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Mexico

News coverage about Mexico accounts for 4.213% of all coverage GDELT monitors worldwide as of August 20, 2026. Output is steady week-over-week (+1.4%). The average tone of this coverage is -0.93 — mildly negative. Coverage is surging: 7.2 standard deviations above the trailing average.

MX · MEX · North America · Wikidata

Data updated: · refreshed every 2 hours from GDELT

Coverage share
4.213%
of monitored articles
Week over week
+1.4%
7-day mean vs prior
Average tone
-0.93
mildly negative
Refresh tier
Priority
~2-3h cadence

Coverage volume, last 90 days

Mexico coverage volume: 91 days, latest 4.21% on 2026-08-200.005.010.0May 22Jun 7Jun 23Jul 9Jul 25Aug 10Aug 20

Coverage tone, last 90 days

Mexico coverage tone: 91 days, latest tone -0.93 on 2026-08-20+20-2May 22Jun 7Jun 23Jul 9Jul 25Aug 10Aug 20

Event activity (CAMEO-coded)

Protests (1/day latest)

Protest events located in Mexico: 65 days, latest 1.00 on 2026-08-200.0010.020.0May 26Jun 8Jun 23Jul 12Jul 23Aug 9Aug 20

Diplomacy (35/day latest)

Diplomatic events located in Mexico: 87 days, latest 35.00 on 2026-08-200.00250500May 26Jun 10Jun 25Jul 10Jul 25Aug 9Aug 20

Coercion & force (13/day latest)

Coercive events located in Mexico: 87 days, latest 13.00 on 2026-08-200.00250500May 26Jun 10Jun 25Jul 10Jul 25Aug 9Aug 20

CAMEO-coded events geolocated to Mexico, 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, 41% of the coverage about Mexico came from outlets based in Mexico — the rest was written from abroad (58,874 articles with a known outlet home country).

Daily share of coverage about Mexico from domestic outlets (%): 49 days, latest 60.19 on 2026-08-200.0050.0100Jul 3Jul 12Jul 21Jul 30Aug 8Aug 17Aug 20

Share of articles about Mexico 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

  • Ciudad De Mexico (113)
  • Michoacan (86)
  • Juarez (70)
  • Sinaloa (69)
  • Coahuila (52)
  • Monterrey (51)
  • Saltillo (45)
  • Ciudad Juarez (41)
  • Zacatecas (38)
  • Puebla (35)
  • Tijuana (32)
  • Nuevo Leon (29)

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

Active topics in coverage about Mexico

Country indicators

GDP (current US$)
$1.83T
World Bank, 2025
Population
131.9M
World Bank, 2025
Trade (% of GDP)
79.9%
World Bank, 2025
Military expenditure (% of GDP)
0.9%
World Bank, 2024

Armed conflict, trailing 12 months

Conflict fatalities
3,391
best estimate
Civilian deaths
142
within the above
Recorded events
2,389
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
262,411
within the country
Refugees abroad
41,307
originating from Mexico
Refugees hosted
152,002
from other countries
Asylum seekers
173,532
pending claims, hosted

Source: UNHCR Refugee Data Finder, year-end 2025 stocks, plus 13 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 Mexico-based outlets as a share of all GDELT-monitored coverage — see methodology. Derived data is CC BY 4.0 (“Geotone / GDELT”).