Dataset · World Bank Group
Container Import Dwell Time
2 years, 2023–2024 · 156 countries · 3 measures
Container import dwell time is how many days a full shipping container typically sits in the port where it arrives before it leaves by truck or train — the time taken by port handling, customs and other border checks together. The World Bank measures it from the tracking records of real container journeys, rather than by asking people what they think.
This site holds every year from 2023 to 2024, read from World Bank Group’s own data and stored exactly as published.
Container Import Dwell Time · the file
- Newest
- Container Import Dwell Time, 2024
- Held
- 2 years · 311 rows
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
012 years
Every year
Newest first. Each opens the full table for that year, and each downloads as a CSV.
| Year | Countries | Change | Read | Download |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Container Import Dwell Time, 2024Newest | 156 | +1 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Container Import Dwell Time, 2023 | 155 | — | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
Every year in one file, one row per country per year: container-import-dwell-time-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv
026 columns
What’s in the file
Every column, what it holds, how it is stored and what its values look like — what a reader needs before opening the file.
| Column | What it holds | Stored as | Range, 2024 | Distinct | Empty | Spread |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
CountrycountryName | The country’s name, as this file spells it. | Text | — | 156 | 0 | |
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier | The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it. | Text · 3 letters | — | 156 | 0 | |
Median days a full import container waits in portimport_dwell_daysHeadline | The headline figure: Median days a full import container waits in port. | Number · up to 1 decimal | 1.0 Gibraltar21.6 Haitimiddle 4.4 | 79 | 0 | |
Mean daysmean_daysMeasure | The average number of days a full import container waited in port; a few very long waits pull it above the median. | Number · up to 1 decimal | 1.3 Montserrat32.5 Sudanmiddle 6.2 | 92 | 0 | |
Interquartile range, P75 − P25 (days)spread_daysMeasure | How uneven the wait is: the gap in days between the slowest quarter of containers and the fastest quarter (the 75th minus the 25th percentile). | Number · up to 1 decimal | 0.1Gibraltar37.6 Eritreamiddle 5.5 | 84 | 0 | |
Container journeys observedobservationsLabel | How many container journeys the figure rests on, as the publisher's own range, from tens to more than ten thousand. | Text | — | 3 | 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. A higher value is the worse result.
03156 countries across every year
Who is covered
How many countries each year holds, continent by continent, who joined and who left, and which places this site covers that the dataset never has.
| 2023 | 2024 | |
|---|---|---|
| Africa | 38 | 38 |
| Americas | 42 | 42 |
| Asia | 35 | 35 |
| Europe | 27 | 28 |
| Oceania | 13 | 13 |
| All | 155 | 156 |
Who joined and who left
- 2024+ Gibraltar
Not in this dataset · 69 places this site covers
World Bank Group 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.
Afghanistan
Andorra
Armenia
Austria
Azerbaijan
Belarus
Bermuda
Bhutan
Bolivia
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Botswana
Burkina Faso
Burundi
Central African Republic
ChadChannel Islands
Cook Islands
Czechia
Eswatini
Ethiopia
Faroe Islands
Greenland
Hungary
Iran
Isle of Man
Israel
Kazakhstan
Kiribati
Kosovo
Kyrgyzstan
Laos
Lesotho
Liechtenstein
Luxembourg
Malawi
Mali
Marshall Islands
Micronesia
Moldova
Monaco
Mongolia
Nauru
Nepal
Niger
Niue
North Korea
North MacedoniaNorthern Cyprus
Palau
Palestine
Paraguay
Russia
Rwanda
Saint Martin
San Marino
Serbia
SlovakiaSomaliland
South Sudan
Switzerland
Tajikistan
Turkmenistan
Turks and Caicos Islands
Tuvalu
Uganda
Uzbekistan
Vatican City
Zambia
Zimbabwe04Provenance
Where it comes from
The path from the publisher to this page, and what was checked and changed on the way.
1 · Publisher
World Bank Group
2 · Their file
Container Import Dwell Time 2024
3 · Read by this site
September 29, 2026
Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.4 · Stored as
2 files, one per year
Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as container-import-dwell-time-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv5 · Used on
Its statistic page, and every profile it measures
/statistics/container-import-dwell-timeA key for Mobility & Trade in the Country Index.
Precision
The headline is stored to 1 decimal, as published.
Rounded by this site
Never. Tables on screen may show fewer decimals; the files never do.
Changed by this site
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.
From World Bank Data360 (Logistics Performance Indicators 2.0, 2025 report), published to one decimal of a day. The number of container journeys behind each figure is the Bank's own note.
05Reuse
Licence and credit
What the publisher’s licence lets you do, what it asks of you, and a credit line and citation ready to copy.
Licence · checked September 29, 2026
- Share and redistribute it
- Adapt it and build on it
- Use it commercially
- Credit the publisher
- Say what you changed
Share, adapt and use commercially. Credit the publisher and say if you changed anything.
A credit line
Source: World Bank Group, Container Import Dwell Time, via Nations Inquiry.
Cite this dataset
World Bank Group. Container Import Dwell Time, 2023–2024 [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/container-import-dwell-time
The publisher’s own citation: World Bank. Logistics Performance Indicators (LPI 2.0) 2025. Washington, DC: World Bank Group. https://lpi.worldbank.org/
Plain-language summary, not legal advice. The licence text is what binds.
06Where it is used
Around the site
Where these numbers appear on this site, and the datasets nearest to it.
Charted
Container Import Dwell Time by countryWho is highest, the map, the spread, who rose and fell, and the records.
In the Country Index
A key for Mobility & Trade
“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.”
Mobility & Trade standingsSubjects
Near neighbours
- ICT Goods ExportsUNCTAD · 25 held · 2000–2024
- Liner Shipping Connectivity IndexUNCTAD · 21 held · 2006–2026
- Digitally-Deliverable Services ExportsUNCTAD · 15 held · 2010–2024
07Questions
Container Import Dwell Time: questions and answers
What is the Container Import Dwell Time?
Container import dwell time is how many days a full shipping container typically sits in the port where it arrives before it leaves by truck or train — the time taken by port handling, customs and other border checks together. The World Bank measures it from the tracking records of real container journeys, rather than by asking people what they think.
Which years of the Container Import Dwell Time can I download?
All 2, from 2023 to 2024, each as a CSV file, or every year together in one CSV.
Does World Bank Group rank countries on it?
No. World Bank Group publishes values only. The positions shown on this site are derived by ordering the published values, and are labelled as ours.
Can I use it commercially?
Yes, under CC BY 4.0, with credit to World Bank Group. The licence text is linked on this page.