World Trade Organization

World Trade Organization appears in roughly 18 monitored articles per day as of August 20, 2026. Mentions are down 22.0% week-over-week. The tone of that coverage averages -2.37 — mildly negative.

The World Trade Organization (WTO) is an intergovernmental organization that regulates and facilitates international trade. Established on 1 January 1995, pursuant to the 1994 Marrakesh Agreement, it succeeded the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), which was created in 1948. As the world's largest international economic organization, the WTO has 166 members, representing over 98% of global trade and global GDP. It is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland.

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Also covered as: WTO · Wikidata

Data updated: · refreshed every 2 hours from GDELT

Articles / day
18
mentioning this entity
Week over week
-22.0%
7-day mean vs prior
Tone
-2.37
mildly negative

Coverage volume, last 90 days

World Trade Organization mentions per day: 91 days, latest 18.00 on 2026-08-200.00250500May 22Jun 7Jun 23Jul 9Jul 25Aug 10Aug 20

Coverage tone, last 90 days

World Trade Organization coverage tone: 91 days, latest tone -2.37 on 2026-08-20+50-5May 22Jun 7Jun 23Jul 9Jul 25Aug 10Aug 20

Reader interest (Wikipedia)

Daily Wikipedia pageviews for World Trade Organization: 89 days, latest 698.00 on 2026-08-180.005001000May 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”).