Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index — Other barriers in China
China: Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index — Other barriers was 0.0878 Index in 2025. ▲ Rising
Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index — Other barriers in China, 2014–2025
Source: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Measured in Index.
Analysis
China recorded 0.0878 Index for digital services trade restrictiveness index — other barriers in 2025. That is the highest value across all 12 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 33.3% over ten years.
Over the whole period, digital services trade restrictiveness index — other barriers in China peaked at 0.0878 Index in 2017 and was at its lowest, 0.0659 Index, in 2014.
That places China 15th out of 109 countries with data for 2025, putting it in the top quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 12 years of available data.
Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index — Other barriers in China, year by year
| Year | Index | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 0.0659 Index | — |
| 2015 | 0.0659 Index | +0.0% |
| 2016 | 0.0659 Index | +0.0% |
| 2017 | 0.0878 Index | +33.3% |
| 2018 | 0.0878 Index | +0.0% |
| 2019 | 0.0878 Index | +0.0% |
| 2020 | 0.0878 Index | +0.0% |
| 2021 | 0.0878 Index | +0.0% |
| 2022 | 0.0878 Index | +0.0% |
| 2023 | 0.0878 Index | +0.0% |
| 2024 | 0.0878 Index | +0.0% |
| 2025 | 0.0878 Index | +0.0% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010s | 0.0768 Index | 0.0659 Index | 0.0878 Index | 6 |
| 2020s | 0.0878 Index | 0.0878 Index | 0.0878 Index | 6 |
Countries ranked near China
- 15 Zambia 0.0878 Index compare
- 15 Angola 0.0878 Index compare
- 15 Burundi 0.0878 Index compare
- 15 Mauritius 0.0878 Index compare
- 15 Saudi Arabia 0.0878 Index compare
- 15 Sierra Leone 0.0878 Index compare
- 15 South Sudan 0.0878 Index compare
- 15 Malawi 0.0878 Index compare
- 15 Cambodia 0.0878 Index compare
- 15 Guinea-Bissau 0.0878 Index compare
- 15 Togo 0.0878 Index compare
- 17 United Kingdom 0 Index
- 17 United States 0 Index
More economy & growth data for China
- Africa's Development Dynamics (AfDD) Table 04 - Annual real GDP 3.46 Percent per annum (2029)
- Africa's Development Dynamics (AfDD) Table 02 - Annual real GDP 3.31 Percent per annum (2029)
- Industry (including construction), value added (current US$), annual 2.01 % change on previous year (2025)
- Industry (including construction), value added (current US$), per 0.3564 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Industry (including construction), value added (current US$), per 4,941 current US$ per person (2025)
- Industry (including construction), value added (current LCU), annual 1.91 % change on previous year (2025)
- Industry (including construction), value added (current LCU), per 2.56 current LCU per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Industry (including construction), value added (current LCU), per 35,522 current LCU per person (2025)
- Industry (including construction), value added (constant 2015 US$) 4.5 % change on previous year (2025)
- Industry (including construction), value added (constant 2015 US$) 0.3727 constant 2015 US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is digital services trade restrictiveness index — other barriers in China?
- Digital services trade restrictiveness index — other barriers in China was 0.0878 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 China?
- The highest recorded value was 0.0878 Index in 2017.
- What is the lowest digital services trade restrictiveness index — other barriers recorded in China?
- The lowest recorded value was 0.0659 Index in 2014.
- How does China rank for digital services trade restrictiveness index — other barriers?
- China ranks 15th out of 109 countries with data for 2025.
- Is digital services trade restrictiveness index — other barriers rising or falling in China?
- Over the last ten years it is up 33.3%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this China 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