New Zealand

News coverage about New Zealand accounts for 1.007% of all coverage GDELT monitors worldwide as of August 20, 2026. Output is up 4.7% week-over-week. The average tone of this coverage is +0.35 — neutral-to-positive. Coverage is surging: 7.1 standard deviations above the trailing average.

NZ · NZL · Oceania · Wikidata

Data updated: · refreshed every 2 hours from GDELT

Coverage share
1.007%
of monitored articles
Week over week
+4.7%
7-day mean vs prior
Average tone
+0.35
neutral-to-positive
Refresh tier
Standard
~5h cadence

Coverage volume, last 90 days

New Zealand coverage volume: 91 days, latest 1.01% on 2026-08-200.001.02.0May 22Jun 7Jun 23Jul 9Jul 25Aug 10Aug 20

Coverage tone, last 90 days

New Zealand coverage tone: 91 days, latest tone 0.35 on 2026-08-20+20-2May 22Jun 7Jun 23Jul 9Jul 25Aug 10Aug 20

Event activity (CAMEO-coded)

Protests (3/day latest)

Protest events located in New Zealand: 64 days, latest 3.00 on 2026-08-180.0010.020.0May 26Jun 8Jun 24Jul 6Jul 23Aug 7Aug 18

Diplomacy (49/day latest)

Diplomatic events located in New Zealand: 87 days, latest 49.00 on 2026-08-200.005001000May 26Jun 10Jun 25Jul 10Jul 25Aug 9Aug 20

Coercion & force (23/day latest)

Coercive events located in New Zealand: 87 days, latest 23.00 on 2026-08-200.00100200May 26Jun 10Jun 25Jul 10Jul 25Aug 9Aug 20

CAMEO-coded events geolocated to New Zealand, 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, 26% of the coverage about New Zealand came from outlets based in New Zealand — the rest was written from abroad (14,198 articles with a known outlet home country).

Daily share of coverage about New Zealand from domestic outlets (%): 49 days, latest 45.16 on 2026-08-200.0025.050.0Jul 3Jul 12Jul 21Jul 30Aug 8Aug 17Aug 20

Share of articles about New Zealand 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

  • Wellington (34)
  • Mount Maunganui (7)
  • Rotorua (6)
  • Whare (5)
  • Hawke Bay (5)
  • South Island (4)
  • Gisborne (4)
  • South Auckland (3)
  • Kerikeri (2)
  • Huia (2)
  • Golden Bay (2)
  • Te Awamutu (2)

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

Active topics in coverage about New Zealand

Country indicators

GDP (current US$)
$264.1B
World Bank, 2025
Population
5.3M
World Bank, 2025
Trade (% of GDP)
50.7%
World Bank, 2024
Military expenditure (% of GDP)
1.2%
World Bank, 2024

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