Kiribati

News coverage about Kiribati accounts for 0.005% of all coverage GDELT monitors worldwide as of August 19, 2026. Output is down 70.0% week-over-week. The average tone of this coverage is +0.49 — neutral-to-positive.

KI · KIR · Insular Oceania/Oceania · Wikidata

Data updated: · refreshed every 2 hours from GDELT

Coverage share
0.005%
of monitored articles
Week over week
-70.0%
7-day mean vs prior
Average tone
+0.49
neutral-to-positive
Refresh tier
Standard
~5h cadence

Coverage volume, last 90 days

Kiribati coverage volume: 90 days, latest 0.00% on 2026-08-190.000.030.05May 22Jun 6Jun 21Jul 6Jul 21Aug 5Aug 19

Coverage tone, last 90 days

Kiribati coverage tone: 90 days, latest tone 0.49 on 2026-08-19+100-10May 22Jun 6Jun 21Jul 6Jul 21Aug 5Aug 19

Event activity (CAMEO-coded)

Protests (2/day latest)

Protest events located in Kiribati: 2 days, latest 2.00 on 2026-07-210.001.02.0Jun 29Jul 21

Diplomacy (3/day latest)

Diplomatic events located in Kiribati: 39 days, latest 3.00 on 2026-08-170.0025.050.0May 26Jun 12Jul 5Jul 13Aug 2Aug 13Aug 17

Coercion & force (2/day latest)

Coercive events located in Kiribati: 21 days, latest 2.00 on 2026-08-170.005.010.0Jun 12Jul 1Jul 9Jul 23Jul 31Aug 17

CAMEO-coded events geolocated to Kiribati, counted daily from GDELT's event stream (protests: root 14; diplomacy: 04–05; coercion through mass violence: 17–20).

Coverage origin: local vs international

Over the last two weeks, 0% of the coverage about Kiribati came from outlets based in Kiribati — the rest was written from abroad (202 articles with a known outlet home country).

Daily share of coverage about Kiribati from domestic outlets (%): 5 days, latest 0.00 on 2026-08-110.000.501.0Jul 7Jul 13Aug 4Aug 7Aug 11

Share of articles about Kiribati produced by domestic outlets, computed daily across GDELT's English and translated streams. Outlet home countries are mapped per news domain (GDELT source-country data); articles from unmapped outlets are excluded from the denominator. A very low share during major events can mean the story is being told about a place rather than from it.

Most-mentioned places

  • Tapiwa (1)

Places named in coverage about Kiribati on 2026-08-19 (GDELT location extraction; article counts).

Active topics in coverage about Kiribati

Country indicators

GDP (current US$)
$349M
World Bank, 2025
Population
136,488
World Bank, 2025
Trade (% of GDP)
102.1%
World Bank, 2024

Coverage share measures articles published by Kiribati-based outlets as a share of all GDELT-monitored coverage — see methodology. Derived data is CC BY 4.0 (“Geotone / GDELT”).