Tanzania's container port traffic (TEU: 20 foot equivalent units) was 985,000 in 2024, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is up 60.8% from 612,551 in 2014 (4.86% a year on average, compounded).
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 985,000 | 2024 |
| Five years earlier | 726,431 | 2019 |
| Ten years earlier | 612,551 | 2014 |
| Highest | 985,000 | 2024 |
| Lowest | 359,010 | 2010 |
| Average since 2015 | 712,592 | 2015–2024 |
| First recorded | 359,010 | 2010 |
What the numbers say
On record, the biggest yearly rise was 22.4% in 2011 and the biggest yearly fall was 2.3% in 2020. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.
From 2015 to 2024 the straight-line trend is upward, about 29,536 a year. A straight line explains 63% of the movement over 9 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 2024, Tanzania had the 70th 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.
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Tanzania | 985,000 | 2024 |
| World | 913.28 million | 2024 |
| Lower middle income | 68.25 million | 2024 |
Closest to Tanzania in the 2024 ranking
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 14 values
| Year | Container port traffic (TEU: 20 foot equivalent units) |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 985,000 |
| 2023 | no data |
| 2022 | 700,000 |
| 2021 | 700,000 |
| 2020 | 709,881 |
| 2019 | 726,431 |
| 2018 | 705,231 |
| 2017 | 617,266 |
| 2016 | 630,290 |
| 2015 | 639,230 |
| 2014 |
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 Tanzania
- Fixed telephone subscriptions — 78,299 (2024)
- Fixed telephone subscriptions (per 100 people) — 0.11 (2024)
- Air transport, registered carrier departures worldwide — 81,604 (2023)
- Air transport, freight (million ton-km) — 20.04 (2023)
- Air transport, passengers carried — 1.91 million (2023)
- Mobile cellular subscriptions — 86.77 million (2024)
- Mobile cellular subscriptions (per 100 people) — 126.56 (2024)
- Medium and high-tech exports (% manufactured exports) — 15.57% (2024)
- ICT service exports (BoP, current US$) — US$68.71 million (2024)
- ICT service exports (% of service exports, BoP)
Reading data like this
Questions people ask
- What is Tanzania's container port traffic (TEU: 20 foot equivalent units)?
- 985,000 in 2024, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).
- How has it changed since 2010?
- It is up 174.37% from 359,010 in 2010 (7.48% a year on average, compounded). The highest value was 985,000 in 2024 and the lowest 359,010 in 2010.
- How does Tanzania rank?
- 70th 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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