Canada vs Kuwait: UN Voting Alignment
How often do Canada and Kuwait 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
46.5%
of 5,106 shared UN General Assembly votes since 1946
Agreement by year
Agreement by decade
| Decade | Agreement | Shared votes |
|---|---|---|
| 1960 | 36.4% | 239 |
| 1970 | 50.2% | 938 |
| 1980 | 42.2% | 1,350 |
| 1990 | 59.9% | 759 |
| 2000 | 49.2% | 904 |
| 2010 | 37.8% | 915 |
| 2020 | 0.0% | 1 |
Agreement by topic
| Topic | Agreement | Shared votes |
|---|---|---|
| Israel–Palestine | 43.9% | 1,006 |
| Nuclear weapons | 46.7% | 803 |
| Disarmament | 49.4% | 1,007 |
| Colonialism | 43.6% | 753 |
| Human rights | 27.3% | 924 |
| Economic development | 46.3% | 659 |
Biggest splits
| Resolution | Date | Canada | Kuwait |
|---|---|---|---|
A/RES/72/84 Work of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly | 2017-12-07 | no | yes |
A/RES/72/31 Taking forward multilateral nuclear disarmament negotiations : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly | 2017-12-04 | no | yes |
A/RES/72/15 Jerusalem : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly | 2017-11-30 | no | yes |
A/RES/72/14 Peaceful settlement of the question of Palestine : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly | 2017-11-30 | no | yes |
A/RES/72/13 Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly | 2017-11-30 | no | yes |
A/RES/72/12 Special information programme on the question of Palestine of the Department of Public Information of the Secretariat : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly | 2017-11-30 | no | yes |
A/RES/72/11 Division for Palestinian Rights of the Secretariat : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly | 2017-11-30 | no | yes |
A/RES/71/95 Work of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly | 2016-12-06 | no | yes |
A/RES/71/63 Nuclear disarmament : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly | 2016-12-05 | no | yes |
A/RES/71/75 Convention on the Prohibition of the Use of Nuclear Weapons : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly | 2016-12-05 | no | yes |
Frequently asked questions
How often do Canada and Kuwait vote together at the UN?
Canada and Kuwait voted the same way in 46.5% of 5,106 shared UN General Assembly votes since 1946.
Do Canada and Kuwait agree on human rights votes?
On human rights resolutions, Canada and Kuwait mostly disagree: they voted the same way in 27.3% of 924 shared human-rights votes at the UN General Assembly.
When did Canada and Kuwait last disagree at the UN?
Among their biggest recent splits, on 2017-12-07 Canada voted "no" and Kuwait voted "yes" on A/RES/72/84 (Work of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly).