Bahrain

News coverage about Bahrain accounts for 0.221% of all coverage GDELT monitors worldwide as of August 20, 2026. Output is up 44.5% week-over-week. The average tone of this coverage is -1.07 — mildly negative.

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Data updated: · refreshed every 2 hours from GDELT

Coverage share
0.221%
of monitored articles
Week over week
+44.5%
7-day mean vs prior
Average tone
-1.07
mildly negative
Refresh tier
Standard
~5h cadence

Coverage volume, last 90 days

Bahrain coverage volume: 91 days, latest 0.22% on 2026-08-200.001.02.0May 22Jun 7Jun 23Jul 9Jul 25Aug 10Aug 20

Coverage tone, last 90 days

Bahrain coverage tone: 91 days, latest tone -1.07 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 Bahrain: 19 days, latest 2.00 on 2026-08-180.005.010.0May 30Jun 10Jul 12Jul 20Jul 30Aug 18

Diplomacy (19/day latest)

Diplomatic events located in Bahrain: 87 days, latest 19.00 on 2026-08-200.00250500May 26Jun 10Jun 25Jul 10Jul 25Aug 9Aug 20

Coercion & force (1/day latest)

Coercive events located in Bahrain: 86 days, latest 1.00 on 2026-08-200.00125250May 26Jun 11Jun 26Jul 11Jul 26Aug 10Aug 20

CAMEO-coded events geolocated to Bahrain, 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, 13% of the coverage about Bahrain came from outlets based in Bahrain — the rest was written from abroad (3,938 articles with a known outlet home country).

Daily share of coverage about Bahrain from domestic outlets (%): 49 days, latest 17.91 on 2026-08-200.0012.525.0Jul 3Jul 12Jul 21Jul 30Aug 8Aug 17Aug 20

Share of articles about Bahrain 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

  • Budaiya (4)
  • Salmabad (3)
  • Manama (2)
  • Muharraq (2)
  • Nuwaidrat (2)
  • Jasra (1)
  • Bahrain Harbour (1)
  • Hamad Town (1)
  • Isa Town (1)

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

Active topics in coverage about Bahrain

Country indicators

GDP (current US$)
$49.0B
World Bank, 2025
Population
1.6M
World Bank, 2025
Trade (% of GDP)
157.5%
World Bank, 2024
Military expenditure (% of GDP)
2.9%
World Bank, 2024

Armed conflict, trailing 12 months

Conflict fatalities
3
best estimate
Civilian deaths
2
within the above
Recorded events
3
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 Bahrain-based outlets as a share of all GDELT-monitored coverage — see methodology. Derived data is CC BY 4.0 (“Geotone / GDELT”).