Infrastructure — Uzbekistan
Transport, communications, and energy.
Profile updated 2026-06-02
⚡ Infrastructure at a glance
Transport, communications, and energy. Key figure for Uzbekistan: 53
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Transportation
- Airports - total
53
- Airports with Paved Runways
33
- Railways
2,628 Miles 4,230 Kilometers
- Roadways- total
53,746 Miles 86,496 Kilometers
- Roadways- paved
46,920 Miles 75,511 Kilometers
- Waterways
684 Miles 1,100 Kilometers
- Ports and Terminals
Termiz (Amu Darya)
Communications
- Telephones
1,857,000
- Cell Phones
10,400,000
- Internet Users
2,100,000
- Internet Country Code
.uz
- Internet Hosts
47,718
- Broadcast Media
- government controls media
- 11 state-owned broadcasters - 7 TV and 4 radio - provide service to virtually the entire country
- about 20 privately owned TV stations, overseen by local officials, broadcast to local markets
- privately owned TV stations are required to lease transmitters from the government-owned Republic TV and Radio Industry Corporation
- about 15 privately owned radio broadcasters are affiliated with the National Association of Electronic Mass Media of Uzbekistan, a government sponsored NGO for private broadcast media
- Telephone System
- digital exchanges in large cities and in rural areas domestic: the state-owned telecommunications company, Uzbektelecom, owner of the fixed line telecommunications system, has used loans from the Japanese government and the China Development Bank to upgrade fixed-line services including conversion to digital exchanges; mobile-cellular services are provided by 3 private and 1 state-owned operator with a total s
- ubscriber base of 19 million as of January 2014 international: country code - 998; linked by fiber-optic cable or microwave radio relay with CIS member states and to other countries by leased connection via the Moscow international gateway switch; the country also has a link to the Trans-Asia-Europe (TAE) fiber-optic cable; Uzbekistan has supported the national fiber optic backbone project of Afghanistan since 2008
Energy
- Electricity Consumption- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
40,100,000,000
- Electricity Exports- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
11,520,000,000
- Electricity Imports- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
11,440,000,000
- Electricity Production- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
48,790,000,000
- Natural Gas Consumption - Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
46,800,000,000
- Natural Gas Exports- Cubic Meters (cu m)
13,400,000,000
- Natural Gas Production- Cubic Meters (cu m)
62,900,000,000
- Natural Gas Reserves- Cubic Meters (cu m)
1,841,000,000,000
- Oil Consumption- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
137,100
- Oil Production- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
152,000
- Oil Reserves- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
594,000,000