Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index Regulatory Database

The Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index database identifies and catalogues barriers that affect trade in digitally enabled services across 129 countries and economies. The STRI indicators and database have been updated to 2025. The entries in the database are documented with reference to the sources.

The policy measures are categorised under five policy areas:

• Infrastructure and connectivity
• Electronic transactions
• Payment systems
• Intellectual property rights
• Other barriers affecting trade in digitally enabled services.

Regulatory data for the following countries was collected in collaboration with:

• the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean: Argentina; Bolivia; Dominican Republic; Ecuador; Guatemala; Honduras; Nicaragua; Panama; Paraguay; El Salavador; Uruguay.
• the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific: Brunei Darussalam; Cambodia; Lao PDR; Hong-Kong, China; Nepal; Pakistan; Vanuatu.
• the UN Economic Commission for Africa: All 54 African countries. Countries for which the data has been validated by government authorities: experts from the ministries of trade and/or communication are: Benin; Burkina Faso; Cameroon; Comores; Egypt; Ethiopia; Eswatini; Gambia (the); Kenya; Lesotho; Madagascar; Mali; Rwanda; Sao Tome and Principe; Senegal; Seychelles; Togo; Uganda; Zambia; Zimbabwe.
• the OECD Global Relations Secretariat South East Europe Division: Albania; Bosnia and Herzegovina; Montenegro; North Macedonia; Serbia; Kosovo*.

  A zip file containing the STRI indices for all countries and sectors available over 2014-2025 can be downloaded here: OECD Digital STRI Regulatory Database 2014-2025

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