Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index — Intellectual property in Zambia
Zambia: Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index — Intellectual property was 0.0216 Index in 2025. ▼ Falling
Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index — Intellectual property in Zambia, 2014–2025
Source: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Measured in Index.
Analysis
In 2025, digital services trade restrictiveness index — intellectual property in Zambia stood at 0.0216 Index. That is the lowest value across all 12 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 50.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, digital services trade restrictiveness index — intellectual property in Zambia peaked at 0.0433 Index in 2014 and was at its lowest, 0.0216 Index, in 2024.
Zambia ranks 15th of 109 countries on this measure, 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 Zambia, 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 | 0.0433 Index | +0.0% |
| 2021 | 0.0433 Index | +0.0% |
| 2022 | 0.0433 Index | +0.0% |
| 2023 | 0.0433 Index | +0.0% |
| 2024 | 0.0216 Index | -50.0% |
| 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 | 0.0361 Index | 0.0216 Index | 0.0433 Index | 6 |
Countries ranked near Zambia
- 15 Lao People's Democratic Republic 0.0216 Index compare
- 15 Myanmar 0.0216 Index compare
- 15 Vanuatu 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 South Africa 0.0216 Index compare
- 15 Sudan 0.0216 Index compare
- 15 Tanzania, United Republic of 0.0216 Index compare
More economy & growth data for Zambia
- Africa's Development Dynamics (AfDD) Table 04 - Annual real GDP 2.31 Percent per annum (2029)
- Africa's Development Dynamics (AfDD) Table 02 - Annual real GDP 4.92 Percent per annum (2029)
- Gross value added at basic prices (GVA) (current US$), annual growth 15.58 % change on previous year (2025)
- Gross value added at basic prices (GVA) (current US$), per unit of GDP 0.9647 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Gross value added at basic prices (GVA) (current US$), per capita 1,271 current US$ per person (2025)
- Gross value added at basic prices (GVA) (current LCU), annual growth 10.98 % change on previous year (2025)
- Gross value added at basic prices (GVA) (current LCU), per unit of GDP 24.24 current LCU per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Gross value added at basic prices (GVA) (current LCU), per capita 31,945 current LCU per person (2025)
- Gross value added at basic prices (GVA) (constant 2015 US$), annual 4.36 % change on previous year (2025)
- Gross value added at basic prices (GVA) (constant 2015 US$), per unit 0.9945 constant 2015 US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is digital services trade restrictiveness index — intellectual property in Zambia?
- Digital services trade restrictiveness index — intellectual property in Zambia 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 Zambia?
- The highest recorded value was 0.0433 Index in 2014.
- What is the lowest digital services trade restrictiveness index — intellectual property recorded in Zambia?
- The lowest recorded value was 0.0216 Index in 2024.
- How does Zambia rank for digital services trade restrictiveness index — intellectual property?
- Zambia ranks 15th out of 109 countries with data for 2025.
- Is digital services trade restrictiveness index — intellectual property rising or falling in Zambia?
- Over the last ten years it is down 50.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Zambia 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