Iceland

News coverage about Iceland accounts for 0.054% of all coverage GDELT monitors worldwide as of August 20, 2026. Output is down 64.3% week-over-week. The average tone of this coverage is +1.44 — neutral-to-positive.

IS · ISL · Europe · Wikidata

Data updated: · refreshed every 2 hours from GDELT

Coverage share
0.054%
of monitored articles
Week over week
-64.3%
7-day mean vs prior
Average tone
+1.44
neutral-to-positive
Refresh tier
Standard
~5h cadence

Coverage volume, last 90 days

Iceland coverage volume: 91 days, latest 0.05% on 2026-08-200.001.02.0May 22Jun 7Jun 23Jul 9Jul 25Aug 10Aug 20

Coverage tone, last 90 days

Iceland coverage tone: 91 days, latest tone 1.44 on 2026-08-20+20-2May 22Jun 7Jun 23Jul 9Jul 25Aug 10Aug 20

Event activity (CAMEO-coded)

Protests (1/day latest)

Protest events located in Iceland: 14 days, latest 1.00 on 2026-08-110.001.02.0May 31Jun 13Jun 20Jun 29Jul 6Aug 11

Diplomacy (12/day latest)

Diplomatic events located in Iceland: 85 days, latest 12.00 on 2026-08-200.0050.0100May 26Jun 10Jun 25Jul 10Jul 25Aug 11Aug 20

Coercion & force (2/day latest)

Coercive events located in Iceland: 64 days, latest 2.00 on 2026-08-190.0010.020.0May 27Jun 17Jun 30Jul 15Jul 28Aug 8Aug 19

CAMEO-coded events geolocated to Iceland, 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, 9% of the coverage about Iceland came from outlets based in Iceland — the rest was written from abroad (9,840 articles with a known outlet home country).

Daily share of coverage about Iceland from domestic outlets (%): 48 days, latest 25.00 on 2026-08-190.0025.050.0Jul 3Jul 11Jul 19Jul 27Aug 4Aug 12Aug 19

Share of articles about Iceland 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

  • Sandgerdhi (1)
  • Reykjavik (1)
  • Keflavik (1)

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

Active topics in coverage about Iceland

Country indicators

GDP (current US$)
$38.6B
World Bank, 2025
Population
392,404
World Bank, 2025
Trade (% of GDP)
82.5%
World Bank, 2025

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