Voting Comparison

Compare how two countries, blocs, or a country and a bloc voted on UN resolutions.

vs
3628 shared votes
36%
agreement
1319 agreed · 2309 diverged

Agreement Trend over Time

Agreement rate per year (years with ≥2 shared votes). Click a point or year label to filter the vote list below.

Position Matrix

How often each combination of positions occurred across all shared votes.

Micronesia (Federated States of)
Chile Yes No Abstain
Yes 1265 999 637
No 23 4
Abstain 39 90 19

green = same position   amber = different position

Breakdown by Voeten Topic

Agreement rate per issue area (Voeten dataset, GA resolutions only). Dashed line shows overall agreement rate.

Middle East
9% 49/530
Nuclear/Arms
29% 90/312
Colonialism
22% 74/334
Human Rights
29% 155/537
Economic Dev.
50% 112/223
Disarmament
45% 202/445
Overall
36% 1319/3628

Most Divergent Votes

Resolutions where the two sides diverged most, sorted by how contested the overall vote was.

Resolution Chile Micronesia (Federated States of) Y / N / A
31/37
United Nations Conference on Desertlflcatlon
1976
abstain no 96 / 58 / 12
A/RES/52/119
Respect for the principles of national sovereignty and non-interference in the …
1997
abstain no 96 / 58 / 12
32/132
Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
1977
abstain no 97 / 57 / 14
A/RES/49/180
Respect for the principles of national sovereignty and non-interference in the …
1994
abstain no 97 / 57 / 14
A/RES/50/172
Respect for the principles of national sovereignty and non-interference in the …
1995
abstain no 91 / 57 / 21
A/RES/75/181
Human rights and unilateral coercive measures : resolution / adopted by the Gen…
2020
yes no 131 / 56 / 0
A/RES/80/209
Human rights and unilateral coercive measures : resolution / adopted by the Gen…
2025
yes no 122 / 56 / 0
A/RES/60/72
Follow-up to nuclear disarmament obligations agreed to at the 1995 and 2000 Rev…
2005
abstain no 87 / 56 / 26
A/RES/64/31
Follow-up to nuclear disarmament obligations agreed to at the 1995 and 2000 Rev…
2009
yes no 109 / 56 / 10
32/98
Assistance to Botswana
1977
yes no 131 / 56 / 0
A/RES/58/188
Respect for the purposes and principles contained in the Charter of the UN to …
2003
abstain no 106 / 55 / 19
A/RES/74/154
Human rights and unilateral coercive measures : resolution / adopted by the Gen…
2019
yes no 135 / 55 / 0

Agreements on Contested Votes

Resolutions where both sides voted the same way despite significant opposition from others.

Resolution Both voted Y / N / A
A/RES/68/144
Report of the Human Rights Council : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
2013
no 94 / 71 / 23
40/233
Situation of human rights and fundamental freedoms in El Salvador
1985
no 79 / 67 / 40
A/RES/65/224
Combating defamation of religions : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
2010
no 79 / 67 / 40
A/RES/61/166
Promotion of equitable and mutually respectful dialogue on human rights : resolution / ad…
2006
no 86 / 64 / 26
39/192
Question of the United States Virgin Islands
1984
no 86 / 64 / 26
A/RES/57/230
Situation of human rights in the Sudan : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
2002
yes 80 / 62 / 33
A/RES/64/156
Combating defamation of religions : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
2010
no 80 / 61 / 42
A/RES/74/247
Countering the use of information and communications technologies for criminal purposes :…
2019
no 79 / 60 / 33