Cuba

News coverage about Cuba accounts for 0.345% of all coverage GDELT monitors worldwide as of August 20, 2026. Output is down 19.2% week-over-week. The average tone of this coverage is -1.90 — mildly negative.

CU · CUB · North America · Wikidata

Data updated: · refreshed every 2 hours from GDELT

Coverage share
0.345%
of monitored articles
Week over week
-19.2%
7-day mean vs prior
Average tone
-1.90
mildly negative
Refresh tier
Priority
~2-3h cadence

Coverage volume, last 90 days

Cuba coverage volume: 91 days, latest 0.34% on 2026-08-200.000.501.0May 22Jun 7Jun 23Jul 9Jul 25Aug 10Aug 20

Coverage tone, last 90 days

Cuba coverage tone: 91 days, latest tone -1.90 on 2026-08-20+50-5May 22Jun 7Jun 23Jul 9Jul 25Aug 10Aug 20

Event activity (CAMEO-coded)

Protests (2/day latest)

Protest events located in Cuba: 79 days, latest 2.00 on 2026-08-200.00100200May 26Jun 15Jun 30Jul 14Jul 28Aug 12Aug 20

Diplomacy (24/day latest)

Diplomatic events located in Cuba: 87 days, latest 24.00 on 2026-08-200.00250500May 26Jun 10Jun 25Jul 10Jul 25Aug 9Aug 20

Coercion & force (24/day latest)

Coercive events located in Cuba: 87 days, latest 24.00 on 2026-08-200.00125250May 26Jun 10Jun 25Jul 10Jul 25Aug 9Aug 20

CAMEO-coded events geolocated to Cuba, 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, 14% of the coverage about Cuba came from outlets based in Cuba — the rest was written from abroad (8,395 articles with a known outlet home country).

Daily share of coverage about Cuba from domestic outlets (%): 49 days, latest 29.27 on 2026-08-200.0025.050.0Jul 3Jul 12Jul 21Jul 30Aug 8Aug 17Aug 20

Share of articles about Cuba 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

  • Havana (23)
  • Santiago De Cuba (6)
  • Las Tunas (5)
  • Ciego (5)
  • Matanzas (5)
  • Josefina (3)
  • Jose Marti (2)
  • La Carreta (2)
  • Crimea (1)
  • Hermanos (1)
  • Juan Manuel Marquez (1)
  • San Miguel Del Padron (1)

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

Active topics in coverage about Cuba

Country indicators

GDP (current US$)
$107.4B
World Bank, 2020
Population
10.9M
World Bank, 2025
Trade (% of GDP)
124.9%
World Bank, 2024
Military expenditure (% of GDP)
2.9%
World Bank, 2018

Displacement, end of 2025

Internally displaced
0
within the country
Refugees abroad
29,395
originating from Cuba
Refugees hosted
115
from other countries
Asylum seekers
40
pending claims, hosted

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

Monitored relationships

Each link opens the bilateral co-coverage dashboard for the pair.

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