Emerging Market
Coverage Tracker
Quantifying disparities between financial media coverage and economic fundamentals across 183 countries — tracking The Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, and Reuters.
Measuring What Financial Media Ignores
The Emerging Market Coverage Tracker was developed by the Center for Emerging Economies to quantify the systematic disparities between financial media attention and economic reality. By comparing each country's share of global media mentions against its share of global GDP, we produce the Market Coverage Intensity (MCI) metric — a ratio that reveals where the narrative diverges from the fundamentals.
Coverage data is drawn from three flagship publications: The Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Reuters — collectively representing the core of global financial journalism. GDP figures are in current US dollars. Countries are classified into five coverage categories based on their MCI relative to regional and market-type benchmarks.
The tracker covers 183 countries across five regions: Asia & Australasia, Eurasia, MENA, Africa, and the Americas. Use the tabs above to explore country-level data, regional imbalances, year-over-year shifts, and coverage spotlights.
The 2025 Emerging Market Coverage Report
20-page analysis of media attention vs. economic reality across 183 economies