Ghana

News coverage about Ghana accounts for 0.204% of all coverage GDELT monitors worldwide as of August 20, 2026. Output is steady week-over-week (-1.9%). The average tone of this coverage is +0.18 — neutral-to-positive.

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Data updated: · refreshed every 2 hours from GDELT

Coverage share
0.204%
of monitored articles
Week over week
-1.9%
7-day mean vs prior
Average tone
+0.18
neutral-to-positive
Refresh tier
Standard
~5h cadence

Coverage volume, last 90 days

Ghana coverage volume: 91 days, latest 0.20% on 2026-08-200.000.501.0May 22Jun 7Jun 23Jul 9Jul 25Aug 10Aug 20

Coverage tone, last 90 days

Ghana coverage tone: 91 days, latest tone 0.18 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 Ghana: 66 days, latest 3.00 on 2026-08-190.0010.020.0May 26Jun 8Jun 23Jul 10Jul 24Aug 7Aug 19

Diplomacy (5/day latest)

Diplomatic events located in Ghana: 87 days, latest 5.00 on 2026-08-200.00250500May 26Jun 10Jun 25Jul 10Jul 25Aug 9Aug 20

Coercion & force (3/day latest)

Coercive events located in Ghana: 87 days, latest 3.00 on 2026-08-200.00100200May 26Jun 10Jun 25Jul 10Jul 25Aug 9Aug 20

CAMEO-coded events geolocated to Ghana, 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 Ghana came from outlets based in Ghana — the rest was written from abroad (3,959 articles with a known outlet home country).

Daily share of coverage about Ghana from domestic outlets (%): 49 days, latest 20.41 on 2026-08-200.0025.050.0Jul 3Jul 12Jul 21Jul 30Aug 8Aug 17Aug 20

Share of articles about Ghana 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

  • Accra (6)
  • Nkwanta (2)
  • Ashanti (2)
  • Aflao (1)
  • Kotoku (1)

Places named in coverage about Ghana on 2026-08-20 (GDELT location extraction; article counts).

Active topics in coverage about Ghana

Country indicators

GDP (current US$)
$114.2B
World Bank, 2025
Population
35.1M
World Bank, 2025
Trade (% of GDP)
69.0%
World Bank, 2024
Military expenditure (% of GDP)
0.4%
World Bank, 2024

Armed conflict, trailing 12 months

Conflict fatalities
90
best estimate
Civilian deaths
4
within the above
Recorded events
26
organized violence

Source: Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP GED), window 2025-08-01..2026-07-31, refreshed monthly. Recent months are preliminary candidate data.

Displacement, end of 2025

Internally displaced
0
within the country
Refugees abroad
16,030
originating from Ghana
Refugees hosted
21,050
from other countries
Asylum seekers
475
pending claims, hosted

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

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