United Arab Emirates

News coverage about United Arab Emirates accounts for 0.453% of all coverage GDELT monitors worldwide as of August 20, 2026. Output is up 7.4% week-over-week. The average tone of this coverage is -0.04 — mildly negative.

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Data updated: · refreshed every 2 hours from GDELT

Coverage share
0.453%
of monitored articles
Week over week
+7.4%
7-day mean vs prior
Average tone
-0.04
mildly negative
Refresh tier
Priority
~2-3h cadence

Coverage volume, last 90 days

United Arab Emirates coverage volume: 91 days, latest 0.45% on 2026-08-200.001.02.0May 22Jun 7Jun 23Jul 9Jul 25Aug 10Aug 20

Coverage tone, last 90 days

United Arab Emirates coverage tone: 91 days, latest tone -0.04 on 2026-08-20+50-5May 22Jun 7Jun 23Jul 9Jul 25Aug 10Aug 20

Event activity (CAMEO-coded)

Protests (1/day latest)

Protest events located in United Arab Emirates: 38 days, latest 1.00 on 2026-08-180.005.010.0May 26Jun 8Jun 21Jul 3Jul 28Aug 9Aug 18

Diplomacy (104/day latest)

Diplomatic events located in United Arab Emirates: 86 days, latest 104.00 on 2026-08-190.00250500May 26Jun 10Jun 25Jul 10Jul 25Aug 9Aug 19

Coercion & force (35/day latest)

Coercive events located in United Arab Emirates: 85 days, latest 35.00 on 2026-08-190.0050.0100May 26Jun 10Jun 26Jul 11Jul 26Aug 10Aug 19

CAMEO-coded events geolocated to United Arab Emirates, counted daily from GDELT's event stream (protests: root 14; diplomacy: 04–05; coercion through mass violence: 17–20).

Coverage origin: local vs international

Over the last two weeks, 8% of the coverage about United Arab Emirates came from outlets based in United Arab Emirates — the rest was written from abroad (14,726 articles with a known outlet home country).

Daily share of coverage about United Arab Emirates from domestic outlets (%): 49 days, latest 25.00 on 2026-08-200.0012.525.0Jul 3Jul 12Jul 21Jul 30Aug 8Aug 17Aug 20

Share of articles about United Arab Emirates produced by domestic outlets, computed daily across GDELT's English and translated streams. Outlet home countries are mapped per news domain (GDELT source-country data); articles from unmapped outlets are excluded from the denominator. A very low share during major events can mean the story is being told about a place rather than from it.

Most-mentioned places

  • Dubai (40)
  • Abu Dhabi (3)
  • Baladiyat Dubayy (2)
  • Sharjah (2)
  • Dhafra (1)
  • Diwan Ar Riasah (1)
  • Al Quoz (1)
  • Jebel Ali (1)
  • Gulf Of Oman (1)

Places named in coverage about United Arab Emirates on 2026-08-20 (GDELT location extraction; article counts).

Active topics in coverage about United Arab Emirates

Country indicators

GDP (current US$)
$552.3B
World Bank, 2024
Population
11.5M
World Bank, 2025
Trade (% of GDP)
199.0%
World Bank, 2023
Military expenditure (% of GDP)
5.6%
World Bank, 2014

Armed conflict, trailing 12 months

Conflict fatalities
14
best estimate
Civilian deaths
9
within the above
Recorded events
11
organized violence

Source: Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP GED), window 2025-08-01..2026-07-31, refreshed monthly. Recent months are preliminary candidate data.

Coverage share measures articles published by United Arab Emirates-based outlets as a share of all GDELT-monitored coverage — see methodology. Derived data is CC BY 4.0 (“Geotone / GDELT”).