Maldives

News coverage about Maldives accounts for 0.028% of all coverage GDELT monitors worldwide as of October 4, 2026. Output is down 50.6% week-over-week. The average tone of this coverage is +1.04 — neutral-to-positive.

MV · MDV · Asia · Wikidata

Data updated: · refreshed every 3 hours from GDELT

Coverage share
0.028%
of monitored articles
Week over week
-50.6%
7-day mean vs prior
Average tone
+1.04
neutral-to-positive
Refresh tier
Standard
~5h cadence

Coverage volume, last 90 days

Maldives coverage volume: 91 days, latest 0.03% on 2026-10-040.000.100.20Jul 6Jul 22Aug 7Aug 23Sep 8Sep 24Oct 4

Coverage tone, last 90 days

Maldives coverage tone: 91 days, latest tone 1.04 on 2026-10-04+50-5Jul 6Jul 22Aug 7Aug 23Sep 8Sep 24Oct 4

Event activity (CAMEO-coded)

Protests (1/day latest)

Protest events located in Maldives: 3 days, latest 1.00 on 2026-09-160.001.02.0Jul 31Aug 7Sep 16

Diplomacy (21/day latest)

Diplomatic events located in Maldives: 81 days, latest 21.00 on 2026-10-020.0025.050.0Jul 6Jul 22Aug 8Aug 23Sep 7Sep 21Oct 2

Coercion & force (2/day latest)

Coercive events located in Maldives: 28 days, latest 2.00 on 2026-09-300.005.010.0Jul 8Jul 22Aug 4Aug 19Sep 1Sep 27Sep 30

CAMEO-coded events geolocated to Maldives, 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 Maldives came from outlets based in Maldives — the rest was written from abroad (1,443 articles with a known outlet home country).

Daily share of coverage about Maldives from domestic outlets (%): 90 days, latest 0.00 on 2026-10-030.000.501.0Jul 6Jul 21Aug 5Aug 20Sep 4Sep 19Oct 3

Share of articles about Maldives 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

  • Velana (2)
  • Baa Atoll (1)

Places named in coverage about Maldives on 2026-10-02 (GDELT location extraction; article counts).

Active topics in coverage about Maldives

Country indicators

GDP (current US$)
$7.7B
World Bank, 2025
Population
529,676
World Bank, 2025
Trade (% of GDP)
156.5%
World Bank, 2024

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