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Both Canada and Uruguay have fallen one place each in the World Rankings with Canada now ranked 19th in the world and Uruguay 20th. Moving ahead of both is Russia who completed wins this past week over Hong Kong, Portugal and Zimbabwe.
Despite losing badly against Spain Chile remains 24th in the world and fifth in the Americas ahead of Paraguay, Brazil and Colombia who are ranked 37th, 39th and 44th in the world. This could change with Brazil hosting the 30th ranked Germany in the first of two test matches this coming Saturday.
Canada and Uruguay have both finished their international competition for the year as have Chile, the USA and Argentina the latter of whom did not gain points against the Barbarians despite winning cleanly. Points can be exclusively won or lost by playing against others listed in the World Rankings. With Guatemala and El Salvador not being members neither are in World Rankings.
| 1 | New Zealand | 96,10 |
| 2 | Australia | 89,33 |
| 3 | South Africa | 87,66 |
| 4 | Wales | 83,49 |
| 5 | Argentina | 82,59 |
| 6 | Ireland | 81,17 |
| 7 | France | 79,77 |
| 8 | England | 79,77 |
| 9 | Scotland | 77,94 |
| 10 | Japan | 77,05 |
| 11 | Fiji | 76,96 |
| 12 | Italy | 72,74 |
| 13 | Tonga | 71,60 |
| 14 | Georgia | 71,45 |
| 15 | Samoa | 70,36 |
| 16 | USA | 68,66 |
| 17 | Romania | 66,59 |
| 18 | Russia | 63,54 |
| 19 | Canada | 62,65 |
| 20 | Uruguay | 62,11 |
| 21 | Spain | 61,96 |
| 22 | Namibia | 61,75 |
| 23 | Hong Kong | 57,17 |
| 24 | Chile | 56,92 |
| 25 | South Korea | 56,70 |
| 26 | Portugal | 56,34 |
| 27 | Kenya | 55,89 |
| 28 | Belgium | 55,69 |
| 29 | Ukraine | 55,51 |
| 30 | Germany | 54,78 |
