Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index — Payment system in Libya
Libya: Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index — Payment system was 0.0368 Index in 2025. ▲ Rising
Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index — Payment system in Libya, 2014–2025
Source: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Measured in Index.
Analysis
The most recent figure for digital services trade restrictiveness index — payment system in Libya is 0.0368 Index, measured in 2025. That is the highest value across all 12 years on record.
That represents a change of up 100.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, digital services trade restrictiveness index — payment system in Libya peaked at 0.0368 Index in 2020 and was at its lowest, 0.0184 Index, in 2014.
That places Libya 5th out of 109 countries with data for 2025, putting it in the top 10%.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 12 years of available data.
Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index — Payment system in Libya, 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% |
Libya compared with similar countries
- Libya's 0.0368 Index is above the median for Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan, which is 0.0368 Index, 1.0× the median. (9 countries reporting)
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 |
Countries ranked near Libya
- 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
- 5 Eswatini 0.0184 Index compare
- 5 Pakistan 0.0368 Index compare
- 5 Russia 0.0368 Index compare
- 5 Equatorial Guinea 0.0184 Index compare
- 5 Malawi 0.0368 Index compare
- 5 Mauritania 0.0184 Index compare
- 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 Laos 0.0368 Index compare
- 5 Liberia 0.0368 Index compare
- 5 Zambia 0.0368 Index compare
More economy & growth data for Libya
- Real gdp growth, annual growth rate -240.99 % change on previous year (2019)
- Africa's Development Dynamics (AfDD) Table 04 - Annual real GDP 1.31 Percent per annum (2029)
- Africa's Development Dynamics (AfDD) Table 02 - Annual real GDP 2.3 Percent per annum (2029)
- SDRs holdings, US dollar, annual growth rate 6.09 % change on previous year (2025)
- SDRs holdings, US dollar, per unit of GDP 0.094 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- SDRs holdings, US dollar, per capita 605.92 units per person (2025)
- SDRs holdings, SDR, annual growth rate 1.03 % change on previous year (2025)
- SDRs holdings, SDR, per unit of GDP 0.0686 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- SDRs holdings, SDR, per capita 442.44 units per person (2025)
- IMF holdings of currency, US dollar, annual growth rate 5.01 % change on previous year (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is digital services trade restrictiveness index — payment system in Libya?
- Digital services trade restrictiveness index — payment system in Libya 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 Libya?
- The highest recorded value was 0.0368 Index in 2020.
- What is the lowest digital services trade restrictiveness index — payment system recorded in Libya?
- The lowest recorded value was 0.0184 Index in 2014.
- How does Libya rank for digital services trade restrictiveness index — payment system?
- Libya ranks 5th out of 109 countries with data for 2025.
- Is digital services trade restrictiveness index — payment system rising or falling in Libya?
- Over the last ten years it is up 100.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Libya 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