Countries drawing the most news coverage
Of the 196 countries with live data (196 tracked), United States currently draws the largest share of world news coverage at 22.883% of all monitored articles. Rankings shift with news cycles — a country surging here usually means something is happening there.
Data updated: · refreshed every 3 hours from GDELT
By share of world coverage
| # | Name | Coverage % |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States | 22.883 |
| 2 | China | 9.945 |
| 3 | Russia | 6.432 |
| 4 | United Kingdom | 6.155 |
| 5 | India | 5.422 |
| 6 | Germany | 4.934 |
| 7 | Spain | 4.53 |
| 8 | Italy | 4.526 |
| 9 | France | 4.502 |
| 10 | Japan | 4.31 |
| 11 | Mexico | 3.623 |
| 12 | Brazil | 3.489 |
| 13 | Sweden | 3.375 |
| 14 | Vietnam | 3.358 |
| 15 | Taiwan | 3.322 |
| 16 | Ukraine | 3.244 |
| 17 | Canada | 3.18 |
| 18 | Australia | 3.159 |
| 19 | Iran | 2.777 |
| 20 | Israel | 2.554 |
| 21 | South Korea | 2.55 |
| 22 | Argentina | 2.44 |
| 23 | Greece | 1.838 |
| 24 | Turkey | 1.767 |
| 25 | Saudi Arabia | 1.626 |
Measures articles whose extracted locations include each country, as a share of all GDELT-monitored coverage — media attention about a place, not press output from it.
Recomputed every three hours. Methodology: how every number is computed. License: CC BY 4.0 — cite "Geotone / GDELT" with a link to this page.