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United States

News coverage about United States accounts for 35.184% of all coverage GDELT monitors worldwide as of August 20, 2026. Output is up 9.8% week-over-week. The average tone of this coverage is -1.20 — mildly negative. Coverage is surging: 8.9 standard deviations above the trailing average.

US · USA · North America · Wikidata

Data updated: · refreshed every 2 hours from GDELT

Coverage share
35.184%
of monitored articles
Week over week
+9.8%
7-day mean vs prior
Average tone
-1.20
mildly negative
Refresh tier
Priority
~2-3h cadence

Coverage volume, last 90 days

United States coverage volume: 91 days, latest 35.18% on 2026-08-200.0025.050.0May 22Jun 7Jun 23Jul 9Jul 25Aug 10Aug 20

Coverage tone, last 90 days

United States coverage tone: 91 days, latest tone -1.20 on 2026-08-20+20-2May 22Jun 7Jun 23Jul 9Jul 25Aug 10Aug 20

Event activity (CAMEO-coded)

Protests (22/day latest)

Protest events located in United States: 87 days, latest 22.00 on 2026-08-200.00250500May 26Jun 10Jun 25Jul 10Jul 25Aug 9Aug 20

Diplomacy (1275/day latest)

Diplomatic events located in United States: 87 days, latest 1275.00 on 2026-08-200.001250025000May 26Jun 10Jun 25Jul 10Jul 25Aug 9Aug 20

Coercion & force (562/day latest)

Coercive events located in United States: 87 days, latest 562.00 on 2026-08-200.001000020000May 26Jun 10Jun 25Jul 10Jul 25Aug 9Aug 20

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, 46% of the coverage about United States came from outlets based in United States — the rest was written from abroad (503,912 articles with a known outlet home country).

Daily share of coverage about United States from domestic outlets (%): 49 days, latest 57.29 on 2026-08-200.0050.0100Jul 3Jul 12Jul 21Jul 30Aug 8Aug 17Aug 20

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 (631)
  • White House (303)
  • Greenville (240)
  • Greenville County (211)
  • Fort Stewart (182)
  • Montecito (175)
  • Houston (114)
  • Chicago (100)
  • Dallas (97)
  • Boston (94)
  • Philadelphia (94)
  • Hollywood (88)

Places named in coverage about United States on 2026-08-20 (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
7
best estimate
Civilian deaths
4
within the above
Recorded events
4
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
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”).