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Lebanon

News coverage about Lebanon accounts for 0.244% of all coverage GDELT monitors worldwide as of October 4, 2026. Output is down 36.4% week-over-week. The average tone of this coverage is -2.35 — mildly negative.

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Data updated: · refreshed every 3 hours from GDELT

Coverage share
0.244%
of monitored articles
Week over week
-36.4%
7-day mean vs prior
Average tone
-2.35
mildly negative
Refresh tier
Priority
~2-3h cadence

Coverage volume, last 90 days

Lebanon coverage volume: 91 days, latest 0.24% on 2026-10-040.001.02.0Jul 6Jul 22Aug 7Aug 23Sep 8Sep 24Oct 4

Coverage tone, last 90 days

Lebanon coverage tone: 91 days, latest tone -2.35 on 2026-10-04+50-5Jul 6Jul 22Aug 7Aug 23Sep 8Sep 24Oct 4

Event activity (CAMEO-coded)

Protests (1/day latest)

Protest events located in Lebanon: 44 days, latest 1.00 on 2026-10-030.0010.020.0Jul 6Jul 21Aug 7Aug 28Sep 15Sep 28Oct 3

Diplomacy (10/day latest)

Diplomatic events located in Lebanon: 91 days, latest 10.00 on 2026-10-040.005001000Jul 6Jul 22Aug 7Aug 23Sep 8Sep 24Oct 4

Coercion & force (1/day latest)

Coercive events located in Lebanon: 91 days, latest 1.00 on 2026-10-040.00125250Jul 6Jul 22Aug 7Aug 23Sep 8Sep 24Oct 4

CAMEO-coded events geolocated to Lebanon, 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, 2% of the coverage about Lebanon came from outlets based in Lebanon — the rest was written from abroad (13,018 articles with a known outlet home country).

Daily share of coverage about Lebanon from domestic outlets (%): 91 days, latest 0.00 on 2026-10-040.005.010.0Jul 6Jul 22Aug 7Aug 23Sep 8Sep 24Oct 4

Share of articles about Lebanon 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

  • Beirut (9)
  • Mar Elias (1)
  • Jbeil (1)

Places named in coverage about Lebanon on 2026-10-04 (GDELT location extraction; article counts).

Active topics in coverage about Lebanon

Country indicators

GDP (current US$)
$26.0B
World Bank, 2024
Population
5.8M
World Bank, 2025
Trade (% of GDP)
82.2%
World Bank, 2024
Military expenditure (% of GDP)
2.6%
World Bank, 2024

Armed conflict, trailing 12 months

Conflict fatalities
10,149
best estimate
Civilian deaths
308
within the above
Recorded events
587
organized violence

Source: Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP GED), window 2025-10-01..2026-09-30, refreshed monthly. Recent months are preliminary candidate data.

Displacement, end of 2025

Internally displaced
64,417
within the country
Refugees abroad
9,568
originating from Lebanon
Refugees hosted
535,168
from other countries
Asylum seekers
7,617
pending claims, hosted

Source: UNHCR Refugee Data Finder, year-end 2025 stocks, plus 40,000 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 Lebanon-based outlets as a share of all GDELT-monitored coverage — see methodology. Derived data is CC BY 4.0 (“Geotone / GDELT”).