Mauritania

News coverage about Mauritania accounts for 0.054% of all coverage GDELT monitors worldwide as of August 20, 2026. Output is down 3.4% week-over-week. The average tone of this coverage is -0.13 — mildly negative.

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Coverage share
0.054%
of monitored articles
Week over week
-3.4%
7-day mean vs prior
Average tone
-0.13
mildly negative
Refresh tier
Standard
~5h cadence

Coverage volume, last 90 days

Mauritania coverage volume: 91 days, latest 0.05% on 2026-08-200.000.100.20May 22Jun 7Jun 23Jul 9Jul 25Aug 10Aug 20

Coverage tone, last 90 days

Mauritania coverage tone: 91 days, latest tone -0.13 on 2026-08-20+2.50-2.5May 22Jun 7Jun 23Jul 9Jul 25Aug 10Aug 20

Coverage origin: local vs international

Over the last two weeks, 34% of the coverage about Mauritania came from outlets based in Mauritania — the rest was written from abroad (1,159 articles with a known outlet home country).

Daily share of coverage about Mauritania from domestic outlets (%): 48 days, latest 41.33 on 2026-08-190.0050.0100Jul 3Jul 11Jul 19Jul 27Aug 4Aug 12Aug 19

Share of articles about Mauritania 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

  • Nouakchott (10)
  • Nouadhibou (2)
  • Zouerat (1)
  • Boghe (1)

Places named in coverage about Mauritania on 2026-08-20 (GDELT location extraction; article counts).

Active topics in coverage about Mauritania

Country indicators

GDP (current US$)
$11.7B
World Bank, 2025
Population
5.3M
World Bank, 2025
Trade (% of GDP)
94.0%
World Bank, 2025
Military expenditure (% of GDP)
2.2%
World Bank, 2024

Displacement, end of 2025

Internally displaced
0
within the country
Refugees abroad
43,906
originating from Mauritania
Refugees hosted
301,490
from other countries
Asylum seekers
7,378
pending claims, hosted

Source: UNHCR Refugee Data Finder, year-end 2025 stocks. IDP figures cover conflict-displaced populations reported to UNHCR.

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