Services Trade Restrictiveness Index by services sector — Restrictions to movement of people 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 — Restrictions to movement of people is currently reported for 49 countries. The highest value is 0.1697 Index in Iceland; the lowest is 0.0283 Index in Spain.
The median across all reporting countries is 0.0849 Index, and the mean is 0.095 Index.
The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 6.
Over the past decade 11 countries rose and 8 fell. The largest increase was in Colombia (up 100.0%), and the largest decrease in Portugal (down 58.3%).
Services Trade Restrictiveness Index by services sector: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Iceland | 0.1697 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 1 | Slovenia | 0.1697 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 1 | Poland | 0.1697 Index | 2025 | up 33.3% | rising |
| 1 | Viet Nam | 0.099 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 2 | Thailand | 0.1414 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 2 | Italy | 0.1414 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 2 | Hungary | 0.1414 Index | 2025 | up 42.9% | rising |
| 3 | Estonia | 0.1414 Index | 2025 | down 9.1% | falling |
| 4 | United States | 0.1131 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 5 | Switzerland | 0.1273 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 5 | Russian Federation | 0.1273 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 5 | Philippines | 0.1273 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 5 | Israel | 0.1273 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 6 | Lithuania | 0.0849 Index | 2025 | up 50.0% | rising |
| 6 | Türkiye | 0.0849 Index | 2025 | down 25.0% | falling |
| 8 | United Kingdom | 0.0707 Index | 2025 | down 37.5% | falling |
| 9 | Kazakhstan | 0.1131 Index | 2025 | up 14.3% | rising |
| 9 | Austria | 0.1131 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 9 | Indonesia | 0.1131 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 9 | Denmark | 0.1131 Index | 2025 | up 14.3% | rising |
| 10 | Netherlands | 0.0566 Index | 2025 | down 33.3% | falling |
| 11 | Latvia | 0.0424 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 13 | Singapore | 0.099 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 13 | Chile | 0.099 Index | 2025 | up 75.0% | rising |
| 13 | Finland | 0.099 Index | 2025 | up 16.7% | falling |
| 13 | Peru | 0.099 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 13 | Malaysia | 0.099 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 13 | Ireland | 0.099 Index | 2025 | up 16.7% | rising |
| 13 | Mexico | 0.099 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 20 | Norway | 0.0849 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 20 | Belgium | 0.0849 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 20 | China | 0.0849 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 20 | Colombia | 0.0849 Index | 2025 | up 100.0% | rising |
| 20 | Costa Rica | 0.0849 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 20 | Czechia | 0.0849 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 20 | India | 0.0849 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 20 | New Zealand | 0.0849 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 28 | Portugal | 0.0707 Index | 2025 | down 58.3% | falling |
| 28 | France | 0.0707 Index | 2025 | up 25.0% | rising |
| 28 | Greece | 0.0707 Index | 2025 | down 37.5% | falling |
| 28 | Brazil | 0.0707 Index | 2025 | down 37.5% | falling |
| 28 | Luxembourg | 0.0707 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 33 | Australia | 0.0566 Index | 2025 | up 33.3% | rising |
| 33 | Germany | 0.0566 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 33 | Sweden | 0.0566 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 33 | Japan | 0.0566 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 33 | Canada | 0.0566 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 38 | South Africa | 0.0283 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 38 | Spain | 0.0283 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.
- Slovak Republic 0.1131 Index
- Korea 0.0707 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