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% |
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 South Sudan 0.5162 Index compare
- 9 Burundi 0.509 Index compare
- 9 Sierra Leone 0.509 Index compare
- 12 Russian Federation 0.4676 Index compare
- 13 Mozambique 0.4294 Index compare
- 14 Cambodia 0.4051 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)
- Net primary income (Net income from abroad) (current LCU), annual -123.93 % change on previous year (2025)
- Taxes less subsidies on products (current US$), annual growth rate 14.17 % change on previous year (2025)
- Taxes less subsidies on products (current US$), per unit of GDP 0.0529 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Taxes less subsidies on products (current US$), per capita 159.86 current US$ per person (2025)
- Taxes less subsidies on products (current LCU), annual growth rate 83.24 % change on previous year (2025)
- Taxes less subsidies on products (current LCU), per unit of GDP 1.68 current LCU per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Taxes less subsidies on products (current LCU), per capita 5,083 current LCU per person (2025)
- Special drawing rights per domestic currency (End-of-period (EoP)) 0.0281 (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