International Monetary Fund

International Monetary Fund appears in roughly 58 monitored articles per day as of August 20, 2026. Mentions are down 18.7% week-over-week. The tone of that coverage averages -6.85 — strongly negative.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is an international financial institution and a specialized agency of the United Nations, headquartered in Washington, D.C. It consists of 191 member countries, and its stated mission is "working to foster global monetary cooperation, secure financial stability, facilitate international trade, promote high employment and sustainable economic growth, and reduce poverty around the world". The IMF acts as a lender of last resort to its members experiencing actual or potential balance of payments crises.

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Also covered as: IMF · Wikidata

Data updated: · refreshed every 2 hours from GDELT

Articles / day
58
mentioning this entity
Week over week
-18.7%
7-day mean vs prior
Tone
-6.85
strongly negative

Coverage volume, last 90 days

International Monetary Fund mentions per day: 91 days, latest 58.00 on 2026-08-200.005001000May 22Jun 7Jun 23Jul 9Jul 25Aug 10Aug 20

Coverage tone, last 90 days

International Monetary Fund coverage tone: 91 days, latest tone -6.85 on 2026-08-20+100-10May 22Jun 7Jun 23Jul 9Jul 25Aug 10Aug 20

Reader interest (Wikipedia)

Daily Wikipedia pageviews for International Monetary Fund: 89 days, latest 1285.00 on 2026-08-180.0025005000May 22Jun 6Jun 21Jul 6Jul 21Aug 5Aug 18

Daily human pageviews of the entity's English Wikipedia article (Wikimedia Analytics). Coverage above measures what the press SUPPLIES; this measures what readers DEMAND — divergence between the two is its own signal.

Mentions counted via a quoted-name query against the GDELT DOC API, aggregated to UTC days — see methodology. Derived data is CC BY 4.0 (“Geotone / GDELT”).