Sweden

News coverage about Sweden accounts for 3.375% of all coverage GDELT monitors worldwide as of October 4, 2026. Output is steady week-over-week (-2.0%). The average tone of this coverage is -1.04 — mildly negative. Coverage is surging: 2.3 standard deviations above the trailing average.

SE · SWE · Europe · Wikidata

Data updated: · refreshed every 3 hours from GDELT

Coverage share
3.375%
of monitored articles
Week over week
-2.0%
7-day mean vs prior
Average tone
-1.04
mildly negative
Refresh tier
Standard
~5h cadence

Coverage volume, last 90 days

Sweden coverage volume: 91 days, latest 3.38% on 2026-10-040.002.55.0Jul 6Jul 22Aug 7Aug 23Sep 8Sep 24Oct 4

Coverage tone, last 90 days

Sweden coverage tone: 91 days, latest tone -1.04 on 2026-10-04+2.50-2.5Jul 6Jul 22Aug 7Aug 23Sep 8Sep 24Oct 4

Event activity (CAMEO-coded)

Protests (1/day latest)

Protest events located in Sweden: 48 days, latest 1.00 on 2026-09-300.005.010.0Jul 6Jul 20Aug 1Aug 16Sep 8Sep 21Sep 30

Diplomacy (4/day latest)

Diplomatic events located in Sweden: 91 days, latest 4.00 on 2026-10-040.00250500Jul 6Jul 22Aug 7Aug 23Sep 8Sep 24Oct 4

Coercion & force (2/day latest)

Coercive events located in Sweden: 88 days, latest 2.00 on 2026-10-030.00100200Jul 6Jul 21Aug 6Aug 21Sep 6Sep 21Oct 3

CAMEO-coded events geolocated to Sweden, 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, 9% of the coverage about Sweden came from outlets based in Sweden — the rest was written from abroad (60,755 articles with a known outlet home country).

Daily share of coverage about Sweden from domestic outlets (%): 91 days, latest 4.17 on 2026-10-040.0010.020.0Jul 6Jul 22Aug 7Aug 23Sep 8Sep 24Oct 4

Share of articles about Sweden 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

  • Stockholm (28)
  • Kristianstad (4)
  • Karlskrona (3)
  • Karlshamn (3)
  • Gothenburg (2)
  • Kallandso (2)
  • Malmo Central (2)
  • Helsingborg (2)
  • Rosendal (1)
  • Dala (1)
  • Born As (1)
  • Hunan (1)

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

Active topics in coverage about Sweden

Country indicators

GDP (current US$)
$669.0B
World Bank, 2025
Population
10.6M
World Bank, 2025
Trade (% of GDP)
104.3%
World Bank, 2025
Military expenditure (% of GDP)
2.0%
World Bank, 2024

Armed conflict, trailing 12 months

Conflict fatalities
3
best estimate
Civilian deaths
1
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.

Displacement, end of 2025

Internally displaced
0
within the country
Refugees abroad
128
originating from Sweden
Refugees hosted
144,116
from other countries
Asylum seekers
4,661
pending claims, hosted

Source: UNHCR Refugee Data Finder, year-end 2025 stocks, plus 5,838 stateless persons. IDP figures cover conflict-displaced populations reported to UNHCR.

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