Costa Rica

News coverage about Costa Rica accounts for 0.057% of all coverage GDELT monitors worldwide as of August 20, 2026. Output is down 18.3% week-over-week. The average tone of this coverage is +1.26 — neutral-to-positive.

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Data updated: · refreshed every 2 hours from GDELT

Coverage share
0.057%
of monitored articles
Week over week
-18.3%
7-day mean vs prior
Average tone
+1.26
neutral-to-positive
Refresh tier
Standard
~5h cadence

Coverage volume, last 90 days

Costa Rica coverage volume: 91 days, latest 0.06% on 2026-08-200.000.100.20May 22Jun 7Jun 23Jul 9Jul 25Aug 10Aug 20

Coverage tone, last 90 days

Costa Rica coverage tone: 91 days, latest tone 1.26 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 Costa Rica: 12 days, latest 1.00 on 2026-08-150.005.010.0May 26Jun 29Jul 17Jul 22Aug 5Aug 12Aug 15

Diplomacy (2/day latest)

Diplomatic events located in Costa Rica: 85 days, latest 2.00 on 2026-08-200.0025.050.0May 26Jun 10Jun 25Jul 12Jul 27Aug 11Aug 20

Coercion & force (4/day latest)

Coercive events located in Costa Rica: 61 days, latest 4.00 on 2026-08-190.0012.525.0May 27Jun 9Jun 25Jul 16Jul 30Aug 12Aug 19

CAMEO-coded events geolocated to Costa Rica, 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, 0% of the coverage about Costa Rica came from outlets based in Costa Rica — the rest was written from abroad (1,583 articles with a known outlet home country).

Daily share of coverage about Costa Rica from domestic outlets (%): 48 days, latest 0.00 on 2026-08-190.000.501.0Jul 3Jul 11Jul 19Jul 27Aug 4Aug 12Aug 19

Share of articles about Costa Rica 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

  • Alajuela (2)
  • Puntarenas (2)
  • Tres Rios (1)

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

Active topics in coverage about Costa Rica

Country indicators

GDP (current US$)
$102.9B
World Bank, 2025
Population
5.2M
World Bank, 2025
Trade (% of GDP)
71.5%
World Bank, 2025

Armed conflict, trailing 12 months

Conflict fatalities
56
best estimate
Civilian deaths
1
within the above
Recorded events
57
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
0
within the country
Refugees abroad
367
originating from Costa Rica
Refugees hosted
36,395
from other countries
Asylum seekers
178,212
pending claims, hosted

Source: UNHCR Refugee Data Finder, year-end 2025 stocks, plus 465 stateless persons. IDP figures cover conflict-displaced populations reported to UNHCR.

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