Country Finland Norway Sweden Belgium Denmark Luxembourg Netherlands Switzerland Andorra Iceland Liechtenstein St. Lucia Ireland Monaco Palau Germany Marshall Islands New Zealand Portugal San Marino St. Vincent and Grenadines Estonia Jamaica United States of America Barbados Canada Costa Rica Czech Republic Bahamas St. Kitts and Nevis Australia Austria Belize Micronesia Slovakia United Kingdom
Country Cyprus Japan Malta Dominica Lithuania Suriname France Grenada Mali Spain Poland Slovenia Taiwan Trinidad and Tobago Tuvalu Uruguay Vanuatu Cape Verde Kiribati Latvia Papua New Guinea Ghana Nauru Solomon Islands Mauritius Samoa São Tomé and Príncipe Tonga Greece Israel Chile Namibia South Korea Guyana Hong Kong Italy Benin South Africa East Timor
Country Montenegro Serbia Bulgaria Hungary India Mongolia Antigua and Barbuda Botswana Croatia El Salvador Dominican Republic Romania Burkina Faso Philippines Mozambique Brazil Peru Panama Bolivia Bosnia and Herzegovina Comoros Indonesia Kosovo Lesotho Nicaragua Niger Sierra Leone Tanzania Argentina Haiti Nigeria Albania Lebanon Maldives Tunisia Bangladesh Georgia Kenya Mauritania
Status Partly Free Partly Free Partly Free Partly Free Partly Free Partly Free Partly Free Partly Free Partly Free Partly Free Partly Free Partly Free Partly Free Partly Free Partly Free Partly Free Partly Free Partly Free Partly Free Partly Free Partly Free Partly Free Partly Free Partly Free Not Free Not Free Not Free Not Free Not Free Not Free Not Free Not Free Not Free Not Free Not Free Not Free Not Free Not Free Not Free
FREEDOM OF THE PRESS 2012
Rank 2012 155
158 160 161
164 166 168 170 171 172
175
178 179
182
187 189 190 192
Country Morocco Iraq Kyrgyzstan Togo Côte d’Ivoire Gabon Oman Burundi Sri Lanka United Arab Emirates Afghanistan Djibouti Brunei Chad Swaziland Venezuela Sudan Tajikistan Azerbaijan Russia Zimbabwe Ethiopia Kazakhstan The Gambia Rwanda Congo (Kinshasa) West Bank and Gaza Strip Yemen Bahrain Laos Saudi Arabia Somalia Vietnam Burma China Syria Cuba Equatorial Guinea Iran
Status Not Free Not Free Not Free Not Free Not Free Not Free Not Free Not Free Not Free Not Free Not Free Not Free Not Free Not Free Not Free Not Free Not Free Not Free Not Free Not Free Not Free Not Free Not Free Not Free Not Free Not Free Not Free Not Free Not Free Not Free Not Free Not Free Not Free Not Free Not Free Not Free Not Free Not Free Not Free
FREEDOM OF THE PRESS 2012
Rank 2012 193 194 195 196 197
Country Belarus Eritrea Uzbekistan Turkmenistan North Korea
Status Free Partly Free Not Free TOTAL
Rating 93 94 95 96 97
Number of Countries 66 72 59 197
Status Not Free Not Free Not Free Not Free Not Free
Country Palau Marshall Islands New Zealand Australia Micronesia Japan Taiwan Tuvalu Vanuatu Kiribati Papua New Guinea Nauru Solomon Islands Samoa Tonga South Korea Hong Kong East Timor India Mongolia Philippines Indonesia Maldives Bangladesh Nepal Bhutan Fiji Thailand Cambodia Malaysia Pakistan Singapore Sri Lanka Afghanistan Brunei Laos
Country St. Lucia St. Vincent and Grenadines Jamaica United States of America Barbados Canada Costa Rica Bahamas St. Kitts and Nevis Belize Dominica Suriname Grenada Trinidad and Tobago Uruguay Chile Guyana Antigua and Barbuda El Salvador Dominican Republic Brazil Peru Panama Bolivia Nicaragua Argentina Haiti Colombia Ecuador Guatemala Paraguay Honduras Mexico Venezuela Cuba
Country Estonia Czech Republic Slovakia Lithuania Poland Slovenia Latvia Montenegro Serbia Bulgaria Hungary Croatia Romania Bosnia and Herzegovina Kosovo Albania Georgia Macedonia Moldova Ukraine Armenia Kyrgyzstan Tajikistan Azerbaijan Russia Kazakhstan Belarus Uzbekistan Turkmenistan
Status Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Partly Free Partly Free Partly Free Partly Free Partly Free Partly Free Partly Free Partly Free Partly Free Partly Free Partly Free Partly Free Partly Free Not Free Not Free Not Free Not Free Not Free Not Free Not Free Not Free Not Free
FREEDOM OF THE PRESS 2012
Status Free Partly Free Not Free TOTAL
Number of Countries 7 13 9 29
Percentage of Total 24 45 31 100
Sub-Region Comparison Central and Easter Europe/Eurasia Region and Average Press Number of Countries Sub-region Freedom Score 29 51.2 CEE/Eurasia Central and 17 34.3 Eastern Europe 12 75.3 Eurasia
Country Mali Cape Verde Ghana Mauritius São Tomé and Príncipe Namibia Benin South Africa Botswana Burkina Faso Mozambique Comoros Lesotho Niger Sierra Leone Tanzania Nigeria Kenya Mauritania Congo (Brazzaville) Senegal Seychelles Guinea-Bissau Uganda South Sudan Liberia Malawi Zambia Central African Republic Guinea Madagascar Angola Cameroon Togo Côte d’Ivoire Gabon
Status Free Free Free Free Free Partly Free Partly Free Partly Free Partly Free Partly Free Partly Free Partly Free Partly Free Partly Free Partly Free Partly Free Partly Free Partly Free Partly Free Partly Free Partly Free Partly Free Partly Free Partly Free Partly Free Partly Free Partly Free Partly Free Not Free Not Free Not Free Not Free Not Free Not Free Not Free Not Free
FREEDOM OF THE PRESS 2012
Rank 2012 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 45 46 47 48 49
Country Burundi Djibouti Chad Swaziland Sudan Zimbabwe Ethiopia The Gambia Rwanda Congo (Kinshasa) Somalia Equatorial Guinea Eritrea
Status Free Partly Free Not Free TOTAL
Rating 72 74 75 76 78 80 81 81 82 83 84 91 94
Number of Countries 5 23 21 49
Status Not Free Not Free Not Free Not Free Not Free Not Free Not Free Not Free Not Free Not Free Not Free Not Free Not Free
Percentage of Total 10 47 43 100
FREEDOM OF THE PRESS 2012
MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA Rank 2012 1 2 4 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 16 18 19
Country Israel Lebanon Tunisia Egypt Kuwait Libya Algeria Jordan Qatar Morocco Iraq Oman United Arab Emirates West Bank and Gaza Strip Yemen Bahrain Saudi Arabia Syria Iran
Status Free Partly Free Partly Free Partly Free Partly Free Partly Free Not Free Not Free Not Free Not Free Not Free Not Free Not Free Not Free Not Free Not Free Not Free Not Free Not Free
Percentage of Total 5.3 26.3 68.4 100
FREEDOM OF THE PRESS 2012
WESTERN EUROPE Rank 2012 Country 1 Finland Norway Sweden 4 Belgium Denmark 5 Luxembourg Netherlands Switzerland 9 Andorra Iceland 10 Liechtenstein 12 Ireland Monaco 14 Germany Portugal San Marino 17 Austria United Kingdom 19 Cyprus Malta 21 France Spain 23 Greece 24 Italy 25
