FREEDOM OF THE PRESS 2013

GLOBAL PRESS FREEDOM RANKINGS

Rank 2013 1 3 Country Norway Sweden Belgium Finland Netherlands Denmark Luxembourg Switzerland Andorra Iceland Liechtenstein St. Lucia Estonia Ireland Monaco New Zealand Palau San Marino Germany Marshall Islands Portugal St. Vincent and Grenadines Barbados Costa Rica Jamaica United States of America Bahamas Czech Republic Canada St. Kitts and Nevis Australia Austria Micronesia United Kingdom Belize France Rating
10 10 11 11 11 12 12 12 13 14 14 15 16 16 16 16 16 16 17 17 17 17 18 18 18 18 19 19 20 20 21 21 21 21 22 22

9 10 12 13

19

23

27 29 31

35

Status Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free

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Rank 2013

39 40

45 47

52

55

61 63 64

68 70 71

74

Country Malta Slovakia Grenada Dominica Japan Lithuania Slovenia Suriname Cyprus Vanuatu Poland Taiwan Trinidad and Tobago Tuvalu Uruguay Cape Verde Kiribati Spain Ghana Latvia Nauru Papua New Guinea So Tom and Prncipe Solomon Islands Samoa Tonga Mauritius Chile Israel Namibia South Korea Guyana Italy Benin East Timor Hong Kong South Africa Hungary Montenegro

Rating
22 22 23 24 24 24 24 24 25 25 26 26 26 26 26 27 27 27 28 28 28 28 28 28 29 29 30 31 31 31 31 33 33 34 35 35 35 36 36

Status Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free 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

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Rank 2013 77 79 81 83

86

89 91 93 94 96

105 106

109

112 112

Country Serbia Bulgaria Mongolia Antigua and Barbuda India Croatia Dominican Republic Botswana El Salvador Greece Burkina Faso Mozambique Romania Peru Philippines Brazil Mali Mauritania Bolivia Panama Albania Bosnia and Herzegovina Comoros Georgia Haiti Indonesia Kosovo Lesotho Sierra Leone Niger Nicaragua Nigeria Tanzania Argentina Senegal Tunisia Bangladesh Colombia Kenya

Rating
36 37 37 38 38 40 40 41 41 41 42 42 42 43 43 46 46 47 48 48 49 49 49 49 49 49 49 49 49 50 51 51 51 52 52 52 53 53 53

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 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

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Rank 2013

118 120

126 128

131

134

140

145 146 148 149

153

Country Lebanon Malawi Moldova Maldives Uganda Congo (Brazzaville) Fiji Liberia Macedonia Seychelles Turkey Bhutan Nepal Guatemala Kuwait Libya South Sudan Ukraine Zambia Algeria Armenia Cte dIvoire Ecuador Mexico Paraguay Central African Republic Egypt Guinea Honduras Thailand Jordan Malaysia Pakistan Guinea-Bissau Cambodia Cameroon Madagascar Morocco Afghanistan

Rating
53 53 53 55 55 56 56 56 56 56 56 58 58 59 59 59 60 60 60 61 61 61 61 61 61 62 62 62 62 62 63 64 64 65 66 66 66 66 67

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 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

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Rank 2013

157 158 159 160 162 164

167 168 170 172 174 176 177 179

182

188 189 190 191

Country Iraq Qatar Singapore Angola Kyrgyzstan Togo Gabon Oman Burma Burundi Djibouti Sri Lanka United Arab Emirates Brunei Chad Venezuela Swaziland Zimbabwe Tajikistan Yemen Rwanda Sudan Russia Azerbaijan Ethiopia China Congo (Kinshasa) The Gambia Kazakhstan Laos Saudi Arabia Somalia Vietnam West Bank and Gaza Strip Bahrain Syria Equatorial Guinea Cuba Iran

Rating
67 67 67 68 69 70 71 71 72 72 74 74 74 75 76 76 77 77 79 79 80 80 81 82 82 83 83 83 84 84 84 84 84 84 86 88 91 92 92

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

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Rank 2013 193 194 195 196

Country Belarus Eritrea Uzbekistan North Korea Turkmenistan

Rating
93 94 95 96 96

Status Not Free Not Free Not Free Not Free Not Free

Status Free Partly Free Not Free TOTAL

Number of Countries 63 70 64 197

Percentage of Total 32 36 32 100

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AMERICAS
Rank 2013 1 2 3 Country St. Lucia St. Vincent and Grenadines Barbados Costa Rica Jamaica United States of America Bahamas Canada St. Kitts and Nevis Belize Grenada Dominica Suriname Trinidad and Tobago Uruguay Chile Guyana Antigua and Barbuda Dominican Republic El Salvador Peru Brazil Bolivia Panama Haiti Nicaragua Argentina Colombia Guatemala Ecuador Mexico Paraguay Honduras Venezuela Cuba Rating 15 17 18 18 18 18 19 20 20 22 23 24 24 26 26 31 33 38 40 41 43 46 48 48 49 51 52 53 59 61 61 61 62 76 92 Status Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free 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 Partly Free Not Free Not Free Not Free Not Free Not Free Not Free

7 8 10 11 12 14 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 25 26 27 28 29 30

33 34 35

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Status Free Partly Free Not Free TOTAL

Number of Countries 15 14 6 35

Percentage of Total 43 40 17 100

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ASIA-PACIFIC
Rank 2013 1 3 4 6 7 8 10 11 Country New Zealand Palau Marshall Islands Australia Micronesia Japan Vanuatu Taiwan Tuvalu Kiribati Nauru Papua New Guinea Solomon Islands Samoa Tonga South Korea East Timor Hong Kong Mongolia India Philippines Indonesia Bangladesh Maldives Fiji Bhutan Nepal Thailand Malaysia Pakistan Cambodia Afghanistan Singapore Burma Sri Lanka Brunei Rating 16 16 17 21 21 24 25 26 26 27 28 28 28 29 29 31 35 35 37 38 43 49 53 55 56 58 58 62 64 64 66 67 67 72 74 75 Status Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free 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 Not Free Not Free Not Free Not Free Not Free Not Free Not Free Not Free Not Free

14 16 17 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 28 29 31 32 34 35 36

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Rank 2013 37 38 40

Country China Laos Vietnam North Korea

Rating 83 84 84 96

Status Not Free Not Free Not Free Not Free

Status Free Partly Free Not Free TOTAL

Number of Countries 15 13 12 40

Percentage of Total 37.5 30 32.5 100

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CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE / EURASIA

Rank 2013 1 2 3 4 6 7 8 Country Estonia Czech Republic Slovakia Lithuania Slovenia Poland Latvia Hungary Montenegro Serbia Bulgaria Croatia Romania Albania Bosnia and Herzegovina Georgia Kosovo Moldova Macedonia Ukraine Armenia Kyrgyzstan Tajikistan Russia Azerbaijan Kazakhstan Belarus Uzbekistan Turkmenistan Rating 16 19 22 24 24 26 28 36 36 36 37 40 42 49 49 49 49 53 56 60 61 69 79 81 82 84 93 95 96 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

11 12 13 14

18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29

Status Free Partly Free Not Free TOTAL

Number of Countries 7 13 9 29

Percentage of Total 24 45 31 100

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MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA

Rank 2013 1 2 3 4 6 7 8 9 10 12 13 14 15 17 18 19 Country Israel Tunisia Lebanon Kuwait Libya Algeria Egypt Jordan Morocco Iraq Qatar Oman United Arab Emirates Yemen Saudi Arabia West Bank and Gaza Strip Bahrain Syria Iran Rating 31 52 53 59 59 61 62 63 66 67 67 71 74 79 84 84 86 88 92 Status 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

Status Free Partly Free Not Free TOTAL

Number of Countries 0 5 14 19

Percentage of Total 0 26 74 100

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SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA
Rank 2013 1 2 4 5 6 7 8 9 11 12 13 Country Cape Verde Ghana So Tom and Prncipe Mauritius Namibia Benin South Africa Botswana Burkina Faso Mozambique Mali Mauritania Comoros Lesotho Sierra Leone Niger Nigeria Tanzania Senegal Kenya Malawi Uganda Congo (Brazzaville) Liberia Seychelles South Sudan Zambia Cte dIvoire Central African Republic Guinea Guinea-Bissau Cameroon Madagascar Angola Togo Gabon Rating 27 28 28 30 31 34 35 41 42 42 46 47 49 49 49 50 51 51 52 53 53 55 56 56 56 60 60 61 62 62 65 66 66 68 70 71 Status 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 Not Free

16 17 19 20 22 23

26 28 29 31 32 34 35 36

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Rank 2013 37 38 39 40 42 44 45 47 48 49

Country Burundi Djibouti Chad Swaziland Zimbabwe Rwanda Sudan Ethiopia Congo (Kinshasa) The Gambia Somalia Equatorial Guinea Eritrea

Rating 72 74 76 77 77 80 80 82 83 83 84 91 94

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

Status Free Partly Free Not Free TOTAL

Number of Countries 4 23 22 49

Percentage of Total 8 47 45 100

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WESTERN EUROPE
Rank 2013 1 3 Country Norway Sweden Belgium Finland Netherlands Denmark Luxembourg Switzerland Andorra Iceland Liechtenstein Ireland Monaco San Marino Germany Portugal Austria United Kingdom France Malta Cyprus Spain Italy Greece Turkey Rating 10 10 11 11 11 12 12 12 13 14 14 16 16 16 17 17 21 21 22 22 25 27 33 41 56 Status Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Partly Free Partly Free Partly Free

9 10 12

15 17 19 21 22 23 24 25

Status Free Partly Free Not Free TOTAL

Number of Countries 22 3 0 25

Percentage of Total 88 12 0 100