Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index — Electronic transactions in Liberia
Liberia: Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index — Electronic transactions was 0.0637 Index in 2025. ▼ Falling
Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index — Electronic transactions in Liberia, 2014–2025
Source: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Measured in Index.
Analysis
Liberia recorded 0.0637 Index for digital services trade restrictiveness index — electronic transactions in 2025. That is the lowest value across all 12 years on record.
That represents a change of down 25.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, digital services trade restrictiveness index — electronic transactions in Liberia peaked at 0.0849 Index in 2014 and was at its lowest, 0.0637 Index, in 2016.
Liberia ranks 6th of 109 countries on this measure, in the top 10%.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 12 years of available data.
Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index — Electronic transactions in Liberia, year by year
| Year | Index | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 0.0849 Index | — |
| 2015 | 0.0849 Index | +0.0% |
| 2016 | 0.0637 Index | -25.0% |
| 2017 | 0.0637 Index | +0.0% |
| 2018 | 0.0637 Index | +0.0% |
| 2019 | 0.0637 Index | +0.0% |
| 2020 | 0.0637 Index | +0.0% |
| 2021 | 0.0637 Index | +0.0% |
| 2022 | 0.0637 Index | +0.0% |
| 2023 | 0.0637 Index | +0.0% |
| 2024 | 0.0637 Index | +0.0% |
| 2025 | 0.0637 Index | +0.0% |
Liberia compared with similar countries
- Liberia's 0.0637 Index is above the median for low income countries, which is 0.0425 Index, 1.5× the median. (18 countries reporting)
- Liberia's 0.0637 Index is above the median for Sub-Saharan Africa, which is 0.0425 Index, 1.5× the median. (39 countries reporting)
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010s | 0.0708 Index | 0.0637 Index | 0.0849 Index | 6 |
| 2020s | 0.0637 Index | 0.0637 Index | 0.0637 Index | 6 |
Countries ranked near Liberia
- 3 Angola 0.0849 Index compare
- 3 Eswatini 0.0425 Index compare
- 3 Somalia 0.0849 Index compare
- 3 South Sudan 0.0849 Index compare
- 3 Equatorial Guinea 0.0425 Index compare
- 3 Madagascar 0.0425 Index compare
- 3 Latvia 0.0425 Index compare
- 3 Lithuania 0.0425 Index compare
- 3 Netherlands 0.0425 Index compare
- 3 Türkiye 0.0425 Index compare
- 6 Libya 0.0637 Index compare
- 6 Sierra Leone 0.0637 Index compare
- 6 Tanzania 0.0637 Index compare
- 6 Comoros 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 Liberia
- Africa's Development Dynamics (AfDD) Table 04 - Annual real GDP 3.97 Percent per annum (2029)
- Africa's Development Dynamics (AfDD) Table 02 - Annual real GDP 6.15 Percent per annum (2029)
- SDRs holdings, US dollar, annual growth rate -5.6 % change on previous year (2025)
- SDRs holdings, US dollar, per unit of GDP 0.0527 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- SDRs holdings, US dollar, per capita 48.22 units per person (2025)
- SDRs holdings, SDR, annual growth rate -10.11 % change on previous year (2025)
- SDRs holdings, SDR, per unit of GDP 0.0385 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- SDRs holdings, SDR, per capita 35.21 units per person (2025)
- IMF holdings of currency, US dollar, annual growth rate 5.01 % change on previous year (2025)
- IMF holdings of currency, US dollar, per unit of GDP 0.059 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is digital services trade restrictiveness index — electronic transactions in Liberia?
- Digital services trade restrictiveness index — electronic transactions in Liberia was 0.0637 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 Liberia?
- The highest recorded value was 0.0849 Index in 2014.
- What is the lowest digital services trade restrictiveness index — electronic transactions recorded in Liberia?
- The lowest recorded value was 0.0637 Index in 2016.
- How does Liberia rank for digital services trade restrictiveness index — electronic transactions?
- Liberia ranks 6th out of 109 countries with data for 2025.
- Is digital services trade restrictiveness index — electronic transactions rising or falling in Liberia?
- Over the last ten years it is down 25.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Liberia 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