United Kingdom

News coverage about United Kingdom accounts for 6.155% of all coverage GDELT monitors worldwide as of October 4, 2026. Output is down 4.9% week-over-week. The average tone of this coverage is -0.57 — mildly negative.

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Data updated: · refreshed every 3 hours from GDELT

Coverage share
6.155%
of monitored articles
Week over week
-4.9%
7-day mean vs prior
Average tone
-0.57
mildly negative
Refresh tier
Priority
~2-3h cadence

Coverage volume, last 90 days

United Kingdom coverage volume: 91 days, latest 6.16% on 2026-10-040.005.010.0Jul 6Jul 22Aug 7Aug 23Sep 8Sep 24Oct 4

Coverage tone, last 90 days

United Kingdom coverage tone: 91 days, latest tone -0.57 on 2026-10-04+20-2Jul 6Jul 22Aug 7Aug 23Sep 8Sep 24Oct 4

Event activity (CAMEO-coded)

Protests (12/day latest)

Protest events located in United Kingdom: 91 days, latest 12.00 on 2026-10-040.0050.0100Jul 6Jul 22Aug 7Aug 23Sep 8Sep 24Oct 4

Diplomacy (176/day latest)

Diplomatic events located in United Kingdom: 91 days, latest 176.00 on 2026-10-040.0025005000Jul 6Jul 22Aug 7Aug 23Sep 8Sep 24Oct 4

Coercion & force (37/day latest)

Coercive events located in United Kingdom: 91 days, latest 37.00 on 2026-10-040.0010002000Jul 6Jul 22Aug 7Aug 23Sep 8Sep 24Oct 4

CAMEO-coded events geolocated to United Kingdom, 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 United Kingdom came from outlets based in United Kingdom — the rest was written from abroad (223,949 articles with a known outlet home country).

Daily share of coverage about United Kingdom from domestic outlets (%): 91 days, latest 39.52 on 2026-10-040.0025.050.0Jul 6Jul 22Aug 7Aug 23Sep 8Sep 24Oct 4

Share of articles about United Kingdom 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

  • London (413)
  • Northern Ireland (142)
  • Belfast (134)
  • Upper Bann (126)
  • Drumcree (76)
  • Cambridge (45)
  • Manchester (37)
  • Bristol (20)
  • Glasgow (19)
  • Burnham (14)
  • Brighton (13)
  • Fairford (10)

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

Active topics in coverage about United Kingdom

Country indicators

GDP (current US$)
$4.00T
World Bank, 2025
Population
69.5M
World Bank, 2025
Trade (% of GDP)
62.5%
World Bank, 2025
Military expenditure (% of GDP)
2.3%
World Bank, 2024

Displacement, end of 2025

Internally displaced
0
within the country
Refugees abroad
517
originating from United Kingdom
Refugees hosted
581,072
from other countries
Asylum seekers
144,747
pending claims, hosted

Source: UNHCR Refugee Data Finder, year-end 2025 stocks, plus 4,881 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 United Kingdom-based outlets as a share of all GDELT-monitored coverage — see methodology. Derived data is CC BY 4.0 (“Geotone / GDELT”).