Libya

News coverage about Libya accounts for 0.166% of all coverage GDELT monitors worldwide as of October 4, 2026. Output is up 4.9% week-over-week. The average tone of this coverage is -0.80 — mildly negative.

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Data updated: · refreshed every 3 hours from GDELT

Coverage share
0.166%
of monitored articles
Week over week
+4.9%
7-day mean vs prior
Average tone
-0.80
mildly negative
Refresh tier
Standard
~5h cadence

Coverage volume, last 90 days

Libya coverage volume: 91 days, latest 0.17% on 2026-10-040.000.250.50Jul 6Jul 22Aug 7Aug 23Sep 8Sep 24Oct 4

Coverage tone, last 90 days

Libya coverage tone: 91 days, latest tone -0.80 on 2026-10-04+50-5Jul 6Jul 22Aug 7Aug 23Sep 8Sep 24Oct 4

Event activity (CAMEO-coded)

Protests (3/day latest)

Protest events located in Libya: 26 days, latest 3.00 on 2026-10-010.002.55.0Jul 8Jul 31Aug 18Aug 24Sep 14Oct 1

Diplomacy (11/day latest)

Diplomatic events located in Libya: 90 days, latest 11.00 on 2026-10-030.00100200Jul 6Jul 21Aug 5Aug 20Sep 4Sep 19Oct 3

Coercion & force (5/day latest)

Coercive events located in Libya: 86 days, latest 5.00 on 2026-10-030.0050.0100Jul 6Jul 21Aug 6Aug 21Sep 6Sep 23Oct 3

CAMEO-coded events geolocated to Libya, 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, 26% of the coverage about Libya came from outlets based in Libya — the rest was written from abroad (5,752 articles with a known outlet home country).

Daily share of coverage about Libya from domestic outlets (%): 91 days, latest 22.86 on 2026-10-040.0025.050.0Jul 6Jul 22Aug 7Aug 23Sep 8Sep 24Oct 4

Share of articles about Libya 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

  • Tripoli (5)
  • Derna (3)
  • Abu Salim (1)
  • Cyrenaica (1)
  • Tarhuna (1)

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

Active topics in coverage about Libya

Country indicators

GDP (current US$)
$48.1B
World Bank, 2025
Population
7.5M
World Bank, 2025
Trade (% of GDP)
137.7%
World Bank, 2025
Military expenditure (% of GDP)
5.3%
World Bank, 2023

Armed conflict, trailing 12 months

Conflict fatalities
31
best estimate
Civilian deaths
4
within the above
Recorded events
11
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
32,791
within the country
Refugees abroad
17,161
originating from Libya
Refugees hosted
552,523
from other countries
Asylum seekers
105,954
pending claims, hosted

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

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