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 65.428 101,389 2   UNITED STATES 57.659 958,197 3   MEXICO 23.923 19,841 Central America Rank Country Score Mentions 1   COSTA RICA 52.925 668 2   HONDURAS 51.500 474 3   BELIZE 51.209 106 4   GUATEMALA 50.734 612 5   EL SALVADOR 50.245 1,721 6   NICARAGUA 49.717 490 7   PANAMA 46.258 1,835 South America Rank Country Score Mentions 1   BRAZIL 62.631 20,251 2   CHILE 54.939 4,781 3   ARGENTINA 54.914 5,592 4   BOLIVIA 54.642 3,180 5   GUYANA 52.269 2,205 6   URUGUAY 51.606 651 7   SURINAME 51.200 67 8   FRENCH GUIANA 51.060 379 9   PARAGUAY 50.934 341 10   PERU 50.256 2,241 11   VENEZUELA 49.240 5,972 12   ECUADOR 48.799 1,926 13   COLOMBIA 40.622 3,918 Africa Rank Country Score Mentions 1   GHANA 69.578 7,431 2   SOUTH AFRICA 67.325 26,405 3   EGYPT 56.722 25,403 4   MAURITIUS 56.213 721 5   BURKINA FASO 53.630 510 6   MOZAMBIQUE 52.702 723 7   BENIN 52.584 293 8   SENEGAL 52.424 1,834 9   MALAWI 52.331 716 10   CAPE VERDE 51.973 120 11   CAMEROON 51.838 1,225 12   SEYCHELLES 51.686 133 13   MOROCCO 51.510 3,180 14   COMOROS 51.382 87 15   ZAMBIA 51.335 785 16   WESTERN SAHARA 51.330 79 17   GUINEA 51.313 1,252 18   LESOTHO 51.310 177 19   NAMIBIA 51.121 426 20   BOTSWANA 51.104 670 21   SWAZILAND 51.086 264 22   TOGO 51.061 283 23   TANZANIA 50.880 1,029 24   ANGOLA 50.830 1,751 25   SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE 50.751 58 26   GABON 50.651 490 27   CÔTE D'IVOIRE 50.376 1,219 28   TUNISIA 50.342 966 29   DJIBOUTI 50.235 536 30   GAMBIA 49.978 344 31   MALI 49.845 1,431 32   SIERRA LEONE 50.816 1,211 33   EQUATORIAL GUINEA 49.623 254 34   CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC 49.562 603 35   MAURITANIA 48.798 584 36   ALGERIA 48.697 2,270 37   LIBERIA 48.613 748 38   ERITREA 48.579 576 39   LIBYA 48.212 2,494 40   CHAD 47.688 1,769 41   SIERRA LEONE 47.220 1,646 42   UGANDA 47.095 1,745 43   ETHIOPIA 46.992 2,639 44   NIGER 46.943 884 45   GUINEA BISSAU 46.876 765 46   ZIMBABWE 41.933 9,025 47   KENYA 41.178 4,943 48   NIGERIA 39.530 3,880 49   MADAGASCAR 39.033 3,899 50   SOMALIA 30.753 6,379 51   RWANDA 25.599 5,837 52   SUDAN 17.637 15,623 Asia Rank Country Score Mentions 1   SINGAPORE 87.553 28,647 2   HONG KONG 74.387 25,625 3   SOUTH KOREA 72.020 48,365 4   MALAYSIA 69.695 34,055 5   THAILAND 61.668 38,931 6   INDONESIA 60.590 52,934 7   TAIWAN 56.621 10,631 8   BRUNEI 54.346 575 9   CHINA 54.193 142,248 10   BHUTAN 53.987 1,732 11   LAOS 53.056 1,359 12   MALDIVES 52.672 297 13   NEPAL 51.739 4,445 14   EAST TIMOR 51.547 129 15   MONGOLIA 51.452 648 16   JAPAN 51.064 71,080 17   MACAU 49.973 2,384 18   INDIA 49.191 179,808 19   PHILIPPINES 47.642 18,339 20   VIETNAM 43.756 6,791 21   MYANMAR (BURMA) 34.583 11,526 22   CAMBODIA 34.360 5,671 23   BANGLADESH 32.179 7,114 24   NORTH KOREA 30.815 14,175 25   AFGHANISTAN 19.612 40,721 26   SRI LANKA 15.764 15,893 27   PAKISTAN 2.442 53,683 Central Asia Rank Country Score Mentions 1   KAZAKHSTAN 56.272 1,972 2   UZBEKISTAN 53.859 1,445 3   KYRGYZSTAN 50.881 1,970 4   TURKMENISTAN 50.695 393 5   TAJIKISTAN 50.605 630

Europe Rank Country Score Mentions 1   IRELAND 74.628 71,842 2   ITALY 71.842 51,836 3   FRANCE 67.107 89,962 4   UNITED KINGDOM 64.400 361,145 5   NORWAY 60.767 6,271 6   PORTUGAL 58.184 7,434 7   FINLAND 58.180 3,431 8   SWEDEN 56.889 11,013 9   DENMARK 56.514 6,518 10   NETHERLANDS 54.796 17,390 11   CZECH REPUBLIC 54.472 9,051 12   MONTENEGRO 54.145 762 13   MONACO 54.108 1,211 14   SLOVENIA 53.144 1,226 15   SPAIN 52.311 51,317 16   MACEDONIA (F.Y.R.O.M.) 52.288 922 17   LUXEMBOURG 51.530 1,005 18   SAN MARINO 51.385 103 19   BELARUS 51.297 1,884 20   MOLDOVA 51.003 381 21   MALTA 50.771 431 22   SWITZERLAND 50.690 23,554 23   LIECHTENSTEIN 50.623 771 24   POLAND 50.594 9,674 25   ANDORRA 50.465 945 26   HUNGARY 50.264 4,045 27   CROATIA 50.189 3,142 28   SLOVAKIA 50.004 1,930 29   KOSOVO 49.984 2,408 30   GREENLAND 49.840 358 31   CYPRUS 49.676 1,409 32   ESTONIA 49.270 1,116 33   VATICAN CITY 48.874 4,204 34   ROMANIA 48.392 2,707 35   BELGIUM 47.939 12,922 36   LITHUANIA 47.818 1,736 37   GERMANY 47.815 58,048 38   BULGARIA 46.742 2,442 39   ALBANIA 46.040 1,284 40   LATVIA 44.748 2,118 41   AUSTRIA 43.583 9,594 42   BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA 43.191 2,176 43   GREECE 41.125 9,820 44   ICELAND 40.230 4,530 45   SERBIA 39.241 6,840 46   RUSSIA 35.953 64,968 47   UKRAINE 30.390 12,564 Middle East and North Africa Rank Country Score Mentions 1   UNITED ARAB EMIRATES 76.834 17,326 2   QATAR 63.924 6,051 3   KUWAIT 57.757 5,807 4   EGYPT 56.722 25,403 5   OMAN 56.621 1,094 6   JORDAN 55.082 6,912 7   BAHRAIN 53.607 1,876 8   MOROCCO 51.510 3,180 9   SAUDI ARABIA 50.493 9,172 10   TUNISIA 50.342 966 11   SYRIA 49.867 9,011 12   ALGERIA 48.697 2,270 13   LIBYA 48.212 2,494 14   TURKEY 47.080 13,472 15   IRAN 39.627 37,876 16   LEBANON 36.360 13,123 17   YEMEN 33.486 3,564 18   ISRAEL 16.402 118,487 19   IRAQ 13.193 44,747 20   PALESTINE 11.035 78,332 Oceania Rank Country Score Mentions 1   NEW ZEALAND 86.115 66,299 2   FIJI 65.853 18,479 3   AUSTRALIA 60.850 70,961 4   VANUATU 53.625 407 5   SAMOA 52.254 1,093 6   NAURU 51.337 29 7   PALAU 51.294 50 8   FED. STATES OF MICRONESIA 51.230 31 9   KIRIBATI 51.162 95 10   COOK ISLANDS 51.145 203 11   PAPUA NEW GUINEA 51.131 814 12   TOKELAU 51.083 7 13   NIUE 50.981 132 14   TONGA 50.819 797 15   MARSHALL ISLANDS 50.805 57 16   TUVALU 50.793 88 17   SOLOMON ISLANDS 50.756 243 Caribbean Rank Country Score Mentions 1   JAMAICA 53.433 2,632 2   TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO 53.254 1,107 3   SAINT KITTS AND NEVIS 52.393 331 4   SAINT LUCIA 52.375 281 5   BERMUDA 52.175 291 6   DOMINICAN REPUBLIC 52.171 1,592 7   BARBADOS 51.984 958 8   ARUBA 51.549 146 9   BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS 51.342 96 10   DOMINICA 51.293 47 11   CAYMAN ISLANDS 50.911 501 12   GRENADA 50.819 279 13   HAITI 50.777 759 14   ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA 49.225 1,712 15   THE BAHAMAS 48.985 1,411 16   CUBA 28.221 14,667 Commonwealth of Independent States Rank Country Score Mentions 1   KAZAKHSTAN 56.272 1,972 2   UZBEKISTAN 53.859 1,445 3   BELARUS 51.297 1,884 4   AZERBAIJAN 51.009 1,024 5   MOLDOVA 51.003 381 6   KYRGYZSTAN 50.881 1,970 7   TURKMENISTAN 50.695 393 8   TAJIKISTAN 50.605 630 9   ARMENIA 49.050 1,194 10   GEORGIA 38.196 7,518 11   RUSSIA 35.953 64,968 12   UKRAINE 30.390 12,564

RANKED BY REGION FOR 2008