Sri Lanka vs United States: UN Voting Alignment
How often do Sri Lanka 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
21.7%
of 5,550 shared UN General Assembly votes since 1946
Agreement by year
Agreement by decade
| Decade | Agreement | Shared votes |
|---|---|---|
| 1950 | 46.1% | 193 |
| 1960 | 30.3% | 482 |
| 1970 | 32.3% | 897 |
| 1980 | 12.3% | 1,369 |
| 1990 | 20.1% | 775 |
| 2000 | 15.7% | 927 |
| 2010 | 23.1% | 906 |
| 2020 | 0.0% | 1 |
Agreement by topic
| Topic | Agreement | Shared votes |
|---|---|---|
| Israel–Palestine | 8.2% | 1,004 |
| Nuclear weapons | 22.0% | 842 |
| Disarmament | 25.3% | 1,066 |
| Colonialism | 10.4% | 839 |
| Human rights | 10.6% | 957 |
| Economic development | 23.4% | 701 |
Biggest splits
| Resolution | Date | Sri Lanka | United States |
|---|---|---|---|
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 |
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 | yes | no |
Frequently asked questions
How often do Sri Lanka and United States vote together at the UN?
Sri Lanka and United States voted the same way in 21.7% of 5,550 shared UN General Assembly votes since 1946.
Do Sri Lanka and United States agree on human rights votes?
On human rights resolutions, Sri Lanka and United States mostly disagree: they voted the same way in 10.6% of 957 shared human-rights votes at the UN General Assembly.
When did Sri Lanka and United States last disagree at the UN?
Among their biggest recent splits, on 2017-12-21 Sri Lanka voted "yes" and United States voted "no" on A/RES/ES-10/19 (Status of Jerusalem : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly).