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Government Censorship of the Media, 2014

2014, as V-Dem Institute’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Government Censorship of the Media, 2014 covers 176 countries. Belgium is highest, at 3.489; Syria is lowest, at -3.045. The middle country reads 0.974. Against 2013, 46 values changed (14 up, 32 down), the same countries are covered.

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Government Censorship of the Media · Data for 2014

HighestBelgium

3.489

LowestSyria

-3.045

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the better end.

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Government Censorship of the Media, 2014, as published. V-Dem Institute ranks nobody on this measure; the position is derived here by ordering the published values. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 176 countries · select a heading to sort

Government Censorship of the Media, 2014: every country, as published by V-Dem Institute, University of Gothenburg.
derived
1BelgiumBELWestern Europe3.489
2SwedenSWENorthern Europe3.378
3NorwayNORNorthern Europe3.299
4DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe3.258
5FinlandFINNorthern Europe3.255
6EstoniaESTNorthern Europe3.201
7SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe3.173
8LatviaLVANorthern Europe3.120
9LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe3.043
10UruguayURYSouth America3.004
11IrelandIRLNorthern Europe2.989
12GermanyDEUWestern Europe2.887
13PolandPOLEastern Europe2.886
14BrazilBRASouth America2.833
15United StatesUSANorthern America2.806
16ChileCHLSouth America2.776
17NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe2.760
18New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand2.749
19AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand2.673
20SenegalSENWestern Africa2.596
21AustriaAUTWestern Europe2.594
22CanadaCANNorthern America2.573
23ItalyITASouthern Europe2.563
24United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe2.476
25PortugalPRTSouthern Europe2.299

02In 2014

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Belgium3.489
  2. 2Sweden3.378
  3. 3Norway3.299
  4. 4Denmark3.258
  5. 5Finland3.255

Lowest

  1. 176Syria-3.045
  2. 175North Korea-2.775
  3. 174Gambia-2.741
  4. 173Turkmenistan-2.720
  5. 172Eritrea-2.700

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 0.974. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032013 → 2014

Since 2013

What changed between 2013 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 46values changed, of 176 in both
  • 14 · 32rose · fell
  • 130unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

Both years come from the same release, so a difference here is a change in the data, not a revision of it. Every country’s full history is charted on the statistic page.

04Caveats

Read before you use

What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.

How values are stored

  • One year of the 2026 release

    Every year in this series comes from V-Dem Institute’s 2026 release, recalculated on one method. It can differ from what was first published for 2014.

  • 175 distinct values among 176

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 3 decimals. 2 countries share 1.776. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • The position is ours

    V-Dem Institute publishes values only; the order is this site’s.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 176 countries has every column.

05The files

Download and cite

The table as a file, digit for digit, what this site changed, and a citation for this edition.

Licence in full

What this site changed: Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0 · what it allows, in plain words

Cite this edition

V-Dem Institute, University of Gothenburg (2014). Government Censorship of the Media, 2014 [data set], describing 2014. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/media-censorship/2014

0636 held

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07Questions

Government Censorship of the Media, 2014: questions and answers

Which country has the highest media censorship in Government Censorship of the Media, 2014?

Belgium, at 3.489, of the 176 countries in the file.

What year does Government Censorship of the Media, 2014 describe?

2014.

How many countries does Government Censorship of the Media, 2014 cover?

176.

Where can I download Government Censorship of the Media, 2014?

On this page, as a CSV file holding every value exactly as published, or from the publisher’s own site, linked below.

Is Government Censorship of the Media, 2014 the newest?

No. The newest held here is Government Censorship of the Media, 2025.

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