Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index — Other barriers in Pakistan
Pakistan: Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index — Other barriers was 0.1098 Index in 2025. ▲ Rising
Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index — Other barriers in Pakistan, 2014–2025
Source: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Measured in Index.
Analysis
Pakistan recorded 0.1098 Index for digital services trade restrictiveness index — other barriers in 2025. That is the highest value across all 12 years on record.
The figure is up 150.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, digital services trade restrictiveness index — other barriers in Pakistan peaked at 0.1098 Index in 2020 and was at its lowest, 0.0439 Index, in 2014.
That places Pakistan 3rd out of 109 countries with data for 2025, putting it in the top 10%.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 12 years of available data.
Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index — Other barriers in Pakistan, year by year
| Year | Index | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 0.0439 Index | — |
| 2015 | 0.0439 Index | +0.0% |
| 2016 | 0.0878 Index | +100.0% |
| 2017 | 0.0878 Index | +0.0% |
| 2018 | 0.0878 Index | +0.0% |
| 2019 | 0.0878 Index | +0.0% |
| 2020 | 0.1098 Index | +25.0% |
| 2021 | 0.1098 Index | +0.0% |
| 2022 | 0.1098 Index | +0.0% |
| 2023 | 0.1098 Index | +0.0% |
| 2024 | 0.1098 Index | +0.0% |
| 2025 | 0.1098 Index | +0.0% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010s | 0.0732 Index | 0.0439 Index | 0.0878 Index | 6 |
| 2020s | 0.1098 Index | 0.1098 Index | 0.1098 Index | 6 |
Countries ranked near Pakistan
- 1 Ethiopia 0.1317 Index compare
- 1 Kenya 0.1317 Index compare
- 1 Egypt 0.1317 Index compare
- 1 Democratic Republic of the Congo 0.0878 Index compare
- 1 Viet Nam 0.0878 Index compare
- 2 Türkiye 0.0878 Index compare
- 3 Eswatini 0.0659 Index compare
- 3 Brunei Darussalam 0.1098 Index compare
- 3 Rwanda 0.1098 Index compare
- 3 Zimbabwe 0.1098 Index compare
- 3 Kazakhstan 0.1098 Index compare
- 3 Cameroon 0.1098 Index compare
- 3 Russian Federation 0.1098 Index compare
- 3 Libya 0.1098 Index compare
- 3 Indonesia 0.1098 Index compare
- 3 Tunisia 0.1098 Index compare
- 3 Myanmar 0.1098 Index compare
- 3 Nigeria 0.1098 Index compare
- 3 Cabo Verde 0.0659 Index compare
- 5 Equatorial Guinea 0.0439 Index compare
- 5 Lesotho 0.0439 Index compare
More economy & growth data for Pakistan
- Africa's Development Dynamics (AfDD) Table 04 - Annual real GDP 3.11 Percent per annum (2029)
- Africa's Development Dynamics (AfDD) Table 02 - Annual real GDP 5 Percent per annum (2029)
- Manufacturing, value added (constant LCU), per capita 18,968 constant LCU per person (2025)
- Industry (including construction), value added (current US$), annual 8.38 % change on previous year (2025)
- Industry (including construction), value added (current US$), per 0.2006 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Industry (including construction), value added (current US$), per 320.18 current US$ per person (2025)
- Industry (including construction), value added (current LCU), annual 6.97 % change on previous year (2025)
- Industry (including construction), value added (current LCU), per 56.06 current LCU per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Industry (including construction), value added (current LCU), per 89,464 current LCU per person (2025)
- Industry (including construction), value added (constant 2015 US$) 5.23 % change on previous year (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is digital services trade restrictiveness index — other barriers in Pakistan?
- Digital services trade restrictiveness index — other barriers in Pakistan was 0.1098 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 Pakistan?
- The highest recorded value was 0.1098 Index in 2020.
- What is the lowest digital services trade restrictiveness index — other barriers recorded in Pakistan?
- The lowest recorded value was 0.0439 Index in 2014.
- How does Pakistan rank for digital services trade restrictiveness index — other barriers?
- Pakistan ranks 3rd out of 109 countries with data for 2025.
- Is digital services trade restrictiveness index — other barriers rising or falling in Pakistan?
- Over the last ten years it is up 150.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Pakistan 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