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 43,948.2 million cubic meters in September 2025, compared to 44,398.8 in the previous month. This marks a decrease of 1.01 percent.
Sample. There are 105 observations in the monthly time series presented in the figure above. The span of time covered by the series extends from January 2017 to September 2025.
History. Take a look at some descriptive statistics computed on the full sample: imports recorded a bottom of 29,139.8 million cubic meters in February 2017; they hit a maximum of 48,884.8 in December 2023; they were equal on average to 40,379.5.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Million cubic meters |
|---|---|
| 2025-07-31 | 45752.37 |
| 2025-08-31 | 44398.79 |
| 2025-09-30 | 43948.15 |
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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 | 105 | 2017-01-31 | 2025-09-30 |