Laos
News coverage about Laos accounts for 0.105% of all coverage GDELT monitors worldwide as of August 20, 2026. Output is down 13.7% week-over-week. The average tone of this coverage is +1.20 — neutral-to-positive. Coverage is surging: 2.6 standard deviations above the trailing average.
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Coverage volume, last 90 days
Coverage tone, last 90 days
Event activity (CAMEO-coded)
Protests (1/day latest)
Diplomacy (10/day latest)
Coercion & force (2/day latest)
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 (1,745 articles with a known outlet home country).
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 (20)
Places named in coverage about Laos on 2026-08-20 (GDELT location extraction; article counts).
Active topics in coverage about Laos
Country indicators
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”).