Image courtesy of the World Association of Newspapers and News PublishersToday is Press Freedom Day, when the world celebrates the virtues of a free press and remembers that in so many countries, press freedom is just a dream.
Corruption needs dark corners to flourish. So as you’d expect, countries with the most press freedom tend to have the lowest levels of perceived graft. And countries where press freedom doesn’t exist are mired in corruption.
Here are the top and bottom ten countries on the press freedom index, with their corruption perceptions index rank in parentheses:
1 Finland (1)
2 Netherlands (9)
3 Norway (7)
4 Luxembourg (12)
5 Andorra (not ranked)
6 Denmark (1)
7 Liechtenstein (not ranked)
8 New Zealand (1)
9 Iceland (11)
10 Sweden (4)_______________
170 Sudan (173)
171 Cuba (58)
172 Vietnam (123)
173 China (80)
174 Iran (133)
175 Somalia (174)
176 Syria (144)
177 Turkmenistan (170)
178 North Korea (174)
179 Eritrea (150)
The full Press Freedom Index from Reporters Without Borders is here.
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Note: May 3 was proclaimed World Press Freedom Day by the UN General Assembly in 1993.
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