Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index — Payment system in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe: Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index — Payment system was 0.0368 Index in 2025. ▲ Rising
Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index — Payment system in Zimbabwe, 2014–2025
Source: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Measured in Index.
Analysis
Zimbabwe recorded 0.0368 Index for digital services trade restrictiveness index — payment system in 2025. That is the highest value across all 12 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 100.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, digital services trade restrictiveness index — payment system in Zimbabwe peaked at 0.0368 Index in 2017 and was at its lowest, 0.0184 Index, in 2014.
Zimbabwe ranks 5th of 109 countries on this measure, 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 Zimbabwe, year by year
| Year | Index | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 0.0184 Index | — |
| 2015 | 0.0184 Index | +0.0% |
| 2016 | 0.0184 Index | +0.0% |
| 2017 | 0.0368 Index | +100.0% |
| 2018 | 0.0368 Index | +0.0% |
| 2019 | 0.0368 Index | +0.0% |
| 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% |
Zimbabwe compared with similar countries
- Zimbabwe's 0.0368 Index is above the median for lower middle income countries, which is 0.0184 Index, 2.0× the median. (30 countries reporting)
- Zimbabwe'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 | 0.0276 Index | 0.0184 Index | 0.0368 Index | 6 |
| 2020s | 0.0368 Index | 0.0368 Index | 0.0368 Index | 6 |
Countries ranked near Zimbabwe
- 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 Algeria 0.0368 Index compare
- 5 Laos 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 Zimbabwe
- Real gdp growth, annual growth rate -67.36 % change on previous year (2024)
- Africa's Development Dynamics (AfDD) Table 04 - Annual real GDP 1.02 Percent per annum (2029)
- Africa's Development Dynamics (AfDD) Table 02 - Annual real GDP 3 Percent per annum (2029)
- SDRs holdings, US dollar, annual growth rate 139.91 % change on previous year (2025)
- SDRs holdings, US dollar, per unit of GDP 0.0001 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- SDRs holdings, US dollar, per capita 0.1973 units per person (2025)
- SDRs holdings, SDR, annual growth rate 128.46 % change on previous year (2025)
- SDRs holdings, SDR, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- SDRs holdings, SDR, per capita 0.1441 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 Zimbabwe?
- Digital services trade restrictiveness index — payment system in Zimbabwe 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 Zimbabwe?
- The highest recorded value was 0.0368 Index in 2017.
- What is the lowest digital services trade restrictiveness index — payment system recorded in Zimbabwe?
- The lowest recorded value was 0.0184 Index in 2014.
- How does Zimbabwe rank for digital services trade restrictiveness index — payment system?
- Zimbabwe ranks 5th out of 109 countries with data for 2025.
- Is digital services trade restrictiveness index — payment system rising or falling in Zimbabwe?
- Over the last ten years it is up 100.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Zimbabwe 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