Services Trade Restrictiveness Index by services sector — Barriers to competition by country
The OECD STRI is a unique, evidence-based tool that collects information on services trade restrictions across 22 services sectors. The project has two distinct but complementary instruments: a services trade regulatory database and a services trade restrictiveness index. Based on the qualitative information in the...
What the numbers show
Services Trade Restrictiveness Index by services sector — Barriers to competition is currently reported for 38 countries. The highest value is 0.0364 Index in Singapore; the lowest is 0 Index in India.
The median across all reporting countries is 0.0091 Index, and the mean is 0.0134 Index.
Over the past decade 2 countries rose and 4 fell. The largest increase was in Türkiye (up 100.0%), and the largest decrease in Costa Rica (down 100.0%).
Services Trade Restrictiveness Index by services sector — Barriers to: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Singapore | 0.0364 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 1 | Kazakhstan | 0.0364 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 1 | Türkiye | 0.0182 Index | 2025 | up 100.0% | rising |
| 1 | Viet Nam | 0.0182 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 2 | Poland | 0.0091 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 2 | Slovenia | 0.0091 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 2 | Lithuania | 0.0091 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 2 | Latvia | 0.0091 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 2 | Estonia | 0.0091 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 3 | Indonesia | 0.0273 Index | 2025 | unchanged | rising |
| 3 | Iceland | 0.0273 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 5 | Greece | 0.0182 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 5 | Sweden | 0.0182 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 5 | Russian Federation | 0.0182 Index | 2025 | up 100.0% | rising |
| 5 | Thailand | 0.0182 Index | 2025 | down 33.3% | falling |
| 5 | Norway | 0.0182 Index | 2025 | down 33.3% | falling |
| 5 | Malaysia | 0.0182 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 5 | Italy | 0.0182 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 5 | France | 0.0182 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 13 | Switzerland | 0.0091 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 13 | China | 0.0091 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 13 | Czechia | 0.0091 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 13 | Belgium | 0.0091 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 13 | Germany | 0.0091 Index | 2025 | down 50.0% | falling |
| 13 | Denmark | 0.0091 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 13 | Austria | 0.0091 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 13 | Australia | 0.0091 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 13 | Spain | 0.0091 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 13 | Portugal | 0.0091 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 13 | Philippines | 0.0091 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 13 | Peru | 0.0091 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 13 | Luxembourg | 0.0091 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 13 | Finland | 0.0091 Index | 2025 | unchanged | falling |
| 13 | Japan | 0.0091 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 13 | Ireland | 0.0091 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 13 | Hungary | 0.0091 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 30 | Costa Rica | 0 Index | 2025 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 30 | India | 0 Index | 2025 | — | volatile |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- Slovak Republic 0.0091 Index
- Korea 0.0091 Index
About this data
The OECD STRI is a unique, evidence-based tool that collects information on services trade restrictions across 22 services sectors. The project has two distinct but complementary instruments: a services trade regulatory database and a services trade restrictiveness index. Based on the qualitative information in the database, composite indices quantify the identified restrictions across five standard policy categories, with values between zero and one. Complete openness to trade and investment gives a score of zero, while being completely closed to foreign services providers yields a score of one. This dataset presents a breakdown by economic activity at group- (3-digit) level of International Standard Industrial Classification, Revision 4 (ISIC Rev.4): ISIC Rev. 4. A zip file containing the STRI indices for all countries and sectors available over 2014-2025 can be downloaded here: OECD STRI 2025