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...

Countries reporting
62
Highest
0.0552 Index
Somalia
Lowest
0 Index
Namibia
Median
0.0184 Index
Years covered
12
2014–2025
Data points
1,548

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 LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
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.

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Indicator
Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index — Payment system
Unit
Index
Source
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Licence
OECD Terms and Conditions (attribution required)
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