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Ghana vs South Sudan: UN Voting Alignment

How often do Ghana and South Sudan 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

65.5%

of 322 shared UN General Assembly votes since 1946

Agreement by year

0%25%50%75%100%20112024
Ghana–South Sudan UN General Assembly voting agreement, 20112024. Latest: 1% agreement in 2024.

Agreement by decade

GhanaSouth Sudan UN voting agreement by decade
DecadeAgreementShared votes
201065.5%322

Agreement by topic

GhanaSouth Sudan UN voting agreement by topic
TopicAgreementShared votes
Israel–Palestine34.5%55
Nuclear weapons72.2%54
Disarmament65.7%67
Colonialism70.3%37
Human rights69.7%89
Economic development83.7%49

Biggest splits

Biggest UN voting splits between Ghana and South Sudan
ResolutionDateGhanaSouth Sudan

A/RES/71/248

International, Impartial and Independent Mechanism to Assist in the Investigation and Prosecution of Persons Responsible for the Most Serious Crimes under International Law Committed in the Syrian Arab Republic since March 2011 : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly

2016-12-21yesno

A/RES/71/130

The Situation in the Syrian Arab Republic : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly

2016-12-09yesno

R/73/123

Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly

2018-12-07yesno

R/71/307

nan

2017-06-30yesno

R/71/167

nan

2016-12-19noyes

R/71/177

nan

2016-12-19noyes

A/RES/71/94

Palestine refugees' properties and their revenues : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly

2016-12-06yesno

R/67/201

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

2012-12-21yesno

Frequently asked questions

How often do Ghana and South Sudan vote together at the UN?

Ghana and South Sudan voted the same way in 65.5% of 322 shared UN General Assembly votes since 1946.

Do Ghana and South Sudan agree on human rights votes?

On human rights resolutions, Ghana and South Sudan largely agree: they voted the same way in 69.7% of 89 shared human-rights votes at the UN General Assembly.

When did Ghana and South Sudan last disagree at the UN?

Among their biggest recent splits, on 2018-12-07 Ghana voted "yes" and South Sudan voted "no" on R/73/123 (Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly).

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