Intra-EEA Services Trade Restrictiveness Index — Restrictions to movement of people 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...
What the numbers show
Intra-EEA Services Trade Restrictiveness Index — Restrictions to movement of people is currently reported for 15 countries. The highest value is 0.0141 Index in Austria; the lowest is 0.0141 Index in Poland.
The median across all reporting countries is 0.0141 Index, and the mean is 0.0141 Index.
Intra-EEA Services Trade Restrictiveness Index — Restrictions to: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Austria | 0.0141 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 1 | Czechia | 0.0141 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 1 | Denmark | 0.0141 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 1 | Spain | 0.0141 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 1 | Finland | 0.0141 Index | 2025 | — | volatile |
| 1 | Greece | 0.0141 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 1 | Iceland | 0.0141 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 1 | Italy | 0.0141 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 1 | Luxembourg | 0.0141 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 1 | Portugal | 0.0141 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 1 | Estonia | 0.0141 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 1 | Latvia | 0.0141 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 1 | Lithuania | 0.0141 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 1 | Slovenia | 0.0141 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 1 | Poland | 0.0141 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.
- Slovak Republic 0.0141 Index
About this data
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