Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index — Intellectual property rights by country
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...
What the numbers show
Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index — Intellectual property rights is currently reported for 41 countries. The highest value is 0.1082 Index in South Sudan; the lowest is 0 Index in Nigeria.
The median across all reporting countries is 0.0216 Index, and the mean is 0.0312 Index.
Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index — Intellectual property: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | South Sudan | 0.1082 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 1 | Somalia | 0.1082 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 3 | Angola | 0.0649 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 4 | Russian Federation | 0.0433 Index | 2025 | — | volatile |
| 4 | Uganda | 0.0433 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 4 | Chad | 0.0433 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 4 | Seychelles | 0.0433 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 4 | Sao Tome and Principe | 0.0433 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 4 | Rwanda | 0.0433 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 4 | Mozambique | 0.0433 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 4 | Iceland | 0.0433 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 4 | Libya | 0.0433 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 4 | Eritrea | 0.0433 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 4 | Djibouti | 0.0433 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 15 | Cameroon | 0.0216 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 15 | Egypt | 0.0216 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 15 | Zimbabwe | 0.0216 Index | 2025 | down 50.0% | falling |
| 15 | Malawi | 0.0216 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 15 | Zambia | 0.0216 Index | 2025 | down 50.0% | falling |
| 15 | South Africa | 0.0216 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 15 | Vanuatu | 0.0216 Index | 2025 | down 50.0% | falling |
| 15 | Chile | 0.0216 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 15 | Tanzania, United Republic of | 0.0216 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 15 | Guinea-Bissau | 0.0216 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 15 | Brazil | 0.0216 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 15 | Burundi | 0.0216 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 15 | Lao People's Democratic Republic | 0.0216 Index | 2025 | down 50.0% | falling |
| 15 | El Salvador | 0.0216 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 15 | Sierra Leone | 0.0216 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 15 | Senegal | 0.0216 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 15 | Sudan | 0.0216 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 15 | Saudi Arabia | 0.0216 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 15 | Myanmar | 0.0216 Index | 2025 | down 50.0% | falling |
| 15 | Philippines | 0.0216 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 15 | Pakistan | 0.0216 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 15 | Nepal | 0.0216 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 15 | Malaysia | 0.0216 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 15 | Mauritius | 0.0216 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 39 | Liberia | 0 Index | 2025 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 39 | Norway | 0 Index | 2025 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 39 | Nigeria | 0 Index | 2025 | down 100.0% | volatile |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- Democratic Republic of the Congo 0.0433 Index
- Cabo Verde 0.0433 Index
- Eswatini 0.0216 Index
- Lesotho 0.0216 Index
- Ethiopia 0.0216 Index
- Equatorial Guinea 0.0216 Index
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