Press Freedom Index 2025

Every year Reporters Without Borders publish The World Press Freedom Index (WPFI) based on an assessment of each countries' journalists freedoms for the previous year and in honour of today being World Press Freedom Day, they have published the 2025 results.
Top is Norway again but Estonia have leapt up 4 places to 2nd and Netherlands, Sweden and Finland make up the top 5 with Denmark down to sixth from last years 2nd place.
The UK has gone up 3 places to 20th , Canada has dropped 7 places to 21st and Australia is up 10 to 29th  and the USA has dropped 2 places to 57th,  Russia has dropped 9 places to 171st and China has fallen into the bottom 3 just above North Korea and the worst place for Press Freedom, Eritrea
There are some surprising rises, although some are starting from a very low base but moving in the right direction are DR Congo rising from 123rd to 71st,  Paraguay now at 84 compared to last years 115th,  Bolivia now 93rd from 124th, Panama sat at 53rd from 2024's 83rd and Senegal moving up from 94th to 74th.
Moving in the wrong direction are Kyrgyzstan dropping from 120th to 144th, Samoa going from 22nd to 44th, Argentina who were 66th last year and 87th this, Burkina Faso who are 105th compared to last years 86th and  Chile who are 69th but were 52nd last year.
So if you are a Journalist in the North of Europe then enjoy your Freedoms, if you are a journo in China, North Korea or Eritrea then you may want to rethink your career choice.