Uruguay: press freedom index 2022

In 2022, the press freedom index of Uruguay stood at 72.03, down from 83.62 a year earlier. Despite the decline, the South American nation remained one of the top 10 countries with the best press freedom index in Latin America and the Caribbean in 2022. The indicator 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.

Press freedom index in Uruguay from 2015 to 2022

Characteristic	Index score
2022	72.03
2021	83.62
2020	84.21
2019	83.94
2018	83.44
2017	82.57
2016	84.12
2015	84.06

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Release date

June 2022

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Uruguay

Survey time period

2015 to 2022

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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