Digital Services Trade: Infrastructure in Pakistan
Pakistan: Digital Services Trade: Infrastructure was 0.119 Index in 2025. ▲ Rising
Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index — Infrastructure and in Pakistan, 2014–2025
Source: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Measured in Index.
Analysis
The most recent figure for digital services trade restrictiveness index — infrastructure and in Pakistan is 0.119 Index, measured in 2025. That is the highest value across all 12 years on record.
That represents a change of up 50.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, digital services trade restrictiveness index — infrastructure and in Pakistan peaked at 0.119 Index in 2020 and was at its lowest, 0.0793 Index, in 2014.
Pakistan ranks 37th of 109 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 12 years of available data.
Digital Services Trade: Infrastructure in Pakistan, year by year
| Year | Index | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 0.0793 Index | — |
| 2015 | 0.0793 Index | +0.0% |
| 2016 | 0.0793 Index | +0.0% |
| 2017 | 0.0793 Index | +0.0% |
| 2018 | 0.0793 Index | +0.0% |
| 2019 | 0.0793 Index | +0.0% |
| 2020 | 0.119 Index | +50.0% |
| 2021 | 0.119 Index | +0.0% |
| 2022 | 0.119 Index | +0.0% |
| 2023 | 0.119 Index | +0.0% |
| 2024 | 0.119 Index | +0.0% |
| 2025 | 0.119 Index | +0.0% |
Pakistan compared with similar countries
- Pakistan's 0.119 Index is above the median for lower middle income countries, which is 0.119 Index, 1.0× the median. (30 countries reporting)
- Pakistan's 0.119 Index is above the median for Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan, which is 0.119 Index, 1.0× the median. (9 countries reporting)
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010s | 0.0793 Index | 0.0793 Index | 0.0793 Index | 6 |
| 2020s | 0.119 Index | 0.119 Index | 0.119 Index | 6 |
Countries ranked near Pakistan
- 37 Austria 0.119 Index compare
- 37 Iceland 0.119 Index compare
- 37 Angola 0.119 Index compare
- 37 Myanmar 0.119 Index compare
- 37 Seychelles 0.119 Index compare
- 37 Denmark 0.119 Index compare
- 37 Saudi Arabia 0.119 Index compare
- 37 Benin 0.119 Index compare
- 37 Liberia 0.119 Index compare
- 37 Niger 0.119 Index compare
- 37 Senegal 0.119 Index compare
- 37 Singapore 0.119 Index compare
- 37 India 0.119 Index compare
- 37 Israel 0.119 Index compare
- 37 Brunei Darussalam 0.119 Index compare
- 37 Côte d’Ivoire 0.119 Index compare
- 37 Indonesia 0.119 Index compare
- 37 Nicaragua 0.119 Index compare
- 37 Mauritius 0.119 Index compare
- 37 Mali 0.119 Index compare
More economy & growth data for Pakistan
- Africa's Development Dynamics (AfDD) Table 04 - Annual real GDP 3.11 Percent per annum (2029)
- Africa's Development Dynamics (AfDD) Table 02 - Annual real GDP 5 Percent per annum (2029)
- SDRs holdings, US dollar, annual growth rate 335.32 % change on previous year (2025)
- SDRs holdings, US dollar, per unit of GDP 0.0006 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- SDRs holdings, US dollar, per capita 0.9222 units per person (2025)
- SDRs holdings, SDR, annual growth rate 314.54 % change on previous year (2025)
- SDRs holdings, SDR, per unit of GDP 0.0004 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- SDRs holdings, SDR, per capita 0.6734 units per person (2025)
- IMF holdings of currency, US dollar, annual growth rate 14.24 % change on previous year (2025)
- IMF holdings of currency, US dollar, per unit of GDP 0.0312 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is digital services trade restrictiveness index — infrastructure and in Pakistan?
- Digital services trade restrictiveness index — infrastructure and in Pakistan was 0.119 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 Pakistan?
- The highest recorded value was 0.119 Index in 2020.
- What is the lowest digital services trade restrictiveness index — infrastructure and recorded in Pakistan?
- The lowest recorded value was 0.0793 Index in 2014.
- How does Pakistan rank for digital services trade restrictiveness index — infrastructure and?
- Pakistan ranks 37th out of 109 countries with data for 2025.
- Is digital services trade restrictiveness index — infrastructure and rising or falling in Pakistan?
- Over the last ten years it is up 50.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Pakistan 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