Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index — Electronic transactions in Somalia
Somalia: Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index — Electronic transactions was 0.0849 Index in 2025. ▬ Flat
Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index — Electronic transactions in Somalia, 2014–2025
Source: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Measured in Index.
Analysis
In 2025, digital services trade restrictiveness index — electronic transactions in Somalia stood at 0.0849 Index. That is the highest value across all 12 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is unchanged over ten years.
Over the whole period, digital services trade restrictiveness index — electronic transactions in Somalia peaked at 0.0849 Index in 2014 and was at its lowest, 0.0849 Index, in 2014.
Somalia ranks 3rd of 109 countries on this measure, in the top 10%.
Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index — Electronic transactions in Somalia, year by year
| Year | Index | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 0.0849 Index | — |
| 2015 | 0.0849 Index | +0.0% |
| 2016 | 0.0849 Index | +0.0% |
| 2017 | 0.0849 Index | +0.0% |
| 2018 | 0.0849 Index | +0.0% |
| 2019 | 0.0849 Index | +0.0% |
| 2020 | 0.0849 Index | +0.0% |
| 2021 | 0.0849 Index | +0.0% |
| 2022 | 0.0849 Index | +0.0% |
| 2023 | 0.0849 Index | +0.0% |
| 2024 | 0.0849 Index | +0.0% |
| 2025 | 0.0849 Index | +0.0% |
Somalia compared with similar countries
- Somalia's 0.0849 Index is above the median for low income countries, which is 0.0425 Index, 2.0× the median. (18 countries reporting)
- Somalia's 0.0849 Index is above the median for Sub-Saharan Africa, which is 0.0425 Index, 2.0× the median. (39 countries reporting)
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010s | 0.0849 Index | 0.0849 Index | 0.0849 Index | 6 |
| 2020s | 0.0849 Index | 0.0849 Index | 0.0849 Index | 6 |
Countries ranked near Somalia
- 1 Guinea-Bissau 0.1062 Index compare
- 1 Eritrea 0.1062 Index compare
- 1 Lesotho 0.0637 Index compare
- 1 Cabo Verde 0.0637 Index compare
- 1 Democratic Republic of the Congo 0.0637 Index compare
- 2 Viet Nam 0 Index compare
- 3 Angola 0.0849 Index compare
- 3 Eswatini 0.0425 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 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 Somalia
- Africa's Development Dynamics (AfDD) Table 04 - Annual real GDP 1.52 Percent per annum (2029)
- Africa's Development Dynamics (AfDD) Table 02 - Annual real GDP 4.5 Percent per annum (2029)
- SDRs holdings, US dollar, annual growth rate 25.66 % change on previous year (2025)
- SDRs holdings, US dollar, per unit of GDP 0.0238 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- SDRs holdings, US dollar, per capita 15.71 units per person (2025)
- SDRs holdings, SDR, annual growth rate 19.66 % change on previous year (2025)
- SDRs holdings, SDR, per unit of GDP 0.0174 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- SDRs holdings, SDR, per capita 11.47 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 0.0172 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is digital services trade restrictiveness index — electronic transactions in Somalia?
- Digital services trade restrictiveness index — electronic transactions in Somalia was 0.0849 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 Somalia?
- The highest recorded value was 0.0849 Index in 2014.
- What is the lowest digital services trade restrictiveness index — electronic transactions recorded in Somalia?
- The lowest recorded value was 0.0849 Index in 2014.
- How does Somalia rank for digital services trade restrictiveness index — electronic transactions?
- Somalia ranks 3rd out of 109 countries with data for 2025.
- Is digital services trade restrictiveness index — electronic transactions rising or falling in Somalia?
- Over the last ten years it is unchanged. The long-run trend across the full record is flat.
- Where does this Somalia 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