{"id":93406,"date":"2015-07-17T08:30:42","date_gmt":"2015-07-17T06:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=93406"},"modified":"2015-07-17T09:27:23","modified_gmt":"2015-07-17T07:27:23","slug":"south-africas-global-reputation-is-falling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/93406\/south-africas-global-reputation-is-falling\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa’s global reputation is falling"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Reputation Institute has released its 2015 ranking of the world’s most reputable countries – showing that South Africa is beginning to slide.<\/p>\n

The 2015 ranking is based on the response of 48,000 people from the G8 nations.<\/p>\n

It looks at the world’s 55 largest economies, and gauges reputational power through targeted online surveys among the general population.<\/p>\n

It takes into account direct experiences and perceptions towards the countries covered, as well as third party data from the Global Peace Index, and Corruption Perception Index.<\/p>\n

In 2015, Canada is ranked as the world’s most reputable country, having climbed from 2nd position in 2014. Last year’s top country, Switzerland, dropped down into fourth spot.<\/p>\n

Notably, no country was deemed to have an “excellent” reputation, with scores below 80.<\/p>\n

Similarly, only 12 of the top 20 countries had a “good” reputation, with the other eight nations having a “moderate” reputation.<\/p>\n

South Africa was deemed to have a weak reputation, ranking 40th overall. However the report noted that the country experienced one of the largest drops in reputation, having sunk 3.2% since 2014.<\/p>\n

This was on par with Russia (52nd) and second worst to Qatar (43rd) which lost 7.4% on the index.<\/p>\n

South Africa was ranked 32nd in 2014, thus slipping 8 spots.<\/p>\n

Top 25 countries by reputation<\/h3>\n
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#<\/th>\nCountry<\/th>\nScore<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
1<\/td>\nCanada<\/td>\n78.1<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2<\/td>\nNorway<\/td>\n77.1<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/td>\nSweden<\/td>\n76.6<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4<\/td>\nSwitzerland<\/td>\n76.4<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5<\/td>\nAustralia<\/td>\n76.3<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6<\/td>\nFinland<\/td>\n75.1<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7<\/td>\nNew Zealand<\/td>\n75.0<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8<\/td>\nDenmark<\/td>\n74.5<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9<\/td>\nNetherlands<\/td>\n73.7<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10<\/td>\nBelgium<\/td>\n72.3<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11<\/td>\nIreland<\/td>\n72.0<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12<\/td>\nAustria<\/td>\n71.2<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
13<\/td>\nUnited Kingdom<\/td>\n69.5<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
14<\/td>\nItaly<\/td>\n69.4<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
15<\/td>\nGermany<\/td>\n69.0<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
16<\/td>\nJapan<\/td>\n69.0<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
17<\/td>\nSpain<\/td>\n67.8<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
18<\/td>\nPortugal<\/td>\n64.4<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
19<\/td>\nFrance<\/td>\n64.4<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
20<\/td>\nSingapore<\/td>\n61.1<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
21<\/td>\nThailand<\/td>\n57.7<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
22<\/td>\nUnited States<\/td>\n57.0<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
23<\/td>\nPoland<\/td>\n56.8<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
24<\/td>\nCzech Republic<\/td>\n56.5<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
25<\/td>\nTaiwan<\/td>\n56.2<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
40<\/td>\nSouth Africa<\/td>\n49.7<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

What is interesting to note is that South Africans are incredibly hard on themselves, according to the RepTrak.<\/p>\n

The group noted a massive gap between internal and external reputation in South Africa, where locals tend to be 11% more critical of themselves than outsiders are.<\/p>\n

\"Perception<\/a>

Perception gap<\/p><\/div>\n

Conversely, Russia, China, India and the USA are all less critical of their own country than other nations.<\/p>\n

When mapped out across all measured indicators, South Africa is closely aligned with being an enjoyable place live, having a beautiful country and friendly people.<\/p>\n

However, the country is far removed from factors such as education, business, technology, international brands, ethics, efficiency, effective governance and safety.<\/p>\n

More on South Africa<\/h3>\n

South Africa is one of the most violent and unsafe countries in the world<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

11 things businesses hate about South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

How corrupt is South Africa?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Reputation Institute has released its 2015 ranking of the world’s most reputable countries – showing that South Africa is not seen in the best light, abroad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":70463,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26,5931,853],"class_list":["post-93406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-headline","tag-reputation","tag-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93406"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93462,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93406\/revisions\/93462"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}