France

News coverage about France accounts for 4.502% of all coverage GDELT monitors worldwide as of October 4, 2026. Output is down 5.9% week-over-week. The average tone of this coverage is -0.54 — mildly negative.

FR · FRA · Europe · Wikidata

Data updated: · refreshed every 3 hours from GDELT

Coverage share
4.502%
of monitored articles
Week over week
-5.9%
7-day mean vs prior
Average tone
-0.54
mildly negative
Refresh tier
Priority
~2-3h cadence

Coverage volume, last 90 days

France coverage volume: 91 days, latest 4.50% on 2026-10-040.005.010.0Jul 6Jul 22Aug 7Aug 23Sep 8Sep 24Oct 4

Coverage tone, last 90 days

France coverage tone: 91 days, latest tone -0.54 on 2026-10-04+20-2Jul 6Jul 22Aug 7Aug 23Sep 8Sep 24Oct 4

Event activity (CAMEO-coded)

Protests (6/day latest)

Protest events located in France: 88 days, latest 6.00 on 2026-10-040.0050.0100Jul 6Jul 22Aug 6Aug 23Sep 7Sep 22Oct 4

Diplomacy (27/day latest)

Diplomatic events located in France: 91 days, latest 27.00 on 2026-10-040.0010002000Jul 6Jul 22Aug 7Aug 23Sep 8Sep 24Oct 4

Coercion & force (31/day latest)

Coercive events located in France: 91 days, latest 31.00 on 2026-10-040.00250500Jul 6Jul 22Aug 7Aug 23Sep 8Sep 24Oct 4

CAMEO-coded events geolocated to France, 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, 22% of the coverage about France came from outlets based in France — the rest was written from abroad (154,436 articles with a known outlet home country).

Daily share of coverage about France from domestic outlets (%): 91 days, latest 18.27 on 2026-10-040.0025.050.0Jul 6Jul 22Aug 7Aug 23Sep 8Sep 24Oct 4

Share of articles about France 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

  • Paris (377)
  • Vosges (19)
  • Garonne (10)
  • Nievre (5)
  • Ariege (5)
  • Gironde (4)
  • Reims (4)
  • Paris Orly (4)
  • Rodez (3)
  • Cap Dagde (3)
  • Rennes (3)
  • Palais (3)

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

Active topics in coverage about France

Country indicators

GDP (current US$)
$3.37T
World Bank, 2025
Population
68.7M
World Bank, 2025
Trade (% of GDP)
67.2%
World Bank, 2025
Military expenditure (% of GDP)
2.1%
World Bank, 2024

Armed conflict, trailing 12 months

Conflict fatalities
1
best estimate
Civilian deaths
0
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
166
originating from France
Refugees hosted
788,419
from other countries
Asylum seekers
85,227
pending claims, hosted

Source: UNHCR Refugee Data Finder, year-end 2025 stocks, plus 3,057 stateless persons. 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 France-based outlets as a share of all GDELT-monitored coverage — see methodology. Derived data is CC BY 4.0 (“Geotone / GDELT”).