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Yemen

News coverage about Yemen accounts for 0.124% of all coverage GDELT monitors worldwide as of August 20, 2026. Output is down 48.2% week-over-week. The average tone of this coverage is -4.13 — negative.

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Data updated: · refreshed every 2 hours from GDELT

Coverage share
0.124%
of monitored articles
Week over week
-48.2%
7-day mean vs prior
Average tone
-4.13
negative
Refresh tier
Priority
~2-3h cadence

Coverage volume, last 90 days

Yemen coverage volume: 91 days, latest 0.12% on 2026-08-200.001.02.0May 22Jun 7Jun 23Jul 9Jul 25Aug 10Aug 20

Coverage tone, last 90 days

Yemen coverage tone: 91 days, latest tone -4.13 on 2026-08-20+50-5May 22Jun 7Jun 23Jul 9Jul 25Aug 10Aug 20

Event activity (CAMEO-coded)

Protests (2/day latest)

Protest events located in Yemen: 45 days, latest 2.00 on 2026-08-190.0010.020.0May 26Jun 16Jul 15Jul 25Aug 3Aug 13Aug 19

Diplomacy (2/day latest)

Diplomatic events located in Yemen: 87 days, latest 2.00 on 2026-08-200.00250500May 26Jun 10Jun 25Jul 10Jul 25Aug 9Aug 20

Coercion & force (4/day latest)

Coercive events located in Yemen: 85 days, latest 4.00 on 2026-08-200.00100200May 26Jun 11Jun 27Jul 12Jul 27Aug 11Aug 20

CAMEO-coded events geolocated to Yemen, 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 Yemen came from outlets based in Yemen — the rest was written from abroad (14,318 articles with a known outlet home country).

Daily share of coverage about Yemen from domestic outlets (%): 49 days, latest 17.14 on 2026-08-200.0025.050.0Jul 3Jul 12Jul 21Jul 30Aug 8Aug 17Aug 20

Share of articles about Yemen 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

  • Sanaa (2)
  • Al Mukha (1)
  • Hadramaut (1)
  • Marib (1)
  • Abyan (1)
  • Sabir Al Mawadim (1)
  • Mahall Ash Shab (1)

Places named in coverage about Yemen on 2026-08-20 (GDELT location extraction; article counts).

Active topics in coverage about Yemen

Country indicators

GDP (current US$)
$21.6B
World Bank, 2018
Population
41.8M
World Bank, 2025
Trade (% of GDP)
56.1%
World Bank, 2018
Military expenditure (% of GDP)
4.0%
World Bank, 2014

Armed conflict, trailing 12 months

Conflict fatalities
937
best estimate
Civilian deaths
272
within the above
Recorded events
327
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
4,795,983
within the country
Refugees abroad
57,327
originating from Yemen
Refugees hosted
49,107
from other countries
Asylum seekers
14,642
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 Yemen-based outlets as a share of all GDELT-monitored coverage — see methodology. Derived data is CC BY 4.0 (“Geotone / GDELT”).