Colombia

News coverage about Colombia accounts for 1.551% of all coverage GDELT monitors worldwide as of August 20, 2026. Output is down 32.1% week-over-week. The average tone of this coverage is -1.06 — mildly negative.

CO · COL · South America · Wikidata

Data updated: · refreshed every 2 hours from GDELT

Coverage share
1.551%
of monitored articles
Week over week
-32.1%
7-day mean vs prior
Average tone
-1.06
mildly negative
Refresh tier
Standard
~5h cadence

Coverage volume, last 90 days

Colombia coverage volume: 91 days, latest 1.55% on 2026-08-200.002.55.0May 22Jun 7Jun 23Jul 9Jul 25Aug 10Aug 20

Coverage tone, last 90 days

Colombia coverage tone: 91 days, latest tone -1.06 on 2026-08-20+50-5May 22Jun 7Jun 23Jul 9Jul 25Aug 10Aug 20

Event activity (CAMEO-coded)

Protests (1/day latest)

Protest events located in Colombia: 40 days, latest 1.00 on 2026-08-150.0010.020.0May 26Jun 5Jun 23Jul 11Jul 20Aug 6Aug 15

Diplomacy (9/day latest)

Diplomatic events located in Colombia: 87 days, latest 9.00 on 2026-08-200.00250500May 26Jun 10Jun 25Jul 10Jul 25Aug 9Aug 20

Coercion & force (2/day latest)

Coercive events located in Colombia: 86 days, latest 2.00 on 2026-08-200.00100200May 26Jun 10Jun 25Jul 11Jul 26Aug 10Aug 20

CAMEO-coded events geolocated to Colombia, 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, 30% of the coverage about Colombia came from outlets based in Colombia — the rest was written from abroad (45,107 articles with a known outlet home country).

Daily share of coverage about Colombia from domestic outlets (%): 49 days, latest 56.67 on 2026-08-200.0050.0100Jul 3Jul 12Jul 21Jul 30Aug 8Aug 17Aug 20

Share of articles about Colombia 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

  • Bogota (40)
  • Espriella (26)
  • Quibdo (11)
  • Barranquilla (8)
  • Quindio (8)
  • San Jose Del Palmar (6)
  • Antioquia (5)
  • Cundinamarca (4)
  • Bolivar (4)
  • Cartagena (3)
  • Bucaramanga (3)
  • Cucuta (3)

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

Active topics in coverage about Colombia

Country indicators

GDP (current US$)
$457.4B
World Bank, 2025
Population
53.4M
World Bank, 2025
Trade (% of GDP)
35.4%
World Bank, 2025
Military expenditure (% of GDP)
3.4%
World Bank, 2024

Armed conflict, trailing 12 months

Conflict fatalities
1,571
best estimate
Civilian deaths
390
within the above
Recorded events
988
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
7,157,716
within the country
Refugees abroad
79,669
originating from Colombia
Refugees hosted
1,464
from other countries
Asylum seekers
17,421
pending claims, hosted

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

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