Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index

Every year in one file, one row per country per year: digital-trade-restrictiveness-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

Digital STRI (0 = open, 1 = closed)is built fromInfrastructure and connectivity (contribution to the index)Electronic transactions (contribution to the index)Payment systems (contribution to the index)Intellectual property rights (contribution to the index)Other barriers to digitally enabled services trade (contribution to the index)

Every column in the newest file of Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.

Column	What it holds	Stored as	Range, 2025	Distinct	Empty	Spread
CountrycountryName	The country’s name, as this file spells it.	Text	—	129	0
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier	The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.	Text · 3 letters	—	129	0
Digital STRI (0 = open, 1 = closed)digital_striHeadline	The headline figure: Digital STRI (0 = open, 1 = closed).	Number · up to 16 decimals	0.021245 share it0.64938Somaliamiddle 0.20551	107	0
Infrastructure and connectivity (contribution to the index)infrastructure_connectivityPart of the headline	The part of the index from rules on communications infrastructure, interconnection and cross-border data flows, such as data-localisation requirements.	Number · up to 16 decimals	0.0027 share it0.443 share itmiddle 0.12	11	0
Electronic transactions (contribution to the index)electronic_transactionsPart of the headline	The part of the index from rules on electronic contracts, signatures, licensing for online business and cross-border dispute settlement.	Number · up to 16 decimals	0.0014 share it0.112 share itmiddle 0.02	6	0
Payment systems (contribution to the index)payment_systemsPart of the headline	The part of the index from rules on electronic payments, such as discriminatory payment standards or access to payment infrastructure.	Number · up to 9 decimals	0.0058 share it0.065 share itmiddle 0.02	4	0
Intellectual property rights (contribution to the index)intellectual_propertyPart of the headline	The part of the index from unequal treatment of foreign holders of copyrights and trademarks and weak remedies against infringement.	Number · up to 16 decimals	0.0085 share it0.112 share itmiddle 0.00	5	0
Other barriers to digitally enabled services trade (contribution to the index)other_barriersPart of the headline	The part of the index from other barriers to digitally enabled services, such as performance requirements, download limits or restrictions on online advertising.	Number · up to 16 decimals	0.0022 share it0.133 share itmiddle 0.02	8	0

Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. A higher value is the worse result.

The same 129 countries in every year.

Not in this dataset · 96 places this site covers

OECD gives no figure for these in any year held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.

AfghanistanAmerican SamoaAndorraAnguillaAntigua and BarbudaArmeniaArubaAzerbaijanBahamasBahrainBangladeshBarbadosBelarusBelizeBermudaBhutanBritish Virgin IslandsBulgariaCayman IslandsChannel IslandsCook IslandsCroatiaCubaCuraçaoCyprusDominicaFaroe IslandsFijiFrench PolynesiaGeorgiaGibraltarGreenlandGrenadaGuamGuyanaHaitiHong KongIranIraqIsle of ManJamaicaJordanKiribatiKuwaitKyrgyzstanLebanonLiechtensteinMacauMaldivesMaltaMarshall IslandsMicronesiaMoldovaMonacoMongoliaMontserratNauruNew CaledoniaNiueNorth KoreaNorthern CyprusNorthern Mariana IslandsOmanPalauPalestinePapua New GuineaPuerto RicoQatarRomaniaSaint Kitts and NevisSaint LuciaSaint MartinSaint Vincent and the GrenadinesSamoaSan MarinoSint MaartenSolomon IslandsSomalilandSri LankaSurinameSyriaTaiwanTajikistanTimor-LesteTongaTrinidad and TobagoTurkmenistanTurks and Caicos IslandsTuvaluUkraineUnited Arab EmiratesUnited States Virgin IslandsUzbekistanVatican CityVenezuelaYemen

1. 1 · Publisher

   OECD

   oecd.org

2. 2 · Their file

   Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index 2025

   all

3. 3 · Read by this site

   September 29, 2026

   Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.

4. 4 · Stored as

   12 files, one per year

   Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as digital-trade-restrictiveness-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

5. 5 · Used on

   Its statistic page, and every profile it measures

   /statistics/digital-trade-restrictiveness

Read from the OECD’s own SDMX API rather than the World Bank’s Data360 copy, which cuts every value to six decimals. The five pillars are stored beside the headline and add up to it.

• Charted

  Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index by country

  Who is highest, the map, the spread, who rose and fell, and the records.

• Subjects

  • Mobility & Trade
  • Digital & Technology

• Near neighbours

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