Table 1 Summary statistics on number of articles written about an actor from China, Russia, USA, India, or France between March 2015 and March 2021 by local presses in African and Asian Countries, sourced from (GDELT, 2015) and calculations made by the authors.

From: Measuring competition between the great powers across Africa and Asia using a measure of relative dispersion in media coverage bias

		Asia				Africa
Great Power	Metric	Central	Southeast	South	West	North	Middle	West	Southern	East	Total
	Count	183,744	625,696	1,422,549	756,761	180,585	24,918	349,518	116,018	116,838	3,776,627
ALL	Mean	6336	12,513	32,330	10,090	6019	711	5377	2320	1669	8429
	Std	17,333	26,582	88,330	22,361	10,262	1548	16,542	5347	5638	32,860
	Count	35,415	246,133	375,836	50,256	27,978	3921	56,666	29,525	19,414	845,144
CHN	Mean	5902	24,613	41,759	3350	4663	560	4358	2952	1386	9390
	Std	8074	35,020	75,507	2643	7932	1054	7536	3785	1771	29,827
	Count	21,293	38,872	90,323	78,781	57,882	13,192	76,844	13,073	11,889	402,149
FRA	Mean	3548	3887	10,035	5252	9647	1884	5911	1307	849	4468
	Std	6762	4193	18,427	5210	8722	2521	8620	2508	713	8343
	Count	1483	13,051	54,618	11,868	574	53	1598	1011	2139	86,395
IND	Mean	247	1305	6827	791	95	7	122	101	152	970
	Std	424	1536	8776	1247	166	15	270	165	306	3324
	Count	24,486	38,040	104,043	225,736	36,625	847	11,019	7082	3535	451,413
RUS	Mean	4897	3804	11,560	15,049	6104	121	847	708	252	5072
	Std	3906	4268	16,619	21,003	10,641	169	1513	1017	287	12,037
	Count	101,067	289,600	797,729	390,120	57,526	6905	203,391	65,327	79,861	1,991,526
USA	Mean	16,844	28,960	88,636	26,008	9587	986	15,645	6532	5704	22,128
	Std	34,222	39,695	164,295	39,875	14,543	1471	32,860	9727	11,567	63,176

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