Spain

News coverage about Spain accounts for 2.607% of all coverage GDELT monitors worldwide as of August 20, 2026. Output is down 15.0% week-over-week. The average tone of this coverage is -0.09 — mildly negative.

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Data updated: · refreshed every 2 hours from GDELT

Coverage share
2.607%
of monitored articles
Week over week
-15.0%
7-day mean vs prior
Average tone
-0.09
mildly negative
Refresh tier
Standard
~5h cadence

Coverage volume, last 90 days

Spain coverage volume: 91 days, latest 2.61% on 2026-08-200.005.010.0May 22Jun 7Jun 23Jul 9Jul 25Aug 10Aug 20

Coverage tone, last 90 days

Spain coverage tone: 91 days, latest tone -0.09 on 2026-08-20+20-2May 22Jun 7Jun 23Jul 9Jul 25Aug 10Aug 20

Event activity (CAMEO-coded)

Protests (3/day latest)

Protest events located in Spain: 79 days, latest 3.00 on 2026-08-190.0010.020.0May 26Jun 9Jun 25Jul 11Jul 27Aug 10Aug 19

Diplomacy (23/day latest)

Diplomatic events located in Spain: 87 days, latest 23.00 on 2026-08-200.005001000May 26Jun 10Jun 25Jul 10Jul 25Aug 9Aug 20

Coercion & force (6/day latest)

Coercive events located in Spain: 87 days, latest 6.00 on 2026-08-200.00250500May 26Jun 10Jun 25Jul 10Jul 25Aug 9Aug 20

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, 43% of the coverage about Spain came from outlets based in Spain — the rest was written from abroad (129,730 articles with a known outlet home country).

Daily share of coverage about Spain from domestic outlets (%): 49 days, latest 41.42 on 2026-08-200.0025.050.0Jul 3Jul 12Jul 21Jul 30Aug 8Aug 17Aug 20

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 (108)
  • Barcelona (72)
  • Tarragona (31)
  • Andalusia (23)
  • Granada (22)
  • Canary Islands (13)
  • Tenerife (11)
  • San Sebastian (9)
  • Elche (7)
  • Lleida (7)
  • Huelva (5)
  • Albacete (5)

Places named in coverage about Spain on 2026-08-20 (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

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”).