Digital Services Trade: Infrastructure in Laos
Laos: Digital Services Trade: Infrastructure was 0.4364 Index in 2025. ▬ Flat
Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index — Infrastructure and in Laos, 2014–2025
Source: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Measured in Index.
Analysis
Laos recorded 0.4364 Index for digital services trade restrictiveness index — infrastructure and in 2025. That is the highest value across all 12 years on record.
The figure is unchanged over ten years.
Over the whole period, digital services trade restrictiveness index — infrastructure and in Laos peaked at 0.4364 Index in 2014 and was at its lowest, 0.4364 Index, in 2014.
That places Laos 1st out of 109 countries with data for 2025, putting it in the top 10%.
Digital Services Trade: Infrastructure in Laos, year by year
| Year | Index | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 0.4364 Index | — |
| 2015 | 0.4364 Index | +0.0% |
| 2016 | 0.4364 Index | +0.0% |
| 2017 | 0.4364 Index | +0.0% |
| 2018 | 0.4364 Index | +0.0% |
| 2019 | 0.4364 Index | +0.0% |
| 2020 | 0.4364 Index | +0.0% |
| 2021 | 0.4364 Index | +0.0% |
| 2022 | 0.4364 Index | +0.0% |
| 2023 | 0.4364 Index | +0.0% |
| 2024 | 0.4364 Index | +0.0% |
| 2025 | 0.4364 Index | +0.0% |
Laos compared with similar countries
- Laos's 0.4364 Index is above the median for lower middle income countries, which is 0.119 Index, 3.7× the median. (30 countries reporting)
- Laos's 0.4364 Index is above the median for East Asia & Pacific, which is 0.0793 Index, 5.5× the median. (13 countries reporting)
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010s | 0.4364 Index | 0.4364 Index | 0.4364 Index | 6 |
| 2020s | 0.4364 Index | 0.4364 Index | 0.4364 Index | 6 |
Countries ranked near Laos
- 1 Comoros 0.4364 Index compare
- 1 Ethiopia 0.1984 Index compare
- 1 Kazakhstan 0.4364 Index compare
- 1 Equatorial Guinea 0.1984 Index compare
- 1 Poland 0.1984 Index compare
- 1 Eswatini 0.1984 Index compare
- 1 Viet Nam 0.119 Index compare
- 1 Democratic Republic of the Congo 0.119 Index compare
- 4 Sudan 0.3571 Index compare
- 4 Somalia 0.3571 Index compare
- 4 Tanzania 0.3571 Index compare
More economy & growth data for Laos
- Africa's Development Dynamics (AfDD) Table 04 - Annual real GDP 3.39 Percent per annum (2029)
- Africa's Development Dynamics (AfDD) Table 02 - Annual real GDP 4.6 Percent per annum (2029)
- SDRs holdings, US dollar, annual growth rate 60.62 % change on previous year (2025)
- SDRs holdings, US dollar, per unit of GDP 0.0083 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- SDRs holdings, US dollar, per capita 19.21 units per person (2025)
- SDRs holdings, SDR, annual growth rate 52.95 % change on previous year (2025)
- SDRs holdings, SDR, per unit of GDP 0.006 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- SDRs holdings, SDR, per capita 14.03 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 0.0069 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is digital services trade restrictiveness index — infrastructure and in Laos?
- Digital services trade restrictiveness index — infrastructure and in Laos was 0.4364 Index in 2025, according to Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
- What is the highest digital services trade restrictiveness index — infrastructure and recorded in Laos?
- The highest recorded value was 0.4364 Index in 2014.
- What is the lowest digital services trade restrictiveness index — infrastructure and recorded in Laos?
- The lowest recorded value was 0.4364 Index in 2014.
- How does Laos rank for digital services trade restrictiveness index — infrastructure and?
- Laos ranks 1st out of 109 countries with data for 2025.
- Is digital services trade restrictiveness index — infrastructure and rising or falling in Laos?
- Over the last ten years it is unchanged. The long-run trend across the full record is flat.
- Where does this Laos data come from?
- The figures come from Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, published as part of Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index — Infrastructure and connectivity. 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