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Country-by-country press freedom status has been assessed by
Freedom House in its annual survey Freedom of the Press 2009
Brief explanation of the press freedom assessment scales adopted 
Laws & rules that influence media content on a scale from 0-30 Political pressures, controls & violence that influence media content on a scale from 0-40 Economic pressures & controls that influence media content on a scale
from 0-30		 Total for all 3 constraint categories
The lower the score, the freer the media!		 Press freedom
status according to
Freedom House

Country

 00 00 00

00-30 
31-60 
61-100 

F = Free 
PF = Partly Free 
NF = Not Free 
Users are urged to download the survey itself for detailed country-by-country reports and in-depth explanation of the methodology used. This page is only meant as a handy overview of findings presented to each jurisdiction.