Regional Scores African countries Press Freedom 2001 Algeria Angola Benin Botswana Burkina Faso Burundi Cape Verde Cameroon Central African Republic Chad Comoros Congo (Brazzaville) Congo (Kinshasa) Cote d Ivoire Djibouti Egypt Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Ethiopia Gabon The Gambia Ghana Guinea-Bissau Guinea Kenya Lesotho Liberia Libya Madagascar Malawi Mali Mauritania Mauritius Morocco Mozambique Namibia Niger 62 Not Free 79 Not Free 39 Partly Free 69 Not Free 74 Not Free 41 Partly Free 53 Partly Free 86 Not Free 66 Not Free 67 Not Free 80 Not Free 79 Not Free 61 Not Free 52 Partly Free 65 Not Free 27 Free 56 Partly Free 74 Not Free 67 Not free 46 Partly Free 88 Not Free 31 Partly Free 54 Partly Free 61 Not Free 58 Partly Free 48 Partly Free 34 Partly Free 49 Partly Free
Nigeria Rwanda Sao Tome & Principe Senegal Sierra Leone Seychelles Somalia South Africa Sudan Swaziland Tanzania Togo Tunisia Uganda Zambia Zimbabwe 57 Partly Free 87 Not Free 19 Free 39 Partly Free 62 Not Free 51 Partly Free 88 Not Free 87 Not Free 49 Partly Free 73 Not Free 42 Partly Free 65 Not Free 83 Not Free Free 8 15.1 percent Partly Free 17 32.1 percent Not Free 28 52.8 percent TOTAL 53 100 percent
Asia Press Freedom 2001 Afghanistan Bangladesh Bhutan Brunei Burma Cambodia China India Indonesia Japan Korea S. Korea N. Laos Malaysia Maldives Mongolia Nepal Pakistan Philippines Taiwan Thailand Singapore Sri Lanka Vietnam Not rated 63 Not Free 72 Not Free 78 Not Free 96 Not Free 80 Not Free 42 Partly Free 53 Partly Free 96 Not Free 82 Not Free 71 Not Free 61 Not Free 31 Partly Free 57 Partly Free 21 Free 63 Not Free 82 Not Free Free 5 20.8 percent Partly Free 5 20.8 percent Not Free 13 54.2 percent TOTAL 24 95.8 percent * * Afghanistan not rated
Eastern Europe & NIS Press Freedom 2001 Albania Armenia Azerbaijan Belarus Bosnia-Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Czech Republic Estonia Georgia Hungary Kazakhstan Kyrgyz Republic Latvia Lithuania Macedonia Moldova Poland Russia Romania Slovakia Slovenia Tajikistan Turkmenistan Ukraine Uzbekistan Yugoslavia 48 Partly Free 82 Not Free 53 Partly Free 29 Free 33 Partly Free 25 Free 1 53 Partly Free 69 Not Free 19 Free 19 Free 46 Partly Free 59 Partly Free 1 35 Partly Free 22 Free 20 Free 80 Not Free 91 Not Free 84 Not Free 45 Partly Free Free 9 33.3. Partly Free 11 40.8 Not Free 7 25.9 TOTAL 27 100 percent
European Countries Press Freedom 2001 Austria Belgium Cyprus Denmark Greece France Finland Germany Iceland Italy Ireland Luxembourg Malta Netherlands Norway Portugal Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey United Kingdom 24 Free 9 Free 1 9 Free 10 Free 15 Free 27 Free 14 Free 13 Free 15 Free 9 Free 15 Free 58 Partly Free 1 Free 20 95.3 percent Partly Free 1 4.7 percent Not Free 0 0 percent TOTAL 21 100 percent
Caribbean & Latin American countries Press Freedom 2001 Antigua & Barbuda Argentina Bahamas Barbados Belize Bolivia Brazil Chile Costa Rica Colombia Cuba Dominica Dominican Republic Ecuador El Salvador Grenada Guyana Guatemala Haiti Honduras Jamaica Mexico Nicaragua Panama Paraguay Peru St. Kitts & Nevis St. Lucia St. Vincent & Grenadines Suriname Trinidad & Tobago Uruguay Venezuela 44 Partly Free 37 Partly Free 24 Free 25 Free 32 Partly Free 22 Free 96 Not Free 40 Partly Free 35 Partly Free 49 Partly Free 72 Not Free 43 Partly Free 40 Partly Free 32 Partly Free 51 Partly Free 1 11 Free 25 Free 25 Free 44 Partly Free Free 19 54.6 percent Partly Free 12 39.4 percent Not Free 2 6 percent
TOTAL 33 100 percent Middle East countries Press Freedom 2001 Bahrain Iran Iraq Israel Israel Administered-Palestinian Authority Jordan Kuwait Lebanon Oman Qatar Saudi Arabia Syria United Arab Emirates Yemen 75 Not Free 75 Not Free 96 Not Free 84 Not Free 49 Partly Free 74 Not Free 62 Not Free 80 Not Free 78 Not Free 74 Not Free 65 Not Free Free 1 7.1 percent Partly Free 2 14.3 percent Not Free 11 78.6 percent TOTAL 14 100 percent
North American countries Press Freedom 2001 Canada United States Free 2 100 percent Partly Free 0 Not Free 0 TOTAL 2 100 percent
Pacific countries Press Freedom 2001 Australia East Timor Fiji Kiribati Marshall Islands Micronesia Nauru New Zealand Papua New Guinea Samoa Solomon Islands Tonga Vanuatu 10 Free 21 Free 33 Partly Free 21 Free 10 Free 20 Free 27 Free 26 Free 24 Free 36 Partly Free 24 Free Free 11 84.6 percent Partly Free 2 15.4 percent Not Free 0 0 percent TOTAL 13 100 percent