Merchant Fleet by Country of Ownership

Every year in one file, one row per country per year: merchant-fleet-ownership-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

Every column in the newest file of Merchant Fleet by Country of Ownership: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.

Column	What it holds	Stored as	Range, 2026	Distinct	Empty	Spread
CountrycountryName	The country’s name, as this file spells it.	Text	—	178	0
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier	The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.	Text · 3 letters	—	178	0
Merchant fleet owned (thousand dead-weight tons)fleet_dwtHeadline	The headline figure: Merchant fleet owned (thousand dead-weight tons).	Number · up to 3 decimals	0.00011 share it397,071.457Greecemiddle 275.734	168	0
Share of the world fleet (%)fleet_share_worldMeasure	The country's owners' share of the world merchant fleet's dead-weight tonnage, in per cent.	Number · up to 5 decimals	0.0000011 share it15.83126Greecemiddle 0.01100	157	0
Ships ownedships_ownedMeasure	The number of merchant ships of 1,000 gross tons and above whose beneficial owner is based in the country.	Number · whole numbers	011 share it11,186Chinamiddle 21	99	0

Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score.

The newest 12 of 13 years.

The same 178 countries in every year.

Not in this dataset · 47 places this site covers

UNCTAD gives no figure for these in any year held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.

AfghanistanAmerican SamoaAndorraArmeniaBelarusBhutanBosnia and HerzegovinaBotswanaBurkina FasoBurundiCentral African RepublicChadChannel IslandsComorosCzechiaEl SalvadorEswatiniGuinea-BissauHungaryIsle of ManKosovoKyrgyzstanLesothoMalawiMaliMontserratNepalNigerNiueNorth MacedoniaNorthern CyprusPalauPalestinePuerto RicoRwandaSaint MartinSan MarinoSint MaartenSomalilandSouth SudanTajikistanTurks and Caicos IslandsUgandaUzbekistanVatican CityZambiaZimbabwe

1. 1 · Publisher

   UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD)

   unctadstat.unctad.org

2. 2 · Their file

   Merchant Fleet by Country of Ownership 2026

   US_FleetBeneficialOwners

3. 3 · Read by this site

   September 29, 2026

   Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.

4. 4 · Stored as

   13 files, one per year

   Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as merchant-fleet-ownership-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

5. 5 · Used on

   Its statistic page, and every profile it measures

   /statistics/merchant-fleet-ownership

Read from UNCTAD's own US.FleetBeneficialOwners bulk file on UNCTADstat, compiled by UNCTAD from Clarksons Research vessel data: every flag of registration together, by the owner's economy. UNCTAD's regional totals and the tonnage whose owner is unknown are left out; the share of the world fleet and the number of ships are kept beside it.

• Charted

  Merchant Fleet by Country of Ownership by country

  Who is highest, the map, the spread, who rose and fell, and the records.

• Subjects

  • Mobility & Trade
  • Economy & Innovation

• Near neighbours

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