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 66.296 72,890 2   UNITED STATES 54.277 744,207 3   MEXICO 34.382 12,446 Central America Rank Country Score Mentions 1   COSTA RICA 52.734 1,051 2   BELIZE 49.954 198 3   GUATEMALA 49.118 446 4   NICARAGUA 48.596 517 5   EL SALVADOR 47.313 894 6   HONDURAS 45.716 3,763 7   PANAMA 44.678 1,224 South America Rank Country Score Mentions 1   BRAZIL 71.924 20,925 2   CHILE 55.850 4,079 3   ARGENTINA 52.596 5,733 4   GUYANA 51.518 1,002 5   PERU 51.322 2,209 6   URUGUAY 50.606 1,807 7   PARAGUAY 50,568 573 8   BOLIVIA 50.481 1,582 9   SURINAME 49.880 29 10   FRENCH GUIANA 49.693 264 11   ECUADOR 48.627 1,545 12   COLOMBIA 45.529 3,097 13   VENEZUELA 44.887 3,470 Africa Rank Country Score Mentions 1   SOUTH AFRICA 63.536 23,293 2   GHANA 63.350 6,957 3   MAURITIUS 52.898 496 4   TUNISIA 52.888 905 5   BOTSWANA 52.661 1,055 6   MOZAMBIQUE 53.697 545 7   MOROCCO 51.583 2,738 8   NAMIBIA 51.334 403 9   MALAWI 50.973 545 10   MALI 50.972 630 11   BURKINA FASO 50.818 380 12   CAMEROON 50.806 665 13   CHAD 50.747 1,513 14   ZAMBIA 50.583 689 15   ETHIOPIA 50.572 1,516 16   TOGO 50.542 303 17   SENEGAL 50.380 718 18   BENIN 50.174 283 19   LESOTHO 49.969 103 20   GABON 49.951 460 21   DJIBOUTI 49.800 68 22   SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE 49.780 45 23   SWAZILAND 49.740 70 24   CAPE VERDE 49.689 83 25   GAMBIA 49.614 106 26   GUINEA BISSAU 49.560 145 27   COMOROS 49.509 57 28   CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC 49.502 355 29   WESTERN SAHARA 49.367 261 30   CÔTE D'IVOIRE 49.323 943 31   BURUNDI 48.746 254 32   MAURITANIA 48.742 228 33   NIGER 48.721 771 34   SIERRA LEONE 48.719 1,172 35   EQUATORIAL GUINEA 48.635 269 36   ANGOLA 48.612 930 37   MADAGASCAR 48.501 375 38   ERITREA 48.421 311 39   TANZANIA 48.201 737 40   LIBERIA 47.730 500 41   SEYCHELLES 47.212 502 42   UGANDA 46.278 1,617 43   LIBYA 45.699 1,864 44   ALGERIA 45.119 2,264 45   ZIMBABWE 45.101 3,301 46   KENYA 43.730 3,702 47   EQYPT 42.862 12,372 48   NIGERIA 41.854 4,772 49   RWANDA 41.230 1,853 50   GUINEA 39.399 2,759 51   SUDAN 36.957 5,416 52   SOMALIA 28.744 4,666 Asia Rank Country Score Mentions 1   SINGAPORE 98.255 23,368 2   SOUTH KOREA 86.802 36,499 3   HONG KONG 80.241 17,814 4   CHINA 72.795 122,762 5   JAPAN 71.640 47,969 6   THAILAND 66.928 28,889 7   MALAYSIA 62.860 12,207 8   INDIA 59.919 224,167 9   TAIWAN 55.905 7,845 10   MACAU 55.637 1,596 11   LAOS 55.326 2,655 12   MONGOLIA 51.077 671 13   INDONESIA 50.541 47,558 14   BHUTAN 50.212 642 15   BRUNEI 49.768 410 16   EAST TIMOR 49.636 156 17   NEPAL 49.528 3,605 18   MALDIVES 48.672 610 19   NORTH KOREA 47.173 8,985 20   BANGLADESH 43,171 4,959 21   MYANMAR (BURMA) 42.557 7,633 22   VIETNAM 42.375 7,210 23   SRI LANKA 42.321 5,554 24   CAMBODIA 40.933 4,422 25   PHILIPPINES 31.274 22,476 26   AFGHANISTAN 13.742 56,919 27   PAKISTAN -2.061 44,453 Central Asia Rank Country Score Mentions 1   KAZAKHSTAN 55.524 1,696 2   KYRGYZSTAN 49.398 251 3   TURKMENISTAN 49.057 655 4   TAJIKISTAN 48.637 490 5   UZBEKISTAN 47.371 769

Europe Rank Country Score Mentions 1   IRELAND 72.382 55,137 2   SWEDEN 70.098 9,201 3   FRANCE 69.039 66,218 4   DENMARK 65.698 19,793 5   NORWAY 65.639 5,894 6   UNITED KINGDOM 65.344 288,119 7   AUSTRIA 61.296 5,672 8   BELGIUM 61.041 8,823 9   ITALY 59.732 35,266 10   FINLAND 58.276 2,921 11   PORTUGAL 58.070 5,700 12   NETHERLANDS 57.615 11,969 13   SPAIN 57.291 37,387 14   CZECH REPUBLIC 56.832 6,239 15   MONACO 54.632 814 16   GERMANY 54.621 52,654 17   SWITZERLAND 53.312 18,398 18   LUXEMBOURG 53.131 1,185 19   SLOVENIA 52.859 1,094 20   SLOVAKIA 52.697 1,174 21   KOSOVO 52.246 1,174 22   BELARUS 51.527 1,210 23   LIECHTENSTEIN 51.457 202 24   MACEDONIA (F.Y.R.O.M.) 51.160 546 25   VATICAN CITY 50.780 1,877 26   MALTA 50.513 517 27   MONTENEGRO 50.317 355 28   CYPRUS 49.889 1,858 29   SAN MARINO 49.815 174 30   BULGARIA 49.754 1,030 31   ALBANIA 49.656 778 32   ESTONIA 49.342 540 33   GREENLAND 49.322 306 34   ANDORRA 49.213 1,032 35   HUNGARY 48.488 2,895 36   MOLDOVA 48.405 424 37   CROATIA 48.163 1,867 38   LITHUANIA 48.072 1,034 39   LATVIA 47.212 1,156 40   ICELAND 47.182 1,792 41   UKRAINE 47.143 4,618 42   ROMANIA 46.846 3,504 43   GREECE 46.078 10,638 44   RUSSIA 41.294 43,946 45   SERBIA 40.931 4,534 46   POLAND 39.304 8,409 47   BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA 35.515 3,154 Middle East and North Africa Rank Country Score Mentions 1   QATAR 62.793 2,784 2   BAHRAIN 54.044 1,320 3   KUWAIT 53.588 3,436 4   LEBANON 53.073 11,824 5   OMAN 52.925 757 6   TUNISIA 52.888 905 7   TURKEY 52.567 16,135 8   MOROCCO 51.583 2,738 9   JORDAN 50.687 5,345 10   SYRIA 48.903 5,337 11   LIBYA 45.699 1,864 12   ALGERIA 45.119 2,264 13   EGYPT 42.862 12,372 14   SAUDI ARABIA 40.926 8,086 15   YEMEN 29.231 5,026 16   UNITED ARAB EMIRATES 27.731 20,022 17   ISRAEL 25.720 60,449 18   IRAN 23.666 46,759 19   PALESTINE 21.368 22,633 20   IRAQ 7.804 25,022 Oceania Rank Country Score Mentions 1   NEW ZEALAND 78.308 38,063 2   AUSTRALIA 71.085 43,456 3   PALAU 51.190 246 4   FIJI 51.014 5,214 5   COOK ISLANDS 50.484 76 6   PAPUA NEW GUINEA 50.200 373 7   NAURU 50.142 102 8   NIUE 49.896 44 9   FED STATES OF MICRONESIA 49.848 35 10   TOKELAU 49.778 1 11   KIRIBATI 49.324 51 12   SOLOMON ISLANDS 49.289 88 13   MARSHALL ISLANDS 49.202 96 14   TUVALU 48.677 262 15   TONGA 46.873 896 16   VANUATU 46.392 455 17   SAMOA 40.104 2,868 Caribbean Rank Country Score Mentions 1   JAMAICA 53.677 1,994 2   TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO 51.664 1,145 3   BERMUDA 51.584 395 4   BARBADOS 51.428 290 5   DOMINICAN REPUBLIC 51.199 570 6   ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA 51.177 205 7   THE BAHAMAS 50.905 739 8   CAYMAN ISLANDS 50.646 270 9   ARUBA 50.491 87 10   SAINT LUCIA 50.481 130 11   SAINT KITTS AND NEVIS 50.053 60 12   DOMINICA 50.012 51 13   HAITI 49.889 644 14   GRENADA 49.769 243 15   BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS 49.105 415 16   CUBA 32.146 5,868 Commonwealth of Independent States Rank Country Score Mentions 1   KAZAKHSTAN 55.524 1,696 2   BELARUS 51.527 1,210 3   AZERBIJAN 49.931 1,072 4   KYRGYZSTAN 49.398 251 5   TURKMENISTAN 49.057 655 6   TAJIKISTAN 48.637 490 7   ARMENIA 47.927 3,546 8   UZBEKISTAN 47.371 769 9   UKRAINE 47.143 4,618 10   GEORGIA 41.497 5,381 11   RUSSIA 41.294 43,946

RANKED BY REGION FOR 2008