Services Trade Restrictiveness Index by services sector 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 is currently reported for 39 countries. The highest value is 0.4736 Index in Iceland; the lowest is 0.1153 Index in Japan.
The median across all reporting countries is 0.2212 Index, and the mean is 0.2314 Index.
The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 4.
Over the past decade 22 countries rose and 13 fell. The largest increase was in Ireland (up 39.4%), and the largest decrease in Portugal (down 45.7%).
Services Trade Restrictiveness Index by services sector: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Iceland | 0.4736 Index | 2025 | up 3.7% | flat |
| 2 | Russian Federation | 0.3885 Index | 2025 | up 28.0% | rising |
| 3 | Thailand | 0.3833 Index | 2025 | down 16.5% | falling |
| 4 | Indonesia | 0.3331 Index | 2025 | down 2.0% | flat |
| 5 | Kazakhstan | 0.3228 Index | 2025 | up 6.0% | flat |
| 6 | Philippines | 0.3147 Index | 2025 | down 3.6% | falling |
| 7 | Israel | 0.2827 Index | 2025 | up 4.4% | rising |
| 8 | Hungary | 0.2748 Index | 2025 | up 37.7% | rising |
| 9 | Italy | 0.2638 Index | 2025 | up 4.7% | rising |
| 10 | Mexico | 0.2637 Index | 2025 | down 0.6% | flat |
| 11 | Malaysia | 0.2601 Index | 2025 | down 11.4% | falling |
| 12 | Colombia | 0.2562 Index | 2025 | up 11.1% | rising |
| 13 | Finland | 0.2527 Index | 2025 | up 37.4% | rising |
| 14 | Greece | 0.2468 Index | 2025 | down 11.9% | falling |
| 15 | Australia | 0.2329 Index | 2025 | up 1.0% | rising |
| 16 | Brazil | 0.2278 Index | 2025 | down 16.3% | falling |
| 17 | China | 0.2276 Index | 2025 | down 12.6% | falling |
| 18 | Belgium | 0.2267 Index | 2025 | down 6.5% | flat |
| 19 | Norway | 0.2233 Index | 2025 | up 9.6% | rising |
| 20 | Switzerland | 0.2212 Index | 2025 | up 4.3% | flat |
| 21 | Singapore | 0.2128 Index | 2025 | up 5.9% | rising |
| 22 | Peru | 0.2099 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 23 | Canada | 0.2094 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 24 | India | 0.2042 Index | 2025 | up 7.0% | flat |
| 25 | Denmark | 0.1978 Index | 2025 | up 25.5% | rising |
| 26 | Sweden | 0.1976 Index | 2025 | up 11.9% | rising |
| 27 | Luxembourg | 0.194 Index | 2025 | up 5.0% | rising |
| 28 | Austria | 0.1936 Index | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 29 | Chile | 0.1848 Index | 2025 | up 29.8% | rising |
| 30 | Ireland | 0.1837 Index | 2025 | up 39.4% | rising |
| 31 | New Zealand | 0.1774 Index | 2025 | down 2.7% | rising |
| 32 | France | 0.1771 Index | 2025 | up 2.9% | flat |
| 33 | Czechia | 0.1696 Index | 2025 | up 18.1% | rising |
| 34 | South Africa | 0.1601 Index | 2025 | up 11.7% | rising |
| 35 | Costa Rica | 0.1595 Index | 2025 | down 10.3% | falling |
| 36 | Germany | 0.1531 Index | 2025 | up 12.4% | rising |
| 37 | Portugal | 0.1268 Index | 2025 | down 45.7% | falling |
| 38 | Spain | 0.1206 Index | 2025 | down 12.0% | falling |
| 39 | Japan | 0.1153 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.
- Poland 0.288 Index
- Türkiye 0.2753 Index
- Slovenia 0.2612 Index
- Estonia 0.2429 Index
- United States 0.2088 Index
- Korea 0.2059 Index
- Slovak Republic 0.1978 Index
- Lithuania 0.1814 Index
- Latvia 0.1364 Index
- United Kingdom 0.1253 Index
- Netherlands 0.1086 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