Laos vs United States: UN Voting Alignment
How often do Laos and United States 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
19.8%
of 5,072 shared UN General Assembly votes since 1946
Agreement by year
Agreement by decade
| Decade | Agreement | Shared votes |
|---|---|---|
| 1950 | 69.9% | 173 |
| 1960 | 43.2% | 428 |
| 1970 | 34.1% | 836 |
| 1980 | 6.9% | 1,289 |
| 1990 | 12.5% | 687 |
| 2000 | 10.0% | 790 |
| 2010 | 18.5% | 868 |
| 2020 | 0.0% | 1 |
Agreement by topic
| Topic | Agreement | Shared votes |
|---|---|---|
| Israel–Palestine | 7.6% | 989 |
| Nuclear weapons | 18.9% | 792 |
| Disarmament | 20.5% | 965 |
| Colonialism | 9.3% | 799 |
| Human rights | 8.0% | 909 |
| Economic development | 19.3% | 626 |
Biggest splits
| Resolution | Date | Laos | United States |
|---|---|---|---|
A/RES/72/248 Situation of human rights in Myanmar : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly | 2017-12-24 | no | yes |
A/RES/ES-10/19 Status of Jerusalem : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly | 2017-12-21 | yes | no |
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 | yes | no |
A/RES/72/31 Taking forward multilateral nuclear disarmament negotiations : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly | 2017-12-04 | yes | no |
A/RES/72/15 Jerusalem : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly | 2017-11-30 | yes | no |
A/RES/72/14 Peaceful settlement of the question of Palestine : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly | 2017-11-30 | yes | no |
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 | yes | no |
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 | yes | no |
A/RES/72/11 Division for Palestinian Rights of the Secretariat : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly | 2017-11-30 | yes | no |
A/RES/72/4 Necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the United States of America against Cuba : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly | 2017-11-01 | yes | no |
Frequently asked questions
How often do Laos and United States vote together at the UN?
Laos and United States voted the same way in 19.8% of 5,072 shared UN General Assembly votes since 1946.
Do Laos and United States agree on human rights votes?
On human rights resolutions, Laos and United States mostly disagree: they voted the same way in 8.0% of 909 shared human-rights votes at the UN General Assembly.
When did Laos and United States last disagree at the UN?
Among their biggest recent splits, on 2017-12-24 Laos voted "no" and United States voted "yes" on A/RES/72/248 (Situation of human rights in Myanmar : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly).