Barbados

News coverage about Barbados accounts for 0.028% of all coverage GDELT monitors worldwide as of August 20, 2026. Output is down 28.4% week-over-week. The average tone of this coverage is -1.98 — mildly negative.

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Data updated: · refreshed every 2 hours from GDELT

Coverage share
0.028%
of monitored articles
Week over week
-28.4%
7-day mean vs prior
Average tone
-1.98
mildly negative
Refresh tier
Standard
~5h cadence

Coverage volume, last 90 days

Barbados coverage volume: 91 days, latest 0.03% on 2026-08-200.000.100.20May 22Jun 7Jun 23Jul 9Jul 25Aug 10Aug 20

Coverage tone, last 90 days

Barbados coverage tone: 91 days, latest tone -1.98 on 2026-08-20+100-10May 22Jun 7Jun 23Jul 9Jul 25Aug 10Aug 20

Event activity (CAMEO-coded)

Protests (2/day latest)

Protest events located in Barbados: 10 days, latest 2.00 on 2026-08-110.001.02.0May 29Jun 2Jun 11Jul 8Aug 8Aug 11

Diplomacy (4/day latest)

Diplomatic events located in Barbados: 87 days, latest 4.00 on 2026-08-200.0050.0100May 26Jun 10Jun 25Jul 10Jul 25Aug 9Aug 20

Coercion & force (3/day latest)

Coercive events located in Barbados: 59 days, latest 3.00 on 2026-08-190.0012.525.0May 26Jun 9Jun 23Jul 8Jul 20Aug 10Aug 19

CAMEO-coded events geolocated to Barbados, 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, 15% of the coverage about Barbados came from outlets based in Barbados — the rest was written from abroad (584 articles with a known outlet home country).

Daily share of coverage about Barbados from domestic outlets (%): 46 days, latest 12.90 on 2026-08-190.0025.050.0Jul 3Jul 11Jul 19Jul 27Aug 5Aug 14Aug 19

Share of articles about Barbados 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

  • Silver Sands (1)
  • Oistins (1)
  • Thornbury Hill (1)
  • Gall Hill (1)
  • Grazettes (1)
  • Silver Hill (1)

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

Active topics in coverage about Barbados

Country indicators

GDP (current US$)
$8.0B
World Bank, 2025
Population
282,623
World Bank, 2025

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