Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index — Other barriers in Uganda
Uganda: Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index — Other barriers was 0.022 Index in 2025. ▼ Falling
Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index — Other barriers in Uganda, 2014–2025
Source: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Measured in Index.
Analysis
The most recent figure for digital services trade restrictiveness index — other barriers in Uganda is 0.022 Index, measured in 2025. That is the lowest value across all 12 years on record.
That represents a change of unchanged over ten years.
Over the whole period, digital services trade restrictiveness index — other barriers in Uganda peaked at 0.0439 Index in 2018 and was at its lowest, 0.022 Index, in 2014.
Uganda ranks 55th of 109 countries on this measure, 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 Uganda, year by year
| Year | Index | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 0.022 Index | — |
| 2015 | 0.022 Index | +0.0% |
| 2016 | 0.022 Index | +0.0% |
| 2017 | 0.022 Index | +0.0% |
| 2018 | 0.0439 Index | +100.0% |
| 2019 | 0.022 Index | -50.0% |
| 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 | 0.0256 Index | 0.022 Index | 0.0439 Index | 6 |
| 2020s | 0.022 Index | 0.022 Index | 0.022 Index | 6 |
Countries ranked near Uganda
- 55 Belgium 0.022 Index compare
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- 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 Botswana 0.022 Index compare
- 55 Seychelles 0.022 Index compare
- 55 Iceland 0.022 Index compare
- 55 Argentina 0.022 Index compare
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More economy & growth data for Uganda
- Africa's Development Dynamics (AfDD) Table 04 - Annual real GDP 4.29 Percent per annum (2029)
- Africa's Development Dynamics (AfDD) Table 02 - Annual real GDP 6.99 Percent per annum (2029)
- Manufacturing, value added (constant LCU), per capita 452,615 constant LCU per person (2025)
- Industry (including construction), value added (current US$), annual 12.23 % change on previous year (2025)
- Industry (including construction), value added (current US$), per 0.2427 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Industry (including construction), value added (current US$), per 292.79 current US$ per person (2025)
- Industry (including construction), value added (current LCU), annual 9.19 % change on previous year (2025)
- Industry (including construction), value added (current LCU), per 892.28 current LCU per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Industry (including construction), value added (current LCU), per 1.08 million current LCU per person (2025)
- Industry (including construction), value added (constant 2015 US$) 6.91 % change on previous year (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is digital services trade restrictiveness index — other barriers in Uganda?
- Digital services trade restrictiveness index — other barriers in Uganda 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 Uganda?
- The highest recorded value was 0.0439 Index in 2018.
- What is the lowest digital services trade restrictiveness index — other barriers recorded in Uganda?
- The lowest recorded value was 0.022 Index in 2014.
- How does Uganda rank for digital services trade restrictiveness index — other barriers?
- Uganda ranks 55th out of 109 countries with data for 2025.
- Is digital services trade restrictiveness index — other barriers rising or falling in Uganda?
- Over the last ten years it is unchanged. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Uganda 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