Belarus

News coverage about Belarus accounts for 0.379% of all coverage GDELT monitors worldwide as of October 4, 2026. Output is steady week-over-week (-0.7%). The average tone of this coverage is -1.39 — mildly negative.

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Coverage share
0.379%
of monitored articles
Week over week
-0.7%
7-day mean vs prior
Average tone
-1.39
mildly negative
Refresh tier
Priority
~2-3h cadence

Coverage volume, last 90 days

Belarus coverage volume: 91 days, latest 0.38% on 2026-10-040.000.501.0Jul 6Jul 22Aug 7Aug 23Sep 8Sep 24Oct 4

Coverage tone, last 90 days

Belarus coverage tone: 91 days, latest tone -1.39 on 2026-10-04+50-5Jul 6Jul 22Aug 7Aug 23Sep 8Sep 24Oct 4

Event activity (CAMEO-coded)

Protests (2/day latest)

Protest events located in Belarus: 21 days, latest 2.00 on 2026-10-010.0010.020.0Jul 9Jul 24Aug 10Sep 16Sep 23Oct 1

Diplomacy (13/day latest)

Diplomatic events located in Belarus: 88 days, latest 13.00 on 2026-10-030.00100200Jul 6Jul 23Aug 7Aug 22Sep 6Sep 21Oct 3

Coercion & force (16/day latest)

Coercive events located in Belarus: 82 days, latest 16.00 on 2026-10-030.0025.050.0Jul 6Jul 23Aug 7Aug 22Sep 7Sep 21Oct 3

CAMEO-coded events geolocated to Belarus, 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, 11% of the coverage about Belarus came from outlets based in Belarus — the rest was written from abroad (12,957 articles with a known outlet home country).

Daily share of coverage about Belarus from domestic outlets (%): 91 days, latest 0.00 on 2026-10-040.0010.020.0Jul 6Jul 22Aug 7Aug 23Sep 8Sep 24Oct 4

Share of articles about Belarus 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

  • Minsk (17)

Places named in coverage about Belarus on 2026-10-04 (GDELT location extraction; article counts).

Active topics in coverage about Belarus

Country indicators

GDP (current US$)
$93.4B
World Bank, 2025
Population
9.1M
World Bank, 2025
Trade (% of GDP)
112.1%
World Bank, 2025
Military expenditure (% of GDP)
2.1%
World Bank, 2024

Displacement, end of 2025

Internally displaced
0
within the country
Refugees abroad
19,462
originating from Belarus
Refugees hosted
40,794
from other countries
Asylum seekers
1,470
pending claims, hosted

Source: UNHCR Refugee Data Finder, year-end 2025 stocks, plus 5,444 stateless persons. IDP figures cover conflict-displaced populations reported to UNHCR.

Monitored relationships

Each link opens the bilateral co-coverage dashboard for the pair.

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