Guinea: Container port traffic (TEU: 20 foot equivalent units)

Key figures

What the numbers say

On record, the biggest yearly rise was 21.2% in 2011 and the biggest yearly fall was 0.2% in 2013. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.

From 2014 to 2023 the straight-line trend is upward, about 15,285 a year. A straight line explains 95% of the movement over 8 observed years.

Worked out from the yearly values above. How the checks work: standard deviation, z-scores and straight-line trends.

How it compares

In 2023, Guinea had the 6th highest value of the 12 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 Guinea in the 2023 ranking

• Mozambique — 3rd of 12: 489,000
• Libya — 4th of 12: 465,168
• Iceland — 5th of 12: 425,000
• Cuba — 7th of 12: 281,140
• Albania — 8th of 12: 184,017
• Barbados — 9th of 12: 101,300

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 12 values

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

• Angola — 709,221 (2024)
• Benin — 510,896 (2019)
• Cabo Verde — 89,382 (2024)
• Cameroon — 350,000 (2024)
• Comoros — 54,359 (2019)
• Congo, Dem. Rep. — 42,211 (2019)
• Congo, Rep. — 1.05 million (2024)
• Côte d'Ivoire — 1.8 million (2024)
• Equatorial Guinea — 13,851 (2019)
• Gabon

More infrastructure data for Guinea

• Fixed telephone subscriptions — 0 (2022)
• Fixed telephone subscriptions (per 100 people) — 0 (2022)
• Mobile cellular subscriptions — 14.1 million (2023)
• Mobile cellular subscriptions (per 100 people) — 97.88 (2023)
• Individuals using the Internet (% of population) — 33.3% (2024)
• ICT service exports (BoP, current US$) — US$36.86 million (2024)
• ICT service exports (% of service exports, BoP) — 51.77% (2024)
• Scientific and technical journal articles — 54.9 (2023)
• Liner shipping connectivity index (maximum value in 2004 = 100) — 9.17 (2021)
• Secure Internet servers

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Questions people ask

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

286,286 in 2023, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).

How has it changed since 2010?

It is up 147.72% from 115,567 in 2010 (7.23% a year on average, compounded). The highest value was 286,286 in 2023 and the lowest 115,567 in 2010.

How does Guinea rank?

6th highest of 12 economies with data for 2023.

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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