Laos

News coverage about Laos accounts for 0.103% of all coverage GDELT monitors worldwide as of October 4, 2026. Output is down 2.2% week-over-week. The average tone of this coverage is +1.10 — neutral-to-positive.

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Data updated: · refreshed every 3 hours from GDELT

Coverage share
0.103%
of monitored articles
Week over week
-2.2%
7-day mean vs prior
Average tone
+1.10
neutral-to-positive
Refresh tier
Standard
~5h cadence

Coverage volume, last 90 days

Laos coverage volume: 91 days, latest 0.10% on 2026-10-040.000.100.20Jul 6Jul 22Aug 7Aug 23Sep 8Sep 24Oct 4

Coverage tone, last 90 days

Laos coverage tone: 91 days, latest tone 1.10 on 2026-10-04+2.50-2.5Jul 6Jul 22Aug 7Aug 23Sep 8Sep 24Oct 4

Event activity (CAMEO-coded)

Protests (4/day latest)

Protest events located in Laos: 5 days, latest 4.00 on 2026-09-250.002.55.0Jul 15Aug 22Sep 3Sep 15Sep 25

Diplomacy (15/day latest)

Diplomatic events located in Laos: 85 days, latest 15.00 on 2026-10-030.0050.0100Jul 6Jul 21Aug 6Aug 24Sep 8Sep 24Oct 3

Coercion & force (3/day latest)

Coercive events located in Laos: 70 days, latest 3.00 on 2026-10-030.0025.050.0Jul 6Jul 19Aug 3Aug 18Sep 3Sep 22Oct 3

CAMEO-coded events geolocated to Laos, 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 Laos came from outlets based in Laos — the rest was written from abroad (1,739 articles with a known outlet home country).

Daily share of coverage about Laos from domestic outlets (%): 91 days, latest 0.00 on 2026-10-040.000.501.0Jul 6Jul 22Aug 7Aug 23Sep 8Sep 24Oct 4

Share of articles about Laos 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

  • Vientiane (19)
  • Indochina (1)

Places named in coverage about Laos on 2026-10-04 (GDELT location extraction; article counts).

Active topics in coverage about Laos

Country indicators

GDP (current US$)
$18.3B
World Bank, 2025
Population
7.9M
World Bank, 2025
Trade (% of GDP)
75.1%
World Bank, 2016
Military expenditure (% of GDP)
0.2%
World Bank, 2013

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