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 54.303 22,910 2   UNITED STATES 47.653 820,784 3   MEXICO 31.184 14,032 Central America Rank Country Score Mentions 1   COSTA RICA 54.356 416 2   BELIZE 51.979 159 3   GUATEMALA 51.656 735 4   HONDURAS 51.417 445 5   NICARAGUA 50.909 495 6   PANAMA 47.843 1,194 7   EL SALVADOR 47.838 1,174 South America Rank Country Score Mentions 1   BRAZIL 67.752 17,337 2   ARGENTINA 58.533 5,009 3   CHILE 56.680 2,717 4   URUGUAY 54.438 522 5   GUYANA 53.560 1,666 6   PERU 52.624 1,748 7   PARAGUAY 52.303 603 8   SURINAME 51.815 152 9   ECUADOR 51.368 1,226 10   FRENCH GUIANA 51.268 127 11   VENEZUELA 50.468 6,319 12   BOLIVIA 44.739 2,687 13   COLOMBIA 43.117 7,199 Africa Rank Country Score Mentions 1   GHANA 60.507 3,644 2   ANGOLA 52.996 2,436 3   BURKINA FASO 52.860 432 4   NAMIBIA 52.786 675 5   TOGO 52.736 533 6   MAURITIUS 52.594 337 7   DJIBOUTI 52.517 411 8   GUINEA 52.390 1,038 9   MALAWI 52.388 379 10   SEYCHELLES 52.359 147 11   CAMEROON 52.240 1,046 12   LESOTHO 52.180 185 13   TUNISIA 52.062 1,418 14   WESTERN SAHARA 51.746 130 15   BENIN 51.745 313 16   MADAGASCAR 51.713 335 17   SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE 51.589 90 18   GUINEA BISSAU 51.536 25 19   CAPE VERDE 51.426 253 20   ZAMBIA 51.388 1,591 21   MOZAMBIQUE 51.190 460 22   LIBERIA 51.169 1,128 23   SOUTH AFRICA 51.156 18,603 24   MALI 51.146 855 25   BOTSWANA 51.054 967 26   GAMBIA 51.053 184 27   SWAZILAND 51.036 512 28   TANZANIA 51.000 1,043 29   GABON 50.837 288 30   COMOROS 50.466 236 31   EQUATORIAL GUINEA 50.453 273 32   CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC 49.882 509 33   ERITREA 49.786 632 34   BURUNDI 49.229 354 35   CÔTE D'IVOIRE 48.942 1,134 36   SIERRA LEONE 48.792 1,010 37   ETHIOPIA 48.527 3,255 38   SENEGAL 48.253 1,111 39   KENYA 48.030 6,170 40   MOROCCO 47.803 2,819 41   CHAD 47.123 2,128 42   NIGER 46.781 959 43   MAURITANIA 46.678 1,328 44   UGANDA 45.728 2,279 45   LIBYA 43.437 4,079 46   RWANDA 42.005 2,559 47   NIGERIA 39.217 5,348 48   ALGERIA 38.750 3,423 49   EGYPT 38.055 15,770 50   ZIMBABWE 34.756 15,538 51   SOMALIA 24.527 6,213 52   SUDAN 21.873 18,183 Asia Rank Country Score Mentions 1   SINGAPORE 86.251 31,321 2   HONG KONG 79.426 28,636 3   MALAYSIA 72.359 35,806 4   CHINA 66.940 208,058 5   TAIWAN 60.764 13,757 6   SOUTH KOREA 60.186 29,131 7   BRUNEI 55.851 608 8   BHUTAN 54.748 1,451 9   JAPAN 53.652 61,237 10   LAOS 53.499 858 11   MALDIVES 53.308 494 12   MACAU 52.689 313 13   EAST TIMOR 50.247 745 14   MONGOLIA 44.161 2,596 15   MYANMAR (BURMA) 43.322 9,505 16   NORTH KOREA 41.432 14,304 17   NEPAL 40.683 5,707 18   VIETNAM 39.133 9,920 19   INDONESIA 38.004 17,160 20   BANGLADESH 36.765 6,918 21   CAMBODIA 35.369 7,655 22   SRI LANKA 35.303 6,222 23   INDIA 33.399 112,810 24   PHILIPPINES 32.392 9,897 25   THAILAND 25.552 23,090 26   PAKISTAN 9.746 46,724 27   AFGHANISTAN 3.039 41,761 Central Asia Rank Country Score Mentions 1   KAZAKHSTAN 58.130 3,919 2   TAJIKISTAN 55.058 2,552 3   TURKMENISTAN 54.466 2,064 4   UZBEKISTAN 51.779 2,064 5   KYRGYZSTAN 49.787 2,016

Europe Rank Country Score Mentions 1   GREECE 78.912 16,453 2   ITALY 63.587 33,634 3   UNITED KINGDOM 63.587 250,251 4   NETHERLANDS 63.188 12,819 5   FRANCE 62.124 79,370 6   KOSOVO 61.766 4,108 7   POLAND 59.869 12,788 8   SPAIN 58.775 33,579 9   SWEDEN 57.284 6,576 10   MONACO 57.270 1,148 11   AUSTRIA 57.168 7,635 12   CZECH REPUBLIC 57.124 8,937 13   DENMARK 57.098 5,424 14   CYPRUS 56.528 3,195 15   GERMANY 56.381 46,181 16   NORWAY 56.363 4,411 17   ROMANIA 55.965 3,614 18   PORTUGAL 55.948 5,591 19   HUNGARY 55.400 3,674 20   ICELAND 54.862 1,406 21   MONTENEGRO 54.496 927 22   BELGIUM 54.485 9,937 23   LITHUANIA 53.850 2,605 24   LUXEMBOURG 53.846 1,057 25   ALBANIA 53.569 827 26   SLOVENIA 53.405 1,508 27   IRELAND 53.236 10,558 28   MACEDONIA (F.Y.R.O.M.) 53.055 2,317 29   VATIVAN CITY 52.935 1,702 30   SAN MARINO 52.346 267 31   ANDORRA 52.279 598 32   SLOVAKIA 52.261 2,294 33   MOLDOVA 52.211 910 34   SWITZERLAND 52.163 15,392 35   MALTA 52.073 571 36   BELARUS 51.320 3,339 37   LATVIA 51.251 1,595 38   GREENLAND 51.210 484 39   LIECHTENSTEIN 51.092 601 40   UKRAINE 49.444 13,287 41   ESTONIA 49.096 1,305 42   CROATIA 48.737 6,009 43   FINLAND 47.773 4,2232 44   BULGARIA 47.724 2,960 45   SERBIA 31.626 18,612 46   RUSSIA 27.768 125,225 47   BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA 24.398 6,087 Middle East and North Africa Rank Country Score Mentions 1   UNITED ARAB EMIRATES 60.404 5,318 2   QATAR 58.730 3,950 3   JORDAN 55.111 5,831 4   BAHRAIN 54.687 958 5   SAUDI ARABIA 54.680 6,512 6   OMAN 54.475 618 7   KUWAIT 52.982 2,209 8   TUNISIA 52.062 1,418 9   SYRIA 51.535 10,727 10   MOROCCO 47.803 2,819 11   LIBYA 43.437 4,079 12   ALGERIA 38.750 3,423 13   EGYPT 38.055 15,770 14   YEMEN 36.134 2,766 15   TURKEY 34.829 19,083 16   ISRAEL 31.671 53,327 17   LEBANON 30.895 14,748 18   PALESTINE (GAZA, WEST BANK) 29.039 23.539 19   IRAN 28.652 47.710 20   IRAQ 21.301 59,098 Oceania Rank Country Score Mentions 1   AUSTRALIA 72.766 117,018 2   NEW ZEALAND 57.428 17,882 3   TONGA 54.450 769 4   FIJI 54.156 5,205 5   SOLOMON ISLANDS 52.888 409 6   SAMOA 52.786 367 7   COOK ISLANDS 52.411 75 8   NIUE 52.136 189 9   PALAU 52.009 39 10   VANUATU 51.927 267 11   MICRONESIA 51.831 47 12   TOKELAU 51.687 7 13   TUVALU 51.623 54 14   PAPUA NEW GUINEA 51.597 862 15   MARSHALL ISLANDS 51.551 73 16   NAURU 51.269 59 17   KIRIBATI 51.058 90 Caribbean Rank Country Score Mentions 1   JAMAICA 64.048 4,087 2   GRENADA 54.145 553 3   BARBADOS 52.593 451 4   BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS 52.149 364 5   BERMUDA 52.140 463 6   SAINT LUCIA 52.096 245 7   SAINT KITTS AND NEVIS 52.088 130 8   ST VINCENT & THE GRENADINES 51.863 228 9   TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO 51.793 992 10   DOMINICA 51.717 86 11   ARUBA 51.705 35 12   CAYMAN ISLANDS 51.350 544 13   ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA 50.456 596 14   THE BAHAMAS 48.470 1,025 15   DOMINICAN REPUBLIC 47.518 1,073 16   HAITI 40.191 2,080 17   CUBA 34.523 10,170 Commonwealth of Independent States Rank Country Score Mentions 1   KAZAKHSTAN 58.130 3,919 2   TAJIKISTAN 55.058 2,552 3   AZERBAIJAN 54.785 3,556 4   TURKMENISTAN 54.466 2,064 5   UZBEKISTAN 51.779 2,064 6   BELARUS 51.320 3,339 7   ARMENIA 50.221 3,380 8   KYRGYZSTAN 49.787 2,016 9   UKRAINE 49.444 13,287 10   RUSSIA 27.768 125,225 11   GEORGIA 19.584 64,913

RANKED BY REGION FOR 2009