Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index — Other barriers in India
India: Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index — Other barriers was 0.0659 Index in 2025. ▲ Rising
Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index — Other barriers in India, 2014–2025
Source: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Measured in Index.
Analysis
India recorded 0.0659 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 200.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, digital services trade restrictiveness index — other barriers in India peaked at 0.0659 Index in 2016 and was at its lowest, 0.022 Index, in 2014.
India ranks 28th of 109 countries on this measure, 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 India, year by year
| Year | Index | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 0.022 Index | — |
| 2015 | 0.022 Index | +0.0% |
| 2016 | 0.0659 Index | +200.0% |
| 2017 | 0.0659 Index | +0.0% |
| 2018 | 0.0659 Index | +0.0% |
| 2019 | 0.0659 Index | +0.0% |
| 2020 | 0.0659 Index | +0.0% |
| 2021 | 0.0659 Index | +0.0% |
| 2022 | 0.0659 Index | +0.0% |
| 2023 | 0.0659 Index | +0.0% |
| 2024 | 0.0659 Index | +0.0% |
| 2025 | 0.0659 Index | +0.0% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010s | 0.0512 Index | 0.022 Index | 0.0659 Index | 6 |
| 2020s | 0.0659 Index | 0.0659 Index | 0.0659 Index | 6 |
Countries ranked near India
- 27 Niger 0.084 Index compare
- 28 Benin 0.0659 Index compare
- 28 Mali 0.0659 Index compare
- 28 Tanzania, United Republic of 0.0659 Index compare
- 28 Nepal 0.0659 Index compare
- 28 Gabon 0.0659 Index compare
- 28 Mozambique 0.0659 Index compare
- 28 Senegal 0.0659 Index compare
- 28 Chad 0.0659 Index compare
- 28 Eritrea 0.0659 Index compare
- 28 Ghana 0.0659 Index compare
- 28 Philippines 0.0659 Index compare
- 28 Sao Tome and Principe 0.0659 Index compare
- 28 Serbia 0.0659 Index compare
- 28 Sudan 0.0659 Index compare
More economy & growth data for India
- Africa's Development Dynamics (AfDD) Table 04 - Annual real GDP 5.66 Percent per annum (2029)
- Africa's Development Dynamics (AfDD) Table 02 - Annual real GDP 6.5 Percent per annum (2029)
- Manufacturing, value added (constant LCU), per capita 32,680 constant LCU per person (2025)
- Industry (including construction), value added (current US$), annual 5.33 % change on previous year (2025)
- Industry (including construction), value added (current US$), per 0.252 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Industry (including construction), value added (current US$), per 681.16 current US$ per person (2025)
- Industry (including construction), value added (current LCU), annual 8.76 % change on previous year (2025)
- Industry (including construction), value added (current LCU), per 22.01 current LCU per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Industry (including construction), value added (current LCU), per 59,483 current LCU per person (2025)
- Industry (including construction), value added (constant 2015 US$) 8.78 % change on previous year (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is digital services trade restrictiveness index — other barriers in India?
- Digital services trade restrictiveness index — other barriers in India was 0.0659 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 India?
- The highest recorded value was 0.0659 Index in 2016.
- What is the lowest digital services trade restrictiveness index — other barriers recorded in India?
- The lowest recorded value was 0.022 Index in 2014.
- How does India rank for digital services trade restrictiveness index — other barriers?
- India ranks 28th out of 109 countries with data for 2025.
- Is digital services trade restrictiveness index — other barriers rising or falling in India?
- Over the last ten years it is up 200.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this India 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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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