Countries with the Busiest Container Ports 2024
About This Dataset
Countries with the Busiest Container Ports 2024
Countries ranked by container traffic (million teu) in 2024, using World Bank figures for the 103 countries that reported that year. China leads on 299.7, ahead of United States (59.7) and Singapore (41.1). Container port traffic in twenty-foot equivalent units, counting every container moved through the country's ports. A container that is transhipped is counted at each port it passes through, which lifts hub economies.
Analysis
China (299.7), United States (59.7) and Singapore (41.1) take the top three. Across the twenty shown, values run from 299.7 down to 11.4, a spread of 288.3. Most of that spread sits between first and second alone (240.0 of 288.3), so China stands apart from the rest of the table. No other country in the table reaches half the leading figure of 299.7. The chart shows the twenty highest of 103 reporting countries, so it describes the top of the distribution rather than the world average.
Source:
World Bank
Key Findings
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China leads in Container Traffic (Million TEU) with 299.70 in 2024.
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Average Container Traffic (Million TEU) in 2024: 35 · median: 16.
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Gap in 2024: China is 26.3× larger than Thailand.
Data Insights
Numbers, trends & sources behind this chart
Methodology & source
- Data source
- World Bank
- Coverage
- 20 entities · 2024 · 20 observations
- Measure
- Container Traffic (Million TEU)
- Last updated
- 6 September 2026
- Compiled by
- The ANYSTAT team, from the source above
How the figures are calculated
- Values are shown as reported by the source. Nothing is rescaled, rebased or converted — the only changes are thousand separators and decimals shown to two places.
- Entities are ranked highest-first on their value in 2024.
Data Sources & References
All external sources cited in this dataset
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