Infrastructure — Tanzania
Transport, communications, and energy.
Profile updated 2026-06-02
⚡ Infrastructure at a glance
Transport, communications, and energy. Key figure for Tanzania: 166
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Transportation
- Airports - total
166
- Airports with Paved Runways
10
- Railways
2,292 Miles 3,689 Kilometers
- Roadways- total
53,731 Miles 86,472 Kilometers
- Roadways- paved
4,407 Miles 7,092 Kilometers
- Ports and Terminals
Bukoba, Dar es Salaam, Kigoma, Kilwa Masoko, Lindi, Mtwara, Mwanza, Pangani, Tanga, Wete, Zanzibar
Communications
- Telephones
173,552
- Cell Phones
9,358,000
- Internet Users
400,000
- Internet Country Code
.tz
- Internet Hosts
24,182
- Broadcast Media
- a state-owned TV station and multiple privately owned TV stations
- state-owned national radio station supplemented by more than 40 privately owned radio stations
- transmissions of several international broadcasters are available
- Telephone System
- general assessment: telecommunications services are marginal; system operating below capacity and being modernized for better service; smal
- l aperture terminal (VSAT) system under construction domestic: fixed-line telephone network inadequate with less than 1 connection per 100 persons; mobile-cellular service, aided by multiple providers, is increasing rapidly and in 2011 exceeded a subscriber base of 50 telephones per 100 persons; trunk service provided by open-wire, microwave radio relay, tropospheric scatter, and fiber-optic cable;
- some links being made digital international: country code - 255; landing point for the EASSy fiber-optic submarine cable system linking East Africa with Europe and North America; satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (1 Indian Ocean, 1 Atlantic Ocean)
Energy
- Electricity Consumption- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
3,182,000,000
- Electricity Imports- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
200,000,000
- Electricity Production- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
2,680,000,000
- Natural Gas Consumption - Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
780,000,000
- Natural Gas Production- Cubic Meters (cu m)
8,600,000,000
- Natural Gas Reserves- Cubic Meters (cu m)
6,513,000,000
- Oil Consumption- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
43,310