Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index in Vanuatu
Vanuatu: Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index was 0.0648 Index in 2025. ▼ Falling
Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index in Vanuatu, 2014–2025
Source: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Measured in Index.
Analysis
In 2025, digital services trade restrictiveness index in Vanuatu stood at 0.0648 Index. That is the lowest value across all 12 years on record.
The figure is down 55.0% on the previous year and down 68.9% over ten years.
Over the whole period, digital services trade restrictiveness index in Vanuatu peaked at 0.2083 Index in 2014 and was at its lowest, 0.0648 Index, in 2025.
That places Vanuatu 93rd out of 109 countries with data for 2025, putting it in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 12 years of available data.
Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index in Vanuatu, year by year
| Year | Index | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 0.2083 Index | — |
| 2015 | 0.2083 Index | +0.0% |
| 2016 | 0.1871 Index | -10.2% |
| 2017 | 0.1871 Index | +0.0% |
| 2018 | 0.1871 Index | +0.0% |
| 2019 | 0.1871 Index | +0.0% |
| 2020 | 0.1442 Index | -22.9% |
| 2021 | 0.1442 Index | +0.0% |
| 2022 | 0.1442 Index | +0.0% |
| 2023 | 0.1442 Index | +0.0% |
| 2024 | 0.1442 Index | +0.0% |
| 2025 | 0.0648 Index | -55.0% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010s | 0.1942 Index | 0.1871 Index | 0.2083 Index | 6 |
| 2020s | 0.131 Index | 0.0648 Index | 0.1442 Index | 6 |
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More economy & growth data for Vanuatu
- Africa's Development Dynamics (AfDD) Table 04 - Annual real GDP 0.2699 Percent per annum (2029)
- Africa's Development Dynamics (AfDD) Table 02 - Annual real GDP 2.49 Percent per annum (2029)
- Net primary income (Net income from abroad) (current LCU), annual 46.46 % change on previous year (2025)
- Taxes less subsidies on products (current US$), annual growth rate 4.49 % change on previous year (2024)
- Taxes less subsidies on products (current US$), per unit of GDP 0.1023 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2024)
- Taxes less subsidies on products (current US$), per capita 405.05 current US$ per person (2024)
- Taxes less subsidies on products (current LCU), annual growth rate 4.54 % change on previous year (2024)
- Taxes less subsidies on products (current LCU), per unit of GDP 12.19 current LCU per US$ of GDP (2024)
- Taxes less subsidies on products (current LCU), per capita 48,268 current LCU per person (2024)
- Special drawing rights per domestic currency (End-of-period (EoP)) 0.0062 (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is digital services trade restrictiveness index in Vanuatu?
- Digital services trade restrictiveness index in Vanuatu was 0.0648 Index in 2025, according to Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
- What is the highest digital services trade restrictiveness index recorded in Vanuatu?
- The highest recorded value was 0.2083 Index in 2014.
- What is the lowest digital services trade restrictiveness index recorded in Vanuatu?
- The lowest recorded value was 0.0648 Index in 2025.
- How does Vanuatu rank for digital services trade restrictiveness index?
- Vanuatu ranks 93rd out of 109 countries with data for 2025.
- Is digital services trade restrictiveness index rising or falling in Vanuatu?
- Over the last ten years it is down 68.9%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Vanuatu 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