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 stood at 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 records overall in the monthly time series shown in the chart above. The series covers the time range going from January 2017 to September 2025.
History. Here's a glimpse of a few descriptive statistics we calculated on the full sample: imports recorded a maximum of 48,884.8 million cubic meters in December 2023; they reached a minimum of 29,139.8 in February 2017; they had a mean of 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 |