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Digital services trade restrictiveness index

Name: Digital services trade restrictiveness index
Creator: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
Keywords: trend-research-500, oecd, digital-access-telecommunications, digital, services, trade, restrictiveness, index

Compare digital services trade restrictiveness index across 128 countries or territories using one fixed 2025 OECD reference slice.

Source: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)•128 countries

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Key Insights

Global Average

0.2Index

Median: 0.2Index

Countries Covered

128

with available data

Highest

Somalia

0.6Index

Lowest

Australia

0.0Index

Top 5 Countries

1Somalia0.6Index

2Kazakhstan0.6Index

3Lao People's Democratic Republic0.6Index

4Tunisia0.5Index

5United Republic of Tanzania0.5Index

By Region

Other0.3Index(65 countries)

Africa0.3Index(9 countries)

South America0.2Index(7 countries)

Asia0.2Index(14 countries)

Europe0.1Index(27 countries)

Key Findings

•128 ISO-mapped countries or territories have a finite Index observation in the fixed 2025 slice.
•Somalia has the highest published value (0.649379 Index).
•Australia has the lowest published value (0.0212374 Index).

Country Rankings

Top 10 Countries

Bottom 10 Countries

Data Analysis

Value Distribution

How countries are distributed across the value range

Low (0.0Index)High (0.6Index)

Regional Comparison

Average values by world region (Global avg: 0.2Index)

Other (65)

Africa (9)

South America (7)

Asia (14)

Europe (27)

North America (4)

Oceania (2)

Percentile Profile

The curve shows how values change from the lowest to the highest country. Steep sections reveal inequality or outliers.

0th percentile · lowest100th percentile · highest

About This Statistic

OECD Digital services trade restrictiveness index measure 'Services trade restrictiveness index'. The map uses the exact official 2025 slice in Index; fixed dimensions: FREQ=A (Annual); ACTIVITY=_Z (Not applicable); METHODOLOGY=_Z (Not applicable); STRI_TYPE=DIGITAL (Digital services); COUNTERPART_AREA=_Z (Not applicable).

MapTheory uses only finite ISO-mapped observations from the fixed 2025 OECD slice recorded below. Aggregates, missing values, non-ISO geographies, conflicting duplicate observations, and every other year or dimension slice are excluded; MapTheory never imputes or interpolates missing countries.

Methodology

Full Data

Rank ↑	Country ↕	Value ↕
1	Somalia	0.6Index
2	Kazakhstan	0.6Index
3	Lao People's Democratic Republic	0.6Index
4	Tunisia	0.5Index
5	United Republic of Tanzania	0.5Index
6	Sudan	0.5Index
7	Comoros	0.5Index
8	South Sudan	0.5Index
9	Burundi	0.5Index
10	Sierra Leone	0.5Index
11	Zimbabwe	0.5Index
12	Russian Federation	0.5Index
13	Mozambique	0.4Index
14	Ethiopia	0.4Index
15	Cambodia	0.4Index
16	Zambia	0.4Index
17	Angola	0.4Index
18	Egypt	0.4Index
19	Rwanda	0.4Index
20	Kenya	0.4Index
21	Bosnia and Herzegovina	0.4Index
22	Central African Republic	0.4Index
23	Guinea	0.4Index
24	Democratic Republic of the Congo	0.4Index
25	Eswatini	0.3Index
26	Libya	0.3Index
27	Eritrea	0.3Index
28	Mauritius	0.3Index
29	Türkiye	0.3Index
30	Nepal	0.3Index
31	Equatorial Guinea	0.3Index
32	Guinea-Bissau	0.3Index
33	Cameroon	0.3Index
34	Pakistan	0.3Index
35	Bolivia	0.3Index
36	South Africa	0.3Index
37	Argentina	0.3Index
38	Myanmar	0.3Index
39	Indonesia	0.3Index
40	People's Republic of China	0.3Index
41	India	0.3Index
42	Colombia	0.3Index
43	Peru	0.3Index
44	Brunei Darussalam	0.3Index
45	Saudi Arabia	0.3Index
46	Gabon	0.3Index
47	Chile	0.3Index
48	Madagascar	0.3Index
49	Uruguay	0.3Index
50	Cape Verde	0.3Index
51	Niger	0.2Index
52	Poland	0.2Index
53	Liberia	0.2Index
54	Sao Tome and Principe	0.2Index
55	Senegal	0.2Index
56	Djibouti	0.2Index
57	Vietnam	0.2Index
58	Togo	0.2Index
59	Mali	0.2Index
60	Seychelles	0.2Index
61	Paraguay	0.2Index
62	Burkina Faso	0.2Index
63	Chad	0.2Index
64	Malawi	0.2Index
65	Iceland	0.2Index
66	Denmark	0.2Index
67	Benin	0.2Index
68	Algeria	0.2Index
69	Nigeria	0.2Index
70	Ghana	0.2Index
71	Nicaragua	0.2Index
72	Latvia	0.2Index
73	Singapore	0.2Index
74	Spain	0.2Index
75	Cote d'Ivoire	0.2Index
76	Republic of the Congo	0.2Index
77	Lesotho	0.2Index
78	Botswana	0.2Index
79	Austria	0.2Index
80	Serbia	0.1Index
81	Guatemala	0.1Index
82	Sweden	0.1Index
83	Brazil	0.1Index
84	Slovenia	0.1Index
85	Republic of The Gambia	0.1Index
86	Israel	0.1Index
87	Czech Republic	0.1Index
88	Greece	0.1Index
89	Namibia	0.1Index
90	Philippines	0.1Index
91	Uganda	0.1Index
92	France	0.1Index
93	Portugal	0.1Index
94	Hungary	0.1Index
95	Honduras	0.1Index
96	The Republic of North Macedonia	0.1Index
97	Thailand	0.1Index
98	New Zealand	0.1Index
99	Malaysia	0.1Index
100	Morocco	0.1Index
101	Germany	0.1Index
102	Ireland	0.1Index
103	South Korea	0.1Index
104	Montenegro	0.1Index
105	Belgium	0.1Index
106	Vanuatu	0.1Index
107	Italy	0.1Index
108	Lithuania	0.1Index
109	Netherlands	0.1Index
110	Finland	0.1Index
111	Mauritania	0.1Index
112	Panama	0.1Index
113	Slovakia	0.1Index
114	El Salvador	0.1Index
115	United States of America	0.1Index
116	Albania	0.1Index
117	Ecuador	0.0Index
118	Estonia	0.0Index
119	Luxembourg	0.0Index
120	Japan	0.0Index
121	Dominican Republic	0.0Index
122	Canada	0.0Index
123	Mexico	0.0Index
124	Costa Rica	0.0Index
125	Norway	0.0Index
126	Switzerland	0.0Index
127	United Kingdom	0.0Index
128	Australia	0.0Index

Showing 128 of 128 countries

Topics

#trend-research-500 #oecd #digital-access-telecommunications #digital #services #trade #restrictiveness #index

Data Source

This data comes from Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) (2025).

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