Skip to content
Nations Inquiry — home

Data for 2014

Merchant Fleet by Country of Ownership, 2014

2014, as UNCTAD’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

This counts the merchant ships owned by companies based in each country — measured by how much cargo they can carry, in dead-weight tons — wherever those ships are registered. Ownership and flag are different things: most of the world's tonnage flies the flags of a few open registries, but it is owned from a handful of shipping nations.

Merchant Fleet by Country of Ownership, 2014 covers 178 countries on 3 measures. Greece is highest, at 256,122.02; 20 countries share the lowest reading, 0.00. The middle country reads 186.90.

Download CSVCite this year
Share

Share this page

Merchant Fleet by Country of Ownership · Data for 2014

HighestGreece

256,122.02

Lowest20 countries share it

0.00

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

01Values only

The table

Every country and every column of Merchant Fleet by Country of Ownership, 2014, as published. The file carries values only, so no position is shown. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 178 countries · select a heading to sort

Merchant Fleet by Country of Ownership, 2014: every country, as published by UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD).
GreeceGRCSouthern Europe256,122.0215.269493,757
JapanJPNEastern Asia225,124.9113.421503,953
ChinaCHNEastern Asia153,102.809.127694,872
GermanyDEUWestern Europe127,347.127.592183,694
SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia81,233.974.843012,220
South KoreaKOREastern Asia76,958.754.588131,561
Hong KongHKGEastern Asia75,920.974.526261,380
United StatesUSANorthern America55,591.073.314231,853
United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe46,671.102.782441,211
TaiwanTWNEastern Asia45,872.712.73484864
NorwayNORNorthern Europe43,319.912.582651,829
DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe39,280.832.34185949
BermudaBMUNorthern America37,605.342.24196277
TürkiyeTURWestern Asia28,882.321.721911,491
ItalyITASouthern Europe25,190.121.50178839
IndiaINDSouthern Asia21,329.681.27163918
United Arab EmiratesAREWestern Asia19,843.061.18300745
BrazilBRASouth America19,182.621.14363378
RussiaRUSEastern Europe18,489.621.102311,675
IranIRNSouthern Asia18,273.381.08942238
SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe17,907.951.06764343
MonacoMCOWestern Europe17,141.971.02197181
NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe17,065.161.017391,216
IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia16,581.030.988531,646
MalaysiaMYSSouth-eastern Asia16,263.280.96958612

02In 2014

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline, then the highest and lowest on each other measure.

Highest

  1. Greece256,122.02
  2. Japan225,124.91
  3. China153,102.80
  4. Germany127,347.12
  5. Singapore81,233.97

Lowest

  1. Tuvalushared0.00
  2. Togoshared0.00
  3. Slovakiashared0.00
  4. São Tomé and Príncipeshared0.00
  5. Serbiashared0.00

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 186.90. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Share of the world fleet (%)

    HighestGreece15.26949

    Lowest20 share it

    Middle country: 0.01114

  • Ships owned

    HighestChina4,872

    Lowest20 share it

    Middle country: 19

03Caveats

Read before you use

How values are stored

  • One year of the 2026 release

    Every year in this series comes from UNCTAD’s 2026 release, recalculated on one method, so a change from one year to the next is not a revision. It can differ from what was first published for 2014.

  • 159 distinct values among 178

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 3 decimals. 20 countries share 0.00. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 178 countries has every column.

04The files

Download and cite

Licence in full

What this site changed: Reshaped to one row per country, with its ISO code; no value recalculated, rescaled or rounded. In full

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

Cite this edition

UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD) (2014). Merchant Fleet by Country of Ownership, 2014 [data set], describing 2014. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/merchant-fleet-ownership/2014

0513 held

Other years