Latvia

News coverage about Latvia accounts for 0.102% of all coverage GDELT monitors worldwide as of August 20, 2026. Output is up 32.9% week-over-week. The average tone of this coverage is -0.47 — mildly negative.

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Data updated: · refreshed every 2 hours from GDELT

Coverage share
0.102%
of monitored articles
Week over week
+32.9%
7-day mean vs prior
Average tone
-0.47
mildly negative
Refresh tier
Standard
~5h cadence

Coverage volume, last 90 days

Latvia coverage volume: 91 days, latest 0.10% on 2026-08-200.000.501.0May 22Jun 7Jun 23Jul 9Jul 25Aug 10Aug 20

Coverage tone, last 90 days

Latvia coverage tone: 91 days, latest tone -0.47 on 2026-08-20+50-5May 22Jun 7Jun 23Jul 9Jul 25Aug 10Aug 20

Event activity (CAMEO-coded)

Protests (1/day latest)

Protest events located in Latvia: 9 days, latest 1.00 on 2026-08-180.002.55.0May 28Jul 1Jul 15Aug 4Aug 18

Diplomacy (7/day latest)

Diplomatic events located in Latvia: 84 days, latest 7.00 on 2026-08-190.0050.0100May 26Jun 9Jun 23Jul 7Jul 22Aug 5Aug 19

Coercion & force (3/day latest)

Coercive events located in Latvia: 69 days, latest 3.00 on 2026-08-180.0050.0100May 26Jun 8Jun 26Jul 10Jul 27Aug 10Aug 18

CAMEO-coded events geolocated to Latvia, 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, 28% of the coverage about Latvia came from outlets based in Latvia — the rest was written from abroad (7,603 articles with a known outlet home country).

Daily share of coverage about Latvia from domestic outlets (%): 48 days, latest 34.99 on 2026-08-190.0025.050.0Jul 3Jul 11Jul 19Jul 27Aug 4Aug 12Aug 19

Share of articles about Latvia 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

  • Riga (9)
  • Sili (2)
  • Latgale (1)
  • Katrina (1)
  • Jekabpils (1)
  • Ventspils (1)
  • Vecmuiza (1)
  • Rugaji (1)

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

Active topics in coverage about Latvia

Country indicators

GDP (current US$)
$48.6B
World Bank, 2025
Population
1.8M
World Bank, 2025
Trade (% of GDP)
129.7%
World Bank, 2025
Military expenditure (% of GDP)
3.3%
World Bank, 2024

Displacement, end of 2025

Internally displaced
0
within the country
Refugees abroad
189
originating from Latvia
Refugees hosted
32,454
from other countries
Asylum seekers
487
pending claims, hosted

Source: UNHCR Refugee Data Finder, year-end 2025 stocks, plus 167,512 stateless persons. IDP figures cover conflict-displaced populations reported to UNHCR.

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