Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index in Tanzania
Tanzania: Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index was 0.5267 Index in 2025. ▲ Rising
Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index in Tanzania, 2014–2025
Source: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Measured in Index.
Analysis
Tanzania recorded 0.5267 Index for digital services trade restrictiveness index in 2025. That is the highest value across all 12 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 13.4% over ten years.
Over the whole period, digital services trade restrictiveness index in Tanzania peaked at 0.5267 Index in 2020 and was at its lowest, 0.4636 Index, in 2014.
Tanzania ranks 5th of 109 countries on this measure, 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 Tanzania, year by year
| Year | Index | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 0.4636 Index | — |
| 2015 | 0.4644 Index | +0.2% |
| 2016 | 0.4644 Index | +0.0% |
| 2017 | 0.4644 Index | +0.0% |
| 2018 | 0.5083 Index | +9.5% |
| 2019 | 0.5083 Index | +0.0% |
| 2020 | 0.5267 Index | +3.6% |
| 2021 | 0.5267 Index | +0.0% |
| 2022 | 0.5267 Index | +0.0% |
| 2023 | 0.5267 Index | +0.0% |
| 2024 | 0.5267 Index | +0.0% |
| 2025 | 0.5267 Index | +0.0% |
Tanzania compared with similar countries
- Tanzania's 0.5267 Index is above the median for lower middle income countries, which is 0.2966 Index, 1.8× the median. (30 countries reporting)
- Tanzania's 0.5267 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 | 0.4789 Index | 0.4636 Index | 0.5083 Index | 6 |
| 2020s | 0.5267 Index | 0.5267 Index | 0.5267 Index | 6 |
Countries ranked near Tanzania
- 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
- 5 Madagascar 0.2599 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
- 8 South Sudan 0.5162 Index compare
More economy & growth data for Tanzania
- Africa's Development Dynamics (AfDD) Table 04 - Annual real GDP 3.67 Percent per annum (2029)
- Africa's Development Dynamics (AfDD) Table 02 - Annual real GDP 6.5 Percent per annum (2029)
- SDRs holdings, US dollar, annual growth rate -55.52 % change on previous year (2024)
- SDRs holdings, US dollar, per unit of GDP 0.0011 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- SDRs holdings, US dollar, per capita 1.44 units per person (2025)
- SDRs holdings, SDR, annual growth rate -54.24 % change on previous year (2024)
- SDRs holdings, SDR, per unit of GDP 0.0008 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- SDRs holdings, SDR, per capita 1.05 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 0.0051 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is digital services trade restrictiveness index in Tanzania?
- Digital services trade restrictiveness index in Tanzania was 0.5267 Index in 2025, according to Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
- What is the highest digital services trade restrictiveness index recorded in Tanzania?
- The highest recorded value was 0.5267 Index in 2020.
- What is the lowest digital services trade restrictiveness index recorded in Tanzania?
- The lowest recorded value was 0.4636 Index in 2014.
- How does Tanzania rank for digital services trade restrictiveness index?
- Tanzania ranks 5th out of 109 countries with data for 2025.
- Is digital services trade restrictiveness index rising or falling in Tanzania?
- Over the last ten years it is up 13.4%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Tanzania 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