Brazil

News coverage about Brazil accounts for 3.023% of all coverage GDELT monitors worldwide as of August 20, 2026. Output is up 7.8% week-over-week. The average tone of this coverage is -0.30 — mildly negative. Coverage is surging: 3.3 standard deviations above the trailing average.

BR · BRA · South America · Wikidata

Data updated: · refreshed every 2 hours from GDELT

Coverage share
3.023%
of monitored articles
Week over week
+7.8%
7-day mean vs prior
Average tone
-0.30
mildly negative
Refresh tier
Priority
~2-3h cadence

Coverage volume, last 90 days

Brazil coverage volume: 91 days, latest 3.02% on 2026-08-200.002.55.0May 22Jun 7Jun 23Jul 9Jul 25Aug 10Aug 20

Coverage tone, last 90 days

Brazil coverage tone: 91 days, latest tone -0.30 on 2026-08-20+10-1May 22Jun 7Jun 23Jul 9Jul 25Aug 10Aug 20

Event activity (CAMEO-coded)

Protests (1/day latest)

Protest events located in Brazil: 44 days, latest 1.00 on 2026-08-170.0010.020.0May 26Jun 8Jun 18Jul 6Jul 21Aug 12Aug 17

Diplomacy (8/day latest)

Diplomatic events located in Brazil: 87 days, latest 8.00 on 2026-08-200.00250500May 26Jun 10Jun 25Jul 10Jul 25Aug 9Aug 20

Coercion & force (5/day latest)

Coercive events located in Brazil: 87 days, latest 5.00 on 2026-08-200.00100200May 26Jun 10Jun 25Jul 10Jul 25Aug 9Aug 20

CAMEO-coded events geolocated to Brazil, 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, 63% of the coverage about Brazil came from outlets based in Brazil — the rest was written from abroad (64,952 articles with a known outlet home country).

Daily share of coverage about Brazil from domestic outlets (%): 49 days, latest 65.77 on 2026-08-200.0050.0100Jul 3Jul 12Jul 21Jul 30Aug 8Aug 17Aug 20

Share of articles about Brazil 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

  • Sao Paulo (183)
  • Brasilia (99)
  • Rio De Janeiro (72)
  • Pernambuco (30)
  • Curitiba (28)
  • Espirito Santo (17)
  • Cuiaba (13)
  • Ipiranga (12)
  • Piaui (11)
  • Triangulo Mineiro (11)
  • Imbituva (10)
  • Mirassol (10)

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

Active topics in coverage about Brazil

Country indicators

GDP (current US$)
$2.28T
World Bank, 2025
Population
212.8M
World Bank, 2025
Trade (% of GDP)
35.3%
World Bank, 2025
Military expenditure (% of GDP)
1.0%
World Bank, 2024

Armed conflict, trailing 12 months

Conflict fatalities
352
best estimate
Civilian deaths
58
within the above
Recorded events
323
organized violence

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

Displacement, end of 2025

Internally displaced
0
within the country
Refugees abroad
6,306
originating from Brazil
Refugees hosted
278,966
from other countries
Asylum seekers
119,651
pending claims, hosted

Source: UNHCR Refugee Data Finder, year-end 2025 stocks, plus 15 stateless persons. IDP figures cover conflict-displaced populations reported to UNHCR.

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