Palau

News coverage about Palau accounts for 0.035% of all coverage GDELT monitors worldwide as of October 4, 2026. Output is up 5.1% week-over-week. The average tone of this coverage is -0.68 — mildly negative.

PW · PLW · Insular Oceania/Oceania · Wikidata

Data updated: · refreshed every 3 hours from GDELT

Coverage share
0.035%
of monitored articles
Week over week
+5.1%
7-day mean vs prior
Average tone
-0.68
mildly negative
Refresh tier
Standard
~5h cadence

Coverage volume, last 90 days

Palau coverage volume: 91 days, latest 0.04% on 2026-10-040.000.100.20Jul 6Jul 22Aug 7Aug 23Sep 8Sep 24Oct 4

Coverage tone, last 90 days

Palau coverage tone: 91 days, latest tone -0.68 on 2026-10-04+50-5Jul 6Jul 22Aug 7Aug 23Sep 8Sep 24Oct 4

Event activity (CAMEO-coded)

Protests (2/day latest)

Protest events located in Palau: 2 days, latest 2.00 on 2026-09-030.001.02.0Aug 31Sep 3

Diplomacy (2/day latest)

Diplomatic events located in Palau: 67 days, latest 2.00 on 2026-10-030.00100200Jul 9Jul 29Aug 14Aug 30Sep 11Sep 25Oct 3

Coercion & force (1/day latest)

Coercive events located in Palau: 16 days, latest 1.00 on 2026-09-280.0010.020.0Jul 7Jul 11Aug 10Aug 31Sep 3Sep 28

CAMEO-coded events geolocated to Palau, 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 Palau came from outlets based in Palau — the rest was written from abroad (1,070 articles with a known outlet home country).

Daily share of coverage about Palau from domestic outlets (%): 80 days, latest 0.00 on 2026-10-030.000.501.0Jul 6Jul 21Aug 7Aug 27Sep 10Sep 24Oct 3

Share of articles about Palau 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

  • Ngos (3)
  • Babeldaob (1)

Places named in coverage about Palau on 2026-10-03 (GDELT location extraction; article counts).

Active topics in coverage about Palau

Country indicators

GDP (current US$)
$345M
World Bank, 2025
Population
17,663
World Bank, 2025
Trade (% of GDP)
105.8%
World Bank, 2024

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