Switzerland

News coverage about Switzerland accounts for 1.069% of all coverage GDELT monitors worldwide as of August 20, 2026. Output is down 3.7% week-over-week. The average tone of this coverage is +0.03 — neutral-to-positive.

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Coverage share
1.069%
of monitored articles
Week over week
-3.7%
7-day mean vs prior
Average tone
+0.03
neutral-to-positive
Refresh tier
Standard
~5h cadence

Coverage volume, last 90 days

Switzerland coverage volume: 91 days, latest 1.07% on 2026-08-200.005.010.0May 22Jun 7Jun 23Jul 9Jul 25Aug 10Aug 20

Coverage tone, last 90 days

Switzerland coverage tone: 91 days, latest tone 0.03 on 2026-08-20+20-2May 22Jun 7Jun 23Jul 9Jul 25Aug 10Aug 20

Event activity (CAMEO-coded)

Protests (2/day latest)

Protest events located in Switzerland: 62 days, latest 2.00 on 2026-08-190.0025.050.0May 26Jun 9Jun 21Jul 5Jul 21Aug 9Aug 19

Diplomacy (7/day latest)

Diplomatic events located in Switzerland: 87 days, latest 7.00 on 2026-08-200.0010002000May 26Jun 10Jun 25Jul 10Jul 25Aug 9Aug 20

Coercion & force (2/day latest)

Coercive events located in Switzerland: 87 days, latest 2.00 on 2026-08-200.0050.0100May 26Jun 10Jun 25Jul 10Jul 25Aug 9Aug 20

CAMEO-coded events geolocated to Switzerland, 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, 18% of the coverage about Switzerland came from outlets based in Switzerland — the rest was written from abroad (34,117 articles with a known outlet home country).

Daily share of coverage about Switzerland from domestic outlets (%): 49 days, latest 4.04 on 2026-08-200.0012.525.0Jul 3Jul 12Jul 21Jul 30Aug 8Aug 17Aug 20

Share of articles about Switzerland 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

  • Zurich (25)
  • Geneva (24)
  • Bern (13)
  • Caslano (3)
  • Solothurn (3)
  • Lake Geneva (3)
  • Davos (1)
  • Habsburg (1)
  • Val Mustair (1)
  • Mustair (1)
  • Berne (1)
  • Ramiswil (1)

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

Active topics in coverage about Switzerland

Country indicators

GDP (current US$)
$1.04T
World Bank, 2025
Population
9.1M
World Bank, 2025
Trade (% of GDP)
147.2%
World Bank, 2025
Military expenditure (% of GDP)
0.7%
World Bank, 2024

Displacement, end of 2025

Internally displaced
0
within the country
Refugees abroad
6
originating from Switzerland
Refugees hosted
208,287
from other countries
Asylum seekers
17,039
pending claims, hosted

Source: UNHCR Refugee Data Finder, year-end 2025 stocks, plus 1,332 stateless persons. IDP figures cover conflict-displaced populations reported to UNHCR.

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