LNG imports (million cubic meters) - World - FSR - Monthly
This series is part of the dataset: Liquefied Natural Gas imports (FSR)
Download Full Dataset (.xlsx)Latest updates. In the world, LNG imports were 48,840.1 million cubic meters in October 2025, versus 44,518.5 in the previous month. This constitutes a rise of 9.71 percent.
Sample. There are 106 data points overall in the monthly series shown in the figure above. The series covers the span of time extending from January 2017 to October 2025.
History. Here's a snapshot of a few descriptive statistics we computed on the entire sample: imports had a mean of 40,467.3 million cubic meters; they hit a peak of 48,884.8 in December 2023; they hit a minimum of 29,139.8 in February 2017.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Million cubic meters |
|---|---|
| 2025-08-31 | 44890.15 |
| 2025-09-30 | 44518.51 |
| 2025-10-31 | 48840.09 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) imports |
| Country | World |
| Economic concept | Flow |
| Data type | Quantity |
| Seasonally adjusted | No |
| Deflation method | Not applicable |
| Rescaling | None |
| Measure type | Level |
| Frequency | Monthly |
| Unit | Million cubic meters |
| Source | FetchSeries Research; calculations on CREA, Eurostat, EIA and Jodi data |
| Source type | Data research lab |
| Data licence | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) + FetchSeries disclaimers |
| Other information | Not available |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | SM01 |
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Global LNG trade
| Series Name | Observations | Start Date | End Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| LNG imports (million cubic meters) - World - FSR - Monthly | 106 | 2017-01-31 | 2025-10-31 |