Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index — Payment system in Lesotho
Lesotho: Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index — Payment system was 0.0368 Index in 2025. ▲ Rising
Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index — Payment system in Lesotho, 2014–2025
Source: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Measured in Index.
Analysis
In 2025, digital services trade restrictiveness index — payment system in Lesotho stood at 0.0368 Index. That is the highest value across all 12 years on record.
The figure is up 100.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, digital services trade restrictiveness index — payment system in Lesotho peaked at 0.0368 Index in 2020 and was at its lowest, 0.0184 Index, in 2014.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 12 years of available data.
Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index — Payment system in Lesotho, year by year
| Year | Index | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 0.0184 Index | — |
| 2015 | 0.0184 Index | +0.0% |
| 2016 | 0.0184 Index | +0.0% |
| 2017 | 0.0184 Index | +0.0% |
| 2018 | 0.0184 Index | +0.0% |
| 2019 | 0.0184 Index | +0.0% |
| 2020 | 0.0368 Index | +100.0% |
| 2021 | 0.0368 Index | +0.0% |
| 2022 | 0.0368 Index | +0.0% |
| 2023 | 0.0368 Index | +0.0% |
| 2024 | 0.0368 Index | +0.0% |
| 2025 | 0.0368 Index | +0.0% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010s | 0.0184 Index | 0.0184 Index | 0.0184 Index | 6 |
| 2020s | 0.0368 Index | 0.0368 Index | 0.0368 Index | 6 |
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- 5 Pakistan 0.0368 Index compare
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- 5 Cambodia 0.0368 Index compare
- 5 Egypt 0.0368 Index compare
- 5 Eritrea 0.0368 Index compare
- 5 Mauritius 0.0368 Index compare
- 5 Nepal 0.0368 Index compare
- 5 South Sudan 0.0368 Index compare
- 5 Togo 0.0368 Index compare
- 5 Rwanda 0.0368 Index compare
- 5 Tunisia 0.0368 Index compare
- 5 Zimbabwe 0.0368 Index compare
- 5 Algeria 0.0368 Index compare
- 5 Lao People's Democratic Republic 0.0368 Index compare
- 5 Liberia 0.0368 Index compare
- 5 Libya 0.0368 Index compare
- 5 Zambia 0.0368 Index compare
More economy & growth data for Lesotho
- Africa's Development Dynamics (AfDD) Table 04 - Annual real GDP 1.11 Percent per annum (2029)
- Africa's Development Dynamics (AfDD) Table 02 - Annual real GDP 2.08 Percent per annum (2029)
- Africa's Development Dynamics (AfDD) Table 16 - Public finances 48.49 Percentage of GDP (2029)
- Index of digital trade integration and openness (INDIGO) — C. Trust 0.0167 Index (2024)
- Index of digital trade integration and openness 0.0371 Index (2024)
- Index of digital trade integration and openness (INDIGO) — A. 0.0003 Index (2024)
- Index of digital trade integration and openness (INDIGO) — B. Openess 0 Index (2024)
- Index of digital trade integration and openness (INDIGO) — D. 0 Index (2024)
- Index of digital trade integration and openness (INDIGO) — E. Wider 0.0201 Index (2024)
- Balanced trade in services 0.2357 US dollars, exchange rate converted (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is digital services trade restrictiveness index — payment system in Lesotho?
- Digital services trade restrictiveness index — payment system in Lesotho was 0.0368 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 Lesotho?
- The highest recorded value was 0.0368 Index in 2020.
- What is the lowest digital services trade restrictiveness index — payment system recorded in Lesotho?
- The lowest recorded value was 0.0184 Index in 2014.
- How does Lesotho rank for digital services trade restrictiveness index — payment system?
- Lesotho ranks 2nd out of 18 groups with data for 2025.
- Is digital services trade restrictiveness index — payment system rising or falling in Lesotho?
- Over the last ten years it is up 100.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Lesotho 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