World Press Freedom Index 2008 - The rankings
Rank 1 4 7 13 14 16 20 21 22 23 26 27 28 29 30 31 35 36 42 43 44 45 46 Country Iceland Luxembourg Norway Estonia Finland Ireland Belgium Latvia New Zealand Slovakia Sweden Switzerland Canada Austria Denmark Czech Republic Lithuania Netherlands Portugal Germany Jamaica Costa Rica Hungary Namibia United Kingdom Surinam Trinidad and Tobago Australia Japan Slovenia Cyprus Ghana Greece Mali France Bosnia and Herzegovina Cape Verde South Africa Spain Taiwan United States of America Macedonia Uruguay Italy Croatia Israel (Israeli territory) Note 1,50 1,50 1,50 2,00 2,00 2,00 3,00 3,00 3,00 3,00 3,00 3,00 3,33 3,50 3,50 4,00 4,00 4,00 4,00 4,50 4,88 5,10 5,50 5,50 5,50 6,00 6,13 6,25 6,50 7,33 7,50 7,50 7,50 7,50 7,67 8,00 8,00 8,00 8,00 8,00 8,00 8,25 8,33 8,42 8,50 8,83 = nc = -
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47 51 53 56 57 58 59 61 62 63 64 65 66 68 69 70 73 74 79 81 82 85 86 87 88 89 90 92 93 94 96 97 98 99
Mauritius Poland Romania South Korea Hong-Kong Liberia Cyprus (North) Montenegro Togo Chile Panama Kosovo Bulgaria Nicaragua Kuwait El Salvador Burkina Faso Serbia Timor-Leste Botswana Lebanon Argentina United Arab Emirates Benin Malawi Tanzania Haiti Bhutan Ecuador Qatar Seychelles Zambia Albania Fiji Guinea-Bissau Brazil Dominican Republic Tonga Central African Republic Senegal Ukraine Guyana Comoros Mozambique Paraguay Congo Mongolia Burundi Madagascar Bahrein Kenya Moldova Guinea
9,00 9,00 9,00 9,00 9,75 9,75 10,00 10,00 10,00 11,50 11,83 12,00 12,50 12,50 12,63 12,80 13,00 13,50 13,75 14,00 14,00 14,08 14,50 15,00 15,00 15,00 15,13 15,50 15,50 15,50 15,50 15,50 16,00 16,00 16,33 18,00 18,00 18,00 18,50 19,00 19,25 19,75 20,00 20,50 20,50 20,75 20,83 21,00 21,00 21,17 21,25 21,38 21,50
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101 102 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 113 114 115 116 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152
Honduras Guatemala Armenia Turkey Maldives Mauritania Tajikistan Uganda Peru Côte d'Ivoire Gabon Indonesia Kyrgyzstan Venezuela Sierra Leone Bolivia Angola Lesotho India United States of America (extra-territorial) Georgia Algeria Morocco Oman Thailand Kazakhstan Cambodia Colombia Jordan Cameroon Niger Nigeria Malaysia Chad Djibouti Sudan Bangladesh Gambia Nepal Philippines Mexico Russia Ethiopia Tunisia Singapore Rwanda Egypt Swaziland Democratic Republic of Congo Israel (extra-territorial) Azerbaijan Zimbabwe Pakistan
21,50 22,64 22,75 22,75 23,25 23,88 25,50 26,00 26,25 26,50 26,75 27,00 27,00 27,33 27,75 28,20 29,50 29,50 30,00 31,00 31,25 31,33 32,25 32,67 34,50 35,33 35,50 35,50 36,00 36,90 37,00 37,75 39,50 41,25 41,50 42,00 42,70 42,75 43,25 45,00 46,13 47,50 47,75 48,10 49,00 50,00 50,25 50,50 51,25 51,50 53,63 54,00 54,88
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153 154 155 156 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173
Somalia Belarus Yemen Afghanistan Equatorial Guinea Iraq Syria Libya Saudi Arabia Uzbekistan Palestinian Territories Laos Sri Lanka Iran China Vietnam Cuba Burma Turkmenistan North Korea Eritrea
58,00 58,33 59,00 59,25 59,25 59,38 59,63 61,50 61,75 62,70 66,88 70,00 78,00 80,33 85,50 86,17 88,33 94,38 95,50 96,50 97,50
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