By place
Continents
The record by continent. Each continent lists the countries in the record alphabetically, with each country's RSF 2026 press-freedom rank.
The number of entries reflects the depth of this record, not the severity of a country's conduct.
Africa
- Egypt (RSF 2026 rank: 169th of 180)
- Eritrea (RSF rank: not recorded)
- Ethiopia (RSF 2026 rank: 148th of 180)
- Morocco (RSF rank: not recorded)
- Nigeria (RSF 2026 rank: 112th of 180)
- South Africa (RSF 2026 rank: 21st of 180)
- Tanzania (RSF 2026 rank: 117th of 180)
- Tunisia (RSF 2026 rank: 137th of 180)
- Zimbabwe (RSF 2026 rank: 124th of 180)
Asia
- Azerbaijan (RSF rank: not recorded)
- Bangladesh (RSF 2026 rank: 152nd of 180)
- Cambodia (RSF 2026 rank: 151st of 180)
- China (RSF 2026 rank: 178th of 180)
- Georgia (RSF 2026 rank: 135th of 180)
- Hong Kong (RSF 2026 rank: 140th of 180)
- India (RSF 2026 rank: 157th of 180)
- Indonesia (RSF rank: not recorded)
- Iran (RSF 2026 rank: 177th of 180)
- Israel (RSF 2026 rank: 116th of 180)
- Japan (RSF rank: not recorded)
- Kazakhstan (RSF rank: not recorded)
- Malaysia (RSF 2026 rank: 95th of 180)
- Myanmar (RSF 2026 rank: 166th of 180)
- North Korea (RSF rank: not recorded)
- Pakistan (RSF 2026 rank: 153rd of 180)
- Philippines (RSF 2026 rank: 114th of 180)
- Saudi Arabia (RSF 2026 rank: 176th of 180)
- South Korea (RSF 2026 rank: 47th of 180)
- Thailand (RSF rank: not recorded)
- Türkiye (RSF 2026 rank: 163rd of 180)
- Viet Nam (RSF rank: not recorded)
Europe
- Belarus (RSF 2026 rank: 165th of 180)
- Czechia (RSF 2026 rank: 11th of 180)
- Germany (RSF 2026 rank: 14th of 180)
- Greece (RSF rank: not recorded)
- Hungary (RSF 2026 rank: 74th of 180)
- Malta (RSF rank: not recorded)
- Poland (RSF 2026 rank: 27th of 180)
- Portugal (RSF 2026 rank: 10th of 180)
- Russia (RSF 2026 rank: 172nd of 180)
- Serbia (RSF 2026 rank: 104th of 180)
- Slovakia (RSF 2026 rank: 37th of 180)
- Spain (RSF 2026 rank: 29th of 180)
- United Kingdom (RSF 2026 rank: 18th of 180)
North America
- Canada (RSF 2026 rank: 20th of 180)
- Cuba (RSF rank: not recorded)
- El Salvador (RSF 2026 rank: 143rd of 180)
- Guatemala (RSF 2026 rank: 128th of 180)
- Haiti (RSF 2026 rank: 107th of 180)
- Mexico (RSF rank: not recorded)
- Nicaragua (RSF 2026 rank: 168th of 180)
- United States (RSF 2026 rank: 64th of 180)
South America
- Argentina (RSF 2026 rank: 98th of 180)
- Brazil (RSF 2026 rank: 52nd of 180)
- Chile (RSF 2026 rank: 70th of 180)
- Ecuador (RSF 2026 rank: 125th of 180)
- Peru (RSF rank: not recorded)
- Venezuela (RSF 2026 rank: 159th of 180)