Ecuador

News coverage about Ecuador accounts for 0.59% of all coverage GDELT monitors worldwide as of August 21, 2026. Output is down 16.2% week-over-week. The average tone of this coverage is -0.75 — mildly negative. Coverage is surging: 2.2 standard deviations above the trailing average.

EC · ECU · South America · Wikidata

Data updated: · refreshed every 2 hours from GDELT

Coverage share
0.59%
of monitored articles
Week over week
-16.2%
7-day mean vs prior
Average tone
-0.75
mildly negative
Refresh tier
Standard
~5h cadence

Coverage volume, last 90 days

Ecuador coverage volume: 91 days, latest 0.59% on 2026-08-210.001.02.0May 23Jun 8Jun 24Jul 10Jul 26Aug 11Aug 21

Coverage tone, last 90 days

Ecuador coverage tone: 91 days, latest tone -0.75 on 2026-08-21+50-5May 23Jun 8Jun 24Jul 10Jul 26Aug 11Aug 21

Event activity (CAMEO-coded)

Protests (1/day latest)

Protest events located in Ecuador: 6 days, latest 1.00 on 2026-08-190.002.55.0May 30Jun 10Jun 19Jun 20Jul 16Aug 19

Diplomacy (11/day latest)

Diplomatic events located in Ecuador: 80 days, latest 11.00 on 2026-08-210.00100200May 26Jun 10Jun 25Jul 11Jul 28Aug 12Aug 21

Coercion & force (5/day latest)

Coercive events located in Ecuador: 71 days, latest 5.00 on 2026-08-210.0025.050.0May 26Jun 9Jun 23Jul 9Jul 30Aug 11Aug 21

CAMEO-coded events geolocated to Ecuador, 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, 23% of the coverage about Ecuador came from outlets based in Ecuador — the rest was written from abroad (9,947 articles with a known outlet home country).

Daily share of coverage about Ecuador from domestic outlets (%): 50 days, latest 32.46 on 2026-08-210.0025.050.0Jul 3Jul 12Jul 21Jul 30Aug 8Aug 17Aug 21

Share of articles about Ecuador 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

  • Guayaquil (28)
  • Quito (13)
  • Ambato (3)
  • Bellavista (2)
  • Puyo (2)
  • Gualaceo (2)
  • Napo (1)
  • Las Americas (1)
  • Yasun (1)
  • La Union (1)
  • Paises Bajos (1)
  • Pascuales (1)

Places named in coverage about Ecuador on 2026-08-21 (GDELT location extraction; article counts).

Active topics in coverage about Ecuador

Country indicators

GDP (current US$)
$130.3B
World Bank, 2025
Population
18.3M
World Bank, 2025
Trade (% of GDP)
59.4%
World Bank, 2025
Military expenditure (% of GDP)
2.2%
World Bank, 2024

Armed conflict, trailing 12 months

Conflict fatalities
294
best estimate
Civilian deaths
25
within the above
Recorded events
109
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
5,723
originating from Ecuador
Refugees hosted
26,428
from other countries
Asylum seekers
8,571
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 Ecuador-based outlets as a share of all GDELT-monitored coverage — see methodology. Derived data is CC BY 4.0 (“Geotone / GDELT”).