LNG imports (million cubic meters) - China - FSR - Monthly
This series is part of the dataset: Liquefied Natural Gas imports (FSR)
Download Full Dataset (.xlsx)Latest updates. In China, LNG imports stood at 8,883.0 million cubic meters in August 2025, compared to 7,546.0 in the previous month. This marks a rise of 17.72 percent.
Sample. There are 104 records in the monthly time series displayed in the plot above. The span of time covered by the series goes from January 2017 to August 2025.
History. Take a look at some simple statistics calculated on the full sample: imports hit a trough of 2,786.0 million cubic meters in March 2017; they peaked at 11,761.0 in December 2023; they had a mean of 7,277.7.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Million cubic meters |
|---|---|
| 2025-06-30 | 7344.0 |
| 2025-07-31 | 7546.0 |
| 2025-08-31 | 8883.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) imports |
| Country | China |
| 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 | 105 | 2017-01-31 | 2025-09-30 |