Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index — Other barriers in Lesotho

Lesotho: Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index — Other barriers was 0.0439 Index in 2025. ▼ Falling

Latest (2025)
0.0439 Index
Change on year
unchanged
World rank
5th
of 18 countries
All-time high
0.0659 Index
in 2014
All-time low
0.0439 Index
in 2022
Years of data
12
2014–2025

Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index — Other barriers in Lesotho, 2014–2025

00.020.040.062014201920252014: 0.066 Index2015: 0.066 Index2016: 0.066 Index2017: 0.066 Index2018: 0.066 Index2019: 0.066 Index2020: 0.066 Index2021: 0.066 Index2022: 0.044 Index2023: 0.044 Index2024: 0.044 Index2025: 0.044 Index

Source: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Measured in Index.

Analysis

Lesotho recorded 0.0439 Index for digital services trade restrictiveness index — other barriers in 2025. That is the lowest value across all 12 years on record.

That represents a change of down 33.3% over ten years.

Over the whole period, digital services trade restrictiveness index — other barriers in Lesotho peaked at 0.0659 Index in 2014 and was at its lowest, 0.0439 Index, in 2022.

The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 12 years of available data.

Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index — Other barriers in Lesotho, year by year

Annual values for Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index — Other barriers affecting trade in digitally enabled services in Lesotho, 2014 to 2025.
Year Index Change
2014 0.0659 Index
2015 0.0659 Index +0.0%
2016 0.0659 Index +0.0%
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 0.0439 Index -33.3%
2023 0.0439 Index +0.0%
2024 0.0439 Index +0.0%
2025 0.0439 Index +0.0%

Averages by decade

DecadeAverage LowestHighest Years
2010s 0.0659 Index 0.0659 Index 0.0659 Index 6
2020s 0.0512 Index 0.0439 Index 0.0659 Index 6

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  11. 3 Indonesia 0.1098 Index compare
  12. 3 Tunisia 0.1098 Index compare
  13. 3 Myanmar 0.1098 Index compare
  14. 3 Nigeria 0.1098 Index compare
  15. 3 Cabo Verde 0.0659 Index compare
  16. 5 Equatorial Guinea 0.0439 Index compare
  17. 7 Estonia 0.022 Index compare
  18. 7 Latvia 0.022 Index compare
  19. 7 Lithuania 0.022 Index compare
  20. 7 Netherlands 0.022 Index compare
  21. 7 Slovenia 0.022 Index compare
  22. 7 Poland 0.022 Index compare
  23. 7 Mauritania 0.022 Index compare

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Frequently asked questions

What is digital services trade restrictiveness index — other barriers in Lesotho?
Digital services trade restrictiveness index — other barriers in Lesotho was 0.0439 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 Lesotho?
The highest recorded value was 0.0659 Index in 2014.
What is the lowest digital services trade restrictiveness index — other barriers recorded in Lesotho?
The lowest recorded value was 0.0439 Index in 2022.
How does Lesotho rank for digital services trade restrictiveness index — other barriers?
Lesotho ranks 5th out of 18 countries with data for 2025.
Is digital services trade restrictiveness index — other barriers rising or falling in Lesotho?
Over the last ten years it is down 33.3%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
Where does this Lesotho 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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Indicator
Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index — Other barriers affecting trade in digitally enabled services
Unit
Index
Source
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Licence
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Coverage
129 places, 1,548 data points, 2014–2025
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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