Infrastructure — Uruguay
Transport, communications, and energy.
Profile updated 2026-06-02
⚡ Infrastructure at a glance
Transport, communications, and energy. Key figure for Uruguay: 133
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Transportation
- Airports - total
133
- Airports with Paved Runways
11
- Railways
1,020 Miles 1,641 Kilometers
- Roadways- total
48,300 Miles 77,732 Kilometers
- Roadways- paved
4,811 Miles 7,743 Kilometers
- Waterways
994 Miles 1,600 Kilometers
- Ports and Terminals
Colonia, Fray Bentos, Juan La Caze, La Paloma, Montevideo, Nueva Palmira, Paysandu, Punta del Este, Piriapolis
Communications
- Telephones
953,400
- Cell Phones
3,004,000
- Internet Users
968,000
- Internet Country Code
.uy
- Internet Hosts
765,525
- Broadcast Media
- mixture of privately owned and state-run broadcast media
- more than 100 commercial radio stations and about 20 TV channels
- cable TV is available
- many community radio and TV stations
- adopted the hybrid Japanese/Brazilian HDTV standard (ISDB-T) in December 2010
- Telephone System
- fully digitalized domestic: most modern facilities concentrated in Montevideo; nationwide microwave radio relay network; overall fixed-line and mobile-cellular teleden
- sity has reached 170 telephones per 100 persons international: country code - 598; the UNISOR submarine cable system provides direct connectivity to Brazil and Argentina; satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean)
Energy
- Electricity Consumption- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
7,570,000,000
- Electricity Exports- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
711,400,000
- Electricity Imports- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
386,800,000
- Electricity Production- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
9,200,000,000
- Natural Gas Consumption - Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
80,000,000
- Natural Gas Imports- Cubic Meters (cu m)
80,000,000
- Oil Consumption- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
51,100
- Oil Imports- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
38,680
- Oil Production- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
435