Costa Rica

News coverage about Costa Rica accounts for 0.057% of all coverage GDELT monitors worldwide as of October 4, 2026. Output is down 15.8% week-over-week. The average tone of this coverage is +0.89 — neutral-to-positive.

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Coverage share
0.057%
of monitored articles
Week over week
-15.8%
7-day mean vs prior
Average tone
+0.89
neutral-to-positive
Refresh tier
Standard
~5h cadence

Coverage volume, last 90 days

Costa Rica coverage volume: 91 days, latest 0.06% on 2026-10-040.000.100.20Jul 6Jul 22Aug 7Aug 23Sep 8Sep 24Oct 4

Coverage tone, last 90 days

Costa Rica coverage tone: 91 days, latest tone 0.89 on 2026-10-04+50-5Jul 6Jul 22Aug 7Aug 23Sep 8Sep 24Oct 4

Event activity (CAMEO-coded)

Protests (3/day latest)

Protest events located in Costa Rica: 14 days, latest 3.00 on 2026-09-250.002.55.0Jul 17Aug 4Aug 12Sep 9Sep 24Sep 25

Diplomacy (17/day latest)

Diplomatic events located in Costa Rica: 87 days, latest 17.00 on 2026-10-030.0050.0100Jul 6Jul 22Aug 6Aug 21Sep 6Sep 21Oct 3

Coercion & force (1/day latest)

Coercive events located in Costa Rica: 70 days, latest 1.00 on 2026-10-030.0012.525.0Jul 6Jul 25Aug 8Aug 23Sep 9Sep 23Oct 3

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 (2,127 articles with a known outlet home country).

Daily share of coverage about Costa Rica from domestic outlets (%): 90 days, latest 0.00 on 2026-10-030.000.501.0Jul 6Jul 21Aug 5Aug 20Sep 4Sep 19Oct 3

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

  • Curacao (1)

Places named in coverage about Costa Rica on 2026-10-04 (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
36
best estimate
Civilian deaths
1
within the above
Recorded events
37
organized violence

Source: Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP GED), window 2025-10-01..2026-09-30, 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”).