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Oil Prices in the News 2019–2026: article-level dataset and coverage tables
A dataset of news about oil prices and the crude oil market from a global news index, January 2019 – July 2026, built with the Prism News API (historical and real-time news, https://radar-api.fliarbi.com/news). Every row is one news article about oil prices, with its date, location, tone, editorial priority, themes and the organisations it names, plus a link that returns the full article through the API.
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Key findings
In a global news index covering January 2019 to July 2026, oil prices took their largest monthly share of news in March 2026, the first full month of the 2026 Iran war, at 81.22 articles per 10,000 news articles, 8.59 times the topic's average share in 2025 (9.46 per 10,000).
Basis: Monthly oil-price articles divided by all articles in the index for the same month, every month from January 2019 to July 2026.
Between January 2019 and July 2026, the five months in which oil prices took the largest share of global news were March 2026 (81.22 articles per 10,000), April 2026 (51.63), May 2026 (46.23), June 2026 (38.5) and March 2022 (37.22); the highest month before 2022 was April 2020 (36.11).
Basis: Monthly oil-price articles per 10,000 news articles; months ranked by share.
Oil prices took 1.38 times as large a share of news coverage in 2020 as in 2019 (15.51 against 11.26 articles per 10,000 news articles), the year of the Russia–Saudi Arabia price war, with April 2020 at 36.11 per 10,000.
Basis: Annual oil-price articles divided by all articles in the index for the same year.
In 2022, the year Russia invaded Ukraine, oil prices took 16.41 of every 10,000 news articles, 1.62 times their 2021 share (10.15) and the highest annual share between 2019 and 2025.
Basis: Annual oil-price articles per 10,000 news articles, complete years 2019–2025.
Outside the shocks of 2020 and 2022, oil-price coverage lost ground in the news: its share fell from 11.26 articles per 10,000 in 2019 to 9.46 in 2025, a 16% decline, even as raw article counts rose from 13,292 to 25,535.
Basis: Annual oil-price articles and all articles in the index, 2019 and 2025.
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Coverage by country
Primary location of located articles, January 2023 – July 2026. Lift = the country's share of this topic's news ÷ its share of all located news (above 1 = over-covered).
| Country | Articles | Share | Lift |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 28,912 | 42.7% | 0.88 |
| India | 6,179 | 9.13% | 0.69 |
| China | 5,358 | 7.91% | 3.01 |
| Iran | 4,360 | 6.44% | 21.56 |
| Russia | 3,486 | 5.15% | 6.83 |
| Nigeria | 3,342 | 4.94% | 3.6 |
| Singapore | 1,787 | 2.64% | 2.96 |
| United Arab Emirates | 1,382 | 2.04% | 3.13 |
| Ukraine | 1,020 | 1.51% | 2.81 |
| Israel | 1,007 | 1.49% | 2.65 |
| Saudi Arabia | 973 | 1.44% | 6.7 |
| Canada | 956 | 1.41% | 0.66 |
| United Kingdom | 938 | 1.39% | 0.24 |
| Japan | 746 | 1.1% | 1.04 |
| Iraq | 355 | 0.52% | 9.43 |
Use the API
This dataset was built with the Prism News API, which serves historical and real-time news. Install the command-line client, log in with an API key, and query the topic yourself:
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fliarbi/prism-news-api/main/scripts/install.sh | bash
prism-news login
prism-news trends "oil prices" --granularity monthly --tableCite
Fliar BI. Oil Prices in the News 2019–2026: article-level dataset and coverage tables. January 2019 – July 2026. https://fliarbi.github.io/news-datasets/oil-prices/