Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index — Payment system by country
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...
What the numbers show
Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index — Payment system is currently reported for 62 countries. The highest value is 0.0552 Index in Somalia; the lowest is 0 Index in Namibia.
The median across all reporting countries is 0.0184 Index, and the mean is 0.0258 Index.
Over the past decade 8 countries rose and 3 fell. The largest increase was in Tunisia (up 100.0%), and the largest decrease in Namibia (down 100.0%).
Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index — Payment system: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somalia | 0.0552 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 1 | Sudan | 0.0552 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 1 | Sao Tome and Principe | 0.0552 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 1 | India | 0.0552 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 5 | Tunisia | 0.0368 Index | 2025 | up 100.0% | rising |
| 5 | Egypt | 0.0368 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 5 | Togo | 0.0368 Index | 2025 | unchanged | rising |
| 5 | South Sudan | 0.0368 Index | 2025 | unchanged | rising |
| 5 | Libya | 0.0368 Index | 2025 | up 100.0% | rising |
| 5 | Cambodia | 0.0368 Index | 2025 | down 33.3% | falling |
| 5 | Lao People's Democratic Republic | 0.0368 Index | 2025 | up 100.0% | rising |
| 5 | Liberia | 0.0368 Index | 2025 | up 100.0% | rising |
| 5 | Mauritius | 0.0368 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 5 | Zambia | 0.0368 Index | 2025 | up 100.0% | rising |
| 5 | Zimbabwe | 0.0368 Index | 2025 | up 100.0% | rising |
| 5 | Eritrea | 0.0368 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 5 | Algeria | 0.0368 Index | 2025 | up 100.0% | rising |
| 5 | Malawi | 0.0368 Index | 2025 | — | volatile |
| 5 | Nepal | 0.0368 Index | 2025 | unchanged | rising |
| 5 | Pakistan | 0.0368 Index | 2025 | — | volatile |
| 5 | Russian Federation | 0.0368 Index | 2025 | — | volatile |
| 5 | Rwanda | 0.0368 Index | 2025 | up 100.0% | rising |
| 23 | Seychelles | 0.0184 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 23 | Chad | 0.0184 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 23 | Serbia | 0.0184 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 23 | Thailand | 0.0184 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 23 | El Salvador | 0.0184 Index | 2025 | — | volatile |
| 23 | Tanzania, United Republic of | 0.0184 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 23 | Sierra Leone | 0.0184 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 23 | Singapore | 0.0184 Index | 2025 | — | volatile |
| 23 | Côte d’Ivoire | 0.0184 Index | 2025 | unchanged | rising |
| 23 | Saudi Arabia | 0.0184 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 23 | Argentina | 0.0184 Index | 2025 | unchanged | volatile |
| 23 | Gabon | 0.0184 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 23 | Angola | 0.0184 Index | 2025 | down 50.0% | falling |
| 23 | Burundi | 0.0184 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 23 | Benin | 0.0184 Index | 2025 | unchanged | rising |
| 23 | Burkina Faso | 0.0184 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 23 | Central African Republic | 0.0184 Index | 2025 | — | volatile |
| 23 | China | 0.0184 Index | 2025 | unchanged | falling |
| 23 | Cameroon | 0.0184 Index | 2025 | — | volatile |
| 23 | Congo | 0.0184 Index | 2025 | — | volatile |
| 23 | Comoros | 0.0184 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 23 | Czechia | 0.0184 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 23 | Djibouti | 0.0184 Index | 2025 | — | rising |
| 23 | Dominican Republic | 0.0184 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 23 | Finland | 0.0184 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 23 | France | 0.0184 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 23 | Portugal | 0.0184 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 23 | Guinea | 0.0184 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 23 | Gambia | 0.0184 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 23 | Guinea-Bissau | 0.0184 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 23 | Indonesia | 0.0184 Index | 2025 | unchanged | falling |
| 23 | Kazakhstan | 0.0184 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 23 | Kenya | 0.0184 Index | 2025 | — | volatile |
| 23 | Morocco | 0.0184 Index | 2025 | unchanged | falling |
| 23 | Mexico | 0.0184 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 23 | Mali | 0.0184 Index | 2025 | — | volatile |
| 23 | Myanmar | 0.0184 Index | 2025 | — | volatile |
| 23 | Nigeria | 0.0184 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 23 | Panama | 0.0184 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 62 | Namibia | 0 Index | 2025 | down 100.0% | volatile |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- Ethiopia 0.0552 Index
- Madagascar 0.0368 Index
- Lesotho 0.0368 Index
- Türkiye 0.0368 Index
- Eswatini 0.0184 Index
- Slovak Republic 0.0184 Index
- Equatorial Guinea 0.0184 Index
- Mauritania 0.0184 Index
- Korea 0 Index
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