Railroads: Government owned about 1,944 kilometers of track network extends radially from Colombo to northern, eastern, and southern coastal cities service to northern and eastern areas erratic because of domestic unrest.

Roads: Total approximately 75,000 kilometers paved (bituminous) about 25,500 kilometers 478,000 registered vehicles in mid-1980s.

Waterways: About 430 kilometers of rivers and canals navigable by shallow draft vessels.

Ports: Deep water ports at Colombo, Trincomalee, and Galle, latter two underutilized government shipping corporation possessed eight freighters and two tankers in late 1980s.

Airfields: Fourteen, of which twelve usable in late 1980s, eleven having permanent surface runways, one (Bandaranaike International Airport at Katunayaka) with runway more than 2,500 meters.

Telecommunications: International service provided by satellite earth station and submarine cable international telephone, telex, and direct dialing in operation about 106,500 telephones nationwide about 29 radio stations, 24 of which are AM, at least 5 are FM) in operation, with more than 2 million registered receivers in use 2 television networks broadcast over 4 channels 350,000 television sets nationwide.

Data as of October 1988