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Canada vs China: UN Voting Alignment

How often do Canada and China vote the same way at the UN General Assembly? Agreement over every shared roll-call vote since 1946, by year, decade, and topic — plus the resolutions where they split.

Overall agreement

43.9%

of 4,515 shared UN General Assembly votes since 1946

Agreement by year

0%25%50%75%100%1971198020002024
Canada–China UN General Assembly voting agreement, 19712024. Latest: 0% agreement in 2024.

Agreement by topic

CanadaChina UN voting agreement by topic
TopicAgreementShared votes
Israel–Palestine44.1%966
Nuclear weapons42.1%710
Disarmament46.7%896
Colonialism43.6%658
Human rights17.6%879
Economic development43.6%573

Frequently asked questions

How often do Canada and China vote together at the UN?

Canada and China voted the same way in 43.9% of 4,515 shared UN General Assembly votes since 1946.

Do Canada and China agree on human rights votes?

On human rights resolutions, Canada and China mostly disagree: they voted the same way in 17.6% of 879 shared human-rights votes at the UN General Assembly.

Data source: Erik Voeten et al., 'United Nations General Assembly Voting Data', Harvard Dataverse.