Photo: Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikimedia Commons, shown in greyscale
Topic 12 of 18 · Country Index 2026
Macau: Mobility & Trade
How connected is a country to the rest of the world?
Macau is placed 2nd of 177 countries on mobility & trade in the Country Index 2026, from 2 of its 4 key statistics. Readings behind it: Container Import Dwell Time 1.4 (2024); ICT Goods Exports 19.61 (2024).
Mobility & Trade
2nd
of 177 countries placed
Placed from 2 of 4 key statistics
Not placed in the Country Index 2026 overall: measured on too few topics.
01The evidence
The 4 key statistics that decide it
Only these place Macau 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 4
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
No reading
LSCI (index, average Q1 2023 = 100)
Higher is better
UNCTAD publishes no 2025 figure for Macau, so the standing rests on the other keys.
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 Eastern Asia
- 1,313 China
- Land neighbours
- China 1,313
Each grey tick is one of 168 countries in the 2025 edition.
Key 2 of 4
Container Import Dwell Time
World Bank Group
Why it is a key: How long an imported container waits in port before it moves on — a measured, not surveyed, reading of how efficiently ports, customs and carriers let goods cross a border.
2024 edition · data for 2024 · CC BY 4.0
1.4
Median days a full import container waits in port
Lower is better
Macau: 1.4. Across the 156 countries in this edition, values run from 1 (Gibraltar) to 21.6 (Haiti); the world median is 4.4.
- World median
- 4.4
- Best in Eastern Asia
- 1.4 Macau
- Land neighbours
- China 4
Each grey tick is one of 156 countries in the 2024 edition.
Key 3 of 4
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
No reading
LPI score (1–5)
Higher is better
World Bank Group publishes no 2023 figure for Macau, so the standing rests on the other keys.
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 Eastern Asia
- 4 Hong Kong
- Land neighbours
- China 3.7
Each grey tick is one of 139 countries in the 2023 edition.
Key 4 of 4
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
19.61
ICT goods exports (% of total goods exports)
Higher is better
Macau: 19.61. 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 Eastern Asia
- 61.45 Hong Kong
- Land neighbours
- China 21.32
Each grey tick is one of 120 countries in the 2024 edition.
02Over time
Which way Macau 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.
ICT Goods Exports
ICT goods exports (% of total goods exports) · higher is better
MacauWorld median
Macau rose from 0.54 in 2000 to 19.61 in 2024; the world median went from 0.43 to 0.975.
Every year’s figures
Year Macau World median 2024 19.61 0.975000 2023 22.24 0.690000 2022 18.95 0.565000 2021 21.55 0.550000 2020 19.17 0.680000 2019 23.69 0.625000 2018 1.59 0.480000 2017 3.02 0.630000 2016 2.85 0.865000 2015 6.42 0.790000 2014 3.18 0.760000 2013 3.53 0.645000 2012 4.33 0.630000 2011 5.38 0.535000 2010 7.51 0.560000 2009 3.25 0.780000 2008 2.71 0.595000 2007 2.49 0.660000 2006 0.30 0.445000 2005 1.76 0.570000 2004 1.51 0.535000 2003 1.09 0.530000 2002 0.35 0.510000 2001 0.21 0.490000 2000 0.54 0.430000
03In context
Macau beside its neighbours
A position reads best beside the countries around it. Every position below is a place among all 177 countries on mobility & trade, never a place within the region.
Macau and the countries it borders
The standing is each country’s place among all 177 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) | Container Import Dwell TimeMedian days a full import container waits in port | Logistics Performance IndexLPI score (1–5) | ICT Goods ExportsICT goods exports (% of total goods exports) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Macau | 2nd | — | 1.4 | — | 19.61 |
 China | 9th | 1,313 | 4 | 3.7 | 21.32 |
“—” means the publisher gives no reading for that country in that edition. A country needs readings on enough keys to be placed.
Across Eastern Asia
Every country in the sub-region, by its place among all 177.
Placed either side on mobility & trade
The countries immediately above and below Macau in the topic’s list.
04Context, no vote
Where Macau is ahead of the world, and behind
17 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 median1
Statistics on which Macau does better than the middle country measured.
Inbound Mobility Rate, TertiaryUIS · 2024 · world median 5.49472.535.494▲ Improved since 2014
Macau: 72.53 · 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 3rd of 75 — derived here by ordering the published values, 1st = best. The publisher ranks no country on this.
Behind the world median2
Statistics on which Macau does worse than the middle country measured.
Digitally-Deliverable Services ExportsUNCTAD · 2024 · world median 25.428.89425.42▲ Improved since 2014
Macau: 8.894 · 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 135th of 170 — derived here by ordering the published values, 1st = best. The publisher ranks no country on this.
ICT Services ExportsUNCTAD · 2024 · world median 7.4740.0427.474No real change since 2014
Macau: 0.042 · 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 117th of 118 — derived here by ordering the published values, 1st = best. The publisher ranks no country on this.
No better end14
These describe the shape of a country — more is not better or worse, only different — so they are never ahead or behind.
Creative Goods ExportsUNCTAD · 2024 · world median 1.23537.231.235No real change since 2014
Macau: 37.23 · world median 1.235 · Creative goods exports (% of merchandise exports). UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD), 2024 edition, data for 2024.
Published values in that edition run from 0 to 37.23.
Services ExportsUNCTAD · 2025 · world median 9.60283.829.602No real change since 2015
Macau: 83.82 · world median 9.602 · Services exports (% of GDP). UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD), 2025 edition, data for 2025.
Published values in that edition run from 0.085 to 166.21.
International Migrants as a Share of PopulationUN DESA Population Division · 2024 · world median 6.08959.266.089No real change since 2015
Macau: 59.26 · world median 6.089 · International migrants (% of population). UN DESA Population Division, 2024 edition, data for 2024.
Published values in that edition run from 0.02 to 100.
Exports of Goods and Services (% of GDP)World Bank Group · 2025 · world median 36.3492.2936.34No real change since 2015
Macau: 92.29 · 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 9th of 138 — derived here by ordering the published values, counted from the highest value. The publisher ranks no country on this.
Net Migration RateUN DESA Population Division · 2023 · world median -0.13312.34-0.133No real change since 2013
Macau: 12.34 · 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.
Trade (% of GDP)World Bank Group · 2025 · world median 79.68139.1479.68Moved since 2015
Macau: 139.14 · 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 21st of 138 — derived here by ordering the published values, counted from the highest value. The publisher ranks no country on this.
International MigrantsUN DESA Population Division · 2024 · world median 223,323426,862223,323Moved since 2015
Macau: 426,862 · world median 223,323 · International migrants living in the country, mid-year (people). UN DESA Population Division, 2024 edition, data for 2024.
Published values in that edition run from 246 to 52,375,047.
Imports of Goods and Services (% of GDP)World Bank Group · 2025 · world median 41.7246.8541.72Moved since 2015
Macau: 46.85 · 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 61st of 138 — derived here by ordering the published values, counted from the highest value. The publisher ranks no country on this.
Outbound Mobility Ratio, TertiaryUIS · 2023 · world median 5.2794.4385.279Moved since 2013
Macau: 4.438 · 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.
Export Concentration IndexUNCTAD · 2025 · world median 0.3060.260.306Moved since 2015
Macau: 0.26 · world median 0.306 · Export concentration index (0–1, normalised Herfindahl–Hirschman). UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD), 2025 edition, data for 2025.
Published values in that edition run from 0.059 to 0.933.
EmigrantsUN DESA Population Division · 2024 · world median 444,451149,247444,451Moved since 2015
Macau: 149,247 · world median 444,451 · Migrants from the country living abroad, mid-year (people). UN DESA Population Division, 2024 edition, data for 2024.
Published values in that edition run from 313 to 18,533,845.
Merchant Fleet by Country of OwnershipUNCTAD · 2026 · world median 275.7353.98275.73Moved since 2016
Macau: 53.98 · world median 275.73 · Merchant fleet owned (thousand dead-weight tons). UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD), 2026 edition, data for 2026.
Published values in that edition run from 0 to 397,071.
Creative Services ExportsUNCTAD · 2024 · world median 6.1710.0366.171Moved since 2014
Macau: 0.036 · world median 6.171 · Creative services exports (% of services exports). UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD), 2024 edition, data for 2024.
Published values in that edition run from 0.002 to 63.91.
Tariff Rate, Applied, Weighted Mean, All ProductsWorld Bank Group · 2022 · world median 3.6603.66No real change since 2012
Macau: 0 · 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.
No current reading for Macau
Asylum-Seekers by Country of Asylum (last 2017), Average Time to Clear Exports Through Customs, Cereal Import Dependency Ratio, Commodity Export Dependence, Container Port Traffic, Cost of Sending Remittances, Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index, Foreign Value Added Share of Gross Exports, Freedom of Foreign Movement, Liner Shipping Connectivity Index, Logistics Performance Index and Refugee Population by Country of Asylum (last 2017). Listed rather than hidden, so the page can be checked against it.
05Country Index 2026
Mobility & Trade among Macau’s 5 topics
Mobility & Trade is Macau’s best-placed topic of 5. Strongest first; each marker sits at the position divided by that topic’s field, so fields of different sizes compare fairly.
- Mobility & Trade2nd of 1772/4 keys
- Work & Labourjoint 26th of 1824/4 keys
- Energy95th of 1932/3 keys
- Education & Knowledge110th of 1963/4 keys
- Digital & Technologyjoint 155th of 1982/4 keys
No standing on Governance & Institutions, Economy & Innovation, Health & Wellbeing, Development & Human Capital, Environment & Sustainability, Gender & Equality, Democracy & Civil Liberties, Peace & Security, Risk & Resilience, Food & Agriculture, Poverty & Inequality: too few of those topics’ key statistics are published for this country.
06The top of the list
Who leads on mobility & trade
The three countries placed highest of 177, and the leaders Macau can most readily be measured against.
1
SingaporeSouth-eastern Asia
1st of 177 · 4 of 4 keys
Photo: Khairul Nizam . · CC BY 2.0, greyscale
- 2Macau
Eastern Asia
2nd of 177 · 2 of 4 keys
Photo: Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 3.0, greyscale
3
Hong KongEastern Asia
3rd of 177 · 4 of 4 keys
Photo: Base64 and Derivative work by Globe-trotter · CC BY-SA 3.0, greyscale
Placed highest nearby
Highest in Asia
Singapore1st4/4 keysHighest in Eastern Asia
Macau2nd2/4 keys
Positions out of 177 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 Macau 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
Macau 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 Macau rank on mobility & trade?
Macau is placed 2nd of 177 countries on Mobility & Trade in the Country Index 2026, from 2 of its 4 key statistics (Container Import Dwell Time and ICT Goods Exports). The position is this site’s ordering of published statistics, not a rank any publisher printed.
What is the latest Container Import Dwell Time figure for Macau?
1.4 in 2024 (median days a full import container waits in port), according to World Bank Group. The world median in the same edition was 4.4.
What is the latest ICT Goods Exports figure for Macau?
19.61 in 2024 (iCT goods exports (% of total goods exports)), according to UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD). The world median in the same edition was 0.975.
How does Macau compare with China on mobility & trade?
China is placed 9th of 177, and Macau 2nd. Container Import Dwell Time: China 4, Macau 1.4; ICT Goods Exports: China 21.32, Macau 19.61.
How have Macau’s mobility & trade figures changed?
ICT Goods Exports rose from 0.54 in 2000 to 19.61 in 2024.
Which mobility & trade statistics are missing for Macau?
No current reading is published for Macau on Asylum-Seekers by Country of Asylum, Average Time to Clear Exports Through Customs, Cereal Import Dependency Ratio, Commodity Export Dependence, Container Port Traffic, Cost of Sending Remittances, Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index, Foreign Value Added Share of Gross Exports, Freedom of Foreign Movement, Liner Shipping Connectivity Index, Logistics Performance Index and Refugee Population by Country of Asylum. They are listed rather than hidden, so the evidence on the page can be checked against it.
09Keep reading
Explore further
Macau, topic by topic
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. 4 indicators on this topic are keys and 27 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 4 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. 177 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 4.
- 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
- Container Import Dwell Time — World Bank Group, CC BY 4.0
- 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 17 statistics on this page come from 4 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
Macau’s banner and the countries placed highest, from their profiles: Wikimedia Commons, shown in greyscale, each used under the licence named.
- Macau (banner) — Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Singapore — Khairul Nizam ., CC BY 2.0
- Hong Kong — Base64 and Derivative work by Globe-trotter, CC BY-SA 3.0
Cite this page
Nations Inquiry (2026). Macau: Mobility & Trade — standing and statistics, Country Index 2026. https://nationsinquiry.com/countries/macau/mobility