Dataset · UNCTAD
Container Port Traffic
15 years, 2010–2024 · 103 countries
Container port traffic counts the containers moving through a country’s ports in a year, in twenty-foot equivalent units. It is the raw volume of world trade, port by port — the physical reality behind every trade statistic on this site.
This site holds every year from 2010 to 2024, read from UNCTAD’s own data and stored exactly as published.
Container Port Traffic · the file
- Newest
- Container Port Traffic, 2024
- Held
- 15 years · 2,209 rows
- Licence
- CC BY 3.0 IGO
0115 years
Every year
Every year comes from UNCTAD’s 2026 release, recalculated on one method. Each opens the full table for that year; each downloads as a CSV.
| Year | Countries | Change | Read | Download |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Container Port Traffic, 2024Newest | 103 | +5 −12 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| Container Port Traffic, 2023 | 110 | +2 −7 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| Container Port Traffic, 2022 | 115 | +3 −6 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| Container Port Traffic, 2021 | 118 | +2 −9 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| Container Port Traffic, 2020 | 125 | +2 −39 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| Container Port Traffic, 2019 | 162 | +1 −3 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| Container Port Traffic, 2018 | 164 | +3 −3 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| Container Port Traffic, 2017 | 164 | +1 −1 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| Container Port Traffic, 2016 | 164 | +1 −3 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| Container Port Traffic, 2015 | 166 | +1 −1 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| Container Port Traffic, 2014 | 166 | ±0 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| Container Port Traffic, 2013 | 166 | +2 −1 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
Show all 15 years
| Year | Countries | Change | Read | Download |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Container Port Traffic, 2012 | 165 | +4 −1 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| Container Port Traffic, 2011 | 162 | +5 −2 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| Container Port Traffic, 2010 | 159 | — | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
Every year in one file, one row per country per year: container-port-traffic-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv
023 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 | — | 103 | 0 | |
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier | The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it. | Text · 3 letters | — | 103 | 0 | |
Container port traffic (TEU, twenty-foot equivalent units)container_port_trafficHeadline | The headline figure: Container port traffic (TEU, twenty-foot equivalent units). | Number · whole numbers | 17,263 | 103 | 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.
03168 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.
| 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Africa | 38 | 38 | 37 | 37 | 37 | 37 | 38 | 24 | 22 | 22 | 22 | 19 |
| Americas | 42 | 42 | 42 | 42 | 42 | 41 | 40 | 37 | 34 | 33 | 31 | 27 |
| Asia | 35 | 35 | 35 | 35 | 34 | 35 | 34 | 31 | 29 | 29 | 27 | 29 |
| Europe | 33 | 33 | 33 | 33 | 33 | 32 | 32 | 28 | 28 | 26 | 27 | 25 |
| Oceania | 18 | 18 | 19 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 18 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 3 |
| All | 166 | 166 | 166 | 164 | 164 | 164 | 162 | 125 | 118 | 115 | 110 | 103 |
The newest 12 of 15 years.
Who joined and who left
- 2024
+ Cayman Islands
+ Iran
+ Lebanon
+ Tanzania
+ Yemen
− Albania
− Belize
− Barbados
− Brunei
− Cuba
− Guinea
− Iceland
− Libya
− Saint Lucia
− Mozambique
− Nigeria
− Trinidad and Tobago
- 2023
+ Guinea
+ Montenegro
− Cayman Islands
− Grenada
− Lebanon
− Papua New Guinea
− French Polynesia
− Tanzania
− Yemen
- 2022
+ Cayman Islands
+ Algeria
+ Papua New Guinea
− Guyana
− Montenegro
− New Caledonia
− Sudan
− Ukraine
− Venezuela
- 2021
+ Montenegro
+ New Caledonia
− Switzerland
− Dominica
− Algeria
− Guinea
− Saint Kitts and Nevis
− Kuwait
− Papua New Guinea
− Paraguay
− Syria
- 2020
+ Curaçao
+ Papua New Guinea
− American Samoa
− Benin
− Bermuda
− DR Congo
− Comoros
− Eritrea
− Fiji
− Faroe Islands
− Micronesia
− Gibraltar
− Gambia
− Guinea-Bissau
− Equatorial Guinea
− Greenland
− Guam
− Iraq
− Kiribati
− Liberia
− Moldova
− Madagascar
− Maldives
− Marshall Islands
− Montenegro
− Northern Mariana Islands
− Mauritania
− New Caledonia
− Nauru
− Palau
− Solomon Islands
− Sierra Leone
− Somalia
− São Tomé and Príncipe
− Sint Maarten
− Seychelles
− Timor-Leste
− Tonga
− Tuvalu
− British Virgin Islands
− Vanuatu
- 2019
+ Libya
− Curaçao
− Iran
− Papua New Guinea
- 2018
+ Georgia
+ Mozambique
+ French Polynesia
− Austria
− Cayman Islands
− Libya
- 2017
+ Papua New Guinea
− Georgia
Not in this dataset · 57 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.
04Provenance
Where it comes from
The path from the publisher to this page, and what was checked and changed on the way.
1 · Publisher
UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
2 · Their file
Container Port Traffic 2024
3 · Read by this site
September 6, 2026
Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.4 · Stored as
15 files, one per year
Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as container-port-traffic-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv5 · Used on
Its statistic page, and every profile it measures
Precision
The headline is stored in whole numbers, 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 UNCTAD via the World Bank’s indicator API (IS.SHP.GOOD.TU).
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 7, 2026
- Share and redistribute it
- Adapt it and build on it
- Use it commercially
- Credit the publisher
- Say what you changed
The version of CC BY written for intergovernmental organisations. Credit the publisher and say what you changed.
A credit line
Source: UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Container Port Traffic, via Nations Inquiry.
Cite this dataset
UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD). Container Port Traffic, 2010–2024 [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/container-port-traffic
The publisher’s own citation: UN Trade and Development. UNCTADstat. Geneva: UNCTAD.
Plain-language summary, not legal advice. The licence text is what binds.
06Questions
Container Port Traffic: questions and answers
What is the Container Port Traffic?
Container port traffic counts the containers moving through a country’s ports in a year, in twenty-foot equivalent units. It is the raw volume of world trade, port by port — the physical reality behind every trade statistic on this site.
Which years of the Container Port Traffic can I download?
All 15, from 2010 to 2024, each as a CSV file, or every year together in one CSV.
Does UNCTAD rank countries on it?
No. UNCTAD 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 3.0 IGO, with credit to UNCTAD. The licence text is linked on this page.