Infrastructure — Zimbabwe
Transport, communications, and energy.
Profile updated 2026-06-02
⚡ Infrastructure at a glance
Transport, communications, and energy. Key figure for Zimbabwe: 196
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Transportation
- Airports - total
196
- Airports with Paved Runways
17
- Railways
2,129 Miles 3,427 Kilometers
- Roadways- total
60,439 Miles 97,267 Kilometers
- Roadways- paved
8,998 Miles 14,481 Kilometers
- Ports and Terminals
Binga, Kariba
Communications
- Telephones
385,100
- Cell Phones
1,226,000
- Internet Users
1,351,000
- Internet Country Code
.zw
- Internet Hosts
29,866
- Broadcast Media
- government owns all local radio and TV stations
- foreign shortwave broadcasts and satellite TV are available to those who can afford antennas and receivers
- in rural areas, access to TV broadcasts is extremely limited
- Telephone System
- general assessment: system was once one of the best in Africa,
- but now suffers from poor maintenance domestic: consists of microwave radio relay links, open-wire lines, radiotelephone communication stations, fixed wireless local loop installations, and a substantial mobile-cellular network; Internet connection is available in Harare and planned for a
- ll major towns and for some of the smaller ones international: country code - 263; satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat; 2 international digital gateway exchanges (in Harare and Gweru)
Energy
- Electricity Consumption- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
10,890,000,000
- Electricity Exports- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
32,000,000
- Electricity Imports- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
2,691,000,000
- Electricity Production- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
9,470,000,000
- Oil Consumption- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
19,030