About
World Emotion Map
World Emotion Map visualizes the emotional pulse of global news in real time. Each country is colored by the dominant emotion reported in news media — Joy, Fear, Anger, Sadness, Trust, or Optimism — giving you an instant gestalt of how the world feels right now.
How It Works
- 01GDELT GKG processes 100,000+ global news articles per day and extracts emotion signals using natural language processing.
- 02We aggregate those signals by country and sector, updated hourly, into our emotion database.
- 03The interactive map renders the dominant emotion for each country as a color, updated every hour.
Data Source
Emotion data is sourced from the GDELT Global Knowledge Graph (GKG), a real-time open dataset that monitors the world's news media in 65 languages across 195 countries.
Note: this data reflects news media sentiment, not the actual emotional state of any population. It should not be used as the basis for financial or political decisions.
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