Cayman Islands: Container port traffic (TEU: 20 foot equivalent units)

Key figures

Since 2010 it is up 2.21% from 45,649 in 2010 (0.16% a year on average, compounded). The World Bank has no value for 5 of the years in between; the chart leaves those gaps open rather than joining across them.

How it compares

In 2024, Cayman Islands had the 100th highest value of the 103 economies reporting that year. Higher is not always better: for some indicators the lowest value is the one to aim for. See the full ranking.

Closest to Cayman Islands in the 2024 ranking

• Cabo Verde — 97th of 103: 89,382
• Aruba — 98th of 103: 64,800
• Samoa — 99th of 103: 53,017
• Antigua and Barbuda — 101st of 103: 28,000
• St. Vincent and the Grenadines — 102nd of 103: 24,416
• Montenegro — 103rd of 103: 17,263

What this measures

Port container traffic measures the flow of containers from land to sea transport modes, and vice versa, in twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs), a standard-size container. Data refer to coastal shipping as well as international journeys. Transshipment traffic is counted as two lifts at the intermediate port (once to off-load and again as an outbound lift) and includes empty units.

Limitations: Measures of port container traffic, much of it commodities of medium to high value added, give some indication of economic growth in a country. But when traffic is merely transshipment, much of the economic benefit goes to the terminal operator and ancillary services for ships and containers rather than to the country more broadly. In transshipment centers empty containers may account for as much as 40 percent of traffic. Data cover coastal shipping as well as international journeys. Transshipment traffic is counted as two lifts at the intermediate port (once to off-load and again as an outbound lift) and includes empty units.

Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a sum.

All 10 values

Container port traffic (TEU: 20 foot equivalent units) in nearby economies

• Antigua and Barbuda — 28,000 (2024)
• Argentina — 1.47 million (2024)
• Aruba — 64,800 (2024)
• Bahamas, The — 1.54 million (2024)
• Barbados — 101,300 (2023)
• Belize — 21,279 (2023)
• Brazil — 13.89 million (2024)
• British Virgin Islands — 45,956 (2019)
• Chile — 4.47 million (2024)

More infrastructure data for Cayman Islands

• Fixed telephone subscriptions — 35,773 (2022)
• Mobile cellular subscriptions — 99,737 (2022)
• Fixed telephone subscriptions (per 100 people) — 49.97 (2022)
• Mobile cellular subscriptions (per 100 people) — 139.32 (2022)
• Individuals using the Internet (% of population) — 81.07% (2017)
• Liner shipping connectivity index (maximum value in 2004 = 100) — 2.04 (2021)
• Secure Internet servers — 1,986 (2024)
• Secure Internet servers (per 1 million people) — 26,673 (2024)
• Fixed broadband subscriptions — 40,349 (2022)

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Questions people ask

What is Cayman Islands's container port traffic (TEU: 20 foot equivalent units)?

46,658 in 2024, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).

How has it changed since 2010?

It is up 2.21% from 45,649 in 2010 (0.16% a year on average, compounded). The highest value was 61,940 in 2017 and the lowest 40,829 in 2022.

How does Cayman Islands rank?

100th highest of 103 economies with data for 2024.

Where does this data come from?

The World Bank's World Development Indicators, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), uri: http://unctad.org/en/Pages/statistics.aspx.

Source

World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator IS.SHP.GOOD.TU, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), uri: http://unctad.org/en/Pages/statistics.aspx Figures are fetched from the World Bank API and refreshed monthly; see the series on data.worldbank.org. The full definition and method are in the World Bank's metadata glossary. Comparisons use the same World Bank release.

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