Quarterly and annual rankings of 200 countries and territories, including all 192 UN members, based on how they are described in major media. Perceptions of countries in media tend to fluctuate more in quarterly than annual rankings.

North America Rank Country Score Mentions 1   CANADA 72.589 85,691 2   UNITED STATES 48.382 1,114,972 3   MEXICO 14.658 41,896 Central America Rank Country Score Mentions 1   COSTA RICA 53.696 942 2   HONDURAS 51.032 2,378 3   BELIZE 49.612 298 4   NICARAGUA 49.367 581 5   EL SALVADOR 46.173 1,321 6   GUATEMALA 43.147 1,591 7   PANAMA 43.030 2,208 South America Rank Country Score Mentions 1   BRAZIL 64.701 35,805 2   ARGENTINA 63.785 13,793 3   URUGUAY 58.696 5,100 4   PARAGUAY 54.763 3,967 5   GUYANA 52.714 1,286 6   FRENCH GUIANA 51.481 490 7   SURINAME 50.971 56 8   VENEZUELA 50.164 4,434 9   COLOMBIA 50.100 5,154 10   BOLIVIA 49.380 1,774 11   CHILE 47.758 5,466 12   ECUADOR 47.336 1,680 13   PERU 42.505 3,646 Africa Rank Country Score Mentions 1   SOUTH AFRICA 69.349 61,997 2   GUINEA 55.993 1,989 3   MOROCCO 55.502 3,109 4   ETHIOPIA 54.522 2,086 5   MAURITIUS 53.397 721 6   TANZANIA 52.994 1,105 7   SENEGAL 52.466 1,123 8   ZIMBABWE 52.209 4,693 9   CAMEROON 52.204 3,483 10   BOTSWANA 52.191 366 11   GABON 52.114 326 12   CÔTE D'IVOIRE 52.023 3,729 13   LESOTHO 52.014 170 14   TUNISIA 51.797 790 15   CAPE VERDE 51.749 152 16   MOZAMBIQUE 51.244 532 17   BURKINA FASO 51.242 150 18   SIERRA LEONE 51.237 2,098 19   NAMIBIA 50.995 408 20   SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE 50.869 34 21   MADAGASCAR 50.847 470 22   COMOROS 50.845 54 23   BENIN 50.813 164 24   EQUATORIAL GUINEA 50.802 185 25   SWAZILAND 50.783 161 26   DJIBOUTI 50.773 109 27   WESTERN SAHARA 50.709 49 28   GAMBIA 50.646 119 29   MARITANIA 50.599 187 30   CHAD 50.598 2,046 31   GUINEA BISSAU 50.592 298 32   MALI 50.463 702 33   ZAMBIA 50.289 530 34   TOGO 50.246 356 35   SEYCHELLES 50.233 287 36   KENYA 50.231 3,648 37   BURUNDI 50.168 347 38   ANGOLA 50.065 712 39   CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC 49.881 610 40   ERITREA 49.816 281 41   NIGER 49.735 792 42   UGANDA 49.641 1,849 43   GHANA 49.556 11,607 44   LIBERIA 49.496 836 45   MALAWI 49.464 880 46   EGYPT 46.984 15,646 47   ALGERIA 46.421 6,724 48   NIGERIA 45.008 8,201 49   RWANDA 42.228 2,365 50   LIBYA 41.601 2,915 51   SUDAN 36.749 2,915 52   SOMALIA 33.487 4,730 Asia Rank Country Score Mentions 1   SINGAPORE 98.548 30,654 2   MALAYSIA 77.908 28,303 3   HONG KONG 66.299 15,288 4   PHILIPPINES 63.814 24,531 5   CHINA 63.555 167,899 6   JAPAN 63.352 88,743 7   TAIWAN 62.371 8,875 8   BHUTAN 54.767 855 9   MONGOLIA 53.611 1,167 10   BRUNEI 53.526 518 11   LAOS 53.471 1,223 12   NEPAL 53.069 6,904 13   MALDIVES 52.095 451 14   EAST TIMOR 51.930 242 15   MACAU 51.674 819 16   INDONESIA 50.465 25,064 17   INDIA 50.331 209,939 18   SRI LANKA 49.543 6,853 19   CAMBODIA 48.625 2,971 20   VIETNAM 45.562 8,232 21   SOUTH KOREA 44.289 65,700 22   MYANMAR (BURMA) 43.343 8,685 23   BANGLADESH 42.808 7,332 24   THAILAND 22.176 50,265 25   AFGHANISTAN 18.122 62,791 26   NORTH KOREA 11.749 29,307 27   PAKISTAN 7.780 48.052 Central Asia Rank Country Score Mentions 1   KAZAKHSTAN 57.315 2,984 2   TURKMENISTAN 51.497 277 3   TAJIKISTAN 48.478 642 4   UZBEKISTAN 27.260 6,182 5   KYRGYZSTAN 25.113 13,764

Europe Rank Country Score Mentions 1   ITALY 71.800 62,345 2   UNITED KINGDOM 66.322 497,156 3   FRANCE 65.422 115,265 4   IRELAND 62.181 73,936 5   MONACO 60.671 2,860 6   CZECH REPUBLIC 60.247 10,723 7   FINLAND 59.030 5,043 8   NETHERLANDS 58.781 23,660 9   DENMARK 57.764 10,836 10   SLOVENIA 57.552 5,888 11   SLOVAKIA 55.999 5,294 12   ESTONIA 55.843 2,160 13   SWEDEN 55.433 11,183 14   SWITZERLAND 55.230 23,025 15   LUZEMBOURG 55.074 1,257 16   AUSTRIA 54.746 7,807 17   NORWAY 54.675 6,640 18   SPAIN 54.667 80,452 19   GERMANY 51.935 96,333 20   GREENLAND 51.703 319 21   UKRAINE 51.627 6,456 22   LIECHTENSTEIN 51.344 90 23   SAN MARINO 50.901 73 24   MOLDOVA 50.855 330 25   MONTENEGRO 50.712 400 26   MACEDONIA (F.Y.R.O.M.) 50.623 275 27   LITHUANIA 50.579 1,258 28   LATVIA 50.578 1,575 29   CYPRUS 50.562 3,296 30   MALTA 50.554 2,017 31   KOSOVO 50.326 532 32   BULGARIA 49.945 1,710 33   BELGIUM 49.882 17,275 34   ROMANIA 49.640 3,096 35   ANDORRA 49.611 1,491 36   ALBANIA 49.541 510 37   CROATIA 48.809 2,615 38   SERBIA 46.340 7,582 39   HUNGARY 45.198 6,675 40   BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA 43.802 1,970 41   BELARUS 42.400 2,942 42   POLAND 37.705 19,841 43   VATICAN CITY 37.055 7,223 44   RUSSIA 35.483 82,258 45   PORTUGAL 33.693 19,181 46   ICELAND 23.657 9,528 47   GREECE 14.133 65,208 Middle East and North Africa Rank Country Score Mentions 1   KUWAIT 69.159 6,419 2   QATAR 61.579 3,919 3   SAUDI ARABIA 56.141 6,908 4   JORDAN 55.952 8,072 5   MOROCCO 55.502 3,109 6   BAHRAIN 54.774 1,330 7   UNITED ARAB EMIRATES 53.450 11,279 8   TUNISIA 51.797 790 9   OMAN 51.614 1,164 10   SYRIA 47.068 6,999 11   EGYPT 46.984 15,646 12   ALGERIA 46.421 6,724 13   LIBYA 41.601 2,915 14   LEBANON 41.463 7,603 15   TURKEY 35.980 32,426 16   YEMEN 34.637 4,582 17   PALESTINE 28.060 48.379 18   IRAN 27.851 59,058 19   ISRAEL 26.062 59,058 20   IRAQ 8.289 28,379 Oceania Rank Country Score Mentions 1   NEW ZEALAND 67.439 60,576 2   AUSTRALIA 64.473 193,034 3   SAMOA 53.834 812 4   PALAU 52.026 147 5   FIJI 51.776 7,895 6   COOK ISLANDS 51.182 87 7   KIRIBATI 51.148 130 8   TOKELAU 51.118 23 9   PAPUA NEW GUINEA 50.892 815 10   NIUE 50.817 23 11   NAURU 50.765 46 12   FED. STATES OF MICRONESIA 50.751 42 13   TUVALU 50.591 62 14   MARSHALL ISLANDS 50.575 157 15   VANUATU 50.123 382 16   SOLOMON ISLANDS 49.953 340 17   TONGA 49.754 856 Caribbean Rank Country Score Mentions 1   BARBADOS 55.082 1,221 2   SAINT LUCIA 53.241 720 3   TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO 53.123 674 4   GRENADA 52.675 545 5   ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA 52.069 268 6   DOMINICAN REPUBLIC 52.064 1,074 7   HAITI 51.853 5,723 8   THE BAHAMAS 51.846 694 9   SAINT KITTS AND NEVIS 51.694 202 10   BERMUDA 51.601 350 11   CAYMAN ISLANDS 51.368 332 12   DOMINICA 51.268 96 13   BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS 50.834 416 14   ARUBA 49.727 339 15   CUBA 43.456 6,074 16   JAMAICA 40.112 5,999 Commonwealth of Independent States Rank Country Score Mentions 1   KAZAKHSTAN 57.315 2,984 2   UKRAINE 51.627 6,456 3   TURKMENISTAN 51.497 277 4   GEORGIA 50.925 5,291 5   AZERBAIJAN 50.470 785 6   TAJIKISTAN 48.478 642 7   ARMENIA 47.998 1,608 8   BELARUS 42.400 2,942 9   RUSSIA 35.483 82,258 10   UZBEKISTAN 27.260 6,182 11   KYRGYZSTAN 25.113 13,764

RANKED BY REGION FOR 2009

RANKED BY REGION FOR 2008