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United States

News coverage about United States accounts for 22.883% of all coverage GDELT monitors worldwide as of October 4, 2026. Output is down 7.7% week-over-week. The average tone of this coverage is -1.11 — mildly negative.

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Data updated: · refreshed every 3 hours from GDELT

Coverage share
22.883%
of monitored articles
Week over week
-7.7%
7-day mean vs prior
Average tone
-1.11
mildly negative
Refresh tier
Priority
~2-3h cadence

Coverage volume, last 90 days

United States coverage volume: 91 days, latest 22.88% on 2026-10-040.0012.525.0Jul 6Jul 22Aug 7Aug 23Sep 8Sep 24Oct 4

Coverage tone, last 90 days

United States coverage tone: 91 days, latest tone -1.11 on 2026-10-04+20-2Jul 6Jul 22Aug 7Aug 23Sep 8Sep 24Oct 4

Event activity (CAMEO-coded)

Protests (39/day latest)

Protest events located in United States: 91 days, latest 39.00 on 2026-10-040.00250500Jul 6Jul 22Aug 7Aug 23Sep 8Sep 24Oct 4

Diplomacy (1244/day latest)

Diplomatic events located in United States: 91 days, latest 1244.00 on 2026-10-040.001250025000Jul 6Jul 22Aug 7Aug 23Sep 8Sep 24Oct 4

Coercion & force (574/day latest)

Coercive events located in United States: 91 days, latest 574.00 on 2026-10-040.001000020000Jul 6Jul 22Aug 7Aug 23Sep 8Sep 24Oct 4

CAMEO-coded events geolocated to United States, 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, 44% of the coverage about United States came from outlets based in United States — the rest was written from abroad (552,879 articles with a known outlet home country).

Daily share of coverage about United States from domestic outlets (%): 91 days, latest 48.45 on 2026-10-040.0025.050.0Jul 6Jul 22Aug 7Aug 23Sep 8Sep 24Oct 4

Share of articles about United States 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

  • Washington (1040)
  • White House (441)
  • Boston (284)
  • Los Angeles (219)
  • Chicago (188)
  • Vandalia (147)
  • Philadelphia (138)
  • San Francisco (129)
  • Tompkins County (114)
  • Dallas (110)
  • Miami (101)
  • Phoenix (100)

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

Active topics in coverage about United States

Country indicators

GDP (current US$)
$30.77T
World Bank, 2025
Population
341.8M
World Bank, 2025
Trade (% of GDP)
25.0%
World Bank, 2024
Military expenditure (% of GDP)
3.4%
World Bank, 2024

Armed conflict, trailing 12 months

Conflict fatalities
9
best estimate
Civilian deaths
4
within the above
Recorded events
5
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
3,667
originating from United States
Refugees hosted
457,647
from other countries
Asylum seekers
3,718,945
pending claims, hosted

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