Panama

News coverage about Panama accounts for 0.288% of all coverage GDELT monitors worldwide as of August 20, 2026. Output is down 34.3% week-over-week. The average tone of this coverage is -1.49 — mildly negative.

PA · PAN · North America · Wikidata

Data updated: · refreshed every 2 hours from GDELT

Coverage share
0.288%
of monitored articles
Week over week
-34.3%
7-day mean vs prior
Average tone
-1.49
mildly negative
Refresh tier
Standard
~5h cadence

Coverage volume, last 90 days

Panama coverage volume: 91 days, latest 0.29% on 2026-08-200.001.02.0May 22Jun 7Jun 23Jul 9Jul 25Aug 10Aug 20

Coverage tone, last 90 days

Panama coverage tone: 91 days, latest tone -1.49 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 Panama: 20 days, latest 1.00 on 2026-08-120.005.010.0May 28Jun 10Jun 22Jul 11Jul 30Aug 12

Diplomacy (6/day latest)

Diplomatic events located in Panama: 87 days, latest 6.00 on 2026-08-200.00100200May 26Jun 10Jun 25Jul 10Jul 25Aug 9Aug 20

Coercion & force (1/day latest)

Coercive events located in Panama: 85 days, latest 1.00 on 2026-08-200.0025.050.0May 26Jun 11Jun 26Jul 12Jul 27Aug 11Aug 20

CAMEO-coded events geolocated to Panama, 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, 11% of the coverage about Panama came from outlets based in Panama — the rest was written from abroad (8,154 articles with a known outlet home country).

Daily share of coverage about Panama from domestic outlets (%): 49 days, latest 24.14 on 2026-08-200.0012.525.0Jul 3Jul 12Jul 21Jul 30Aug 8Aug 17Aug 20

Share of articles about Panama 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

  • Panama Canal (7)
  • Chiriqui (4)
  • Panama City (4)
  • Cocle (3)
  • Canal De Panama (3)
  • Chitre (2)
  • Ciudad De Panama (1)
  • Penonome (1)
  • Valle De Anton (1)
  • Baru (1)
  • Yaviza (1)
  • Juan Hombron (1)

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

Active topics in coverage about Panama

Country indicators

GDP (current US$)
$90.5B
World Bank, 2025
Population
4.6M
World Bank, 2025
Trade (% of GDP)
83.7%
World Bank, 2024
Military expenditure (% of GDP)
1.0%
World Bank, 1999

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