The 2025 World Press Freedom Index by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) found that more than half of the world's population lives in a country where press freedom is in a "very serious" situation -- that's 4.25 billion people in 42 countries now marked bright red on the Index's map. RSF has released a map of the Index where countries appear in proportion to their population to show the scale of attacks on the right to reliable information worldwide.