United States vs South Africa: UN Voting Alignment
How often do United States and South Africa 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
37.2%
of 3,533 shared UN General Assembly votes since 1946
Agreement by year
Agreement by decade
| Decade | Agreement | Shared votes |
|---|---|---|
| 1940 | 72.6% | 226 |
| 1950 | 62.3% | 300 |
| 1960 | 65.9% | 428 |
| 1970 | 69.9% | 279 |
| 1990 | 30.5% | 475 |
| 2000 | 15.1% | 922 |
| 2010 | 22.4% | 902 |
| 2020 | 0.0% | 1 |
Agreement by topic
| Topic | Agreement | Shared votes |
|---|---|---|
| Israel–Palestine | 9.0% | 532 |
| Nuclear weapons | 32.9% | 495 |
| Disarmament | 37.6% | 635 |
| Colonialism | 31.8% | 556 |
| Human rights | 17.0% | 623 |
| Economic development | 34.8% | 374 |
Biggest splits
| Resolution | Date | United States | South Africa |
|---|---|---|---|
A/RES/ES-10/19 Status of Jerusalem : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly | 2017-12-21 | no | yes |
A/RES/72/189 Situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly | 2017-12-19 | 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 | 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/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 | no | yes |
Frequently asked questions
How often do United States and South Africa vote together at the UN?
United States and South Africa voted the same way in 37.2% of 3,533 shared UN General Assembly votes since 1946.
Do United States and South Africa agree on human rights votes?
On human rights resolutions, United States and South Africa mostly disagree: they voted the same way in 17.0% of 623 shared human-rights votes at the UN General Assembly.
When did United States and South Africa last disagree at the UN?
Among their biggest recent splits, on 2017-12-21 United States voted "no" and South Africa voted "yes" on A/RES/ES-10/19 (Status of Jerusalem : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly).