Freight loaded and unloaded, maritime transport (metric tons) by country
Countries reporting
5
Highest
1.67 billion metons
Australia and New Zealand
Lowest
1.56 million metons
Polynesia
Median
27.60 million metons
Years covered
25
2000–2024
Data points
1,000
What the numbers show
Freight loaded and unloaded, maritime transport (metric tons) is currently reported for 5 countries. The highest value is 1.67 billion metons in Australia and New Zealand; the lowest is 1.56 million metons in Polynesia.
The median across all reporting countries is 27.60 million metons, and the mean is 362.40 million metons.
The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 1,076.
Over the past decade 2 countries rose and 3 fell. The largest increase was in Micronesia (up 22.4%), and the largest decrease in Caribbean (down 5.5%).
Freight loaded and unloaded, maritime transport: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Australia and New Zealand | 1.67 billion metons | 2024 | up 19.7% | rising |
| 2 | Caribbean | 96.72 million metons | 2024 | down 5.5% | falling |
| 3 | Melanesia | 27.60 million metons | 2024 | down 3.7% | rising |
| 4 | Micronesia | 11.28 million metons | 2024 | up 22.4% | rising |
| 5 | Polynesia | 1.56 million metons | 2024 | down 4.7% | flat |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- World 23.96 billion metons
- Developing regions 13.95 billion metons
- Asia 11.45 billion metons
- Developed regions (Europe, Cyprus, Israel, Northern America, Japan, Australia & New Zealand) 10.01 billion metons
- Eastern and South-Eastern Asia 8.05 billion metons
- Europe and Northern America 7.50 billion metons
- Eastern Asia 5.56 billion metons
- Europe 5.52 billion metons
- Americas 4.12 billion metons
- Northern Africa and Western Asia 2.53 billion metons
- South-Eastern Asia 2.49 billion metons
- Western Europe 2.18 billion metons
- Latin America and the Caribbean 2.14 billion metons
- Western Asia 2.10 billion metons
- Northern America 1.98 billion metons
- Oceania 1.72 billion metons
- South America 1.65 billion metons
- Eastern Europe 1.47 billion metons
- Central and Southern Asia 1.30 billion metons
- Africa 1.15 billion metons
- Southern Asia 1.10 billion metons
- Northern Europe 974.77 million metons
- Southern Europe 902.03 million metons
- Sub-Saharan Africa 721.14 million metons
- Small island developing States (SIDS) 485.41 million metons
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 459.16 million metons
- Northern Africa 432.69 million metons
- Landlocked developing countries (LLDCs) 400.87 million metons
- Central America 388.09 million metons
- Western Africa 282.05 million metons
- Central Asia 199.58 million metons
- Southern Africa 193.39 million metons
- Middle Africa 135.19 million metons
- Eastern Africa 110.52 million metons
- Oceania (exc. Australia and New Zealand) 40.43 million metons