Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index — Intellectual property in Vanuatu
Vanuatu: Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index — Intellectual property was 0.0216 Index in 2025. ▼ Falling
Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index — Intellectual property in Vanuatu, 2014–2025
Source: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Measured in Index.
Analysis
The most recent figure for digital services trade restrictiveness index — intellectual property in Vanuatu is 0.0216 Index, measured in 2025. That is the lowest value across all 12 years on record.
The figure is down 50.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, digital services trade restrictiveness index — intellectual property in Vanuatu peaked at 0.0433 Index in 2014 and was at its lowest, 0.0216 Index, in 2020.
That places Vanuatu 15th out of 109 countries with data for 2025, putting it in the top quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 12 years of available data.
Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index — Intellectual property in Vanuatu, year by year
| Year | Index | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 0.0433 Index | — |
| 2015 | 0.0433 Index | +0.0% |
| 2016 | 0.0433 Index | +0.0% |
| 2017 | 0.0433 Index | +0.0% |
| 2018 | 0.0433 Index | +0.0% |
| 2019 | 0.0433 Index | +0.0% |
| 2020 | 0.0216 Index | -50.0% |
| 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 | 0.0433 Index | 0.0433 Index | 0.0433 Index | 6 |
| 2020s | 0.0216 Index | 0.0216 Index | 0.0216 Index | 6 |
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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)
- Gross value added at basic prices (GVA) (current US$), annual growth 9.81 % change on previous year (2024)
- Gross value added at basic prices (GVA) (current US$), per unit of GDP 0.8977 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2024)
- Gross value added at basic prices (GVA) (current US$), per capita 3,555 current US$ per person (2024)
- Gross value added at basic prices (GVA) (current LCU), annual growth 9.86 % change on previous year (2024)
- Gross value added at basic prices (GVA) (current LCU), per unit of GDP 106.98 current LCU per US$ of GDP (2024)
- Gross value added at basic prices (GVA) (current LCU), per capita 423,611 current LCU per person (2024)
- Gross value added at basic prices (GVA) (constant 2015 US$), annual 3.78 % change on previous year (2024)
- Gross value added at basic prices (GVA) (constant 2015 US$), per unit 0.7361 constant 2015 US$ per US$ of GDP (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is digital services trade restrictiveness index — intellectual property in Vanuatu?
- Digital services trade restrictiveness index — intellectual property in Vanuatu 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 Vanuatu?
- The highest recorded value was 0.0433 Index in 2014.
- What is the lowest digital services trade restrictiveness index — intellectual property recorded in Vanuatu?
- The lowest recorded value was 0.0216 Index in 2020.
- How does Vanuatu rank for digital services trade restrictiveness index — intellectual property?
- Vanuatu ranks 15th out of 109 countries with data for 2025.
- Is digital services trade restrictiveness index — intellectual property rising or falling in Vanuatu?
- Over the last ten years it is down 50.0%. 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 — 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