Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index — Electronic transactions in Eswatini
Eswatini: Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index — Electronic transactions was 0.0425 Index in 2025. ▼ Falling
Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index — Electronic transactions in Eswatini, 2014–2025
Source: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Measured in Index.
Analysis
The most recent figure for digital services trade restrictiveness index — electronic transactions in Eswatini is 0.0425 Index, measured in 2025. That is the lowest value across all 12 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 50.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, digital services trade restrictiveness index — electronic transactions in Eswatini peaked at 0.0849 Index in 2014 and was at its lowest, 0.0425 Index, in 2016.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 12 years of available data.
Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index — Electronic transactions in Eswatini, year by year
| Year | Index | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 0.0849 Index | — |
| 2015 | 0.0849 Index | +0.0% |
| 2016 | 0.0425 Index | -50.0% |
| 2017 | 0.0425 Index | +0.0% |
| 2018 | 0.0425 Index | +0.0% |
| 2019 | 0.0425 Index | +0.0% |
| 2020 | 0.0425 Index | +0.0% |
| 2021 | 0.0425 Index | +0.0% |
| 2022 | 0.0425 Index | +0.0% |
| 2023 | 0.0425 Index | +0.0% |
| 2024 | 0.0425 Index | +0.0% |
| 2025 | 0.0425 Index | +0.0% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010s | 0.0566 Index | 0.0425 Index | 0.0849 Index | 6 |
| 2020s | 0.0425 Index | 0.0425 Index | 0.0425 Index | 6 |
Countries ranked near Eswatini
- 1 Guinea-Bissau 0.1062 Index compare
- 1 Eritrea 0.1062 Index compare
- 3 Angola 0.0849 Index compare
- 3 Somalia 0.0849 Index compare
- 3 South Sudan 0.0849 Index compare
- 6 Libya 0.0637 Index compare
- 6 Sierra Leone 0.0637 Index compare
- 6 Tanzania, United Republic of 0.0637 Index compare
- 6 Comoros 0.0637 Index compare
- 6 Liberia 0.0637 Index compare
- 6 Botswana 0.0637 Index compare
- 6 Burundi 0.0637 Index compare
- 6 Djibouti 0.0637 Index compare
- 6 Mauritius 0.0637 Index compare
- 6 Sao Tome and Principe 0.0637 Index compare
- 6 Tunisia 0.0637 Index compare
More economy & growth data for Eswatini
- Africa's Development Dynamics (AfDD) Table 02 - Annual real GDP 2.71 Percent per annum (2029)
- Africa's Development Dynamics (AfDD) Table 04 - Annual real GDP 1.53 Percent per annum (2029)
- Africa's Development Dynamics (AfDD) Table 16 - Public finances 29.21 Percentage of GDP (2029)
- Index of digital trade integration and openness (INDIGO) — D. 0 Index (2024)
- Index of digital trade integration and openness 0.0698 Index (2024)
- Index of digital trade integration and openness (INDIGO) — A. 0.0289 Index (2024)
- Index of digital trade integration and openness (INDIGO) — B. Openess 0 Index (2024)
- Index of digital trade integration and openness (INDIGO) — C. Trust 0.0166 Index (2024)
- Index of digital trade integration and openness (INDIGO) — E. Wider 0.0242 Index (2024)
- Corporate income tax (CIT) - statutory and targeted small business 25 Percentage of taxable income (2026)
Frequently asked questions
- What is digital services trade restrictiveness index — electronic transactions in Eswatini?
- Digital services trade restrictiveness index — electronic transactions in Eswatini was 0.0425 Index in 2025, according to Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
- What is the highest digital services trade restrictiveness index — electronic transactions recorded in Eswatini?
- The highest recorded value was 0.0849 Index in 2014.
- What is the lowest digital services trade restrictiveness index — electronic transactions recorded in Eswatini?
- The lowest recorded value was 0.0425 Index in 2016.
- How does Eswatini rank for digital services trade restrictiveness index — electronic transactions?
- Eswatini ranks 3rd out of 18 groups with data for 2025.
- Is digital services trade restrictiveness index — electronic transactions rising or falling in Eswatini?
- Over the last ten years it is down 50.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Eswatini data come from?
- The figures come from Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, published as part of Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index — Electronic transactions. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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About this data
The OECD Digital STRI identifies, catalogues and quantifies barriers that affect trade in digitally enabled services across 129 countries. It provides policy makers with an evidence-based tool that helps to identify regulatory bottlenecks, design policies that foster more competitive and diversified markets for digital trade, and analyze the impact of policy reforms. The OECD Digital STRI captures cross-cutting impediments that affect all types of services traded digitally. As a stand-alone instrument, it complements the OECD Services Trade Restrictiveness Index (STRI). A zip file containing the OECD Digital STRI indices for all countries available over 2014-2025 can be downloaded here: OECD Digital STRI 2014-2025