Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index in Ghana
Ghana: Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index was 0.1877 Index in 2025. ▬ Flat
Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index in Ghana, 2014–2025
Source: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Measured in Index.
Analysis
In 2025, digital services trade restrictiveness index in Ghana stood at 0.1877 Index. That is the highest value across all 12 years on record.
That represents a change of unchanged over ten years.
Over the whole period, digital services trade restrictiveness index in Ghana peaked at 0.1877 Index in 2014 and was at its lowest, 0.1877 Index, in 2014.
Ghana ranks 61st of 109 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index in Ghana, year by year
| Year | Index | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 0.1877 Index | — |
| 2015 | 0.1877 Index | +0.0% |
| 2016 | 0.1877 Index | +0.0% |
| 2017 | 0.1877 Index | +0.0% |
| 2018 | 0.1877 Index | +0.0% |
| 2019 | 0.1877 Index | +0.0% |
| 2020 | 0.1877 Index | +0.0% |
| 2021 | 0.1877 Index | +0.0% |
| 2022 | 0.1877 Index | +0.0% |
| 2023 | 0.1877 Index | +0.0% |
| 2024 | 0.1877 Index | +0.0% |
| 2025 | 0.1877 Index | +0.0% |
Ghana compared with similar countries
- Ghana's 0.1877 Index is below the median for lower middle income countries, which is 0.2966 Index, 63% of the median. (30 countries reporting)
- Ghana's 0.1877 Index is below the median for Sub-Saharan Africa, which is 0.3022 Index, 62% of the median. (39 countries reporting)
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010s | 0.1877 Index | 0.1877 Index | 0.1877 Index | 6 |
| 2020s | 0.1877 Index | 0.1877 Index | 0.1877 Index | 6 |
Countries ranked near Ghana
More economy & growth data for Ghana
- Africa's Development Dynamics (AfDD) Table 04 - Annual real GDP 3.15 Percent per annum (2029)
- Africa's Development Dynamics (AfDD) Table 02 - Annual real GDP 5 Percent per annum (2029)
- SDRs holdings, US dollar, annual growth rate 457.43 % 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 0.374 units per person (2025)
- SDRs holdings, SDR, annual growth rate 430.83 % change on previous year (2025)
- SDRs holdings, SDR, per unit of GDP 0.0001 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- SDRs holdings, SDR, per capita 0.2731 units per person (2025)
- IMF holdings of currency, US dollar, annual growth rate 5.01 % change on previous year (2025)
- IMF holdings of currency, US dollar, per unit of GDP 0.0077 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is digital services trade restrictiveness index in Ghana?
- Digital services trade restrictiveness index in Ghana was 0.1877 Index in 2025, according to Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
- What is the highest digital services trade restrictiveness index recorded in Ghana?
- The highest recorded value was 0.1877 Index in 2014.
- What is the lowest digital services trade restrictiveness index recorded in Ghana?
- The lowest recorded value was 0.1877 Index in 2014.
- How does Ghana rank for digital services trade restrictiveness index?
- Ghana ranks 61st out of 109 countries with data for 2025.
- Is digital services trade restrictiveness index rising or falling in Ghana?
- Over the last ten years it is unchanged. The long-run trend across the full record is flat.
- Where does this Ghana data come from?
- The figures come from Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, published as part of Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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About this data
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