Mexico: press freedom index 2024

In 2024, the press freedom index of Mexico stood at 49.01, up from 47.98 a year earlier. Still, the nation remained among the countries with the worst press freedom index in Latin America and the Caribbean in 2024. 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 Mexico from 2015 to 2024

Characteristic	Index score
2024	49.01
2023	47.98
2022	47.57
2021	53.29
2020	54.55
2019	53.22
2018	51.09
2017	51.03
2016	50.67
2015	56.31

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May 2024

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Mexico

Survey time period

2015 to 2024

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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