Costa Rica: press freedom index 2023

In 2023, the press freedom index of Costa Rica stood at 80.2, down from 85.92 a year earlier. The index presents an overview of the plurality and independence of the media and how safe and free it is for journalists to do their job, with lower scores indicating a worse situation for the press and higher scores a better one. Despite the decrease, the Central American country had the highest press freedom index in Latin America and the Caribbean that same year.

Press freedom index in Costa Rica from 2015 to 2023

Characteristic	Index score
2023	80.2
2022	85.92
2021	91.24
2020	89.47
2019	87.76
2018	85.99
2017	88.07
2016	88.9
2015	87.74

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May 2023

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Costa Rica

Survey time period

2015 to 2023

Supplementary notes

According to the source, the Index ranks 180 countries and regions according to the level of freedom available to journalists. It is a snapshot of the media freedom situation based on an evaluation of pluralism, independence of the media, quality of legislative framework and safety of journalists in each country and region. It does not rank public policies even if governments obviously have a major impact on their country’s ranking. Nor is it an indicator of the quality of journalism in each country or region.
The countries surveyed were scored between 0 and 100, with 0 being the worst possible result and 100 the best.

The date of release is the date of access.
Data prior to 2021 was retrieved from earlier releases.

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