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 57.446 93,247 2   UNITED STATES 49.187 927,918 3   MEXICO -10.314 36,166 Central America Rank Country Score Mentions 1   BELIZE 52.211 191 2   COSTA RICA 51.079 1,442 3   EL SALVADOR 51.019 1,187 4   NICARAGUA 50.020 1,062 5   GUATEMALA 49.618 1,082 6   PANAMA 48.491 1,985 7   HONDURAS 46.569 2,292 South America Rank Country Score Mentions 1   GUYANA 54.371 1,108 2   FRENCH GUIANA 53.296 390 3   ARGENTINA 53.201 5,992 4   URUGUAY 52.166 763 5   BRAZIL 52.128 24,745 6   PARAGUAY 51.976 578 7   SURINAME 51.937 124 8   ECUADOR 50.316 1,663 9   CHILE 49.174 3,938 10   VENEZUELA 47.475 4,438 11   COLOMBIA 44.417 3,453 12   BOLIVIA 43.331 3,453 13   PERU 39.584 4,205 Africa Rank Country Score Mentions 1   SOUTH AFRICA 66.316 31,226 2   GHANA 62.543 6,103 3   ZIMBABWE 55.536 4,230 4   GUINEA 55.280 1,208 5   MAURITIUS 54.937 656 6   BURKINA FASO 53.985 359 7   NAMIBIA 53.927 775 8   MOROCCO 53.642 2,532 9   BOTSWANA 53.579 511 10   SIERRA LEONE 53.506 1,896 11   MALAWI 53.412 1,660 12   MOZAMBIQUE 52.984 607 13   TUNISIA 52.633 817 14   CAMEROON 52.330 707 15   CAPE VERDE 52.245 171 16   BENIN 52.235 221 17   ANGOLA 52.146 946 18   DJIBOUTI 52.057 202 19   EQUATORIAL GUINEA 51.905 120 20   SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE 51.903 44 21   WESTERN SAHARA 51.895 105 22   ZAMBIA 51.808 680 23   COMOROS 51.791 211 24   LESOTHO 51.549 724 25   SWAZILAND 51.506 276 26   MALI 51.230 1,226 27   GABON 51.015 1,645 28   TOGO 50.736 463 29   UGANDA 50.619 1,125 30   CÔTE D'IVOIRE 50.539 828 31   MADAGASCAR 50.529 1,039 32   GAMBIA 50.498 261 33   GUINEA BISSAU 50.390 425 34   BURUNDI 50.321 409 35   MAURITANIA 50.306 790 36   EGYPT 50.241 20,324 37   LIBERIA 49.774 607 38   SEYCHELLES 49.766 325 39   SENEGAL 49.451 1,692 40   ERITREA 49.338 510 41   TANZANIA 49.337 883 42   CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC 49.329 835 43   ALGERIA 49.230 2,508 44   ETHIOPIA 48.376 1,929 45   LYBIA 46.728 3,110 46   NIGER 45.871 1,525 47   KENYA 44.321 5,441 48   RWANDA 40.287 2,229 49   NIGERIA 38.639 5,421 50   CHAD 35.091 4,323 51   SUDAN 27.094 8,176 52   SOMALIA 12.861 11,920 Asia Rank Country Score Mentions 1   SINGAPORE 91.567 40,967 2   MALAYSIA 70.734 32,883 3   SOUTH KOREA 69.472 49,692 4   TAIWAN 66.529 10,945 5   HONG KONG 61.651 26,122 6   INDONESIA 61.650 56,420 7   CHINA 58.054 145,634 8   BHUTAN 55.980 1,292 9   BRUNEI 55.398 509 10   MACAU 54.764 2,194 11   JAPAN 53.986 64,423 12   MONGOLIA 53.607 806 13   MALDIVES 52.398 296 14   INDIA 52.140 169,835 15   EAST TIMOR 51.794 165 16   LAOS 51.586 1,691 17   NEPAL 49.830 4,490 18   VIETNAM 48.511 8,269 19   PHILIPPINES 45.033 19,740 20   BANGLADESH 42.115 4,628 21   MYANMAR (BURMA) 38.626 12,401 22   THAILAND 36.807 36,992 23   CAMBODIA 31.640 5,514 24   SRI LANKA 30.498 15,671 25   NORTH KOREA 18.029 30,471 26   AFGHANISTAN 10.457 36,741 27   PAKISTAN 8.273 53,372 Central Asia Rank Country Score Mentions 1   KAZAKHSTAN 55.596 2,721 2   KYRGYZSTAN 52.363 1,231 3   TAJIKISTAN 50.656 506 4   TURKMENISTAN 49.464 976 5   UZBEKISTAN 48.724 1,526

Europe Rank Country Score Mentions 1   IRELAND 70.099 69,607 2   UNITED KINGDOM 63.337 329,172 3   SWEDEN 59.166 9,375 4   FINLAND 57.855 3,669 5   PORTUGAL 57.276 7,482 6   DENMARK 56.997 7,487 7   ITALY 55.926 52,018 8   MONACO 55.540 1,895 9   GREENLAND 54.667 726 10   VATICAN CITY 54.595 2,908 11   SPAIN 54.140 55,175 12   MACEDONIA (F.Y.R.O.M.) 53.990 885 13   NORWAY 53.696 5,782 14   BELGIUM 53.359 11,434 15   NETHERLANDS 52.972 15,019 16   POLAND 52.949 9,769 17   MONTENEGRO 52.594 407 18   KOSOVO 52.510 2,126 19   ANDORRA 52.437 1,511 20   MALTA 52.410 784 21   LUXEMBOURG 52.400 1,432 22   SLOVENIA 51.928 918 23   SAN MARINO 51.744 170 24   LIECHTENSTEIN 51.623 343 25   SLOVAKIA 51.486 1,698 26   LITHUANIA 50.947 1,526 27   BELARUS 50.580 2,406 28   CYPRUS 50.459 2,033 29   ALBANIA 50.149 1,769 30   BULGARIA 49.705 1,999 31   SWITZERLAND 49.501 20,157 32   ESTONIA 49.434 1,118 33   ICELAND 49.294 3,176 34   AUSTRIA 48.770 7,236 35   GREECE 48.617 9,826 36   CZECH REPUBLIC 48.438 9,820 37   FRANCE 47.773 159,364 38   CROATIA 45.939 3,294 39   LATVIA 45.620 2,456 40   HUNGARY 45.516 4,204 41   ROMANIA 45.457 3,353 42   MOLDOVA 44.069 2,879 43   GERMANY 43.352 62,127 44   SERBIA 42.915 6,226 45   BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA 42.535 2,434 46   UKRAINE 40.915 7,625 47   RUSSIA 36.605 64,227 Middle East and North Africa Rank Country Score Mentions 1   JORDAN 61.811 6,911 2   QATAR 60.885 3,673 3   UNITED ARAB EMIRATES 58.715 9,423 4   KUWAIT 57.315 4,137 5   SAUDI ARABIA 54.628 8,342 6   BAHRAIN 54.402 1,794 7   MOROCCO 53.642 2,532 8   OMAN 53.109 728 9   TUNISIA 52.633 817 10   EGYPT 50.241 20,324 11   TURKEY 49.617 17,101 12   SYRIA 49.570 7,442 13   ALGERIA 49.230 2,508 14   LIBYA 46.728 3,110 15   LEBANON 43.001 15,125 16   ISRAEL 42.087 78,024 17   PALESTINE 33.600 32,025 18   YEMEN 29.400 4,368 19   IRAN 22.034 71,049 20   IRAQ 1.109 43,066 Oceania Rank Country Score Mentions 1   FIJI 74.583 16,756 2   NEW ZEALAND 72.613 47,165 3   PALAU 54.754 786 4   COOK ISLANDS 53.130 163 5   SAMOA 52.542 956 6   TONGA 52.448 625 7   AUSTRALIA 52.220 56,617 8   NIUE 52.112 13 9   FED. STATES OF MICRONESIA 52.098 30 10   TUVALU 51.990 105 11   TOKELAU 51.935 8 12   MARSHALL ISLANDS 51.930 51 13   VANUATU 51.924 453 14   NAURU 51.891 25 15   SOLOMON ISLANDS 51.833 304 16   KIRIBATI 51.660 78 17   PAPUA NEW GUINEA 50.887 656 Caribbean Rank Country Score Mentions 1   BERMUDA 53.449 949 2   HAITI 52.985 1,275 3   TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO 52.964 1,721 4   THE BAHAMAS 52.938 964 5   SAINT KITTS AND NEVIS 52.712 114 6   GRENADA 52.554 281 7   SAINT LUCIA 52.427 249 8   BARBADOS 52.316 317 9   ARUBA 52.284 54 10   BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS 52.218 112 11   JAMAICA 51.828 2,410 12   CAYMAN ISLANDS 51.795 436 13   DOMINICA 51.735 68 14   ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA 50.792 471 15   DOMINICAN REPUBLIC 50.533 765 16   CUBA 28.467 18,331 Commonwealth of Independent States Rank Country Score Mentions 1   KAZAKHSTAN 55.596 2,721 2   KYRGYZSTAN 52.363 1,231 3   AZERBIJAN 50.952 1,637 4   TAJIKISTAN 50.656 506 5   BELARUS 50.580 2,406 6   TURKMENISTAN 49.464 976 7   UZBEKISTAN 48.724 1,526 8   ARMENIA 47.223 3,375 9   UKRAINE 40.915 7,625 10   RUSSIA 36.605 64,227 11   GEORGIA 34.087 11,283

RANKED BY REGION FOR 2008