India

News coverage about India accounts for 3.229% 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 -0.90 — mildly negative.

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Data updated: · refreshed every 2 hours from GDELT

Coverage share
3.229%
of monitored articles
Week over week
-6.9%
7-day mean vs prior
Average tone
-0.90
mildly negative
Refresh tier
Priority
~2-3h cadence

Coverage volume, last 90 days

India coverage volume: 91 days, latest 3.23% on 2026-08-200.005.010.0May 22Jun 7Jun 23Jul 9Jul 25Aug 10Aug 20

Coverage tone, last 90 days

India coverage tone: 91 days, latest tone -0.90 on 2026-08-20+20-2May 22Jun 7Jun 23Jul 9Jul 25Aug 10Aug 20

Event activity (CAMEO-coded)

Protests (2/day latest)

Protest events located in India: 87 days, latest 2.00 on 2026-08-200.0010002000May 26Jun 10Jun 25Jul 10Jul 25Aug 9Aug 20

Diplomacy (118/day latest)

Diplomatic events located in India: 87 days, latest 118.00 on 2026-08-200.0025005000May 26Jun 10Jun 25Jul 10Jul 25Aug 9Aug 20

Coercion & force (21/day latest)

Coercive events located in India: 87 days, latest 21.00 on 2026-08-200.0010002000May 26Jun 10Jun 25Jul 10Jul 25Aug 9Aug 20

CAMEO-coded events geolocated to India, 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, 68% of the coverage about India came from outlets based in India — the rest was written from abroad (134,857 articles with a known outlet home country).

Daily share of coverage about India from domestic outlets (%): 49 days, latest 47.71 on 2026-08-200.0050.0100Jul 3Jul 12Jul 21Jul 30Aug 8Aug 17Aug 20

Share of articles about India 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

  • New Delhi (46)
  • Delhi (38)
  • Kolkata (24)
  • Mumbai (24)
  • Hindustan (16)
  • Jammu (13)
  • Arabian Sea (12)
  • Telangana (11)
  • Chennai (9)
  • Ladakh (9)
  • Bengaluru (8)
  • Pune (8)

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

Active topics in coverage about India

Country indicators

GDP (current US$)
$3.96T
World Bank, 2025
Population
1.46B
World Bank, 2025
Trade (% of GDP)
46.3%
World Bank, 2025
Military expenditure (% of GDP)
2.3%
World Bank, 2024

Armed conflict, trailing 12 months

Conflict fatalities
352
best estimate
Civilian deaths
63
within the above
Recorded events
163
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
42,610
originating from India
Refugees hosted
238,643
from other countries
Asylum seekers
15,075
pending claims, hosted

Source: UNHCR Refugee Data Finder, year-end 2025 stocks, plus 22,694 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 India-based outlets as a share of all GDELT-monitored coverage — see methodology. Derived data is CC BY 4.0 (“Geotone / GDELT”).