Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe: Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index was 0.5069 Index in 2025. ▼ Falling
Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index in Zimbabwe, 2014–2025
Source: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Measured in Index.
Analysis
Zimbabwe recorded 0.5069 Index for digital services trade restrictiveness index in 2025. That is the lowest value across all 12 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 19.8% over ten years.
Over the whole period, digital services trade restrictiveness index in Zimbabwe peaked at 0.6319 Index in 2014 and was at its lowest, 0.5069 Index, in 2023.
Zimbabwe ranks 11th of 109 countries on this measure, in the top 10%.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 12 years of available data.
Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index in Zimbabwe, year by year
| Year | Index | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 0.6319 Index | — |
| 2015 | 0.6319 Index | +0.0% |
| 2016 | 0.6319 Index | +0.0% |
| 2017 | 0.6287 Index | -0.5% |
| 2018 | 0.6287 Index | +0.0% |
| 2019 | 0.6287 Index | +0.0% |
| 2020 | 0.6075 Index | -3.4% |
| 2021 | 0.5281 Index | -13.1% |
| 2022 | 0.5281 Index | +0.0% |
| 2023 | 0.5069 Index | -4.0% |
| 2024 | 0.5069 Index | +0.0% |
| 2025 | 0.5069 Index | +0.0% |
Zimbabwe compared with similar countries
- Zimbabwe's 0.5069 Index is above the median for lower middle income countries, which is 0.2966 Index, 1.7× the median. (30 countries reporting)
- Zimbabwe's 0.5069 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 | 0.6303 Index | 0.6287 Index | 0.6319 Index | 6 |
| 2020s | 0.5307 Index | 0.5069 Index | 0.6075 Index | 6 |
Countries ranked near Zimbabwe
- 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
- 10 Slovenia 0.141 Index compare
- 12 Russia 0.4676 Index compare
- 12 Lithuania 0.0644 Index compare
- 12 Netherlands 0.0644 Index compare
- 13 Mozambique 0.4294 Index compare
- 14 Cambodia 0.4051 Index compare
- 14 Mauritania 0.0616 Index compare
More economy & growth data for Zimbabwe
- Africa's Development Dynamics (AfDD) Table 04 - Annual real GDP 1.02 Percent per annum (2029)
- Africa's Development Dynamics (AfDD) Table 02 - Annual real GDP 3 Percent per annum (2029)
- SDRs holdings, US dollar, annual growth rate 139.91 % change on previous year (2025)
- SDRs holdings, US dollar, per unit of GDP 0.0001 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- SDRs holdings, US dollar, per capita 0.1973 units per person (2025)
- SDRs holdings, SDR, annual growth rate 128.46 % change on previous year (2025)
- SDRs holdings, SDR, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- SDRs holdings, SDR, per capita 0.1441 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 0.0189 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is digital services trade restrictiveness index in Zimbabwe?
- Digital services trade restrictiveness index in Zimbabwe was 0.5069 Index in 2025, according to Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
- What is the highest digital services trade restrictiveness index recorded in Zimbabwe?
- The highest recorded value was 0.6319 Index in 2014.
- What is the lowest digital services trade restrictiveness index recorded in Zimbabwe?
- The lowest recorded value was 0.5069 Index in 2023.
- How does Zimbabwe rank for digital services trade restrictiveness index?
- Zimbabwe ranks 11th out of 109 countries with data for 2025.
- Is digital services trade restrictiveness index rising or falling in Zimbabwe?
- Over the last ten years it is down 19.8%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Zimbabwe 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