Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index — Payment system in India
India: Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index — Payment system was 0.0552 Index in 2025. ▬ Flat
Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index — Payment system in India, 2014–2025
Source: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Measured in Index.
Analysis
In 2025, digital services trade restrictiveness index — payment system in India stood at 0.0552 Index. That is the highest value across all 12 years on record.
The figure is unchanged over ten years.
Over the whole period, digital services trade restrictiveness index — payment system in India peaked at 0.0552 Index in 2014 and was at its lowest, 0.0552 Index, in 2014.
That places India 1st out of 109 countries with data for 2025, putting it in the top 10%.
Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index — Payment system in India, year by year
| Year | Index | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 0.0552 Index | — |
| 2015 | 0.0552 Index | +0.0% |
| 2016 | 0.0552 Index | +0.0% |
| 2017 | 0.0552 Index | +0.0% |
| 2018 | 0.0552 Index | +0.0% |
| 2019 | 0.0552 Index | +0.0% |
| 2020 | 0.0552 Index | +0.0% |
| 2021 | 0.0552 Index | +0.0% |
| 2022 | 0.0552 Index | +0.0% |
| 2023 | 0.0552 Index | +0.0% |
| 2024 | 0.0552 Index | +0.0% |
| 2025 | 0.0552 Index | +0.0% |
India compared with similar countries
- India's 0.0552 Index is above the median for lower middle income countries, which is 0.0184 Index, 3.0× the median. (30 countries reporting)
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010s | 0.0552 Index | 0.0552 Index | 0.0552 Index | 6 |
| 2020s | 0.0552 Index | 0.0552 Index | 0.0552 Index | 6 |
Countries ranked near India
- 1 Ethiopia 0.0552 Index compare
- 1 Sao Tome and Principe 0.0552 Index compare
- 1 Somalia 0.0552 Index compare
- 1 Sudan 0.0552 Index compare
- 1 Democratic Republic of the Congo 0.0368 Index compare
- 2 Viet Nam 0.0184 Index compare
- 2 Madagascar 0.0368 Index compare
- 2 Türkiye 0.0368 Index compare
- 2 Lesotho 0.0368 Index compare
More economy & growth data for India
- Real gdp growth, annual growth rate 7.31 % change on previous year (2025)
- Africa's Development Dynamics (AfDD) Table 04 - Annual real GDP 5.66 Percent per annum (2029)
- Africa's Development Dynamics (AfDD) Table 02 - Annual real GDP 6.5 Percent per annum (2029)
- SDRs holdings, US dollar, annual growth rate 5.07 % change on previous year (2025)
- SDRs holdings, US dollar, per unit of GDP 0.0047 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- SDRs holdings, US dollar, per capita 12.83 units per person (2025)
- SDRs holdings, SDR, annual growth rate 0.0511 % change on previous year (2025)
- SDRs holdings, SDR, per unit of GDP 0.0035 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- SDRs holdings, SDR, per capita 9.37 units per person (2025)
- IMF holdings of currency, US dollar, annual growth rate 2.33 % change on previous year (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is digital services trade restrictiveness index — payment system in India?
- Digital services trade restrictiveness index — payment system in India was 0.0552 Index in 2025, according to Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
- What is the highest digital services trade restrictiveness index — payment system recorded in India?
- The highest recorded value was 0.0552 Index in 2014.
- What is the lowest digital services trade restrictiveness index — payment system recorded in India?
- The lowest recorded value was 0.0552 Index in 2014.
- How does India rank for digital services trade restrictiveness index — payment system?
- India ranks 1st out of 109 countries with data for 2025.
- Is digital services trade restrictiveness index — payment system rising or falling in India?
- Over the last ten years it is unchanged. The long-run trend across the full record is flat.
- Where does this India data come from?
- The figures come from Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, published as part of Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index — Payment system. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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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