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Le Monde
Le Monde
18 Dec 2024


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Le Monde

Which countries have appeared most on Le Monde's front page, and when?

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Published today at 5:30 am (Paris), updated at 10:46 am

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For the past 10 years, the Les Décodeurs team at Le Monde has covered the news through data, maps and graphs. For Le Monde's 80th anniversary, we delved into the depths of its archives and all the 24,856 print editions, with the invaluable assistance of the editorial IT department. We asked ourselves: Which countries have appeared most on Le Monde's front pages since 1944, and when?

Each flag in our visualization represents the country that most often made Le Monde's front page, month-by-month for the past 80 years. The result is a reflection of eight decades of historical events, ranging from conflicts to popular uprisings and international politics, which Le Monde has chronicled daily.

The

most

frequently

mentioned

countries

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front

page

of

Le

Monde

80 years of international news as seen on the front page, from 1944 to 2024.
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Sep. S
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Methodology

How we analyzed the front pages of Le Monde from 1944-2024

Countries were considered to be present on the front page if their name or any of their possible nicknames ("The Middle Kingdom", for China), their capitals ("London") or their demonyms ("Italian") were mentioned in the title of an article. The number of mentions within any one article was not taken into account, only the fact that it was or was not mentioned at least once in the title. Given that the aim was to analyze international news coverage, France was excluded from the search.

This infographic was inspired by similar analysis of on the front pages of The New York Times by The Pudding .