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Liner Shipping Connectivity Index, 2025

Figures for 2025, as UNCTAD published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Liner Shipping Connectivity Index, 2025 covers 168 countries. China is highest, at 1,312.61; Turks and Caicos Islands is lowest, at 4.13. The middle country reads 60.84. Against 2024, 157 values changed (99 up, 58 down), the same countries are covered.

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Liner Shipping Connectivity Index · Data for 2025

HighestChina

1,312.61

LowestTurks and Caicos Islands

4.13

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the better end. A higher value is the better result.

01UNCTAD’s rank

The table

Every country and every column of Liner Shipping Connectivity Index, 2025, as published. The rank is UNCTAD’s own, as printed. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 168 countries · select a heading to sort

Liner Shipping Connectivity Index, 2025: every country, as published by UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD).
1ChinaCHNEastern Asia1,312.612025Q04
2South KoreaKOREastern Asia631.302025Q04
3SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia625.942025Q04
4MalaysiaMYSSouth-eastern Asia523.332025Q04
5United StatesUSANorthern America514.972025Q04
6VietnamVNMSouth-eastern Asia463.832025Q04
7JapanJPNEastern Asia424.712025Q04
8SpainESPSouthern Europe420.112025Q04
9IndiaINDSouthern Asia399.122025Q04
10United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe388.952025Q04
11NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe378.872025Q04
12BelgiumBELWestern Europe343.812025Q04
13Hong KongHKGEastern Asia337.402025Q04
14TaiwanTWNEastern Asia330.992025Q04
15United Arab EmiratesAREWestern Asia319.552025Q04
16GermanyDEUWestern Europe319.122025Q04
17TürkiyeTURWestern Asia302.202025Q04
18ItalyITASouthern Europe291.462025Q04
19EgyptEGYNorthern Africa288.782025Q04
20Sri LankaLKASouthern Asia277.712025Q04
21ThailandTHASouth-eastern Asia271.292025Q04
22FranceFRAWestern Europe261.032025Q04
23MoroccoMARNorthern Africa259.622025Q04
24IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia246.802025Q04
25Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia237.462025Q04

02In 2025

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. #1China1,312.61
  2. #2South Korea631.30
  3. #3Singapore625.94
  4. #4Malaysia523.33
  5. #5United States514.97

Lowest

  1. #177Turks and Caicos Islands4.13
  2. #176Tuvalu4.20
  3. #175Gibraltar4.59
  4. #171Eritrea5.55
  5. #170Niue5.76

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 60.84. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032024 → 2025

Since 2024

What changed between 2024 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 157values changed, of 168 in both
  • 99 · 58rose · fell
  • 11unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

Changes in value, not in places: a country’s place also moves when others do. Every country’s full history is charted on the statistic page.

04Caveats

Read before you use

What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.

The site’s method

  • 167 distinct values among 168

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 5 decimals. 2 countries share 11.79. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • The rank is UNCTAD’s

    Printed exactly as the publisher ranked the countries. This site does not re-rank them.

  • Which end is better

    A higher value is the better result.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 168 countries has every column.

05The files

Download and cite

The table as a file, digit for digit, what this site changed, and a citation for this edition.

Licence in full

What this site changed: Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.

Licence: CC BY 3.0 IGO. The version of CC BY written for intergovernmental organisations. Credit the publisher and say what you changed.

Cite this edition

UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD) (2025). Liner Shipping Connectivity Index, 2025 [data set], describing 2025. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/liner-shipping-connectivity/2025

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07Questions

Liner Shipping Connectivity Index, 2025: questions and answers

Which country has the highest Liner Shipping Connectivity Index in Liner Shipping Connectivity Index, 2025?

China, at 1,312.61, of the 168 countries in the file.

What year does Liner Shipping Connectivity Index, 2025 describe?

2025.

How many countries does Liner Shipping Connectivity Index, 2025 cover?

168.

Where can I download Liner Shipping Connectivity Index, 2025?

On this page, as a CSV file holding every value exactly as published, or from the publisher’s own site, linked below.

Is Liner Shipping Connectivity Index, 2025 the newest?

No. The newest held here is Liner Shipping Connectivity Index, 2026.

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