Spain

News coverage about Spain accounts for 4.53% of all coverage GDELT monitors worldwide as of October 4, 2026. Output is steady week-over-week (+0.9%). The average tone of this coverage is -0.47 — mildly negative.

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Data updated: · refreshed every 3 hours from GDELT

Coverage share
4.53%
of monitored articles
Week over week
+0.9%
7-day mean vs prior
Average tone
-0.47
mildly negative
Refresh tier
Standard
~5h cadence

Coverage volume, last 90 days

Spain coverage volume: 91 days, latest 4.53% on 2026-10-040.005.010.0Jul 6Jul 22Aug 7Aug 23Sep 8Sep 24Oct 4

Coverage tone, last 90 days

Spain coverage tone: 91 days, latest tone -0.47 on 2026-10-04+20-2Jul 6Jul 22Aug 7Aug 23Sep 8Sep 24Oct 4

Event activity (CAMEO-coded)

Protests (1/day latest)

Protest events located in Spain: 87 days, latest 1.00 on 2026-10-040.0025.050.0Jul 6Jul 23Aug 7Aug 23Sep 7Sep 23Oct 4

Diplomacy (13/day latest)

Diplomatic events located in Spain: 91 days, latest 13.00 on 2026-10-040.005001000Jul 6Jul 22Aug 7Aug 23Sep 8Sep 24Oct 4

Coercion & force (6/day latest)

Coercive events located in Spain: 91 days, latest 6.00 on 2026-10-040.00250500Jul 6Jul 22Aug 7Aug 23Sep 8Sep 24Oct 4

CAMEO-coded events geolocated to Spain, 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, 44% of the coverage about Spain came from outlets based in Spain — the rest was written from abroad (111,174 articles with a known outlet home country).

Daily share of coverage about Spain from domestic outlets (%): 91 days, latest 47.21 on 2026-10-040.0050.0100Jul 6Jul 22Aug 7Aug 23Sep 8Sep 24Oct 4

Share of articles about Spain 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

  • Madrid (126)
  • Barcelona (91)
  • Andalusia (42)
  • Catalunya (34)
  • Canary Islands (23)
  • Tarragona (23)
  • Tenerife (19)
  • Albacete (18)
  • Granada (14)
  • Huelva (13)
  • San Sebastian (13)
  • Bizkaia (12)

Places named in coverage about Spain on 2026-10-04 (GDELT location extraction; article counts).

Active topics in coverage about Spain

Country indicators

GDP (current US$)
$1.91T
World Bank, 2025
Population
49.4M
World Bank, 2025
Trade (% of GDP)
69.5%
World Bank, 2025
Military expenditure (% of GDP)
1.4%
World Bank, 2024

Armed conflict, trailing 12 months

Conflict fatalities
3
best estimate
Civilian deaths
3
within the above
Recorded events
1
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
186
originating from Spain
Refugees hosted
511,079
from other countries
Asylum seekers
248,715
pending claims, hosted

Source: UNHCR Refugee Data Finder, year-end 2025 stocks, plus 11,580 stateless persons. IDP figures cover conflict-displaced populations reported to UNHCR.

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