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Topic 12 of 18 · Country Index 2026
Thailand: Mobility & Trade
How connected is a country to the rest of the world?
Thailand is placed 12th of 147 countries on mobility & trade in the Country Index 2026, from 3 of its 3 key statistics. Readings behind it: Liner Shipping Connectivity Index 271.29 (2025); Logistics Performance Index 3.5 (2023).
Mobility & Trade
12th
of 147 countries placed
Placed from 3 of 3 key statistics
01The evidence
The 3 key statistics that decide it
Only these place Thailand on mobility & trade — one vote each. Every value is the publisher’s own, read at the edition the Country Index 2026 used; the grey ticks are every other country it was compared with, lowest on the left.
Key 1 of 3
Liner Shipping Connectivity Index
UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
Why it is a key: How much of the world's container shipping actually calls at a country's ports — the infrastructure side of connectedness, where logistics performance is the paperwork side.
2025 edition · data for 2025 · CC BY 3.0 IGO
271.29
LSCI (index, average Q1 2023 = 100)
Higher is better
Ranked 21st of 177 by UNCTAD
Thailand: 271.29. Across the 168 countries in this edition, values run from 4.13 (Turks and Caicos Islands) to 1,313 (China); the world median is 60.84.
- World median
- 60.84
- Best in South-eastern Asia
- 625.94 Singapore
- Land neighbours
- Cambodia 60.22 · Myanmar 37.01 · Malaysia 523.33
Each grey tick is one of 168 countries in the 2025 edition.
Key 2 of 3
Logistics Performance Index
World Bank Group
Why it is a key: How efficiently goods actually cross a country's borders, ports and customs.
2023 edition · data for 2023 · CC BY 4.0
3.5
LPI score (1–5)
Higher is better
Ranked 34th of 139 by World Bank Group
Thailand: 3.5. Across the 139 countries in this edition, values run from 1.9 (Afghanistan) to 4.3 (Singapore); the world median is 2.9.
- World median
- 2.9
- Best in South-eastern Asia
- 4.3 Singapore
- Land neighbours
- Cambodia 2.4 · Laos 2.4 · Malaysia 3.6
Each grey tick is one of 139 countries in the 2023 edition.
Key 3 of 3
ICT Goods Exports
UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
Why it is a key: How far a country is plugged into global technology trade.
2024 edition · data for 2024 · CC BY 3.0 IGO
16.86
ICT goods exports (% of total goods exports)
Higher is better
Thailand: 16.86. Across the 120 countries in this edition, values run from 0 (Gambia) to 61.45 (Hong Kong); the world median is 0.975.
- World median
- 0.975
- Best in South-eastern Asia
- 43.57 Philippines
- Land neighbours
- Cambodia 1.46 · Myanmar 0.97 · Malaysia 35.21
Each grey tick is one of 120 countries in the 2024 edition.
02Over time
Which way Thailand is moving
Each key’s published value, edition by edition, beside the world median. The Country Index 2026 is the first edition of the standing, so the standing itself has no history to chart yet.
Liner Shipping Connectivity Index
LSCI (index, average Q1 2023 = 100) · higher is better
ThailandWorld median
Thailand rose from 201.9 in 2006 to 272.12 in 2026; the world median went from 52.25 to 56.21.
Every year’s figures
Year Thailand World median 2026 272.1 56.21 2025 271.3 60.84 2024 266.9 55.22 2023 264.7 54.78 2022 264.1 51.49 2021 245.1 52.64 2020 231.3 47.86 2019 218.2 51.05 2018 219.3 52.03 2017 217.4 49.87 2016 211.6 48.09 2015 213.2 49.13 2014 191.0 48.08 2013 209.6 51.32 2012 202.4 47.44 2011 201.5 50.26 2010 207.6 50.51 2009 188.4 53.04 2008 180.2 51.68 2007 207.2 55.78 2006 201.9 52.25 Logistics Performance Index
LPI score (1–5) · higher is better
ThailandWorld median
Thailand rose from 3.311 in 2007 to 3.5 in 2023; the world median went from 2.529 to 2.9.
Every year’s figures
Year Thailand World median 2023 3.50 2.900 2018 3.41 2.706 2016 3.26 2.734 2014 3.43 2.753 2012 3.18 2.773 2010 3.29 2.746 2007 3.31 2.529 ICT Goods Exports
ICT goods exports (% of total goods exports) · higher is better
ThailandWorld median
Thailand fell from 28.02 in 2000 to 16.86 in 2024; the world median went from 0.43 to 0.975.
Every year’s figures
Year Thailand World median 2024 16.86 0.975000 2023 14.98 0.690000 2022 15.20 0.565000 2021 15.31 0.550000 2020 15.27 0.680000 2019 14.40 0.625000 2018 15.11 0.480000 2017 15.48 0.630000 2016 15.30 0.865000 2015 16.45 0.790000 2014 15.92 0.760000 2013 15.50 0.645000 2012 15.97 0.630000 2011 15.47 0.535000 2010 18.80 0.560000 2009 19.65 0.780000 2008 18.92 0.595000 2007 21.50 0.660000 2006 23.52 0.445000 2005 23.30 0.570000 2004 23.67 0.535000 2003 24.85 0.530000 2002 25.23 0.510000 2001 25.50 0.490000 2000 28.02 0.430000
03In context
Thailand beside its neighbours
A position reads best beside the countries around it. Every position below is a place among all 147 countries on mobility & trade, never a place within the region.
1st147thNot placed · 77 countries with too few key statisticsNo data
Thailand and the countries it borders
The standing is each country’s place among all 147 placed on the topic; the other columns are the publishers’ own values, read at the edition the standing used.
| Country | Standing | Liner Shipping Connectivity IndexLSCI (index, average Q1 2023 = 100) | Logistics Performance IndexLPI score (1–5) | ICT Goods ExportsICT goods exports (% of total goods exports) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Malaysia | 5th | 523.33 | 3.6 | 35.21 |
| Thailand | 12th | 271.29 | 3.5 | 16.86 |
 Myanmar | 86th | 37.01 | — | 0.97 |
 Cambodia | 100th | 60.22 | 2.4 | 1.46 |
 Laos | not placed | — | 2.4 | — |
“—” means the publisher gives no reading for that country in that edition. A country needs readings on enough keys to be placed.
Across South-eastern Asia
Every country in the sub-region, by its place among all 147.
Placed either side on mobility & trade
The countries immediately above and below Thailand in the topic’s list.
04Context, no vote
Where Thailand is ahead of the world, and behind
15 more statistics filed under mobility & trade, published in full and deliberately given no vote in the standing. Select a row for the publisher, the rank and the links.
Ahead of the world median3
Statistics on which Thailand does better than the middle country measured.
Average Time to Clear Exports Through CustomsWorld Bank Group · 2025 · world median 4.4562.6034.456No earlier reading
Thailand: 2.603 · world median 4.456 · Average time to clear exports through customs (days). World Bank Group, 2025 edition, data for 2025.
Published values in that edition run from 1 to 27.46; lower is better.
Position 137th of 174 — derived here by ordering the published values, 1st = worst. The publisher ranks no country on this.
Cost of Sending RemittancesWorld Bank Group · 2023 · world median 3.2252.0243.225▲ Improved since 2016
Thailand: 2.024 · world median 3.225 · Average cost of sending $200 home (% of the amount). World Bank Group, 2023 edition, data for 2023.
Published values in that edition run from -49.69 to 19.63; lower is better.
Position 71st of 93 — derived here by ordering the published values, 1st = worst. The publisher ranks no country on this.
Digitally-Deliverable Services ExportsUNCTAD · 2024 · world median 25.4239.6825.42▲ Improved since 2014
Thailand: 39.68 · world median 25.42 · Digitally-deliverable services exports (% of services exports). UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD), 2024 edition, data for 2024.
Published values in that edition run from 0.377 to 87.15; higher is better.
Position 51st of 170 — derived here by ordering the published values, 1st = best. The publisher ranks no country on this.
Behind the world median2
Statistics on which Thailand does worse than the middle country measured.
Inbound Mobility Rate, TertiaryUIS · 2024 · world median 5.4942.0265.494▲ Improved since 2014
Thailand: 2.026 · world median 5.494 · Inbound mobility rate, tertiary (%). UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), 2024 edition, data for 2024.
Published values in that edition run from 0 to 87.12; higher is better.
Position 55th of 75 — derived here by ordering the published values, 1st = best. The publisher ranks no country on this.
ICT Services ExportsUNCTAD · 2024 · world median 7.4740.717.474No real change since 2014
Thailand: 0.71 · world median 7.474 · ICT services exports (% of services exports). UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD), 2024 edition, data for 2024.
Published values in that edition run from 0 to 56.25; higher is better.
Position 108th of 118 — derived here by ordering the published values, 1st = best. The publisher ranks no country on this.
No better end10
These describe the shape of a country — more is not better or worse, only different — so they are never ahead or behind.
Exports of Goods and Services (% of GDP)World Bank Group · 2025 · world median 36.3471.1536.34No real change since 2015
Thailand: 71.15 · world median 36.34 · Exports of goods and services (% of GDP). World Bank Group, 2025 edition, data for 2025.
Published values in that edition run from 1.103 to 199.76.
Position 21st of 138 — derived here by ordering the published values, counted from the highest value. The publisher ranks no country on this.
Trade (% of GDP)World Bank Group · 2025 · world median 79.68138.4179.68Moved since 2015
Thailand: 138.41 · world median 79.68 · Exports plus imports (% of GDP). World Bank Group, 2025 edition, data for 2025.
Published values in that edition run from 2.382 to 396.65.
Position 22nd of 138 — derived here by ordering the published values, counted from the highest value. The publisher ranks no country on this.
Container Port TrafficUNCTAD · 2024 · world median 1,827,78811,432,6261,827,788Moved since 2014
Thailand: 11,432,626 · world median 1,827,788 · Container port traffic (TEU, twenty-foot equivalent units). UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD), 2024 edition, data for 2024.
Published values in that edition run from 17,263 to 299,703,800.
Position 20th of 103 — derived here by ordering the published values, counted from the highest value. The publisher ranks no country on this.
Imports of Goods and Services (% of GDP)World Bank Group · 2025 · world median 41.7267.2741.72Moved since 2015
Thailand: 67.27 · world median 41.72 · Imports of goods and services (% of GDP). World Bank Group, 2025 edition, data for 2025.
Published values in that edition run from 1.279 to 196.89.
Position 27th of 138 — derived here by ordering the published values, counted from the highest value. The publisher ranks no country on this.
Refugee Population by Country of AsylumUNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency · 2025 · world median 12,26984,01712,269Moved since 2015
Thailand: 84,017 · world median 12,269 · Refugees under UNHCR's mandate hosted, end of year (people). UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, 2025 edition, data for 2025.
Published values in that edition run from 0 to 2,655,191.
Net Migration RateUN DESA Population Division · 2023 · world median -0.1330.274-0.133Moved since 2013
Thailand: 0.274 · world median -0.133 · Net migrants per 1,000 population. UN DESA Population Division, 2023 edition, data for 2023.
Published values in that edition run from -61.68 to 39.62.
Asylum-Seekers by Country of AsylumUNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency · 2025 · world median 1,8362,8801,836Moved since 2015
Thailand: 2,880 · world median 1,836 · Asylum-seekers awaiting a decision, end of year (people). UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, 2025 edition, data for 2025.
Published values in that edition run from 0 to 3,718,945.
Tariff Rate, Applied, Weighted Mean, All ProductsWorld Bank Group · 2022 · world median 3.663.673.66Moved since 2013
Thailand: 3.67 · world median 3.66 · Applied tariff rate, trade-weighted mean (%). World Bank Group, 2022 edition, data for 2022.
Published values in that edition run from 0 to 29.52.
Cereal Import Dependency RatioFAO · 2022 · world median 42.8-18.542.8Moved since 2012
Thailand: -18.5 · world median 42.8 · Share of the cereal supply that is imported (%). Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), 2022 edition, data for 2022.
Published values in that edition run from -1,894 to 100.
Outbound Mobility Ratio, TertiaryUIS · 2023 · world median 5.2791.5765.279No real change since 2013
Thailand: 1.576 · world median 5.279 · Outbound mobility ratio, tertiary (% of tertiary enrolment at home). UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), 2023 edition, data for 2023.
Published values in that edition run from 0.333 to 1,724.
05Country Index 2026
Mobility & Trade among Thailand’s 16 topics
Mobility & Trade is Thailand’s best-placed topic of 16. Strongest first; each marker sits at the position divided by that topic’s field, so fields of different sizes compare fairly.
- Mobility & Trade12th of 1473/3 keys
- Poverty & Inequality28th of 1592/2 keys
- Work & Labourjoint 37th of 1824/4 keys
- Digital & Technologyjoint 41st of 1983/3 keys
- Economy & Innovation38th of 1764/4 keys
- Health & Wellbeingjoint 62nd of 2004/4 keys
- Governance & Institutions68th of 1944/4 keys
- Development & Human Capital71st of 1963/3 keys
- Education & Knowledge82nd of 1714/4 keys
- Food & Agriculture88th of 1754/4 keys
- Gender & Equalityjoint 94th of 1834/4 keys
- Democracy & Civil Libertiesjoint 112th of 1983/3 keys
- Environment & Sustainabilityjoint 118th of 1813/3 keys
- Energy132nd of 1933/3 keys
- Risk & Resilience142nd of 1923/3 keys
- Peace & Securityjoint 132nd of 1774/4 keys
06The top of the list
Who leads on mobility & trade
The three countries placed highest of 147, and the leaders Thailand can most readily be measured against.
1
SingaporeSouth-eastern Asia
1st of 147 · 3 of 3 keys
Photo: Khairul Nizam . · CC BY 2.0, greyscale
2
Hong KongEastern Asia
2nd of 147 · 3 of 3 keys
Photo: Base64 and Derivative work by Globe-trotter · CC BY-SA 3.0, greyscale
3
South KoreaEastern Asia
3rd of 147 · 3 of 3 keys
Photo: Unknown author · CC BY-SA 2.0, greyscale
Placed highest nearby
Highest in Asia
Singapore1st3/3 keysThis page
Thailand12th3/3 keys
Positions out of 147 placed on the topic. A country needs readings on enough keys to be placed, and the top of the list is often held on fewer of them.
07Analysis
Charts and analysis about Thailand and mobility & trade
On mobility & trade
China Leads Global High-Technology Exports
The world’s ten largest high-technology exporters as a treemap, with the rest of the world beside them. Each country’s figure is its own most recent year, between 2022 and 2024.
On mobility & trade
The World’s Safest Airlines for 2025
The eleven safest airlines of 2025, each beside the country it is based in, and the nine things the grading looks at. Three airlines share third place, and the publisher gives an order but no score.
On mobility & trade
The world’s most powerful passports for 2025
Sixteen passports, their mobility scores, and the visa-free, visa-on-arrival and visa-required split behind each. Fourteen share third place while differing in how they reach it.
08Questions
Thailand on mobility & trade: questions answered
Every answer is built from the numbers on this page, so none can say something the page does not.
How does Thailand rank on mobility & trade?
Thailand is placed 12th of 147 countries on Mobility & Trade in the Country Index 2026, from 3 of its 3 key statistics (Liner Shipping Connectivity Index, Logistics Performance Index and ICT Goods Exports). The position is this site’s ordering of published statistics, not a rank any publisher printed.
What is the latest Liner Shipping Connectivity Index figure for Thailand?
271.29 in 2025 (lSCI (index, average Q1 2023 = 100)), according to UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD). The world median in the same edition was 60.84.
What is the latest Logistics Performance Index figure for Thailand?
3.5 in 2023 (lPI score (1–5)), according to World Bank Group. The world median in the same edition was 2.9.
How does Thailand compare with Myanmar on mobility & trade?
Myanmar is placed 86th of 147, and Thailand 12th. Liner Shipping Connectivity Index: Myanmar 37.01, Thailand 271.29; ICT Goods Exports: Myanmar 0.97, Thailand 16.86.
How have Thailand’s mobility & trade figures changed?
Liner Shipping Connectivity Index rose from 201.9 in 2006 to 272.12 in 2026; Logistics Performance Index rose from 3.311 in 2007 to 3.5 in 2023; ICT Goods Exports fell from 28.02 in 2000 to 16.86 in 2024.
09Keep reading
Explore further
Thailand, topic by topic
- Governance & Institutions68th of 194
- Economy & Innovation38th of 176
- Work & Labour=37th of 182
- Education & Knowledge82nd of 171
- Health & Wellbeing=62nd of 200
- Development & Human Capital71st of 196
- Environment & Sustainability=118th of 181
- Gender & Equality=94th of 183
- Democracy & Civil Liberties=112th of 198
- Peace & Security=132nd of 177
- Risk & Resilience142nd of 192
- Food & Agriculture88th of 175
- Poverty & Inequality28th of 159
- Energy132nd of 193
- Digital & Technology=41st of 198
- The full Thailand profile
Nearby, on mobility & trade
The key statistics, for every country
10Method
Method, sources and how to cite
What this topic does not measure
Passport strength and freedom of movement for people are not measured with a key, because the data behind passport rankings is not licensed for reuse here. Trade as a share of the economy, remittance costs and student mobility are published here as context.
How the Mobility & Trade standing is decided, step by step
A standing is a place in a list, not a mark out of anything. This one is part of the Country Index 2026, and it is worked out like this.
- A few key indicators decide it; the rest are context. 3 indicators on this topic are keys and 15 are charted alongside them without a vote. That split is the point: if every statistic voted, importing five more of one kind would quietly change what the topic is about.
- Each key is read at one edition. ⚠ The keys behind this standing do not all describe the same year — they run from 2023 to 2025, because publishers release on their own schedules. Read the standing as “how this country places now”, not as a snapshot of one year.
- Every country’s published value is turned into a place within that one key’s own field, and then expressed as a share of that field — how far down this key’s list the country sits, rather than how many countries are above it. Keys where a higher published number is worse (terrorism, hunger, disaster risk) are turned round first, so the good end is always the same end.
- Dividing by the field first is the whole reason this works. A place carries the size of its list inside it: 22nd of 44 and 108th of 215 are the same showing, and averaging the numbers 22 and 108 says loudly that they are not. Fields on this site run from about 44 countries to about 215, so averaging raw places would reward a country for happening to be measured in small ones. Dividing each place by its own field removes the size and leaves only the showing.
- The shares are averaged, plainly. One key, one vote — no key is weighted above another, because any weighting would be this site’s opinion presented as a measurement. Countries are then put in order by that average, and the average itself is never published. It is our arithmetic with nothing anchoring it, so printing it would invite it to be read as a measurement somebody made. The position it produces, the band, and the keys it was built from are all published instead — every one of them checkable against the tables on this page.
- A country needs 2 of this topic’s 3 keys — half, rounded up, and never fewer than 2. A standing built from one reading, printed beside one built from four, is two different things sharing a column heading. 147 countries clear the bar here.
- A key has to earn its vote every edition. It must measure at least 120 countries (below that it starts measuring who was surveyed rather than the world), it must not have more than 10% of its field tied at either end, and it must not repeat another key in the same topic — Spearman correlation above 0.92 counts as repeating. A topic needs at least 2 surviving keys to place anyone at all; this one has 3.
- A standing is relative, and the grouping is ours. It says where a country places against the others measured alongside it, so it moves when they move. The publishers listed on this page did not agree to be read together, and each measures its subject its own way: the underlying numbers are theirs, the ordering on top is this site’s — the same method as the rest of the Country Index, applied to one subject instead of all of them.
The key statistics and their licences
- Liner Shipping Connectivity Index — UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD), CC BY 3.0 IGO
- Logistics Performance Index — World Bank Group, CC BY 4.0
- ICT Goods Exports — UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD), CC BY 3.0 IGO
The other 15 statistics on this page come from 6 publishers, each named beside its numbers, with every edition and licence on the datasets pages.
The standing itself is part of the Country Index 2026, published under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photographs
Thailand’s banner and the countries placed highest, from their profiles: Wikimedia Commons, shown in greyscale, each used under the licence named.
- Thailand (banner) — Unknown author, CC BY 3.0
- Singapore — Khairul Nizam ., CC BY 2.0
- Hong Kong — Base64 and Derivative work by Globe-trotter, CC BY-SA 3.0
- South Korea — Unknown author, CC BY-SA 2.0
Cite this page
Nations Inquiry (2026). Thailand: Mobility & Trade — standing and statistics, Country Index 2026. https://nationsinquiry.com/countries/thailand/mobility