Malta

News coverage about Malta accounts for 0.04% of all coverage GDELT monitors worldwide as of August 21, 2026. Output is down 30.2% week-over-week. The average tone of this coverage is +0.39 — neutral-to-positive.

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Data updated: · refreshed every 2 hours from GDELT

Coverage share
0.04%
of monitored articles
Week over week
-30.2%
7-day mean vs prior
Average tone
+0.39
neutral-to-positive
Refresh tier
Standard
~5h cadence

Coverage volume, last 90 days

Malta coverage volume: 91 days, latest 0.04% on 2026-08-210.000.100.20May 23Jun 8Jun 24Jul 10Jul 26Aug 11Aug 21

Coverage tone, last 90 days

Malta coverage tone: 91 days, latest tone 0.39 on 2026-08-21+50-5May 23Jun 8Jun 24Jul 10Jul 26Aug 11Aug 21

Event activity (CAMEO-coded)

Protests (1/day latest)

Protest events located in Malta: 13 days, latest 1.00 on 2026-08-160.002.55.0May 27Jun 10Jul 2Jul 20Aug 16

Diplomacy (26/day latest)

Diplomatic events located in Malta: 85 days, latest 26.00 on 2026-08-200.00100200May 26Jun 11Jun 27Jul 12Jul 27Aug 11Aug 20

Coercion & force (3/day latest)

Coercive events located in Malta: 79 days, latest 3.00 on 2026-08-200.0050.0100May 26Jun 12Jul 1Jul 15Jul 29Aug 12Aug 20

CAMEO-coded events geolocated to Malta, 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, 9% of the coverage about Malta came from outlets based in Malta — the rest was written from abroad (2,203 articles with a known outlet home country).

Daily share of coverage about Malta from domestic outlets (%): 49 days, latest 9.23 on 2026-08-200.0012.525.0Jul 3Jul 12Jul 21Jul 30Aug 8Aug 17Aug 20

Share of articles about Malta 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

  • Valletta (2)

Places named in coverage about Malta on 2026-08-21 (GDELT location extraction; article counts).

Active topics in coverage about Malta

Country indicators

GDP (current US$)
$27.8B
World Bank, 2025
Population
579,704
World Bank, 2025
Trade (% of GDP)
219.0%
World Bank, 2025
Military expenditure (% of GDP)
0.5%
World Bank, 2024

Armed conflict, trailing 12 months

Conflict fatalities
0
best estimate
Civilian deaths
0
within the above
Recorded events
1
organized violence

Source: Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP GED), window 2025-08-01..2026-07-31, refreshed monthly. Recent months are preliminary candidate data.

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