Quarterly and annual rankings of 200 countries and territories, including all 193 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 70.634 66,581 2   UNITED STATES 54.051 923,282 3   MEXICO 29.384 16,954 Central America Rank Country Score Mentions 1   NICARAGUA 51.953 885 2   COSTA RICA 51.854 779 3   BELIZE 50.914 129 4   HONDURAS 50.434 521 5   EL SALVADOR 48.880 1,296 6   GUATEMALA 48.494 915 7   PANAMA 46.838 1,736 South America Rank Country Score Mentions 1   PERU 54.448 2,157 2   GUYANA 53.662 1,062 3   ARGENTINA 53.210 7,448 4   ECUADOR 51.697 1,260 5   SURINAME 51.375 63 6   PARAGUAY 51.345 511 7   CHILE 49.837 3,590 8   URUGUAY 49.492 1,065 9   COLOMBIA 47.444 4,010 10   VENEZUELA 47.361 3,296 11   BOLIVIA 43.021 3,654 12   BRAZIL -7.601 199,467 Africa Rank Country Score Mentions 1   SOUTH AFRICA 62.499 26,411 2   GUINEA 55.137 843 3   TUNISIA 54.735 5,648 4   MOROCCO 54.449 3,512 5   LIBERIA 53.213 1,776 6   BOTSWANA 53.065 390 7   MOZAMBIQUE 52.884 566 8   ZAMBIA 52.557 714 9   CAPE VERDE 52.156 177 10   GABON 52.096 241 11   MAURITIUS 52.087 259 12   ZIMBABWE 51.836 2,400 13   ANGOLA 51.676 438 14   NAMIBIA 51.665 432 15   BENIN 51.624 196 16   MALAWI 51.597 261 17   TANZANIA 51.531 570 18   LESOTHO 51.515 123 19   NIGER 51.491 894 20   EQUATORIAL GUINEA 51.466 157 21   CHAD 51.358 1,377 22   SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE 51.306 35 23   GAMBIA 51.292 128 24   COMOROS 51.276 28 25   BURUNDI 51.244 236 26   MADAGASCAR 51.232 225 27   DJIBOUTI 51.170 83 28   SOUTH SUDAN 51.049 1,007 29   TOGO 50.926 170 30   ETHIOPIA 50.899 1,585 31   SIERRA LEONE 50.867 337 32   SWAZILAND 50.775 201 33   GUINEA BISSAU 50.741 87 34   MAURITANIA 50.698 228 35   SENEGAL 50.544 583 36   MALI 50.527 779 37   BURKINA FASO 50.489 317 38   SEYCHELLES 50.286 186 39   CAMEROON 50.246 358 40   ERITREA 50.225 237 41   ALGERIA 49.719 1,264 42   RWANDA 48.647 801 43   UGANDA 48.198 1,693 44   CONGO KINSHASA 48.024 1,083 45   CÔTE D'IVOIRE 47.719 835 46   GHANA 44.931 4,842 47   CONGO BRAZZAVILLE 44.806 2,039 48   SUDAN 37.560 3,808 49   KENYA 34.816 5,768 50   NIGERIA 34.607 4,167 51   LIBYA 34.303 24,611 52   CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC 32.813 3,702 53   SOMALIA 29.223 5,929 54   EGYPT 26.952 34,810 Asia Rank Country Score Mentions 1   MALAYSIA 84.325 29,610 2   SINGAPORE 81.430 14,542 3   SOUTH KOREA 74.896 34,069 4   INDIA 70.589 108,557 5   HONG KONG 63.662 8,073 6   CHINA 60.294 115,403 7   TAIWAN 59.838 3,911 8   MYANMAR (BURMA) 58.823 12,436 9   JAPAN 57.888 68,475 10   NEPAL 56.301 4,227 11   LAOS 54.191 1,276 12   MONGOLIA 53.82 662 13   BRUNEI 53.244 536 14   MALDIVES 53.144 487 15   INDONESIA 52.409 33,233 16   EAST TIMOR 51.920 161 17   SRI LANKA 51.840 3,845 18   BANGLADESH 50.894 3,266 19   VIETNAM 46.701 8,009 20   CAMBODIA 44.325 3,784 21   BHUTAN 42.417 4,515 22   THAILAND 40.166 56,132 23   NORTH KOREA 39.419 16,200 24   PHILIPPINES 30.369 12,891 25   PAKISTAN 18.021 25,935 26   AFGHANISTAN 17.307 28,065 Central Asia Rank Country Score Mentions 1   KYRGYZSTAN 51.733 559 2   TURKMENISTAN 51.568 101 3   UZBEKISTAN 50.944 646 4   TAJIKISTAN 50.243 496 5   KAZAKHSTAN 49.918 1,242

Europe Rank Country Score Mentions 1   IRELAND 78.241 57,757 2   CZECH REPUBLIC 67.353 8,393 3   SWEDEN 61.377 7,627 4   UNITED KINGDOM 60.475 169,479 5   SWITZERLAND 60.378 12,328 6   FRANCE 59.283 79,831 7   AUSTRIA 57.634 3,903 8   NETHERLANDS 57.411 11,918 9   DENMARK 57.099 4,778 10   SLOVAKIA 56.277 2,536 11   GERMANY 55.812 57,513 12   NORWAY 55.281 4,785 13   FINLAND 55.103 3,581 14   ICELAND 54.731 1,133 15   CROATIA 54.217 1,812 16   MONACO 54.041 745 17   LUXEMBOURG 53.522 1,363 18   MALTA 52.590 656 19   CYPRUS 52.568 1,274 20   BULGARIA 52.564 1,085 21   MONTENEGRO 52.428 844 22   ANDORRA 52.416 714 23   RUSSIA 51.652 53,219 24   MACEDONIA (F.Y.R.O.M.) 51.590 378 25   HUNGARY 51.412 3,804 26   MOLDOVA 51.288 214 27   VATICAN CITY 51.279 1,611 28   ESTONIA 51.200 1,191 29   LIECHTENSTEIN 51.074 153 30   ROMANIA 51.049 1,749 31   KOSOVO 50.677 872 32   SAN MARINO 50.564 231 33   SLOVENIA 50.299 717 34   LATVIA 50.230 601 35   ALBANIA 50.078 551 36   LITHUANIA 49.257 930 37   BELARUS 49.148 1,072 38   SERBIA 48.545 2,645 39   BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA 46.421 1,928 40   UKRAINE 46.270 4,734 41   POLAND 45.303 6,627 42   SPAIN 44.200 82,979 43   ITALY 43.917 68,485 44   PORTUGAL 43.473 10,234 45   BELGIUM 43.216 8,301 46   GREECE 31.466 45,484 Middle East and North Africa Rank Country Score Mentions 1   KUWAIT 67.129 7,781 2   UNITED ARAB EMIRATES 61.355 7,226 3   QATAR 57.637 4,394 4   TUNISIA 54.735 5,648 5   OMAN 54.477 1,453 6   MOROCCO 54.449 3,512 7   ALGERIA 49.719 1,264 8   JORDAN 47.662 7,512 9   BAHRAIN 44.233 2,415 10   ISRAEL 40.857 62,434 11   PALESTINE 39.539 26,938 12   SAUDI ARABIA 38.609 10,427 13   LIBYA 34.303 24,611 14   YEMEN 34.169 7,356 15   TURKEY 33.788 22,622 16   LEBANON 32.826 6,243 17   EGYPT 26.952 34,810 18   IRAQ 19.122 26,694 19   SYRIA 7.087 40,760 20   IRAN 2.893 44,328 Oceania Rank Country Score Mentions 1   AUSTRALIA 79.186 182,344 2   NEW ZEALAND 70.071 62,685 3   NAURU 52.387 664 4   VANUATU 51.440 705 5   FIJI 51.281 2,983 6   FED STATES OF MICRONESIA 51.123 24 7   MARSHALL ISLANDS 51.073 37 8   KIRIBATI 51.018 60 9   SOLOMON ISLANDS 50.627 173 10   TUVALU 50.178 221 11   PAPUA NEW GUINEA 49.831 1,178 12   SAMOA 49.310 1,910 13   TONGA 49.241 1,267 14   PALAU 49.158 500 Caribbean Rank Country Score Mentions 1   JAMAICA 53.296 1,930 2   SAINT KITTS AND NEVIS 52.852 196 3   DOMINICAN REPUBLIC 52.561 682 4   BARBADOS 52.230 211 5   SAINT LUCIA 51.898 90 6   GRENADA 51.381 267 7   DOMINICA 51.289 53 8   THE BAHAMAS 51.253 745 9   CAYMAN ISLANDS 51.183 501 10   TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO 50.738 637 11   HAITI 50.583 1,132 12   CUBA 47.770 4,968 13   ST VINCENT & THE GRENADINES 43.631 326 14   ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA 41.407 1,914 Commonwealth of Independent States Rank Country Score Mentions 1   AZERBAIJAN 51.947 385 2   GEORGIA 51.741 5,756 3   KYRGYZSTAN 51.733 559 4   RUSSIA 51.652 53,219 5   TURKMENISTAN 51.568 101 6   MOLDOVA 51.288 214 7   UZBEKISTAN 50.944 646 8   TAJIKISTAN 50.243 496 9   KAZAKHSTAN 49.918 1,242 10   BELARUS 49.148 1,072 11   ARMENIA 47.170 1,219 12   UKRAINE 46.270 4,734

RANKED BY REGION FOR 2010, 2009, 2008