Connecting to Compete 2025 : The New Logistics Performance Indicators 2.0

Overview & Synopsis

Connecting to Compete 2025 introduces the Logistics Performance Indicators 2.0 (LPI 2.0), a fundamental redesign of the World Bank’s former survey-based Logistics Performance Index toward a system grounded in shipment level data. Drawing on large-scale tracking data from maritime, aviation, and postal operators —together accounting for over 80 percent of global goods trade—the LPI 2.0 provide standardized and comparable measures of supply chain connectivity, speed, and reliability across economies and over time. The framework comprises 21 indicators, including 6 core indicators capturing direct connectivity and import time performance in each mode and 15 supplementary indicators that shed light on maritime competition, transshipment dependence, corridor performance for landlocked developing countries, and postal logistics for e-commerce. Data for 2023–24 reveal large variations in connectivity across regions, substantial time penalties associated with transshipment and border procedures, and high unpredictability concentrated at ports, transshipment hubs, and inland checkpoints—particularly for imports and for landlocked countries. By shifting the focus from perceptions to observed outcomes, the LPI 2.0 significantly enhance diagnostic precision and policy relevance, enabling governments to better prioritize reforms with the highest potential impact on supply chain connectivity, speed, reliability, and resilience.