Dominican Republic: press freedom index 2023

In 2023, the press freedom index of the Dominican Republic stood at 71.88, down from 76.9 a year earlier. Still, the Dominican Republic made it to the top five countries with the best press freedom index in Latin America and the Caribbean that year. 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 the Dominican Republic from 2015 to 2023

Characteristic	Index score
2023	71.88
2022	76.9
2021	74.4
2020	72.1
2019	72.1
2018	73.21
2017	73.24
2016	72.1
2015	72.69

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May 2023

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Dominican Republic

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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