Venezuela, RB: Container port traffic (TEU: 20 foot equivalent units)

Key figures

What the numbers say

In 2021, Venezuela, RB's container port traffic (TEU: 20 foot equivalent units) fell 35.5% on 2020 (from 344,116 to 221,801).

Across the 10 yearly changes before that (2011 to 2020), the average change was −5.1% and a typical year strayed about 35.5% from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.9 standard deviations below that average, so it was an ordinary year: it sits within the range of normal year-to-year movement.

On record, the biggest yearly rise was 67.1% in 2018 and the biggest yearly fall was 46.3% in 2019. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.

From 2012 to 2021 the straight-line trend is downward, about 141,605 a year. A straight line explains 79% of the movement over 10 observed years.

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

How it compares

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Closest to Venezuela, RB in the 2021 ranking

• Ukraine — 1st of 5: 1.02 million
• Sudan — 2nd of 5: 320,274
• New Caledonia — 4th of 5: 107,834
• Guyana — 5th of 5: 58,377

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

• 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)
• Cayman Islands — 46,658 (2024)

More infrastructure data for Venezuela, RB

• Fixed telephone subscriptions — 2.42 million (2024)
• Fixed telephone subscriptions (per 100 people) — 8.51 (2024)
• Air transport, registered carrier departures worldwide — 23,302 (2023)
• Air transport, freight (million ton-km) — 0.12 (2023)
• Air transport, passengers carried — 1.78 million (2023)
• Mobile cellular subscriptions — 20.17 million (2024)
• Mobile cellular subscriptions (per 100 people) — 71.01 (2024)
• ICT service exports (BoP, current US$) — US$42 million (2025)
• ICT service exports (% of service exports, BoP) — 3.69% (2025)

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Questions people ask

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

221,801 in 2021, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).

How has it changed since 2010?

It is down 79.3% from 1.07 million in 2010 (13.34% a year on average, compounded). The highest value was 1.57 million in 2012 and the lowest 221,801 in 2021.

Is the latest change in container port traffic (TEU: 20 foot equivalent units) unusual for Venezuela, RB?

In 2021, Venezuela, RB's container port traffic (TEU: 20 foot equivalent units) fell 35.5% on 2020 (from 344,116 to 221,801). Across the 10 yearly changes before that (2011 to 2020), the average change was −5.1% and a typical year strayed about 35.5% from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.9 standard deviations below that average, so it was an ordinary year: it sits within the range of normal year-to-year movement.

Where does this data come from?

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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