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Papua New Guinea

News coverage about Papua New Guinea accounts for 0.04% of all coverage GDELT monitors worldwide as of August 20, 2026. Output is down 7.8% week-over-week. The average tone of this coverage is +1.80 — neutral-to-positive.

PG · PNG · Oceania · Wikidata

Data updated: · refreshed every 2 hours from GDELT

Coverage share
0.04%
of monitored articles
Week over week
-7.8%
7-day mean vs prior
Average tone
+1.80
neutral-to-positive
Refresh tier
Standard
~5h cadence

Coverage volume, last 90 days

Papua New Guinea coverage volume: 91 days, latest 0.04% on 2026-08-200.000.100.20May 22Jun 7Jun 23Jul 9Jul 25Aug 10Aug 20

Coverage tone, last 90 days

Papua New Guinea coverage tone: 91 days, latest tone 1.80 on 2026-08-20+50-5May 22Jun 7Jun 23Jul 9Jul 25Aug 10Aug 20

Event activity (CAMEO-coded)

Protests (2/day latest)

Protest events located in Papua New Guinea: 13 days, latest 2.00 on 2026-08-190.002.55.0Jun 5Jun 25Jul 13Jul 29Aug 19

Diplomacy (3/day latest)

Diplomatic events located in Papua New Guinea: 86 days, latest 3.00 on 2026-08-200.00100200May 26Jun 10Jun 26Jul 11Jul 26Aug 10Aug 20

Coercion & force (4/day latest)

Coercive events located in Papua New Guinea: 53 days, latest 4.00 on 2026-08-170.0010.020.0May 27Jun 15Jun 30Jul 14Jul 26Aug 8Aug 17

CAMEO-coded events geolocated to Papua New Guinea, 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 Papua New Guinea came from outlets based in Papua New Guinea — the rest was written from abroad (781 articles with a known outlet home country).

Daily share of coverage about Papua New Guinea from domestic outlets (%): 44 days, latest 0.00 on 2026-08-190.000.501.0Jul 3Jul 11Jul 21Jul 30Aug 7Aug 16Aug 19

Share of articles about Papua New Guinea 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

  • Port Moresby (2)
  • Lagaip District (2)
  • Vanimo (1)
  • Wewak (1)
  • Sepik (1)

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

Active topics in coverage about Papua New Guinea

Country indicators

GDP (current US$)
$32.5B
World Bank, 2025
Population
10.8M
World Bank, 2025
Trade (% of GDP)
131.1%
World Bank, 2004
Military expenditure (% of GDP)
0.3%
World Bank, 2024

Armed conflict, trailing 12 months

Conflict fatalities
74
best estimate
Civilian deaths
11
within the above
Recorded events
12
organized violence

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

Displacement, end of 2025

Internally displaced
70,124
within the country
Refugees abroad
644
originating from Papua New Guinea
Refugees hosted
7,727
from other countries
Asylum seekers
3,121
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 Papua New Guinea-based outlets as a share of all GDELT-monitored coverage — see methodology. Derived data is CC BY 4.0 (“Geotone / GDELT”).