Brazil

News coverage about Brazil accounts for 3.489% of all coverage GDELT monitors worldwide as of October 4, 2026. Output is up 3.8% week-over-week. The average tone of this coverage is +0.02 — neutral-to-positive. Coverage is surging: 3.2 standard deviations above the trailing average.

BR · BRA · South America · Wikidata

Data updated: · refreshed every 3 hours from GDELT

Coverage share
3.489%
of monitored articles
Week over week
+3.8%
7-day mean vs prior
Average tone
+0.02
neutral-to-positive
Refresh tier
Priority
~2-3h cadence

Coverage volume, last 90 days

Brazil coverage volume: 91 days, latest 3.49% on 2026-10-040.002.55.0Jul 6Jul 22Aug 7Aug 23Sep 8Sep 24Oct 4

Coverage tone, last 90 days

Brazil coverage tone: 91 days, latest tone 0.02 on 2026-10-04+10-1Jul 6Jul 22Aug 7Aug 23Sep 8Sep 24Oct 4

Event activity (CAMEO-coded)

Protests (2/day latest)

Protest events located in Brazil: 47 days, latest 2.00 on 2026-10-030.0010.020.0Jul 6Jul 21Aug 12Aug 28Sep 8Sep 23Oct 3

Diplomacy (18/day latest)

Diplomatic events located in Brazil: 91 days, latest 18.00 on 2026-10-040.00250500Jul 6Jul 22Aug 7Aug 23Sep 8Sep 24Oct 4

Coercion & force (14/day latest)

Coercive events located in Brazil: 91 days, latest 14.00 on 2026-10-040.0050.0100Jul 6Jul 22Aug 7Aug 23Sep 8Sep 24Oct 4

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, 64% of the coverage about Brazil came from outlets based in Brazil — the rest was written from abroad (67,888 articles with a known outlet home country).

Daily share of coverage about Brazil from domestic outlets (%): 91 days, latest 56.39 on 2026-10-040.0050.0100Jul 6Jul 22Aug 7Aug 23Sep 8Sep 24Oct 4

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 (215)
  • Brasilia (117)
  • Rio De Janeiro (62)
  • Pernambuco (42)
  • Centro (26)
  • Espirito Santo (16)
  • Goiania (16)
  • Oeste (15)
  • Piaui (15)
  • Ribeirao Preto (12)
  • Sao Jose (11)
  • Bahia (11)

Places named in coverage about Brazil on 2026-10-04 (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
293
best estimate
Civilian deaths
48
within the above
Recorded events
272
organized violence

Source: Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP GED), window 2025-10-01..2026-09-30, 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”).