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Topic 12 of 18 · Country Index 2026

Sint Maarten: Mobility & Trade

Which countries move goods across their borders most smoothly?

Sint Maarten is placed 54th of 177 countries on mobility & trade in the Country Index 2026, from 2 of its 4 key statistics. Readings behind it: Liner Shipping Connectivity Index 33.68 (2025); Container Import Dwell Time 2.3 (2024).

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Mobility & Trade

54th

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 Sint Maarten 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.

Why these keys

  1. Key 1 of 4

    Liner Shipping Connectivity Index

    UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD)

    Why it is a key

    2025 edition · data for 2025 · CC BY 3.0 IGO

    33.68

    LSCI (index, average Q1 2023 = 100)

    Higher is better

    Ranked 109th of 177 by UNCTAD

    Sint Maarten: 33.68. 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 Caribbean
    128.69 Dominican Republic

  2. Key 2 of 4

    Container Import Dwell Time

    World Bank Group

    Why it is a key

    2024 edition · data for 2024 · CC BY 4.0

    2.3

    Median days a full import container waits in port

    Lower is better

    Sint Maarten: 2.3. 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 Caribbean
    1.2 Montserrat

  3. Key 3 of 4

    Logistics Performance Index

    World Bank Group

    Why it is a key

    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 Sint Maarten, 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 Caribbean
    2.9 Antigua and Barbuda

  4. Key 4 of 4

    ICT Goods Exports

    UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD)

    Why it is a key

    2024 edition · data for 2024 · CC BY 3.0 IGO

    No reading

    ICT goods exports (% of total goods exports)

    Higher is better

    UNCTAD publishes no 2024 figure for Sint Maarten, so the standing rests on the other keys.

    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 Caribbean
    21.32 Cayman Islands

03In context

Sint Maarten 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.

Caribbean
1st177thNot placed · 47 countries with too few key statisticsNo data

The whole world on mobility & trade

Sint Maarten and the countries it borders

Standing among all 177; the key columns are the publishers’ own values.

CountryStandingLiner Shipping Connectivity IndexLSCI (index, average Q1 2023 = 100)Container Import Dwell TimeMedian days a full import container waits in portLogistics Performance IndexLPI score (1–5)ICT Goods ExportsICT goods exports (% of total goods exports)
Sint Maarten54th33.682.3——
Saint Martinnot placed————

“—”: no published reading in that edition. What a standing is

Placed either side on mobility & trade

The countries immediately above and below Sint Maarten in the topic’s list.

04Context, no vote

Where Sint Maarten is ahead of the world, and behind

11 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.

Every country

Behind the world median2

Statistics on which Sint Maarten does worse than the middle country measured.

  • Digitally-Deliverable Services ExportsUNCTAD · 2024 · world median 25.427.116▼ Worsened since 2014

    Sint Maarten: 7.116 · 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 143rd of 170 · derived.

    Chart and every countryThe 2024 dataset

  • ICT Services ExportsUNCTAD · 2024 · world median 7.4740.405▼ Worsened since 2014

    Sint Maarten: 0.405 · 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 113th of 118 · derived.

    Chart and every countryThe 2024 dataset

No better end9

These describe the shape of a country — more is not better or worse, only different — so they are never ahead or behind.

  • Export Concentration IndexUNCTAD · 2025 · world median 0.3060.933Moved since 2015

    Sint Maarten: 0.933 · 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.

    Chart and every countryThe 2025 dataset

  • Services ExportsUNCTAD · 2025 · world median 9.60289.22No real change since 2015

    Sint Maarten: 89.22 · 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.

    Chart and every countryThe 2025 dataset

  • International Migrants as a Share of PopulationUN DESA Population Division · 2024 · world median 6.08969.55No real change since 2015

    Sint Maarten: 69.55 · 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.

    Chart and every countryThe 2024 dataset

  • Outbound Mobility Ratio, TertiaryUIS · 2023 · world median 5.27985.03No real change since 2014

    Sint Maarten: 85.03 · 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.

    Chart and every countryThe 2023 dataset

  • Net Migration RateUN DESA Population Division · 2023 · world median -0.13313.26No real change since 2013

    Sint Maarten: 13.26 · 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.

    Chart and every countryThe 2023 dataset

  • Asylum-Seekers by Country of AsylumUNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency · 2025 · world median 1,836141Moved since 2015

    Sint Maarten: 141 · 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.

    Chart and every countryThe 2025 dataset

  • International MigrantsUN DESA Population Division · 2024 · world median 223,32330,148No real change since 2015

    Sint Maarten: 30,148 · 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.

    Chart and every countryThe 2024 dataset

  • Refugee Population by Country of AsylumUNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency · 2025 · world median 12,26917Moved since 2015

    Sint Maarten: 17 · 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.

    Chart and every countryThe 2025 dataset

  • EmigrantsUN DESA Population Division · 2024 · world median 444,4512,464No real change since 2015

    Sint Maarten: 2,464 · 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.

    Chart and every countryThe 2024 dataset

No current reading for Sint Maarten

Average Time to Clear Exports Through Customs, Cereal Import Dependency Ratio, Commodity Export Dependence, Container Port Traffic (last 2019), Cost of Sending Remittances, Creative Goods Exports, Creative Services Exports, Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index, Exports of Goods and Services (% of GDP), FDI Regulatory Restrictiveness Index, Foreign Value Added Share of Gross Exports, Freedom of Foreign Movement, ICT Goods Exports, Imports of Goods and Services (% of GDP), Inbound Mobility Rate, Tertiary (last 2017), Logistics Performance Index, Merchant Fleet by Country of Ownership, Tariff Rate, Applied, Weighted Mean, All Products, Terms of Trade Index and Trade (% of GDP). Listed rather than hidden, so the page can be checked against it.

“Position · derived” is this site’s ordering of the published values, 1st = best unless the row says otherwise; the publisher ranks no country on it. Rank, position and standing

05Country Index 2026

Mobility & Trade among Sint Maarten’s 2 topics

Mobility & Trade is Sint Maarten’s best-placed topic of 2. Strongest first, each marker at its share of that topic’s field.

On the profile
  1. Mobility & Trade54th of 177
  2. Education & Knowledgejoint 123rd of 198

No standing on Governance & Institutions, Economy & Innovation, Work & Labour, Health & Wellbeing, Development & Human Capital, Environment & Sustainability, Gender & Equality, Democracy & Civil Liberties, Peace & Security, Risk & Resilience, Food & Agriculture, Poverty & Inequality, Energy, Digital & Technology: 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 Sint Maarten can most readily be measured against.

All 177 countries
  1. 1

    Singapore

    South-eastern Asia

    1st of 177 · 4 of 4 keys

    Photo: Khairul Nizam . · CC BY 2.0, greyscale

  2. 2

    Macau

    Eastern Asia

    2nd of 177 · 2 of 4 keys

    Photo: Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 3.0, greyscale

  3. 3

    Hong Kong

    Eastern 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

  1. Highest in Americas

    United States7th4/4 keys

  2. Highest in Caribbean

    Sint Maarten54th2/4 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 Sint Maarten and mobility & trade

All charts

08Method

Method, sources and how to cite

What this topic does not measure

Passport strength and visa-free travel 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, the cost of sending money home, migrant numbers, refugees and student mobility are published as context: they describe how much crosses a border, not how well a country handles it. Services sold over the internet are measured under Digital & Technology.

About mobility & trade, in full

How the Mobility & Trade standing is decided

A standing is this site’s ordering, named with its edition — never a publisher’s rank. 4 key statistics vote, one vote each; every country’s published value becomes a place within that key’s own field, the places are averaged, and the average is never published. A country needs 2 of the 4 keys to be placed.

The mobility & trade method, step by stepHow every standing on this site is built

The key statistics and their licences

The other 11 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

Sint Maarten’s banner and the countries placed highest, from their profiles: Wikimedia Commons, shown in greyscale, each used under the licence named.

Cite this page

Nations Inquiry (2026). Sint Maarten: Mobility & Trade — standing and statistics, Country Index 2026. https://nationsinquiry.com/countries/sint-maarten/mobility