Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index — Payment system in Malawi
Malawi: Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index — Payment system was 0.0368 Index in 2025. ◆ Volatile
Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index — Payment system in Malawi, 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 Malawi is 0.0368 Index, measured in 2025. That is the highest value across all 12 years on record.
That represents a change of unchanged over five years.
Over the whole period, digital services trade restrictiveness index — payment system in Malawi peaked at 0.0368 Index in 2019 and was at its lowest, 0 Index, in 2014.
That places Malawi 5th out of 109 countries with data for 2025, putting it in the top 10%.
The series is highly variable year to year, so single readings are best treated with caution.
Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index — Payment system in Malawi, year by year
| Year | Index | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 0 Index | — |
| 2015 | 0 Index | — |
| 2016 | 0.0184 Index | — |
| 2017 | 0.0184 Index | +0.0% |
| 2018 | 0.0184 Index | +0.0% |
| 2019 | 0.0368 Index | +100.0% |
| 2020 | 0.0368 Index | +0.0% |
| 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% |
Malawi compared with similar countries
- Malawi's 0.0368 Index is above the median for low income countries, which is 0.0184 Index, 2.0× the median. (18 countries reporting)
- Malawi's 0.0368 Index is above the median for Sub-Saharan Africa, which is 0.0184 Index, 2.0× the median. (39 countries reporting)
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010s | 0.0153 Index | 0 Index | 0.0368 Index | 6 |
| 2020s | 0.0368 Index | 0.0368 Index | 0.0368 Index | 6 |
Countries ranked near Malawi
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- 5 Russia 0.0368 Index compare
- 5 Equatorial Guinea 0.0184 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
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More economy & growth data for Malawi
- Real gdp growth, annual growth rate -14.03 % change on previous year (2024)
- Africa's Development Dynamics (AfDD) Table 04 - Annual real GDP 2.07 Percent per annum (2029)
- Africa's Development Dynamics (AfDD) Table 02 - Annual real GDP 4.6 Percent per annum (2029)
- SDRs holdings, US dollar, annual growth rate -12.14 % change on previous year (2025)
- SDRs holdings, US dollar, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- SDRs holdings, US dollar, per capita 0.0151 units per person (2025)
- SDRs holdings, SDR, annual growth rate -16.34 % change on previous year (2025)
- SDRs holdings, SDR, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- SDRs holdings, SDR, per capita 0.0111 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 Malawi?
- Digital services trade restrictiveness index — payment system in Malawi 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 Malawi?
- The highest recorded value was 0.0368 Index in 2019.
- What is the lowest digital services trade restrictiveness index — payment system recorded in Malawi?
- The lowest recorded value was 0 Index in 2014.
- How does Malawi rank for digital services trade restrictiveness index — payment system?
- Malawi ranks 5th out of 109 countries with data for 2025.
- Where does this Malawi 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