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Guatemala

News coverage about Guatemala accounts for 0.187% of all coverage GDELT monitors worldwide as of August 20, 2026. Output is down 6.9% week-over-week. The average tone of this coverage is -2.09 — mildly negative.

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Data updated: · refreshed every 2 hours from GDELT

Coverage share
0.187%
of monitored articles
Week over week
-6.9%
7-day mean vs prior
Average tone
-2.09
mildly negative
Refresh tier
Standard
~5h cadence

Coverage volume, last 90 days

Guatemala coverage volume: 91 days, latest 0.19% on 2026-08-200.000.250.50May 22Jun 7Jun 23Jul 9Jul 25Aug 10Aug 20

Coverage tone, last 90 days

Guatemala coverage tone: 91 days, latest tone -2.09 on 2026-08-20+50-5May 22Jun 7Jun 23Jul 9Jul 25Aug 10Aug 20

Event activity (CAMEO-coded)

Protests (2/day latest)

Protest events located in Guatemala: 5 days, latest 2.00 on 2026-08-180.001.02.0May 26May 27Jul 27Jul 31Aug 18

Diplomacy (2/day latest)

Diplomatic events located in Guatemala: 86 days, latest 2.00 on 2026-08-200.00100200May 26Jun 10Jun 26Jul 11Jul 26Aug 10Aug 20

Coercion & force (5/day latest)

Coercive events located in Guatemala: 77 days, latest 5.00 on 2026-08-190.0050.0100May 26Jun 11Jun 24Jul 11Jul 25Aug 8Aug 19

CAMEO-coded events geolocated to Guatemala, 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 Guatemala came from outlets based in Guatemala — the rest was written from abroad (2,450 articles with a known outlet home country).

Daily share of coverage about Guatemala from domestic outlets (%): 49 days, latest 45.71 on 2026-08-200.0025.050.0Jul 3Jul 12Jul 21Jul 30Aug 8Aug 17Aug 20

Share of articles about Guatemala 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

  • La Libertad (2)
  • Quetzal (2)
  • Chinautla (1)
  • Tecpan Guatemala (1)
  • Peten (1)
  • Guastatoya (1)
  • Santa Lucia Cotzumalguapa (1)

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

Active topics in coverage about Guatemala

Country indicators

GDP (current US$)
$123.3B
World Bank, 2025
Population
18.7M
World Bank, 2025
Trade (% of GDP)
46.5%
World Bank, 2025
Military expenditure (% of GDP)
0.4%
World Bank, 2024

Armed conflict, trailing 12 months

Conflict fatalities
42
best estimate
Civilian deaths
22
within the above
Recorded events
27
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
573,000
within the country
Refugees abroad
34,994
originating from Guatemala
Refugees hosted
1,586
from other countries
Asylum seekers
4,088
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 Guatemala-based outlets as a share of all GDELT-monitored coverage — see methodology. Derived data is CC BY 4.0 (“Geotone / GDELT”).