United Nations

United Nations appears in roughly 10,387 monitored articles per day as of August 20, 2026. Mentions are down 16.2% week-over-week. The tone of that coverage averages -1.11 — mildly negative.

The United Nations (UN) is an international intergovernmental organization established by the signing of the Charter of the United Nations on 26 June 1945 with the articulated mission of maintaining international peace and security, to develop friendly relations among states, to promote international cooperation, and to serve as a centre for harmonizing the actions of states in achieving those goals.

Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)

Also covered as: UN · Wikidata

Data updated: · refreshed every 2 hours from GDELT

Articles / day
10,387
mentioning this entity
Week over week
-16.2%
7-day mean vs prior
Tone
-1.11
mildly negative

Coverage volume, last 90 days

United Nations mentions per day: 91 days, latest 10387.00 on 2026-08-200.00100000200000May 22Jun 7Jun 23Jul 9Jul 25Aug 10Aug 20

Coverage tone, last 90 days

United Nations coverage tone: 91 days, latest tone -1.11 on 2026-08-20+50-5May 22Jun 7Jun 23Jul 9Jul 25Aug 10Aug 20

Reader interest (Wikipedia)

Daily Wikipedia pageviews for United Nations: 89 days, latest 3761.00 on 2026-08-180.00500010000May 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”).