Sri Lanka
News coverage about Sri Lanka accounts for 0.425% of all coverage GDELT monitors worldwide as of October 4, 2026. Output is up 7.3% week-over-week. The average tone of this coverage is -1.74 — mildly negative. Coverage is surging: 3.7 standard deviations above the trailing average.
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Coverage volume, last 90 days
Coverage tone, last 90 days
Event activity (CAMEO-coded)
Protests (7/day latest)
Diplomacy (1/day latest)
Coercion & force (14/day latest)
CAMEO-coded events geolocated to Sri Lanka, 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, 25% of the coverage about Sri Lanka came from outlets based in Sri Lanka — the rest was written from abroad (6,437 articles with a known outlet home country).
Share of articles about Sri Lanka 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
- Colombo (20)
- Balapitiya (4)
- Kandy (4)
- Katunayake (3)
- Kalutara (2)
- Kankesanthurai (1)
- Galwehera (1)
- Ahungalla (1)
- Kosgoda (1)
- Walana (1)
- Induruwa (1)
- Akadigoda (1)
Places named in coverage about Sri Lanka on 2026-10-04 (GDELT location extraction; article counts).
Active topics in coverage about Sri Lanka
Country indicators
Armed conflict, trailing 12 months
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
Source: UNHCR Refugee Data Finder, year-end 2025 stocks, plus 232 stateless persons. IDP figures cover conflict-displaced populations reported to UNHCR.
Coverage share measures articles published by Sri Lanka-based outlets as a share of all GDELT-monitored coverage — see methodology. Derived data is CC BY 4.0 (“Geotone / GDELT”).