Infrastructure — Turkmenistan
Transport, communications, and energy.
Profile updated 2026-06-02
⚡ Infrastructure at a glance
Transport, communications, and energy. Key figure for Turkmenistan: 26
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Transportation
- Airports - total
26
- Airports with Paved Runways
21
- Heliports
1
- Railways
1,852 Miles 2,980 Kilometers
- Roadways- total
36,407 Miles 58,592 Kilometers
- Roadways- paved
29,563 Miles 47,577 Kilometers
- Waterways
808 Miles 1,300 Kilometers
- Ports and Terminals
Turkmenbasy
Communications
- Telephones
478,000
- Cell Phones
810,000
- Internet Users
70,000
- Internet Country Code
.tm
- Internet Hosts
794
- Broadcast Media
- broadcast media is government controlled and censored
- 7 state-owned TV and 4 state-owned radio networks
- satellite dishes and programming provide an alternative to the state-run media
- officials sometimes limit access to satellite TV by removing satellite dishes
- Telephone System
- general assessment: telecommunications network remains underdeveloped and progress toward improvement is slow; strict government control and
- censorship inhibits liberalization and modernization domestic: Turkmentelekom, in cooperation with foreign partners, has installed high-speed fiber-optic lines and has upgraded most of the country's telephone exchanges and switching centers with new digital technology; combined fixed-line and mobile teledensity is about 80 per 100 persons; Russia's Mobile Telesystems, the only foreign mobile-cellular service provider in Turkmenistan, had its operating license suspended in December 2010 but was able to resume operations in September 2012; Turkmenistan's first telecommunication satellite is scheduled to be launched by the end of 2014; once in orbit, it is expected that the satellite w
- ill greatly improve connectivity in the country international: country code - 993; linked by fiber-optic cable and microwave radio relay to other CIS republics and to other countries by leased connections to the Moscow international gateway switch; an exchange in Ashgabat switches international traffic through Turkey via Intelsat; satellite earth stations - 1 Orbita and 1 Intelsat
Energy
- Electricity Consumption- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
13,000,000,000
- Electricity Exports- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
2,500,000,000
- Electricity Production- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
12,830,000,000
- Natural Gas Consumption - Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
23,300,000,000
- Natural Gas Exports- Cubic Meters (cu m)
41,100,000,000
- Natural Gas Production- Cubic Meters (cu m)
64,400,000,000
- Natural Gas Reserves- Cubic Meters (cu m)
17,500,000,000,000
- Oil Consumption- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
145,000
- Oil Exports- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
67,000
- Oil Production- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
203,400
- Oil Reserves- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
600,000,000