Belize

News coverage about Belize accounts for 0.054% of all coverage GDELT monitors worldwide as of August 20, 2026. Output is down 8.8% week-over-week. The average tone of this coverage is -1.53 — mildly negative.

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Data updated: · refreshed every 2 hours from GDELT

Coverage share
0.054%
of monitored articles
Week over week
-8.8%
7-day mean vs prior
Average tone
-1.53
mildly negative
Refresh tier
Standard
~5h cadence

Coverage volume, last 90 days

Belize coverage volume: 91 days, latest 0.05% on 2026-08-200.000.130.25May 22Jun 7Jun 23Jul 9Jul 25Aug 10Aug 20

Coverage tone, last 90 days

Belize coverage tone: 91 days, latest tone -1.53 on 2026-08-20+100-10May 22Jun 7Jun 23Jul 9Jul 25Aug 10Aug 20

Event activity (CAMEO-coded)

Protests (3/day latest)

Protest events located in Belize: 22 days, latest 3.00 on 2026-08-140.0010.020.0Jun 2Jun 18Jul 4Jul 10Jul 25Aug 7Aug 14

Diplomacy (2/day latest)

Diplomatic events located in Belize: 86 days, latest 2.00 on 2026-08-200.0050.0100May 26Jun 10Jun 25Jul 10Jul 26Aug 10Aug 20

Coercion & force (1/day latest)

Coercive events located in Belize: 73 days, latest 1.00 on 2026-08-190.0025.050.0May 26Jun 8Jun 21Jul 11Jul 27Aug 10Aug 19

CAMEO-coded events geolocated to Belize, 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, 5% of the coverage about Belize came from outlets based in Belize — the rest was written from abroad (827 articles with a known outlet home country).

Daily share of coverage about Belize from domestic outlets (%): 47 days, latest 9.68 on 2026-08-190.0025.050.0Jul 3Jul 11Jul 20Jul 28Aug 5Aug 13Aug 19

Share of articles about Belize 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

  • Caribbean Sea (4)
  • Mopan (2)
  • Macal River (1)
  • Cahal Pech (1)
  • San Ignacio (1)
  • Santa Elena (1)
  • Barton Creek (1)
  • Xunantunich (1)
  • Crawford (1)

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

Active topics in coverage about Belize

Country indicators

GDP (current US$)
$3.3B
World Bank, 2025
Population
422,924
World Bank, 2025
Trade (% of GDP)
109.0%
World Bank, 2024
Military expenditure (% of GDP)
0.9%
World Bank, 2024

Armed conflict, trailing 12 months

Conflict fatalities
13
best estimate
Civilian deaths
0
within the above
Recorded events
9
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 Belize-based outlets as a share of all GDELT-monitored coverage — see methodology. Derived data is CC BY 4.0 (“Geotone / GDELT”).