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Saudi Arabia

News coverage about Saudi Arabia accounts for 1.626% of all coverage GDELT monitors worldwide as of October 4, 2026. Output is up 26.2% week-over-week. The average tone of this coverage is -2.60 — negative.

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Data updated: · refreshed every 3 hours from GDELT

Coverage share
1.626%
of monitored articles
Week over week
+26.2%
7-day mean vs prior
Average tone
-2.60
negative
Refresh tier
Priority
~2-3h cadence

Coverage volume, last 90 days

Saudi Arabia coverage volume: 91 days, latest 1.63% on 2026-10-040.002.55.0Jul 6Jul 22Aug 7Aug 23Sep 8Sep 24Oct 4

Coverage tone, last 90 days

Saudi Arabia coverage tone: 91 days, latest tone -2.60 on 2026-10-04+50-5Jul 6Jul 22Aug 7Aug 23Sep 8Sep 24Oct 4

Event activity (CAMEO-coded)

Protests (1/day latest)

Protest events located in Saudi Arabia: 68 days, latest 1.00 on 2026-10-030.005.010.0Jul 9Jul 25Aug 8Aug 25Sep 11Sep 24Oct 3

Diplomacy (50/day latest)

Diplomatic events located in Saudi Arabia: 91 days, latest 50.00 on 2026-10-040.0010002000Jul 6Jul 22Aug 7Aug 23Sep 8Sep 24Oct 4

Coercion & force (46/day latest)

Coercive events located in Saudi Arabia: 91 days, latest 46.00 on 2026-10-040.00250500Jul 6Jul 22Aug 7Aug 23Sep 8Sep 24Oct 4

CAMEO-coded events geolocated to Saudi Arabia, 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, 3% of the coverage about Saudi Arabia came from outlets based in Saudi Arabia — the rest was written from abroad (48,718 articles with a known outlet home country).

Daily share of coverage about Saudi Arabia from domestic outlets (%): 91 days, latest 2.05 on 2026-10-040.005.010.0Jul 6Jul 22Aug 7Aug 23Sep 8Sep 24Oct 4

Share of articles about Saudi Arabia 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

  • Riyadh (94)
  • Tabuk (67)
  • Mecca (26)
  • Jeddah (13)
  • Taif (6)
  • Yanbu (6)
  • Al Madinah (3)
  • Arabian Peninsula (2)
  • Makkah (2)
  • King Saud University (2)
  • Dammam (2)
  • Khamis Mushait (1)

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

Active topics in coverage about Saudi Arabia

Country indicators

GDP (current US$)
$1.28T
World Bank, 2025
Population
37.0M
World Bank, 2025
Trade (% of GDP)
57.9%
World Bank, 2025
Military expenditure (% of GDP)
7.3%
World Bank, 2024

Armed conflict, trailing 12 months

Conflict fatalities
5
best estimate
Civilian deaths
3
within the above
Recorded events
3
organized violence

Source: Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP GED), window 2025-10-01..2026-09-30, refreshed monthly. Recent months are preliminary candidate data.

Monitored relationships

Each link opens the bilateral co-coverage dashboard for the pair.

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