Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index — Intellectual property in South Africa
South Africa: Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index — Intellectual property was 0.0216 Index in 2025. ▬ Flat
Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index — Intellectual property in South Africa, 2014–2025
Source: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Measured in Index.
Analysis
In 2025, digital services trade restrictiveness index — intellectual property in South Africa stood at 0.0216 Index. 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 — intellectual property in South Africa peaked at 0.0216 Index in 2014 and was at its lowest, 0.0216 Index, in 2014.
That places South Africa 15th out of 109 countries with data for 2025, putting it in the top quarter.
Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index — Intellectual property in South Africa, year by year
| Year | Index | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 0.0216 Index | — |
| 2015 | 0.0216 Index | +0.0% |
| 2016 | 0.0216 Index | +0.0% |
| 2017 | 0.0216 Index | +0.0% |
| 2018 | 0.0216 Index | +0.0% |
| 2019 | 0.0216 Index | +0.0% |
| 2020 | 0.0216 Index | +0.0% |
| 2021 | 0.0216 Index | +0.0% |
| 2022 | 0.0216 Index | +0.0% |
| 2023 | 0.0216 Index | +0.0% |
| 2024 | 0.0216 Index | +0.0% |
| 2025 | 0.0216 Index | +0.0% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010s | 0.0216 Index | 0.0216 Index | 0.0216 Index | 6 |
| 2020s | 0.0216 Index | 0.0216 Index | 0.0216 Index | 6 |
Countries ranked near South Africa
- 15 Lao People's Democratic Republic 0.0216 Index compare
- 15 Myanmar 0.0216 Index compare
- 15 Vanuatu 0.0216 Index compare
- 15 Zambia 0.0216 Index compare
- 15 Zimbabwe 0.0216 Index compare
- 15 Chile 0.0216 Index compare
- 15 Brazil 0.0216 Index compare
- 15 Burundi 0.0216 Index compare
- 15 Cameroon 0.0216 Index compare
- 15 Egypt 0.0216 Index compare
- 15 El Salvador 0.0216 Index compare
- 15 Guinea-Bissau 0.0216 Index compare
- 15 Malawi 0.0216 Index compare
- 15 Malaysia 0.0216 Index compare
- 15 Mauritius 0.0216 Index compare
- 15 Nepal 0.0216 Index compare
- 15 Pakistan 0.0216 Index compare
- 15 Philippines 0.0216 Index compare
- 15 Saudi Arabia 0.0216 Index compare
- 15 Senegal 0.0216 Index compare
- 15 Sierra Leone 0.0216 Index compare
- 15 Sudan 0.0216 Index compare
- 15 Tanzania, United Republic of 0.0216 Index compare
More economy & growth data for South Africa
- Africa's Development Dynamics (AfDD) Table 04 - Annual real GDP 0.4836 Percent per annum (2029)
- Africa's Development Dynamics (AfDD) Table 02 - Annual real GDP 1.4 Percent per annum (2029)
- Manufacturing, value added (constant LCU), per capita 7,985 constant LCU per person (2025)
- Industry (including construction), value added (current US$), annual 5.53 % change on previous year (2025)
- Industry (including construction), value added (current US$), per 0.2409 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Industry (including construction), value added (current US$), per 1,589 current US$ per person (2025)
- Industry (including construction), value added (current LCU), annual 2.99 % change on previous year (2025)
- Industry (including construction), value added (current LCU), per 4.31 current LCU per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Industry (including construction), value added (current LCU), per 28,432 current LCU per person (2025)
- Industry (including construction), value added (constant 2015 US$) -1.57 % change on previous year (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is digital services trade restrictiveness index — intellectual property in South Africa?
- Digital services trade restrictiveness index — intellectual property in South Africa was 0.0216 Index in 2025, according to Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
- What is the highest digital services trade restrictiveness index — intellectual property recorded in South Africa?
- The highest recorded value was 0.0216 Index in 2014.
- What is the lowest digital services trade restrictiveness index — intellectual property recorded in South Africa?
- The lowest recorded value was 0.0216 Index in 2014.
- How does South Africa rank for digital services trade restrictiveness index — intellectual property?
- South Africa ranks 15th out of 109 countries with data for 2025.
- Is digital services trade restrictiveness index — intellectual property rising or falling in South Africa?
- Over the last ten years it is unchanged. The long-run trend across the full record is flat.
- Where does this South Africa data come from?
- The figures come from Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, published as part of Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index — Intellectual property rights. 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