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Intra-EEA Services Trade Restrictiveness Index — Barriers to competition by country

The intra-EEA Services Trade Restrictiveness Index identifies and catalogues which policy measures restrict trade within the European Economic Area (EEA) for 24 OECD EU member countries (25 up to 2020). It complements the existing STRI, which quantifies multilateral services trade restrictiveness, allowing to track...

Countries reporting
22
Highest
0.0273 Index
Iceland
Lowest
0.0091 Index
Austria
Median
0.0091 Index
Years covered
12
2014–2025
Data points
295

What the numbers show

Intra-EEA Services Trade Restrictiveness Index — Barriers to competition is currently reported for 22 countries. The highest value is 0.0273 Index in Iceland; the lowest is 0.0091 Index in Austria.

The median across all reporting countries is 0.0091 Index, and the mean is 0.012 Index.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 3.

Intra-EEA Services Trade Restrictiveness Index — Barriers to: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Iceland 0.0273 Index 2025 unchanged flat
1 Poland 0.0091 Index 2025 unchanged flat
1 Slovenia 0.0091 Index 2025 unchanged flat
1 Lithuania 0.0091 Index 2025 unchanged flat
1 Latvia 0.0091 Index 2025 unchanged flat
1 Estonia 0.0091 Index 2025 unchanged flat
2 France 0.0182 Index 2025 unchanged flat
2 Greece 0.0182 Index 2025 unchanged flat
2 Italy 0.0182 Index 2025 unchanged flat
2 Norway 0.0182 Index 2025 down 33.3% falling
2 Sweden 0.0182 Index 2025 unchanged flat
7 Hungary 0.0091 Index 2025 unchanged flat
7 Ireland 0.0091 Index 2025 unchanged flat
7 Finland 0.0091 Index 2025 unchanged falling
7 Luxembourg 0.0091 Index 2025 unchanged flat
7 Portugal 0.0091 Index 2025 unchanged flat
7 Spain 0.0091 Index 2025 unchanged flat
7 Denmark 0.0091 Index 2025 unchanged flat
7 Germany 0.0091 Index 2025 down 50.0% falling
7 Czechia 0.0091 Index 2025 unchanged flat
7 Belgium 0.0091 Index 2025 unchanged flat
7 Austria 0.0091 Index 2025 unchanged flat

Regions and income groups

Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.

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Indicator
Intra-EEA Services Trade Restrictiveness Index — Barriers to competition
Unit
Index
Source
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Licence
OECD Terms and Conditions (attribution required)
Coverage
25 places, 295 data points, 2014–2025
Last refreshed

The intra-EEA Services Trade Restrictiveness Index identifies and catalogues which policy measures restrict trade within the European Economic Area (EEA) for 24 OECD EU member countries (25 up to 2020). It complements the existing STRI, which quantifies multilateral services trade restrictiveness, allowing to track the progress of regional services integration across 22 services sectors. A zip file containing the STRI indices for all countries and sectors available over 2014-2025 can be downloaded here: OECD INTREEA STRI 2014-2025