The Global Media Visibility of States Dataset V1

This is a dataset with estimates of the global visibility of states in online news media. It provides aggregate visibility scores for 147 states in the years 2018-2021. The underlying multilingual dataset of textual content of online news media consists of more than 3.4 million unique articles spanning more than 2200 different media outlets and 63 languages. Non-English content was machine-translated into English. The counts of references to individual states in news media in other states are primarily based on dictionary techniques; difficult cases were estimated with supervised machine learning and generative AI. The provided estimates are simple (unweighted) averages of individual states’ media visibility across each of the other 146 audience states in the dataset.