption- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
258,800
- Oil Exports- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
152,400
- Oil Production- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
403,800
- Oil Reserves- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
2,500,000,000