Somalia vs United States: UN Voting Alignment
How often do Somalia 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
20.0%
of 3,795 shared UN General Assembly votes since 1946
Agreement by year
Agreement by decade
| Decade | Agreement | Shared votes |
|---|---|---|
| 1960 | 28.3% | 453 |
| 1970 | 32.5% | 847 |
| 1980 | 14.7% | 1,329 |
| 1990 | 10.5% | 143 |
| 2000 | 8.1% | 493 |
| 2010 | 19.7% | 529 |
| 2020 | 0.0% | 1 |
Agreement by topic
| Topic | Agreement | Shared votes |
|---|---|---|
| Israel–Palestine | 9.2% | 683 |
| Nuclear weapons | 19.5% | 524 |
| Disarmament | 23.5% | 656 |
| Colonialism | 7.7% | 562 |
| Human rights | 11.7% | 695 |
| Economic development | 24.6% | 544 |
Biggest splits
| Resolution | Date | Somalia | United States |
|---|---|---|---|
A/RES/ES-10/19 Status of Jerusalem : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly | 2017-12-21 | 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 |
R/70/185 | 2015-12-22 | yes | no |
R/70/12 | 2015-11-24 | yes | no |
Frequently asked questions
How often do Somalia and United States vote together at the UN?
Somalia and United States voted the same way in 20.0% of 3,795 shared UN General Assembly votes since 1946.
Do Somalia and United States agree on human rights votes?
On human rights resolutions, Somalia and United States mostly disagree: they voted the same way in 11.7% of 695 shared human-rights votes at the UN General Assembly.
When did Somalia and United States last disagree at the UN?
Among their biggest recent splits, on 2017-12-21 Somalia voted "yes" and United States voted "no" on A/RES/ES-10/19 (Status of Jerusalem : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly).