Muhammad Yunus

Muhammad Yunus appears in roughly 8 monitored articles per day as of October 4, 2026. Mentions are up 175.5% week-over-week. The tone of that coverage averages -1.96 — mildly negative.

Muhammad Yunus is a Bangladeshi economist and statesman. Yunus pioneered the modern concept of microcredit and microfinance, for which he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006. He is the founder of Grameen Bank and the first Bangladeshi to win the Nobel Peace Prize. Following the July Uprising, he was appointed as the 5th chief adviser of Bangladesh, the head of the interim government, serving from 2024 to 2026.

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Data updated: · refreshed every 3 hours from GDELT

Articles / day
8
mentioning this entity
Week over week
+175.5%
7-day mean vs prior
Tone
-1.96
mildly negative

Coverage volume, last 90 days

Muhammad Yunus mentions per day: 91 days, latest 8.00 on 2026-10-040.00100200Jul 6Jul 22Aug 7Aug 23Sep 8Sep 24Oct 4

Coverage tone, last 90 days

Muhammad Yunus coverage tone: 91 days, latest tone -1.96 on 2026-10-04+100-10Jul 6Jul 22Aug 7Aug 23Sep 8Sep 24Oct 4

Reader interest (Wikipedia)

Daily Wikipedia pageviews for Muhammad Yunus: 89 days, latest 480.00 on 2026-10-020.0010002000Jul 6Jul 21Aug 5Aug 20Sep 4Sep 19Oct 2

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”).