Railroads:

• total: 578 km (single track)
• narrow gauge: 578 km 1.000-m gauge

Highways:

• total: 8,435 km
• paved:1,038 km
• unpaved: crushed stone 2,600 km; improved earth 1,530 km; unimproved earth 3,267 km

Inland waterways:

• navigable along small sections, important only locally

Ports:

• Cotonou
• Porto-Novo

Merchant marine:

• none

Airports:

• total: 7
• with paved runways 2,438 to 3,047 m: 1
• with paved runways 1,524 to 2,437 m: 1
• with unpaved runways 1,524 to 2,438 m:1
• with unpaved runways 914 to 1,523 m: 4

Telephone system:

• N/A telephones; fair system of open wire and microwave radio relay
• local: N/A
• intercity: microwave radio relay and open wire
• international: 1 Atlantic Ocean INTELSAT earth station, submarine cable

Radio:

• broadcast stations: AM 2, FM 2, shortwave 0
• radios: N/A

Television:

• broadcast stations: 2
• televisions: N/A