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Liner Shipping Connectivity Index, 2008

Figures for 2008, as UNCTAD published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Liner Shipping Connectivity Index, 2008 covers 163 countries. China is highest, at 822.884; North Korea is lowest, at 3.352. The middle country reads 51.676. Against 2007, 156 values changed (87 up, 69 down), 4 countries joined, 1 left.

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Liner Shipping Connectivity Index · Data for 2008

HighestChina

822.884

LowestNorth Korea

3.352

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the better end.

01UNCTAD’s rank

The table

Every country and every column of Liner Shipping Connectivity Index, 2008, as published. The rank is UNCTAD’s own, as printed. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 163 countries · select a heading to sort

Liner Shipping Connectivity Index, 2008: every country, as published by UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD).
1ChinaCHNEastern Asia822.8842008Q04
2SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia570.3542008Q04
3Hong KongHKGEastern Asia555.4502008Q04
4JapanJPNEastern Asia491.2652008Q04
5GermanyDEUWestern Europe482.4752008Q04
6United StatesUSANorthern America467.5512008Q04
7South KoreaKOREastern Asia458.1432008Q04
8MalaysiaMYSSouth-eastern Asia448.7942008Q04
9United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe448.0992008Q04
10BelgiumBELWestern Europe447.0752008Q04
11NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe441.0412008Q04
12SpainESPSouthern Europe383.2982008Q04
13TaiwanTWNEastern Asia338.3682008Q04
14ItalyITASouthern Europe330.4682008Q04
15United Arab EmiratesAREWestern Asia319.4182008Q04
16FranceFRAWestern Europe288.3772008Q04
17IndiaINDSouthern Asia262.4152008Q04
18IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia238.8752008Q04
19EgyptEGYNorthern Africa236.3662008Q04
20Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia202.3362008Q04
21TürkiyeTURWestern Asia187.2332008Q04
22Sri LankaLKASouthern Asia186.7472008Q04
23ThailandTHASouth-eastern Asia180.2272008Q04
24BrazilBRASouth America172.2062008Q04
25VietnamVNMSouth-eastern Asia161.8912008Q04

02In 2008

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. #1China822.884
  2. #2Singapore570.354
  3. #3Hong Kong555.450
  4. #4Japan491.265
  5. #5Germany482.475

Lowest

  1. #173North Korea3.352
  2. #172Cook Islands3.961
  3. #169Paraguay4.905
  4. #168Comoros5.420
  5. #167Eritrea6.188

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 51.676. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032007 → 2008

Since 2007

What changed between 2007 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +4 / −1countries joined / left
  • 156values changed, of 159 in both
  • 87 · 69rose · fell
  • 3unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Cook Islands+ Kiribati+ Montenegro+ Tuvalu− Turks and Caicos Islands

Changes in value, not in places: a country’s place also moves when others do. Every country’s full history is charted on the statistic page.

04Caveats

Read before you use

What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.

How values are stored

  • 162 distinct values among 163

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 5 decimals. 2 countries share 13.456. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • The rank is UNCTAD’s

    Printed as the publisher ranked the countries; never re-ranked here.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 163 countries has every column.

05The files

Download and cite

The table as a file, digit for digit, what this site changed, and a citation for this edition.

Licence in full

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.

Licence: CC BY 3.0 IGO · what it allows, in plain words

Cite this edition

UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD) (2008). Liner Shipping Connectivity Index, 2008 [data set], describing 2008. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/liner-shipping-connectivity/2008

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07Questions

Liner Shipping Connectivity Index, 2008: questions and answers

Which country has the highest Liner Shipping Connectivity Index in Liner Shipping Connectivity Index, 2008?

China, at 822.884, of the 163 countries in the file.

What year does Liner Shipping Connectivity Index, 2008 describe?

2008.

How many countries does Liner Shipping Connectivity Index, 2008 cover?

163.

Where can I download Liner Shipping Connectivity Index, 2008?

On this page, as a CSV file holding every value exactly as published, or from the publisher’s own site, linked below.

Is Liner Shipping Connectivity Index, 2008 the newest?

No. The newest held here is Liner Shipping Connectivity Index, 2026.

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