Italy

News coverage about Italy accounts for 2.863% of all coverage GDELT monitors worldwide as of August 21, 2026. Output is down 12.5% week-over-week. The average tone of this coverage is -0.11 — mildly negative.

IT · ITA · Europe · Wikidata

Data updated: · refreshed every 2 hours from GDELT

Coverage share
2.863%
of monitored articles
Week over week
-12.5%
7-day mean vs prior
Average tone
-0.11
mildly negative
Refresh tier
Priority
~2-3h cadence

Coverage volume, last 90 days

Italy coverage volume: 91 days, latest 2.86% on 2026-08-210.005.010.0May 23Jun 8Jun 24Jul 10Jul 26Aug 11Aug 21

Coverage tone, last 90 days

Italy coverage tone: 91 days, latest tone -0.11 on 2026-08-21+20-2May 23Jun 8Jun 24Jul 10Jul 26Aug 11Aug 21

Event activity (CAMEO-coded)

Protests (3/day latest)

Protest events located in Italy: 81 days, latest 3.00 on 2026-08-200.0025.050.0May 26Jun 9Jun 25Jul 10Jul 25Aug 10Aug 20

Diplomacy (25/day latest)

Diplomatic events located in Italy: 88 days, latest 25.00 on 2026-08-210.005001000May 26Jun 10Jun 25Jul 10Jul 25Aug 9Aug 21

Coercion & force (4/day latest)

Coercive events located in Italy: 88 days, latest 4.00 on 2026-08-210.00100200May 26Jun 10Jun 25Jul 10Jul 25Aug 9Aug 21

CAMEO-coded events geolocated to Italy, 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, 46% of the coverage about Italy came from outlets based in Italy — the rest was written from abroad (126,606 articles with a known outlet home country).

Daily share of coverage about Italy from domestic outlets (%): 50 days, latest 33.74 on 2026-08-210.0050.0100Jul 3Jul 12Jul 21Jul 30Aug 8Aug 17Aug 21

Share of articles about Italy 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

  • Rome (137)
  • Milan (100)
  • Palermo (11)
  • Veneto (10)
  • Cagliari (8)
  • Roma (8)
  • Irpinia (5)
  • Pesaro (4)
  • Valtellina (4)
  • Monza (3)
  • Iseo (3)
  • Perugia (3)

Places named in coverage about Italy on 2026-08-21 (GDELT location extraction; article counts).

Active topics in coverage about Italy

Country indicators

GDP (current US$)
$2.55T
World Bank, 2025
Population
58.9M
World Bank, 2025
Trade (% of GDP)
62.5%
World Bank, 2025
Military expenditure (% of GDP)
1.6%
World Bank, 2024

Displacement, end of 2025

Internally displaced
0
within the country
Refugees abroad
266
originating from Italy
Refugees hosted
192,914
from other countries
Asylum seekers
234,144
pending claims, hosted

Source: UNHCR Refugee Data Finder, year-end 2025 stocks, plus 3,000 stateless persons. IDP figures cover conflict-displaced populations reported to UNHCR.

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