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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.

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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.

2010bar height: countries covered, up to 1662024
Every year of Container Port Traffic held on this site, newest first, with its download files.
YearCountriesChangeReadDownload
Container Port Traffic, 2024Newest103+5 −12September 6, 2026CSV
Container Port Traffic, 2023110+2 −7September 6, 2026CSV
Container Port Traffic, 2022115+3 −6September 6, 2026CSV
Container Port Traffic, 2021118+2 −9September 6, 2026CSV
Container Port Traffic, 2020125+2 −39September 6, 2026CSV
Container Port Traffic, 2019162+1 −3September 6, 2026CSV
Container Port Traffic, 2018164+3 −3September 6, 2026CSV
Container Port Traffic, 2017164+1 −1September 6, 2026CSV
Container Port Traffic, 2016164+1 −3September 6, 2026CSV
Container Port Traffic, 2015166+1 −1September 6, 2026CSV
Container Port Traffic, 2014166±0September 6, 2026CSV
Container Port Traffic, 2013166+2 −1September 6, 2026CSV
Show all 15 years
YearCountriesChangeReadDownload
Container Port Traffic, 2012165+4 −1September 6, 2026CSV
Container Port Traffic, 2011162+5 −2September 6, 2026CSV
Container Port Traffic, 2010159—September 6, 2026CSV

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.

Every column in the newest file of Container Port Traffic: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.
ColumnWhat it holdsStored asRange, 2024DistinctEmptySpread
CountrycountryNameThe country’s name, as this file spells it.Text—1030
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifierThe ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.Text · 3 letters—1030
Container port traffic (TEU, twenty-foot equivalent units)container_port_trafficHeadlineThe headline figure: Container port traffic (TEU, twenty-foot equivalent units).Number · whole numbers17,263Montenegro299,703,800Chinamiddle 1,827,7881030

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.

All regions
Countries in each year of Container Port Traffic, by continent.
201320142015201620172018201920202021202220232024
Africa383837373737382422222219
Americas424242424241403734333127
Asia353535353435343129292729
Europe333333333332322828262725
Oceania1818191718191855533
All166166166164164164162125118115110103

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

04Provenance

Where it comes from

The path from the publisher to this page, and what was checked and changed on the way.

The site’s method
  1. 1 · Publisher

    UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD)

  2. 2 · Their file

    Container Port Traffic 2024

  3. 3 · Read by this site

    September 6, 2026

    Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.
  4. 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.csv
  5. 5 · 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.

Every publisher’s terms

Licence · checked September 7, 2026

CC BY 3.0 IGO

  • 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.

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