Liner shipping connectivity index
- World average (population-weighted)
- 72.1
- across 165 countries, 2021
- Latest observation
- 2021
- Source updated
- 13 Jul 2026
- CountryAtlas refreshed
- 11 Sep 2026
- Snapshot 20260911T072322Z
World map
One value per country for the selected year. Hatched = no data.
No data available
Trend
Aggregate across the countries of a group, year by year. Computed by CountryAtlas from country values — no published aggregate is used.
Not enough countries to aggregate this indicator for World.
Highest and lowest
The five leaders and the five trailing countries, 2021.
Top 5
- 171.2
- 111.3
- 110.7
- 102.6
- 98.7
Source: World Bank — WDI · IS.SHP.GCNW.XQ
Bottom 5
Source: World Bank — WDI · IS.SHP.GCNW.XQ
Compare countries
Pick up to five countries. Defaults to the three largest economies with data.
No series for the selected countries.
Definition
- Definition
- Unit
- index (maximum value in 2004 = 100) (index)
- Frequency
- Annual
- Aggregation
- none · Higher is better
Sources & provenance
Every value on this page comes from one of these series, chosen per country by priority.
- Priority #1Open at source169 countries · 2,628 obs. · → 2021 · CC BY 4.0
The Liner Shipping Connectivity Index captures how well countries are connected to global shipping networks. It is computed by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) based on five components of the maritime transport sector: number of ships, their container-carrying capacity, maximum vessel size, number of services, and number of companies that deploy container ships in a country's ports. For each component a country's value is divided by the maximum value of each component in 2004, the five components are averaged for each country, and the average is divided by the maximum average for 2004 and multiplied by 100. The index generates a value of 100 for the country with the highest average index in 2004. . The underlying data come from Containerisation International Online. Source: Review of Maritime Transport 2010., UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
Series-level selection: for each country the whole series comes from the highest-priority source that has any non-forecast value for it. If a lower-priority source is more than three years fresher, the freshest source wins instead. Non-chosen values are kept as alternatives, never discarded.
Countries without data
Typical reasons: the source does not survey small territories or micro-states; the statistical office reports with a lag of one to three years; the series is only compiled for member countries of the source organisation (OECD, EU, Eurostat); or a value exists but failed validation and is quarantined rather than shown.
Downloads & API
Every observation for this indicator, all countries and years, with provenance columns.
API example
One country, full history. Replace CAN by any ISO3 code or slug.
curl -s "https://www.countryatlas.co/api/v1/series?country=CAN&indicator=liner-shipping-connectivity" | jq '.series[0] | {country: .country.name, unit, last: .stats.last, source: .provenance.source_name}'