Coverage spikes

Every fifteen minutes the GDELT Project reads news sites around the world and places the events they report on a map. We count, for each country, how many articles GDELT placed there in the last 24 hours, and compare it with that country's own rate over the 7 days before. A country appears here when it is drawing at least 2 times its usual coverage, from at least 30 articles.

This is where the press is looking, not what happened. GDELT's coding is automatic and noisy; a spike can be an election, a disaster, a summit or a misread place name. What happened is on the map, in our own words, once the blocs' press reports it.

Last 24 hours against the 7 days before

93 of 96 GDELT files read in the last 24 h · counting since 2026-11-03. Rates are per file read, so a file GDELT has not published never reads as a quiet country.