Liner shipping connectivity index
Liner shipping connectivity index (UNCTAD Liner Shipping Connectivity Index, maximum value in 2004 = 100), for the 8-country panel (USA, Canada, UK, Germany, France, Japan, China, India). The index captures how well countries are connected to global shipping networks: UNCTAD computes it from the number of ships, their container-carrying capacity, the number of regular services and operating companies, and the size of the largest vessel deployed on services to and from each country's ports. The World Bank publishes the indicator in the World Development Indicators. Pairs with the connector's container-port-traffic (TEU) dataset (throughput vs network connectivity on the same maritime trade) and with the air-transport-freight dataset (maritime vs air freight capacity). The 8-country panel is covered 2006-2021 with every panel member publishing every year in that window; values are null where the index is unavailable and are never interpolated. Units: index points, maximum 2004 = 100.
- Source
- World Bank
- Rows
- 208
- Columns
- 4
- Source cadence
- Yearly
- Last refreshed
- Sep 24, 2026
- Theme
- transport
| Column | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| country_code | string | ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code (World Bank API field countryiso3code). |
| country_name | string | Country name as published by the World Bank API. |
| year | integer | Calendar year of the observation (World Bank API field date). |
| value | float | Indicator value for the country and year, as defined by the World Bank indicator (see the dataset description). Missing values are null. (unit: index points, 2004=100) |
First 10 sample rows — a preview, not the complete dataset.
| country_code | country_name | year | value |
|---|---|---|---|
| CAN | Canada | 2,000 | — |
| CAN | Canada | 2,001 | — |
| CAN | Canada | 2,002 | — |
| CAN | Canada | 2,003 | — |
| CAN | Canada | 2,004 | — |
| CAN | Canada | 2,005 | — |
| CAN | Canada | 2,006 | 32.807 |
| CAN | Canada | 2,007 | 33.21 |
| CAN | Canada | 2,008 | 35.392 |
| CAN | Canada | 2,009 | 36.728 |
Profiled Sep 24, 2026 from snapshot 20260924T143940Z-676df49df2f3
Measured- Completeness
- 90.4%
- Rows
- 208
- Columns
- 4
- Columns with gaps
- 1
| Column | Missing | Distinct | Range | Distribution |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| country_codevarchar | 0% | 7 | — |
|
| country_namevarchar | 0% | 9 | — |
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| yearbigint | 0% | 27 | 2,000 → 2,025median 2,013 | |
| valuedouble | 38.5% | 139 | 32.81 → 171.18median 76.7 | 4 outside 1st–99th percentile |
- Current
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208 rows · first snapshot
Point any LLM at the metadata endpoint — the documentation above is machine-readable too (JSON-LD + Croissant).
curl "https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/world_bank/liner_shipping_connectivity_index" | jq '{title, rows, columns_count, license}'import requests
ds = requests.get("https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/world_bank/liner_shipping_connectivity_index").json()
print(ds["title"], ds["rows"], "rows")
# Sample rows for an LLM context window
for row in ds.get("sample_rows", [])[:5]:
print(row)API endpoint: https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/world_bank/liner_shipping_connectivity_index
Tip: fetch /llms.txt for the full machine-readable catalog.
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@misc{dz_world_bank_liner_shipping_connectivity_i_676df49d,
title = {{Liner shipping connectivity index}},
author = {{World Bank}},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Datazimuts},
howpublished = {\url{https://datazimuts.com/en/datasets/world_bank/liner_shipping_connectivity_index?snapshot=20260924T143940Z-676df49df2f3}},
note = {Snapshot 20260924T143940Z-676df49df2f3, sha256 676df49df2f33b5ea6e387bb74bc54c8bb7c3f000f06428a35f0e180338001fe; accessed 2026-09-24}
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