Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index in South Sudan
South Sudan: Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index was 0.5162 Index in 2025. ▬ Flat
Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index in South Sudan, 2014–2025
Source: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Measured in Index.
Analysis
The most recent figure for digital services trade restrictiveness index in South Sudan is 0.5162 Index, measured in 2025. 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 South Sudan peaked at 0.5162 Index in 2015 and was at its lowest, 0.4978 Index, in 2014.
South Sudan ranks 8th of 109 countries on this measure, in the top 10%.
Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index in South Sudan, year by year
| Year | Index | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 0.4978 Index | — |
| 2015 | 0.5162 Index | +3.7% |
| 2016 | 0.5162 Index | +0.0% |
| 2017 | 0.5162 Index | +0.0% |
| 2018 | 0.5162 Index | +0.0% |
| 2019 | 0.5162 Index | +0.0% |
| 2020 | 0.5162 Index | +0.0% |
| 2021 | 0.5162 Index | +0.0% |
| 2022 | 0.5162 Index | +0.0% |
| 2023 | 0.5162 Index | +0.0% |
| 2024 | 0.5162 Index | +0.0% |
| 2025 | 0.5162 Index | +0.0% |
South Sudan compared with similar countries
- South Sudan's 0.5162 Index is above the median for low income countries, which is 0.3225 Index, 1.6× the median. (18 countries reporting)
- South Sudan's 0.5162 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 | 0.5131 Index | 0.4978 Index | 0.5162 Index | 6 |
| 2020s | 0.5162 Index | 0.5162 Index | 0.5162 Index | 6 |
Countries ranked near South Sudan
- 5 Madagascar 0.2599 Index compare
- 5 Tanzania 0.5267 Index compare
- 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
- 9 Lesotho 0.1661 Index compare
- 9 Burundi 0.509 Index compare
- 9 Sierra Leone 0.509 Index compare
- 10 Slovenia 0.141 Index compare
- 11 Zimbabwe 0.5069 Index compare
More economy & growth data for South Sudan
- Africa's Development Dynamics (AfDD) Table 04 - Annual real GDP 3.82 Percent per annum (2029)
- Africa's Development Dynamics (AfDD) Table 02 - Annual real GDP 5.77 Percent per annum (2029)
- SDRs holdings, US dollar, annual growth rate -90.56 % change on previous year (2025)
- SDRs holdings, US dollar, per capita 0.0268 units per person (2025)
- SDRs holdings, SDR, annual growth rate -91.01 % change on previous year (2025)
- SDRs holdings, SDR, per capita 0.0195 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 capita 27.64 units per person (2025)
- IMF holdings of currency, SDR, annual growth rate 0 % change on previous year (2025)
- IMF holdings of currency, SDR, per capita 20.18 units per person (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is digital services trade restrictiveness index in South Sudan?
- Digital services trade restrictiveness index in South Sudan was 0.5162 Index in 2025, according to Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
- What is the highest digital services trade restrictiveness index recorded in South Sudan?
- The highest recorded value was 0.5162 Index in 2015.
- What is the lowest digital services trade restrictiveness index recorded in South Sudan?
- The lowest recorded value was 0.4978 Index in 2014.
- How does South Sudan rank for digital services trade restrictiveness index?
- South Sudan ranks 8th out of 109 countries with data for 2025.
- Is digital services trade restrictiveness index rising or falling in South Sudan?
- Over the last ten years it is unchanged. The long-run trend across the full record is flat.
- Where does this South Sudan 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