France

News coverage about France accounts for 3.392% of all coverage GDELT monitors worldwide as of August 20, 2026. Output is up 3.9% week-over-week. The average tone of this coverage is -0.96 — mildly negative.

FR · FRA · Europe · Wikidata

Data updated: · refreshed every 2 hours from GDELT

Coverage share
3.392%
of monitored articles
Week over week
+3.9%
7-day mean vs prior
Average tone
-0.96
mildly negative
Refresh tier
Priority
~2-3h cadence

Coverage volume, last 90 days

France coverage volume: 91 days, latest 3.39% on 2026-08-200.005.010.0May 22Jun 7Jun 23Jul 9Jul 25Aug 10Aug 20

Coverage tone, last 90 days

France coverage tone: 91 days, latest tone -0.96 on 2026-08-20+20-2May 22Jun 7Jun 23Jul 9Jul 25Aug 10Aug 20

Event activity (CAMEO-coded)

Protests (4/day latest)

Protest events located in France: 84 days, latest 4.00 on 2026-08-200.0025.050.0May 26Jun 9Jun 23Jul 7Jul 22Aug 5Aug 20

Diplomacy (19/day latest)

Diplomatic events located in France: 87 days, latest 19.00 on 2026-08-200.0010002000May 26Jun 10Jun 25Jul 10Jul 25Aug 9Aug 20

Coercion & force (3/day latest)

Coercive events located in France: 87 days, latest 3.00 on 2026-08-200.00250500May 26Jun 10Jun 25Jul 10Jul 25Aug 9Aug 20

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, 24% of the coverage about France came from outlets based in France — the rest was written from abroad (120,602 articles with a known outlet home country).

Daily share of coverage about France from domestic outlets (%): 49 days, latest 7.14 on 2026-08-200.0025.050.0Jul 3Jul 12Jul 21Jul 30Aug 8Aug 17Aug 20

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 (97)
  • Gironde (6)
  • Requista (2)
  • Aveyron (2)
  • Burgundy (2)
  • Courgeon (1)
  • Saint-Laurent (1)
  • Beth On (1)
  • Chateauroux (1)
  • Saint Etienne (1)
  • Avre (1)
  • Prevencheres (1)

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

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”).