Myanmar

News coverage about Myanmar accounts for 0.082% of all coverage GDELT monitors worldwide as of August 20, 2026. Output is up 24.4% week-over-week. The average tone of this coverage is -1.88 — mildly negative.

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Data updated: · refreshed every 2 hours from GDELT

Coverage share
0.082%
of monitored articles
Week over week
+24.4%
7-day mean vs prior
Average tone
-1.88
mildly negative
Refresh tier
Priority
~2-3h cadence

Coverage volume, last 90 days

Myanmar coverage volume: 91 days, latest 0.08% on 2026-08-200.000.100.20May 22Jun 7Jun 23Jul 9Jul 25Aug 10Aug 20

Coverage tone, last 90 days

Myanmar coverage tone: 91 days, latest tone -1.88 on 2026-08-20+50-5May 22Jun 7Jun 23Jul 9Jul 25Aug 10Aug 20

Event activity (CAMEO-coded)

Protests (3/day latest)

Protest events located in Myanmar: 16 days, latest 3.00 on 2026-08-100.002.55.0May 31Jun 19Jul 3Jul 17Jul 29Aug 10

Diplomacy (5/day latest)

Diplomatic events located in Myanmar: 82 days, latest 5.00 on 2026-08-190.00100200May 26Jun 9Jun 23Jul 9Jul 25Aug 8Aug 19

Coercion & force (5/day latest)

Coercive events located in Myanmar: 78 days, latest 5.00 on 2026-08-190.0025.050.0May 26Jun 10Jun 24Jul 7Jul 21Aug 5Aug 19

CAMEO-coded events geolocated to Myanmar, 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, 7% of the coverage about Myanmar came from outlets based in Myanmar — the rest was written from abroad (1,219 articles with a known outlet home country).

Daily share of coverage about Myanmar from domestic outlets (%): 49 days, latest 5.00 on 2026-08-200.0010.020.0Jul 3Jul 12Jul 21Jul 30Aug 8Aug 17Aug 20

Share of articles about Myanmar 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

  • Danu (1)
  • Myaing (1)
  • Rangoon (1)
  • Pegu (1)
  • Payagi (1)
  • Aung Hlaing (1)
  • Yangon (1)
  • Mandalay (1)

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

Active topics in coverage about Myanmar

Country indicators

GDP (current US$)
$81.7B
World Bank, 2025
Population
54.9M
World Bank, 2025
Military expenditure (% of GDP)
6.8%
World Bank, 2024

Armed conflict, trailing 12 months

Conflict fatalities
1,878
best estimate
Civilian deaths
1,343
within the above
Recorded events
558
organized violence

Source: Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP GED), window 2025-08-01..2026-07-31, refreshed monthly. Recent months are preliminary candidate data.

Displacement, end of 2025

Internally displaced
3,628,840
within the country
Refugees abroad
1,524,378
originating from Myanmar
Refugees hosted
0
from other countries
Asylum seekers
0
pending claims, hosted

Source: UNHCR Refugee Data Finder, year-end 2025 stocks, plus 519,647 stateless persons. IDP figures cover conflict-displaced populations reported to UNHCR.

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