Digital Services Trade: Infrastructure in Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone: Digital Services Trade: Infrastructure was 0.3174 Index in 2025. ▲ Rising
Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index — Infrastructure and in Sierra Leone, 2014–2025
Source: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Measured in Index.
Analysis
In 2025, digital services trade restrictiveness index — infrastructure and in Sierra Leone stood at 0.3174 Index. That is the highest value across all 12 years on record.
The figure is up 33.3% over ten years.
Over the whole period, digital services trade restrictiveness index — infrastructure and in Sierra Leone peaked at 0.3174 Index in 2020 and was at its lowest, 0.2381 Index, in 2014.
That places Sierra Leone 7th out of 109 countries with data for 2025, putting it in the top 10%.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 12 years of available data.
Digital Services Trade: Infrastructure in Sierra Leone, year by year
| Year | Index | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 0.2381 Index | — |
| 2015 | 0.2381 Index | +0.0% |
| 2016 | 0.2777 Index | +16.7% |
| 2017 | 0.2777 Index | +0.0% |
| 2018 | 0.2777 Index | +0.0% |
| 2019 | 0.2777 Index | +0.0% |
| 2020 | 0.3174 Index | +14.3% |
| 2021 | 0.3174 Index | +0.0% |
| 2022 | 0.3174 Index | +0.0% |
| 2023 | 0.3174 Index | +0.0% |
| 2024 | 0.3174 Index | +0.0% |
| 2025 | 0.3174 Index | +0.0% |
Sierra Leone compared with similar countries
- Sierra Leone's 0.3174 Index is above the median for low income countries, which is 0.1389 Index, 2.3× the median. (18 countries reporting)
- Sierra Leone's 0.3174 Index is above the median for Sub-Saharan Africa, which is 0.119 Index, 2.7× the median. (39 countries reporting)
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010s | 0.2645 Index | 0.2381 Index | 0.2777 Index | 6 |
| 2020s | 0.3174 Index | 0.3174 Index | 0.3174 Index | 6 |
Countries ranked near Sierra Leone
- 4 Sudan 0.3571 Index compare
- 4 Somalia 0.3571 Index compare
- 4 Tanzania 0.3571 Index compare
- 5 Madagascar 0.1587 Index compare
- 5 Türkiye 0.1587 Index compare
- 7 Latvia 0.119 Index compare
- 7 Slovenia 0.119 Index compare
- 7 Bosnia and Herzegovina 0.3174 Index compare
- 7 Tunisia 0.3174 Index compare
- 7 Zimbabwe 0.3174 Index compare
- 7 Burundi 0.3174 Index compare
- 9 Cabo Verde 0.0793 Index compare
- 10 United States 0.0397 Index compare
More economy & growth data for Sierra Leone
- Africa's Development Dynamics (AfDD) Table 04 - Annual real GDP 2.55 Percent per annum (2029)
- Africa's Development Dynamics (AfDD) Table 02 - Annual real GDP 4.53 Percent per annum (2029)
- SDRs holdings, US dollar, annual growth rate -18.54 % change on previous year (2025)
- SDRs holdings, US dollar, per unit of GDP 0.0324 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- SDRs holdings, US dollar, per capita 27.41 units per person (2025)
- SDRs holdings, SDR, annual growth rate -22.43 % change on previous year (2025)
- SDRs holdings, SDR, per unit of GDP 0.0236 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- SDRs holdings, SDR, per capita 20.01 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 0.0381 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is digital services trade restrictiveness index — infrastructure and in Sierra Leone?
- Digital services trade restrictiveness index — infrastructure and in Sierra Leone was 0.3174 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 Sierra Leone?
- The highest recorded value was 0.3174 Index in 2020.
- What is the lowest digital services trade restrictiveness index — infrastructure and recorded in Sierra Leone?
- The lowest recorded value was 0.2381 Index in 2014.
- How does Sierra Leone rank for digital services trade restrictiveness index — infrastructure and?
- Sierra Leone ranks 7th out of 109 countries with data for 2025.
- Is digital services trade restrictiveness index — infrastructure and rising or falling in Sierra Leone?
- Over the last ten years it is up 33.3%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Sierra Leone 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