Digital Services Trade: Infrastructure in Vanuatu
Vanuatu: Digital Services Trade: Infrastructure was 0 Index in 2025. ▼ Falling
Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index — Infrastructure and in Vanuatu, 2014–2025
Source: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Measured in Index.
Analysis
Vanuatu recorded 0 Index for digital services trade restrictiveness index — infrastructure and in 2025. That is the lowest value across all 12 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 100.0% on the previous year and down 100.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, digital services trade restrictiveness index — infrastructure and in Vanuatu peaked at 0.0793 Index in 2014 and was at its lowest, 0 Index, in 2025.
Vanuatu ranks 90th of 109 countries on this measure, in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 12 years of available data.
Digital Services Trade: Infrastructure in Vanuatu, 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 | 0.0793 Index | +0.0% |
| 2021 | 0.0793 Index | +0.0% |
| 2022 | 0.0793 Index | +0.0% |
| 2023 | 0.0793 Index | +0.0% |
| 2024 | 0.0793 Index | +0.0% |
| 2025 | 0 Index | -100.0% |
Vanuatu compared with similar countries
- Vanuatu's 0 Index is below the median for lower middle income countries, which is 0.119 Index. (30 countries reporting)
- Vanuatu's 0 Index is below the median for East Asia & Pacific, which is 0.0793 Index. (13 countries reporting)
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010s | 0.0793 Index | 0.0793 Index | 0.0793 Index | 6 |
| 2020s | 0.0661 Index | 0 Index | 0.0793 Index | 6 |
Countries ranked near Vanuatu
- 90 Australia 0 Index
- 90 Costa Rica 0 Index
- 90 Finland 0 Index
- 90 France 0 Index
- 90 Italy 0 Index
- 90 Japan 0 Index
- 90 Luxembourg 0 Index
- 90 Norway 0 Index
- 90 Switzerland 0 Index
- 90 Dominican Republic 0 Index
- 90 Ecuador 0 Index
- 90 El Salvador 0 Index
- 90 Malaysia 0 Index
- 90 Panama 0 Index
- 90 Philippines 0 Index
- 90 Portugal 0 Index compare
- 90 Morocco 0 Index
- 90 Mexico 0 Index compare
- 90 Sao Tome and Principe 0 Index compare
More economy & growth data for Vanuatu
- Africa's Development Dynamics (AfDD) Table 04 - Annual real GDP 0.2699 Percent per annum (2029)
- Africa's Development Dynamics (AfDD) Table 02 - Annual real GDP 2.49 Percent per annum (2029)
- SDRs holdings, US dollar, annual growth rate -3.47 % change on previous year (2025)
- SDRs holdings, US dollar, per unit of GDP 0.0163 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- SDRs holdings, US dollar, per capita 65.88 units per person (2025)
- SDRs holdings, SDR, annual growth rate -8.08 % change on previous year (2025)
- SDRs holdings, SDR, per unit of GDP 0.0119 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- SDRs holdings, SDR, per capita 48.11 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 0.0198 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is digital services trade restrictiveness index — infrastructure and in Vanuatu?
- Digital services trade restrictiveness index — infrastructure and in Vanuatu was 0 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 Vanuatu?
- The highest recorded value was 0.0793 Index in 2014.
- What is the lowest digital services trade restrictiveness index — infrastructure and recorded in Vanuatu?
- The lowest recorded value was 0 Index in 2025.
- How does Vanuatu rank for digital services trade restrictiveness index — infrastructure and?
- Vanuatu ranks 90th out of 109 countries with data for 2025.
- Is digital services trade restrictiveness index — infrastructure and rising or falling in Vanuatu?
- Over the last ten years it is down 100.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Vanuatu 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