Timor-Leste

News coverage about Timor-Leste accounts for 0.051% of all coverage GDELT monitors worldwide as of October 28, 2026. Output is steady week-over-week (+0.5%). The average tone of this coverage is +1.83 — neutral-to-positive. Coverage is surging: 2.8 standard deviations above the trailing average.

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Coverage share
0.051%
of monitored articles
Week over week
+0.5%
7-day mean vs prior
Average tone
+1.83
neutral-to-positive
Refresh tier
Standard
~5h cadence

Coverage volume, last 90 days

Timor-Leste coverage volume: 90 days, latest 0.05% on 2026-10-280.000.100.20Jul 31Aug 15Aug 30Sep 14Sep 29Oct 14Oct 28

Coverage tone, last 90 days

Timor-Leste coverage tone: 90 days, latest tone 1.83 on 2026-10-28+50-5Jul 31Aug 15Aug 30Sep 14Sep 29Oct 14Oct 28

Event activity (CAMEO-coded)

Protests (2/day latest)

Protest events located in Timor-Leste: 2 days, latest 2.00 on 2026-10-060.002.55.0Sep 4Oct 6

Diplomacy (7/day latest)

Diplomatic events located in Timor-Leste: 69 days, latest 7.00 on 2026-10-280.00100200Aug 1Aug 20Sep 9Sep 22Oct 5Oct 20Oct 28

Coercion & force (3/day latest)

Coercive events located in Timor-Leste: 14 days, latest 3.00 on 2026-10-270.005.010.0Aug 4Aug 25Sep 20Oct 15Oct 26Oct 27

CAMEO-coded events geolocated to Timor-Leste, 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 Timor-Leste came from outlets based in Timor-Leste — the rest was written from abroad (843 articles with a known outlet home country).

Daily share of coverage about Timor-Leste from domestic outlets (%): 86 days, latest 0.00 on 2026-10-280.000.501.0Jul 31Aug 15Sep 1Sep 16Oct 1Oct 17Oct 28

Share of articles about Timor-Leste 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

  • Bobonaro (1)
  • Baucau (1)
  • Motaain (1)

Places named in coverage about Timor-Leste on 2026-10-27 (GDELT location extraction; article counts).

Active topics in coverage about Timor-Leste

Country indicators

GDP (current US$)
$1.9B
World Bank, 2025
Population
1.4M
World Bank, 2025
Trade (% of GDP)
95.4%
World Bank, 2024
Military expenditure (% of GDP)
2.3%
World Bank, 2025

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