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Thailand

News coverage about Thailand accounts for 1.178% of all coverage GDELT monitors worldwide as of August 21, 2026. Output is up 3.9% week-over-week. The average tone of this coverage is +0.77 — neutral-to-positive. Coverage is surging: 2.3 standard deviations above the trailing average.

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Data updated: · refreshed every 2 hours from GDELT

Coverage share
1.178%
of monitored articles
Week over week
+3.9%
7-day mean vs prior
Average tone
+0.77
neutral-to-positive
Refresh tier
Priority
~2-3h cadence

Coverage volume, last 90 days

Thailand coverage volume: 91 days, latest 1.18% on 2026-08-210.001.02.0May 23Jun 8Jun 24Jul 10Jul 26Aug 11Aug 21

Coverage tone, last 90 days

Thailand coverage tone: 91 days, latest tone 0.77 on 2026-08-21+50-5May 23Jun 8Jun 24Jul 10Jul 26Aug 11Aug 21

Event activity (CAMEO-coded)

Protests (2/day latest)

Protest events located in Thailand: 58 days, latest 2.00 on 2026-08-200.005.010.0May 28Jun 11Jun 28Jul 9Jul 25Aug 8Aug 20

Diplomacy (10/day latest)

Diplomatic events located in Thailand: 88 days, latest 10.00 on 2026-08-210.00250500May 26Jun 10Jun 25Jul 10Jul 25Aug 9Aug 21

Coercion & force (6/day latest)

Coercive events located in Thailand: 88 days, latest 6.00 on 2026-08-210.00250500May 26Jun 10Jun 25Jul 10Jul 25Aug 9Aug 21

CAMEO-coded events geolocated to Thailand, 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, 16% of the coverage about Thailand came from outlets based in Thailand — the rest was written from abroad (21,884 articles with a known outlet home country).

Daily share of coverage about Thailand from domestic outlets (%): 50 days, latest 17.67 on 2026-08-210.0012.525.0Jul 3Jul 12Jul 21Jul 30Aug 8Aug 17Aug 21

Share of articles about Thailand 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

  • Bangkok (26)
  • Phuket (8)
  • Chiang Rai (7)
  • Chiang Mai (5)
  • Khon Kaen (5)
  • Phang Nga (3)
  • Phrae (2)
  • Kanchanaburi (2)
  • Pran (2)
  • Chonburi (2)
  • Ranong (2)
  • Samut Songkhram (2)

Places named in coverage about Thailand on 2026-08-21 (GDELT location extraction; article counts).

Active topics in coverage about Thailand

Country indicators

GDP (current US$)
$577.0B
World Bank, 2025
Population
71.6M
World Bank, 2025
Trade (% of GDP)
138.4%
World Bank, 2025
Military expenditure (% of GDP)
1.1%
World Bank, 2024

Armed conflict, trailing 12 months

Conflict fatalities
66
best estimate
Civilian deaths
14
within the above
Recorded events
46
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
0
within the country
Refugees abroad
327
originating from Thailand
Refugees hosted
84,017
from other countries
Asylum seekers
2,880
pending claims, hosted

Source: UNHCR Refugee Data Finder, year-end 2025 stocks, plus 610,791 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 Thailand-based outlets as a share of all GDELT-monitored coverage — see methodology. Derived data is CC BY 4.0 (“Geotone / GDELT”).