Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index in Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone: Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index was 0.509 Index in 2025. ▲ Rising
Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index in Sierra Leone, 2014–2025
Source: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Measured in Index.
Analysis
In 2025, digital services trade restrictiveness index in Sierra Leone stood at 0.509 Index.
The figure is up 7.8% over ten years.
Over the whole period, digital services trade restrictiveness index in Sierra Leone peaked at 0.5118 Index in 2016 and was at its lowest, 0.4721 Index, in 2014.
That places Sierra Leone 9th 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 in Sierra Leone, year by year
| Year | Index | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 0.4721 Index | — |
| 2015 | 0.4721 Index | +0.0% |
| 2016 | 0.5118 Index | +8.4% |
| 2017 | 0.5118 Index | +0.0% |
| 2018 | 0.5118 Index | +0.0% |
| 2019 | 0.4905 Index | -4.1% |
| 2020 | 0.509 Index | +3.8% |
| 2021 | 0.509 Index | +0.0% |
| 2022 | 0.509 Index | +0.0% |
| 2023 | 0.509 Index | +0.0% |
| 2024 | 0.509 Index | +0.0% |
| 2025 | 0.509 Index | +0.0% |
Sierra Leone compared with similar countries
- Sierra Leone's 0.509 Index is above the median for low income countries, which is 0.3225 Index, 1.6× the median. (18 countries reporting)
- Sierra Leone's 0.509 Index is above the median for Sub-Saharan Africa, which is 0.3022 Index, 1.7× the median. (39 countries reporting)
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010s | 0.495 Index | 0.4721 Index | 0.5118 Index | 6 |
| 2020s | 0.509 Index | 0.509 Index | 0.509 Index | 6 |
Countries ranked near Sierra Leone
- 6 Cabo Verde 0.2522 Index compare
- 6 Sudan 0.521 Index compare
- 7 Poland 0.2416 Index compare
- 7 Comoros 0.5185 Index compare
- 8 Latvia 0.1835 Index compare
- 8 South Sudan 0.5162 Index compare
- 9 Lesotho 0.1661 Index compare
- 9 Burundi 0.509 Index compare
- 10 Slovenia 0.141 Index compare
- 11 Zimbabwe 0.5069 Index compare
- 12 Russia 0.4676 Index compare
- 12 Lithuania 0.0644 Index compare
- 12 Netherlands 0.0644 Index compare
More economy & growth data for Sierra Leone
- Africa's Development Dynamics (AfDD) Table 04 - Annual real GDP 2.55 Percent per annum (2029)
- Africa's Development Dynamics (AfDD) Table 02 - Annual real GDP 4.53 Percent per annum (2029)
- SDRs holdings, US dollar, annual growth rate -18.54 % change on previous year (2025)
- SDRs holdings, US dollar, per unit of GDP 0.0324 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- SDRs holdings, US dollar, per capita 27.41 units per person (2025)
- SDRs holdings, SDR, annual growth rate -22.43 % change on previous year (2025)
- SDRs holdings, SDR, per unit of GDP 0.0236 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- SDRs holdings, SDR, per capita 20.01 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 0.0381 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is digital services trade restrictiveness index in Sierra Leone?
- Digital services trade restrictiveness index in Sierra Leone was 0.509 Index in 2025, according to Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
- What is the highest digital services trade restrictiveness index recorded in Sierra Leone?
- The highest recorded value was 0.5118 Index in 2016.
- What is the lowest digital services trade restrictiveness index recorded in Sierra Leone?
- The lowest recorded value was 0.4721 Index in 2014.
- How does Sierra Leone rank for digital services trade restrictiveness index?
- Sierra Leone ranks 9th out of 109 countries with data for 2025.
- Is digital services trade restrictiveness index rising or falling in Sierra Leone?
- Over the last ten years it is up 7.8%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Sierra Leone 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