Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index in Sudan
Sudan: Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index was 0.521 Index in 2025. ▲ Rising
Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index in Sudan, 2014–2025
Source: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Measured in Index.
Analysis
In 2025, digital services trade restrictiveness index in Sudan stood at 0.521 Index. That is the highest value across all 12 years on record.
That represents a change of up 18.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, digital services trade restrictiveness index in Sudan peaked at 0.521 Index in 2022 and was at its lowest, 0.4417 Index, in 2014.
That places Sudan 6th 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 Sudan, year by year
| Year | Index | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 0.4417 Index | — |
| 2015 | 0.4417 Index | +0.0% |
| 2016 | 0.4417 Index | +0.0% |
| 2017 | 0.4417 Index | +0.0% |
| 2018 | 0.4417 Index | +0.0% |
| 2019 | 0.4417 Index | +0.0% |
| 2020 | 0.4417 Index | +0.0% |
| 2021 | 0.4417 Index | +0.0% |
| 2022 | 0.521 Index | +18.0% |
| 2023 | 0.521 Index | +0.0% |
| 2024 | 0.521 Index | +0.0% |
| 2025 | 0.521 Index | +0.0% |
Sudan compared with similar countries
- Sudan's 0.521 Index is above the median for low income countries, which is 0.3225 Index, 1.6× the median. (18 countries reporting)
- Sudan's 0.521 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 | 0.4417 Index | 0.4417 Index | 0.4417 Index | 6 |
| 2020s | 0.4946 Index | 0.4417 Index | 0.521 Index | 6 |
Countries ranked near Sudan
- 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
- 5 Madagascar 0.2599 Index compare
- 5 Tanzania 0.5267 Index compare
- 6 Cabo Verde 0.2522 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
- 9 Sierra Leone 0.509 Index compare
More economy & growth data for Sudan
- Africa's Development Dynamics (AfDD) Table 04 - Annual real GDP 2.1 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 4.89 % change on previous year (2025)
- SDRs holdings, US dollar, per unit of GDP 0.0175 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- SDRs holdings, US dollar, per capita 20.38 units per person (2025)
- SDRs holdings, SDR, annual growth rate -0.1146 % change on previous year (2025)
- SDRs holdings, SDR, per unit of GDP 0.0128 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- SDRs holdings, SDR, per capita 14.88 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 0.0143 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is digital services trade restrictiveness index in Sudan?
- Digital services trade restrictiveness index in Sudan was 0.521 Index in 2025, according to Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
- What is the highest digital services trade restrictiveness index recorded in Sudan?
- The highest recorded value was 0.521 Index in 2022.
- What is the lowest digital services trade restrictiveness index recorded in Sudan?
- The lowest recorded value was 0.4417 Index in 2014.
- How does Sudan rank for digital services trade restrictiveness index?
- Sudan ranks 6th out of 109 countries with data for 2025.
- Is digital services trade restrictiveness index rising or falling in Sudan?
- Over the last ten years it is up 18.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this 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