Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index — Other barriers in Botswana
Botswana: Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index — Other barriers was 0.022 Index in 2025. ▼ Falling
Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index — Other barriers in Botswana, 2014–2025
Source: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Measured in Index.
Analysis
Botswana recorded 0.022 Index for digital services trade restrictiveness index — other barriers 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 — other barriers in Botswana peaked at 0.0439 Index in 2014 and was at its lowest, 0.022 Index, in 2018.
That places Botswana 55th out of 109 countries with data for 2025, putting it in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 12 years of available data.
Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index — Other barriers in Botswana, year by year
| Year | Index | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 0.0439 Index | — |
| 2015 | 0.0439 Index | +0.0% |
| 2016 | 0.0439 Index | +0.0% |
| 2017 | 0.0439 Index | +0.0% |
| 2018 | 0.022 Index | -50.0% |
| 2019 | 0.022 Index | +0.0% |
| 2020 | 0.022 Index | +0.0% |
| 2021 | 0.022 Index | +0.0% |
| 2022 | 0.022 Index | +0.0% |
| 2023 | 0.022 Index | +0.0% |
| 2024 | 0.022 Index | +0.0% |
| 2025 | 0.022 Index | +0.0% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010s | 0.0366 Index | 0.022 Index | 0.0439 Index | 6 |
| 2020s | 0.022 Index | 0.022 Index | 0.022 Index | 6 |
Countries ranked near Botswana
- 55 Belgium 0.022 Index compare
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- 55 Germany 0.022 Index compare
- 55 Ireland 0.022 Index compare
- 55 Luxembourg 0.022 Index compare
- 55 Spain 0.022 Index compare
- 55 Sweden 0.022 Index compare
- 55 Dominican Republic 0.022 Index compare
- 55 Austria 0.022 Index compare
- 55 Greece 0.022 Index compare
- 55 Hungary 0.022 Index compare
- 55 Italy 0.022 Index compare
- 55 Central African Republic 0.022 Index compare
- 55 Guinea 0.022 Index compare
- 55 Seychelles 0.022 Index compare
- 55 Uganda 0.022 Index compare
- 55 Iceland 0.022 Index compare
- 55 Argentina 0.022 Index compare
- 55 Bosnia and Herzegovina 0.022 Index compare
- 55 Burkina Faso 0.022 Index compare
- 55 Djibouti 0.022 Index compare
- 55 Ecuador 0.022 Index compare
- 55 Gambia 0.022 Index compare
- 55 Honduras 0.022 Index compare
- 55 Lao People's Democratic Republic 0.022 Index compare
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- 55 Montenegro 0.022 Index compare
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- 55 Paraguay 0.022 Index compare
- 55 Peru 0.022 Index compare
- 55 Thailand 0.022 Index compare
- 55 Vanuatu 0.022 Index compare
More economy & growth data for Botswana
- Africa's Development Dynamics (AfDD) Table 04 - Annual real GDP 2.52 Percent per annum (2029)
- Africa's Development Dynamics (AfDD) Table 02 - Annual real GDP 3.98 Percent per annum (2029)
- Manufacturing, value added (current US$), per unit of GDP 0.0569 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Manufacturing, value added (current US$), per capita 442.67 current US$ per person (2025)
- Manufacturing, value added (current LCU), per unit of GDP 0.7684 current LCU per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Manufacturing, value added (current LCU), per capita 5,977 current LCU per person (2025)
- Manufacturing, value added (constant 2015 US$), per unit of GDP 0.0526 constant 2015 US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Manufacturing, value added (constant 2015 US$), per capita 408.79 constant 2015 US$ per person (2025)
- Manufacturing, value added (constant LCU), per capita 4,250 constant LCU per person (2025)
- Industry (including construction), value added (current US$), annual -0.9223 % change on previous year (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is digital services trade restrictiveness index — other barriers in Botswana?
- Digital services trade restrictiveness index — other barriers in Botswana was 0.022 Index in 2025, according to Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
- What is the highest digital services trade restrictiveness index — other barriers recorded in Botswana?
- The highest recorded value was 0.0439 Index in 2014.
- What is the lowest digital services trade restrictiveness index — other barriers recorded in Botswana?
- The lowest recorded value was 0.022 Index in 2018.
- How does Botswana rank for digital services trade restrictiveness index — other barriers?
- Botswana ranks 55th out of 109 countries with data for 2025.
- Is digital services trade restrictiveness index — other barriers rising or falling in Botswana?
- Over the last ten years it is down 50.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Botswana data come from?
- The figures come from Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, published as part of Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index — Other barriers affecting trade in digitally enabled services. 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