Container Port Traffic, 2020

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Container Port Traffic, 2020: every country, as published by UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD).

Positionderived	Country	Container port traffic (TEU, twenty-foot equivalent units)
1	ChinaCHNEastern Asia	240,480,000
2	United StatesUSANorthern America	53,059,014
3	SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia	36,870,900
4	South KoreaKOREastern Asia	28,834,192
5	MalaysiaMYSSouth-eastern Asia	26,669,483
6	JapanJPNEastern Asia	21,568,959
7	United Arab EmiratesAREWestern Asia	18,720,000
8	Hong KongHKGEastern Asia	17,953,000
9	IndiaINDSouthern Asia	17,597,062
10	SpainESPSouthern Europe	16,745,921
11	VietnamVNMSouth-eastern Asia	16,394,723
12	NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe	14,757,227
13	GermanyDEUWestern Europe	13,946,212
14	BelgiumBELWestern Europe	12,697,162
15	IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia	11,771,309
16	TürkiyeTURWestern Asia	11,626,578
17	ItalyITASouthern Europe	10,696,962
18	BrazilBRASouth America	10,450,632
19	United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe	9,732,000
20	ThailandTHASouth-eastern Asia	9,568,488
21	Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia	9,330,437
22	AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand	8,470,466
23	PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia	8,019,642
24	PanamaPANCentral America	7,735,214
25	EgyptEGYNorthern Africa	7,564,385

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 1,048,691. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

• +2 / −39countries joined / left
• 123values changed, of 123 in both
• 46 · 77rose · fell
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+ 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

Both years come from the same release, so a difference here is a change in the data, not a revision of it. Every country’s full history is charted on the statistic page.

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What this site changed: 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.

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