Liner Shipping Connectivity Index

Every year in one file, one row per country per year: liner-shipping-connectivity-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

Every column in the newest file of Liner Shipping Connectivity Index: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.

Column	What it holds	Stored as	Range, 2026	Distinct	Empty	Spread
Global Rankglobal_rankPublisher’s rank	UNCTAD’s own rank, exactly as printed.	Number · whole numbers	1China175Turks and Caicos Islandsmiddle 85	166	0
CountrycountryName	The country’s name, as this file spells it.	Text	—	167	0
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier	The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.	Text · 3 letters	—	167	0
LSCI (index, average Q1 2023 = 100)lsci_scoreHeadline	The headline figure: LSCI (index, average Q1 2023 = 100).	Number · up to 5 decimals	4.130Turks and Caicos Islands1,319.457Chinamiddle 56.208	166	0
QuarterquarterLabel	Quarter the index reading refers to, written as year and quarter; each edition holds the last quarter published for its year.	Text	—	1	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 better result.

The newest 12 of 21 years.

Not in this dataset · 52 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.

AfghanistanAndorraArmeniaAustriaAzerbaijanBelarusBhutanBoliviaBosnia and HerzegovinaBotswanaBurkina FasoBurundiCentral African RepublicChadChannel IslandsCzechiaEswatiniEthiopiaHungaryIsle of ManKazakhstanKosovoKyrgyzstanLaosLesothoLiechtensteinLuxembourgMacauMalawiMaliMonacoMongoliaNepalNigerNorth MacedoniaNorthern CyprusPalestineRwandaSaint MartinSan MarinoSerbiaSlovakiaSomalilandSouth SudanSwitzerlandTajikistanTurkmenistanUgandaUzbekistanVatican CityZambiaZimbabwe

1. 1 · Publisher

   UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD)

   unctadstat.unctad.org

2. 2 · Their file

   Liner Shipping Connectivity Index 2026Q02

   US_LSCI

3. 3 · Read by this site

   September 12, 2026

   Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.

4. 4 · Stored as

   21 files, one per year

   Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as liner-shipping-connectivity-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

5. 5 · Used on

   Its statistic page, and every profile it measures

   /statistics/liner-shipping-connectivityA key for Mobility & Trade in the Country Index.

Read from UNCTAD’s own US.LSCI bulk file on UNCTADstat, which publishes the index and its rank every quarter.