2026 RSF ranks: India 157, Turkey 159 (essentially tied), Hungary 70, Brazil 80, South Africa 38. India and Turkey have moved together; the others have stayed roughly stable or improved. South Africa is the only peer that improved materially over the period.
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This is one of 36 standing analyses drawn from the Some Perspective dataset. It is not dated commentary: it describes a relationship in the data that holds across the series, and it is regenerated whenever the underlying dataset is refreshed. The figures quoted here reflect the 2026-08-15 data vintage.