Vanuatu

News coverage about Vanuatu accounts for 0.014% of all coverage GDELT monitors worldwide as of October 4, 2026. Output is down 45.8% week-over-week. The average tone of this coverage is +0.11 — neutral-to-positive.

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Data updated: · refreshed every 3 hours from GDELT

Coverage share
0.014%
of monitored articles
Week over week
-45.8%
7-day mean vs prior
Average tone
+0.11
neutral-to-positive
Refresh tier
Standard
~5h cadence

Coverage volume, last 90 days

Vanuatu 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

Vanuatu coverage tone: 91 days, latest tone 0.11 on 2026-10-04+100-10Jul 6Jul 22Aug 7Aug 23Sep 8Sep 24Oct 4

Event activity (CAMEO-coded)

Protests (1/day latest)

Protest events located in Vanuatu: 4 days, latest 1.00 on 2026-07-290.001.02.0Jul 6Jul 15Jul 24Jul 29

Diplomacy (2/day latest)

Diplomatic events located in Vanuatu: 74 days, latest 2.00 on 2026-10-030.00100200Jul 6Jul 20Aug 2Aug 19Sep 10Sep 25Oct 3

Coercion & force (1/day latest)

Coercive events located in Vanuatu: 35 days, latest 1.00 on 2026-10-020.005.010.0Jul 6Jul 27Aug 11Aug 27Sep 16Sep 24Oct 2

CAMEO-coded events geolocated to Vanuatu, 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 Vanuatu came from outlets based in Vanuatu — the rest was written from abroad (392 articles with a known outlet home country).

Daily share of coverage about Vanuatu from domestic outlets (%): 46 days, latest 0.00 on 2026-09-300.000.501.0Jul 6Jul 22Aug 11Aug 25Sep 3Sep 21Sep 30

Share of articles about Vanuatu 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

  • Lenakel (1)

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

Active topics in coverage about Vanuatu

Country indicators

GDP (current US$)
$1.4B
World Bank, 2025
Population
335,169
World Bank, 2025
Trade (% of GDP)
73.4%
World Bank, 2024

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