Spain · September 2026
402.4
−3.5%year on year
8th economy in the world
Spain · compared with the previous month
−0.9%
month-on-month change in the LSCI
China · 1st economy in the world
1,347.6
+3.1%year on year
Economies with data
177
in September 2026
The top five and Spain, last 24 months
ChinaSouth KoreaSingaporeUnited States of AmericaMalaysiaSpain
Biggest rises
Year on year · LSCI ≥ 20
| Venezuela | +110.9% |
| Syria | +107.5% |
| Djibouti | +33.4% |
| Mauritania | +31.1% |
| Cyprus | +29.4% |
Biggest falls
Year on year · LSCI ≥ 20
| Qatar | −68.8% |
| Bahrain | −60.9% |
| Iraq | −54.9% |
| United Arab Emirates | −38.2% |
| Réunion | −24.8% |
World ranking of economies · September 2026
Monthly LSCI · base Q1 2023 average = 100
| Rank | Economy | Index | Month on month | Year on year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 1,347.61 | +0.4% | +3.1% |
| 2 | South Korea | 632.98 | −0.4% | +1.2% |
| 3 | Singapore | 626.72 | −0.4% | +1.2% |
| 4 | United States of America | 513.55 | +2.6% | −2.7% |
| 5 | Malaysia | 507.16 | +0.6% | −3.0% |
| 6 | Vietnam | 492.03 | +1.0% | +6.4% |
| 7 | Japan | 411.50 | −0.3% | −4.5% |
| 8 | Spain | 402.44 | −0.9% | −3.5% |
| 9 | India | 383.06 | +0.6% | −5.2% |
| 10 | United Kingdom | 382.97 | +0.5% | −2.2% |
| 11 | Netherlands | 376.53 | +1.4% | −1.1% |
| 12 | Hong Kong SAR China | 371.48 | +1.0% | +9.1% |
| 13 | Belgium | 348.14 | +0.8% | +2.8% |
| 14 | Germany | 325.57 | +0.1% | +1.1% |
| 15 | Taiwan | 325.01 | +1.6% | −2.9% |
| 16 | Türkiye | 297.52 | −0.1% | −5.3% |
| 17 | Italy | 282.75 | −2.5% | −3.3% |
| 18 | Thailand | 282.65 | +5.7% | +2.2% |
| 19 | Sri Lanka | 272.15 | +1.6% | +2.9% |
| 20 | Egypt | 268.55 | +3.3% | −5.5% |
| 21 | France | 265.68 | +1.6% | +2.8% |
| 22 | Morocco | 263.47 | +0.9% | +5.5% |
| 23 | Indonesia | 257.89 | −0.8% | +7.7% |
| 24 | Saudi Arabia | 232.35 | +16.7% | −3.5% |
| 25 | Panama | 224.77 | +2.8% | +7.2% |
| 26 | Colombia | 211.50 | −0.1% | +3.5% |
| 27 | Mexico | 203.67 | +1.7% | +5.9% |
| 28 | United Arab Emirates | 195.86 | +1.8% | −38.2% |
| 29 | Philippines | 187.35 | 0.0% | +2.8% |
| 30 | Greece | 172.98 | +0.9% | 0.0% |
| 31 | Brazil | 166.35 | +1.8% | +3.9% |
| 32 | Portugal | 161.15 | +3.0% | −13.6% |
| 33 | Pakistan | 158.20 | −0.2% | −7.1% |
| 34 | Russia | 153.18 | −4.4% | −9.4% |
| 35 | Australia | 145.53 | +0.1% | +3.1% |
| 36 | Canada | 143.32 | +0.2% | −8.8% |
| 37 | Poland | 143.09 | +2.0% | −1.2% |
| 38 | Ghana | 139.88 | +2.0% | +1.8% |
| 39 | Côte d’Ivoire | 138.61 | −1.9% | +7.2% |
| 40 | Peru | 137.72 | +0.5% | +2.2% |
| 41 | Oman | 135.16 | +6.4% | −4.8% |
| 42 | Dominican Republic | 132.38 | +0.6% | +4.3% |
| 43 | Jamaica | 123.19 | −0.1% | +6.7% |
| 44 | Nigeria | 116.30 | +0.4% | +0.4% |
| 45 | Ecuador | 114.14 | +0.5% | +3.9% |
| 46 | Togo | 113.56 | −4.8% | −3.4% |
| 47 | Malta | 112.48 | 0.0% | −1.1% |
| 48 | South Africa | 110.98 | −1.7% | +6.1% |
| 49 | Argentina | 110.22 | −1.7% | −0.8% |
| 50 | Guatemala | 108.21 | +0.1% | +2.4% |
| 51 | Cameroon | 107.86 | +0.9% | +4.0% |
| 52 | Chile | 106.70 | 0.0% | +0.1% |
| 53 | Sweden | 105.94 | −3.7% | −10.7% |
| 54 | Djibouti | 101.83 | −0.4% | +33.4% |
| 55 | Lithuania | 97.86 | +9.9% | +14.2% |
| 56 | Lebanon | 96.85 | −0.3% | +27.8% |
| 57 | Uruguay | 95.59 | −1.8% | −1.2% |
| 58 | Congo - Brazzaville | 94.27 | +2.4% | +8.0% |
| 59 | Israel | 91.07 | +6.9% | +2.0% |
| 60 | Costa Rica | 87.57 | +0.9% | −3.8% |
| 61 | New Zealand | 83.51 | 0.0% | +0.6% |
| 62 | Kenya | 82.82 | −1.1% | +1.5% |
| 63 | Denmark | 81.59 | −6.1% | −13.5% |
| 64 | Bahamas | 80.66 | −5.7% | −4.1% |
| 65 | Slovenia | 79.67 | 0.0% | +3.0% |
| 66 | Bangladesh | 76.72 | −1.9% | +0.4% |
| 67 | Benin | 74.22 | +0.1% | +1.6% |
| 68 | Tanzania | 74.20 | 0.0% | +8.7% |
| 69 | Jordan | 73.37 | −3.8% | +4.6% |
| 70 | Venezuela | 71.69 | +96.7% | +110.9% |
| 71 | Cambodia | 70.82 | 0.0% | +21.8% |
| 72 | Finland | 70.62 | −0.1% | +0.7% |
| 73 | Croatia | 70.59 | 0.0% | +12.6% |
| 74 | Namibia | 70.51 | −7.6% | +5.7% |
| 75 | Algeria | 69.49 | −2.9% | −2.1% |
| 76 | Angola | 66.98 | +3.4% | +0.7% |
| 77 | Mauritius | 66.36 | −2.8% | −17.2% |
| 78 | Cyprus | 64.68 | −0.3% | +29.4% |
| 79 | Senegal | 62.96 | +2.3% | −8.2% |
| 80 | Libya | 62.62 | −1.3% | −3.2% |
| 81 | Mozambique | 61.76 | −1.4% | +8.7% |
| 82 | Trinidad & Tobago | 61.04 | −0.1% | −0.6% |
| 83 | Honduras | 60.82 | 0.0% | +3.5% |
| 84 | Ireland | 59.76 | 0.0% | −3.2% |
| 85 | Norway | 56.45 | +2.1% | +8.1% |
| 86 | Iran | 51.49 | 0.0% | −12.5% |
| 87 | Papua New Guinea | 50.39 | 0.0% | +1.8% |
| 88 | Réunion | 50.28 | −0.1% | −24.8% |
| 89 | Puerto Rico | 49.27 | 0.0% | −0.7% |
| 90 | Suriname | 44.79 | −0.1% | −0.1% |
| 91 | New Caledonia | 44.18 | 0.0% | −1.8% |
| 92 | French Polynesia | 43.70 | 0.0% | +12.0% |
| 93 | Guadeloupe | 43.65 | +6.6% | −3.7% |
| 94 | Guyana | 43.16 | −0.1% | −1.2% |
| 95 | Syria | 42.13 | +6.3% | +107.5% |
| 96 | Mauritania | 41.87 | +22.9% | +31.1% |
| 97 | Fiji | 41.65 | 0.0% | −1.2% |
| 98 | Latvia | 39.55 | +1.4% | −16.5% |
| 99 | Romania | 39.02 | −9.2% | −17.3% |
| 100 | Gabon | 38.21 | +18.3% | +18.3% |
| 101 | Martinique | 37.51 | 0.0% | −5.0% |
| 102 | Iraq | 36.29 | +6.0% | −54.9% |
| 103 | Somalia | 34.61 | +2.9% | −13.3% |
| 104 | Myanmar (Burma) | 34.11 | +3.4% | −2.5% |
| 105 | Sint Maarten | 33.69 | −0.1% | +0.1% |
| 106 | Equatorial Guinea | 32.77 | −0.7% | −2.6% |
| 107 | Georgia | 32.06 | −8.3% | +7.7% |
| 108 | Barbados | 31.62 | −2.6% | −9.3% |
| 109 | Sudan | 30.50 | +10.7% | +6.7% |
| 110 | Yemen | 30.38 | −7.1% | −20.3% |
| 111 | Solomon Islands | 30.25 | 0.0% | −0.1% |
| 112 | Samoa | 30.04 | 0.0% | +2.1% |
| 113 | Sierra Leone | 28.43 | +0.1% | −5.0% |
| 114 | Nicaragua | 28.27 | −9.9% | −10.3% |
| 115 | Bulgaria | 28.25 | +0.1% | +1.6% |
| 116 | Tonga | 28.14 | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| 117 | Qatar | 27.95 | +8.0% | −68.8% |
| 118 | Kuwait | 27.78 | +8.0% | −13.5% |
| 119 | Iceland | 27.64 | 0.0% | −3.8% |
| 120 | Estonia | 27.39 | −4.2% | −10.7% |
| 121 | Haiti | 27.18 | +0.1% | +14.8% |
| 122 | American Samoa | 26.33 | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| 123 | Congo - Kinshasa | 25.84 | 0.0% | +12.6% |
| 124 | Bahrain | 25.69 | +8.8% | −60.9% |
| 125 | Brunei | 25.66 | 0.0% | +8.2% |
| 126 | Guinea | 25.48 | 0.0% | −22.1% |
| 127 | El Salvador | 25.39 | 0.0% | +4.7% |
| 128 | Antigua & Barbuda | 24.63 | −3.4% | −5.8% |
| 129 | Vanuatu | 24.49 | 0.0% | −5.3% |
| 130 | Dominica | 24.49 | 0.0% | +0.1% |
| 131 | Madagascar | 24.47 | 0.0% | −13.1% |
| 132 | Marshall Islands | 23.41 | 0.0% | +8.2% |
| 133 | Guam | 22.84 | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| 134 | Tunisia | 22.75 | +0.4% | −19.2% |
| 135 | Curaçao | 22.25 | 0.0% | −13.1% |
| 136 | St Lucia | 21.90 | 0.0% | −19.7% |
| 137 | Faroe Islands | 21.68 | 0.0% | +5.3% |
| 138 | Cuba | 21.42 | −13.2% | −24.6% |
| 139 | US Virgin Islands | 21.26 | 0.0% | −1.6% |
| 140 | Grenada | 21.08 | 0.0% | −8.9% |
| 141 | Seychelles | 19.19 | 0.0% | −0.3% |
| 142 | St Vincent & the Grenadines | 18.10 | 0.0% | −10.2% |
| 143 | Belize | 17.36 | 0.0% | −9.8% |
| 144 | Gambia | 17.35 | 0.0% | +22.9% |
| 145 | Liberia | 17.08 | 0.0% | −20.6% |
| 146 | Mayotte | 16.59 | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| 147 | Cape Verde | 16.50 | 0.0% | +41.3% |
| 148 | Comoros | 15.62 | 0.0% | −0.3% |
| 149 | Kiribati | 15.46 | 0.0% | −4.5% |
| 150 | French Guiana | 15.46 | 0.0% | −20.9% |
| 151 | Northern Mariana Islands | 15.14 | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| 152 | Micronesia | 14.99 | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| 153 | Aruba | 14.62 | 0.0% | −18.7% |
| 154 | Maldives | 14.47 | 0.0% | +20.9% |
| 155 | São Tomé & Príncipe | 13.50 | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| 156 | Guinea-Bissau | 13.01 | 0.0% | −26.2% |
| 157 | Greenland | 12.32 | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| 158 | Timor-Leste | 12.23 | 0.0% | +0.1% |
| 159 | British Virgin Islands | 11.79 | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| 160 | St Kitts & Nevis | 11.79 | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| 161 | Albania | 11.60 | 0.0% | −18.3% |
| 162 | Montenegro | 9.82 | 0.0% | −49.6% |
| 163 | Gibraltar | 8.94 | +78.3% | +19.9% |
| 164 | Paraguay | 8.71 | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| 165 | Cook Islands | 8.24 | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| 166 | Bermuda | 7.98 | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| 167 | Eritrea | 7.82 | +40.9% | +40.9% |
| 168 | St Pierre & Miquelon | 7.52 | +9.9% | +101.4% |
| 169 | Cayman Islands | 7.33 | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| 170 | Palau | 6.87 | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| 171 | Niue | 5.76 | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| 172 | Caribbean Netherlands | 5.31 | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| 173 | Christmas Island | 5.23 | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| 174 | Turks & Caicos Islands | 4.13 | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| 175 | Wallis & Futuna | 3.52 | 0.0% | −30.3% |
| 176 | St Helena | 3.44 | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| 177 | Norfolk Island | 2.50 | 0.0% | 0.0% |
Source: UNCTAD, Liner shipping connectivity index, monthly. Monthly since January 2023; from 2006 to 2022 UNCTAD gives one value per quarter. See the methodology.
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