Tonga

News coverage about Tonga accounts for 0.007% of all coverage GDELT monitors worldwide as of October 4, 2026. Output is down 18.1% week-over-week. The average tone of this coverage is -0.20 — mildly negative.

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Data updated: · refreshed every 3 hours from GDELT

Coverage share
0.007%
of monitored articles
Week over week
-18.1%
7-day mean vs prior
Average tone
-0.20
mildly negative
Refresh tier
Standard
~5h cadence

Coverage volume, last 90 days

Tonga coverage volume: 91 days, latest 0.01% on 2026-10-040.000.050.10Jul 6Jul 22Aug 7Aug 23Sep 8Sep 24Oct 4

Coverage tone, last 90 days

Tonga coverage tone: 91 days, latest tone -0.20 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 Tonga: 4 days, latest 1.00 on 2026-09-090.000.501.0Jul 14Jul 27Aug 3Sep 9

Diplomacy (7/day latest)

Diplomatic events located in Tonga: 81 days, latest 7.00 on 2026-10-020.0050.0100Jul 6Jul 22Aug 7Aug 22Sep 6Sep 21Oct 2

Coercion & force (8/day latest)

Coercive events located in Tonga: 40 days, latest 8.00 on 2026-10-020.0010.020.0Jul 6Jul 19Aug 3Aug 13Sep 3Sep 25Oct 2

CAMEO-coded events geolocated to Tonga, 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, 15% of the coverage about Tonga came from outlets based in Tonga — the rest was written from abroad (269 articles with a known outlet home country).

Daily share of coverage about Tonga from domestic outlets (%): 44 days, latest 10.71 on 2026-09-300.0025.050.0Jul 6Jul 21Jul 31Aug 12Aug 29Sep 24Sep 30

Share of articles about Tonga 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

  • Tongatapu (1)
  • Tofoa (1)
  • Matangi Tonga (1)

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

Country indicators

GDP (current US$)
$679M
World Bank, 2025
Population
103,742
World Bank, 2025
Trade (% of GDP)
77.6%
World Bank, 2024

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