Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index in Korea
Korea: Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index was 0.0829 Index in 2025. ▼ Falling
Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index in Korea, 2014–2025
Source: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Measured in Index.
Analysis
Korea recorded 0.0829 Index for digital services trade restrictiveness index in 2025. That is the lowest value across all 12 years on record.
The figure is down 40.9% over ten years.
Over the whole period, digital services trade restrictiveness index in Korea peaked at 0.1983 Index in 2014 and was at its lowest, 0.0829 Index, in 2020.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 12 years of available data.
Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index in Korea, year by year
| Year | Index | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 0.1983 Index | — |
| 2015 | 0.1403 Index | -29.3% |
| 2016 | 0.1403 Index | +0.0% |
| 2017 | 0.1403 Index | +0.0% |
| 2018 | 0.1403 Index | +0.0% |
| 2019 | 0.1622 Index | +15.7% |
| 2020 | 0.0829 Index | -48.9% |
| 2021 | 0.0829 Index | +0.0% |
| 2022 | 0.0829 Index | +0.0% |
| 2023 | 0.0829 Index | +0.0% |
| 2024 | 0.0829 Index | +0.0% |
| 2025 | 0.0829 Index | +0.0% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010s | 0.1536 Index | 0.1403 Index | 0.1983 Index | 6 |
| 2020s | 0.0829 Index | 0.0829 Index | 0.0829 Index | 6 |
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Frequently asked questions
- What is digital services trade restrictiveness index in Korea?
- Digital services trade restrictiveness index in Korea was 0.0829 Index in 2025, according to Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
- What is the highest digital services trade restrictiveness index recorded in Korea?
- The highest recorded value was 0.1983 Index in 2014.
- What is the lowest digital services trade restrictiveness index recorded in Korea?
- The lowest recorded value was 0.0829 Index in 2020.
- How does Korea rank for digital services trade restrictiveness index?
- Korea ranks 11th out of 18 groups with data for 2025.
- Is digital services trade restrictiveness index rising or falling in Korea?
- Over the last ten years it is down 40.9%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Korea 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