Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index in Somalia
Somalia: Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index was 0.6494 Index in 2025. ▬ Flat
Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index in Somalia, 2014–2025
Source: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Measured in Index.
Analysis
In 2025, digital services trade restrictiveness index in Somalia stood at 0.6494 Index. That is the highest value across all 12 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is unchanged over ten years.
Over the whole period, digital services trade restrictiveness index in Somalia peaked at 0.6494 Index in 2014 and was at its lowest, 0.6494 Index, in 2014.
Somalia ranks 1st of 109 countries on this measure, in the top 10%.
Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index in Somalia, year by year
| Year | Index | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 0.6494 Index | — |
| 2015 | 0.6494 Index | +0.0% |
| 2016 | 0.6494 Index | +0.0% |
| 2017 | 0.6494 Index | +0.0% |
| 2018 | 0.6494 Index | +0.0% |
| 2019 | 0.6494 Index | +0.0% |
| 2020 | 0.6494 Index | +0.0% |
| 2021 | 0.6494 Index | +0.0% |
| 2022 | 0.6494 Index | +0.0% |
| 2023 | 0.6494 Index | +0.0% |
| 2024 | 0.6494 Index | +0.0% |
| 2025 | 0.6494 Index | +0.0% |
Somalia compared with similar countries
- Somalia's 0.6494 Index is above the median for low income countries, which is 0.3225 Index, 2.0× the median. (18 countries reporting)
- Somalia's 0.6494 Index is above the median for Sub-Saharan Africa, which is 0.3022 Index, 2.1× the median. (39 countries reporting)
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010s | 0.6494 Index | 0.6494 Index | 0.6494 Index | 6 |
| 2020s | 0.6494 Index | 0.6494 Index | 0.6494 Index | 6 |
Countries ranked near Somalia
- 1 Democratic Republic of the Congo 0.3507 Index compare
- 1 Ethiopia 0.4282 Index compare
- 2 Kazakhstan 0.6071 Index compare
- 2 Viet Nam 0.2252 Index compare
- 2 Eswatini 0.3468 Index compare
- 3 Türkiye 0.3258 Index compare
- 3 Laos 0.5593 Index compare
- 4 Equatorial Guinea 0.3248 Index compare
- 4 Tunisia 0.5277 Index compare
More economy & growth data for Somalia
- Africa's Development Dynamics (AfDD) Table 04 - Annual real GDP 1.52 Percent per annum (2029)
- Africa's Development Dynamics (AfDD) Table 02 - Annual real GDP 4.5 Percent per annum (2029)
- SDRs holdings, US dollar, annual growth rate 25.66 % change on previous year (2025)
- SDRs holdings, US dollar, per unit of GDP 0.0238 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- SDRs holdings, US dollar, per capita 15.71 units per person (2025)
- SDRs holdings, SDR, annual growth rate 19.66 % change on previous year (2025)
- SDRs holdings, SDR, per unit of GDP 0.0174 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- SDRs holdings, SDR, per capita 11.47 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 0.0172 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is digital services trade restrictiveness index in Somalia?
- Digital services trade restrictiveness index in Somalia was 0.6494 Index in 2025, according to Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
- What is the highest digital services trade restrictiveness index recorded in Somalia?
- The highest recorded value was 0.6494 Index in 2014.
- What is the lowest digital services trade restrictiveness index recorded in Somalia?
- The lowest recorded value was 0.6494 Index in 2014.
- How does Somalia rank for digital services trade restrictiveness index?
- Somalia ranks 1st out of 109 countries with data for 2025.
- Is digital services trade restrictiveness index rising or falling in Somalia?
- Over the last ten years it is unchanged. The long-run trend across the full record is flat.
- Where does this Somalia 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