Services Trade Restrictiveness Index by services sector — Other discriminatory measures 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 — Other discriminatory measures is currently reported for 47 countries. The highest value is 0.0737 Index in Colombia; the lowest is 0.0092 Index in France.
The median across all reporting countries is 0.0277 Index, and the mean is 0.0337 Index.
The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 8.
Over the past decade 19 countries rose and 6 fell. The largest increase was in India (up 200.0%), and the largest decrease in Belgium (down 60.0%).
Services Trade Restrictiveness Index by services sector — Other: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Colombia | 0.0737 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 1 | United States | 0.0553 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 1 | Viet Nam | 0.0461 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 2 | Brazil | 0.0645 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 3 | Kazakhstan | 0.0553 Index | 2025 | up 20.0% | rising |
| 3 | Thailand | 0.0553 Index | 2025 | down 14.3% | falling |
| 3 | Philippines | 0.0553 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 3 | Malaysia | 0.0553 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 3 | Mexico | 0.0553 Index | 2025 | down 25.0% | falling |
| 3 | India | 0.0553 Index | 2025 | up 200.0% | rising |
| 3 | Hungary | 0.0553 Index | 2025 | up 20.0% | rising |
| 3 | Greece | 0.0553 Index | 2025 | up 20.0% | rising |
| 3 | Canada | 0.0553 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 3 | Türkiye | 0.0461 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 4 | Latvia | 0.0277 Index | 2025 | up 50.0% | rising |
| 5 | Slovenia | 0.0184 Index | 2025 | up 100.0% | rising |
| 5 | Lithuania | 0.0184 Index | 2025 | up 100.0% | rising |
| 5 | Estonia | 0.0184 Index | 2025 | up 100.0% | rising |
| 5 | Netherlands | 0.0184 Index | 2025 | up 100.0% | rising |
| 5 | Poland | 0.0184 Index | 2025 | up 100.0% | rising |
| 11 | United Kingdom | 0.0092 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 12 | Israel | 0.0461 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 12 | Australia | 0.0461 Index | 2025 | unchanged | rising |
| 12 | Costa Rica | 0.0461 Index | 2025 | down 16.7% | falling |
| 12 | China | 0.0461 Index | 2025 | down 16.7% | falling |
| 12 | Indonesia | 0.0461 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 12 | Russian Federation | 0.0461 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 12 | South Africa | 0.0461 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 12 | Iceland | 0.0461 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 20 | Norway | 0.0277 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 20 | Switzerland | 0.0277 Index | 2025 | up 50.0% | rising |
| 22 | Finland | 0.0184 Index | 2025 | up 100.0% | rising |
| 22 | Italy | 0.0184 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 22 | Denmark | 0.0184 Index | 2025 | up 100.0% | rising |
| 22 | Germany | 0.0184 Index | 2025 | up 100.0% | rising |
| 22 | Belgium | 0.0184 Index | 2025 | down 60.0% | volatile |
| 22 | Ireland | 0.0184 Index | 2025 | up 100.0% | rising |
| 22 | Sweden | 0.0184 Index | 2025 | up 100.0% | rising |
| 22 | Singapore | 0.0184 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 22 | Portugal | 0.0184 Index | 2025 | up 100.0% | rising |
| 22 | Czechia | 0.0184 Index | 2025 | up 100.0% | rising |
| 22 | Luxembourg | 0.0184 Index | 2025 | up 100.0% | rising |
| 33 | Austria | 0.0092 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 33 | Peru | 0.0092 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 33 | Japan | 0.0092 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 33 | Spain | 0.0092 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 33 | France | 0.0092 Index | 2025 | down 50.0% | falling |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- Korea 0.0553 Index
- Slovak Republic 0.0184 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