United States falls in world press-freedom ranking - Denmark wins

European countries lead the world in providing freedoms to news media, while the United States lost ground in part because of the jailing earlier this year of a New York Times reporter, an international media-advocacy group said in an annual report. North Korea retained the last spot on the 167-country World Press Freedom Index for 2005, published Thursday by Reporters Without Borders. Eritrea, in the Horn of Africa, ranked 166th, and Turkmenistan, in Central Asia, came in 165th, the group said in an advance statement. Iraq was 157th on the list.

Source: The Hindu and The Associated Press via The Washington Post
And here is the list:

1 Denmark
2 Finland
3 Iceland
4 Ireland
5 Netherlands
6 Norway
7 Switzerland
8 Slovakia
9 Czech Republic
10 Slovenia
11 Estonia
12 Hungary
13 New Zealand
14 Sweden
15 Trinidad and Tobago
16 Austria
17 Latvia
18 Belgium
19 Germany
20 Greece
21 Canada
22 Lithuania
23 Portugal
24 United Kingdom
25 Benin
26 Cyprus
27 Namibia
28 El Salvador
29 Cape Verde
30 France
31 Australia
32 South Africa
33 Bosnia and Herzegovina
34 Jamaica
35 Mauritius
36 South Korea
37 Japan
38 Mali
39 Hong-Kong
40 Spain
41 Costa Rica
42 Italy
43 Macedonia
44 United States of America (American territory)
45 Bolivia
46 Uruguay
47 Israel
48 Bulgaria
49 Mozambique
50 Chile
51 Dominican Republic
52 Taiwan
53 Cyprus (North)
54 Mongolia
55 Poland
56 Croatia
57 Niger
58 Timor-Leste
59 Argentina
60 Botswana
61 Fiji
62 Albania
63 Brazil
64 Tonga
65 Serbia and Montenegro
66 Ghana
67 Panama
68 Nicaragua
69 Paraguay
70 Romania
71 Congo
72 Guinea-Bissau
73 Seychelles
74 Moldova
75 Tanzania
76 Angola
77 Honduras
78 Burkina Faso
79 Senegal
80 Uganda
81 Lesotho
82 Central African Republic
83 Cameroon
84 Liberia
85 Kuwait
86 Guatemala
87 Ecuador
88 Comoros
89 Malawi
90 Burundi
91 Cambodia
92 Qatar
93 Venezuela
94 Zambia
95 Togo
96 Jordan
97 Madagascar
98 Turkey
99 Georgia
100 Kosovo
101 United Arab Emirates
102 Armenia
103 Gabon
104 Guinea
105 Indonesia
106 India
107 Thailand
108 Lebanon
109 Chad
110 Kenya
111 Kyrgyzstan
112 Ukraine
113 Malaysia
114 Tajikistan
115 Sri Lanka
116 Peru
117 Haiti
118 Swaziland
119 Kazakhstan
120 Morocco
121 Djibouti
122 Rwanda
123 Bahrein
124 Nigeria
125 Afghanistan
126 Sierra Leone
127 Mauritania
128 Colombia
129 Algeria
130 Gambia
131 Ethiopia
132 Palestinian Authority
133 Equatorial Guinea
134 Sudan
135 Mexico
136 Yemen
137 United States of America (in Iraq)
138 Russia
139 Philippines
140 Singapore
141 Azerbaijan
142 Bhutan
143 Egypt
144 Côte d’Ivoire
145 Syria
146 Democratic Republic of Congo
147 Tunisia
148 Maldives
149 Somalia
150 Pakistan
151 Bangladesh
152 Belarus
153 Zimbabwe
154 Saudi Arabia
155 Laos
156 Uzbekistan
157 Iraq
158 Vietnam
159 China
160 Nepal
161 Cuba
162 Libya
163 Burma
164 Iran
165 Turkmenistan
166 Eritrea
167 North Korea

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