United States vs Zambia: UN Voting Alignment
How often do United States and Zambia 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
20.4%
of 5,037 shared UN General Assembly votes since 1946
Agreement by year
Agreement by decade
| Decade | Agreement | Shared votes |
|---|---|---|
| 1960 | 21.2% | 217 |
| 1970 | 31.4% | 952 |
| 1980 | 12.6% | 1,375 |
| 1990 | 23.8% | 707 |
| 2000 | 15.0% | 918 |
| 2010 | 23.6% | 867 |
| 2020 | 0.0% | 1 |
Agreement by topic
| Topic | Agreement | Shared votes |
|---|---|---|
| Israel–Palestine | 8.5% | 962 |
| Nuclear weapons | 19.1% | 789 |
| Disarmament | 24.4% | 1,018 |
| Colonialism | 6.7% | 746 |
| Human rights | 11.7% | 927 |
| Economic development | 21.4% | 672 |
Biggest splits
| Resolution | Date | United States | Zambia |
|---|---|---|---|
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 |
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 | no | yes |
A/RES/71/63 Nuclear disarmament : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly | 2016-12-05 | no | yes |
Frequently asked questions
How often do United States and Zambia vote together at the UN?
United States and Zambia voted the same way in 20.4% of 5,037 shared UN General Assembly votes since 1946.
Do United States and Zambia agree on human rights votes?
On human rights resolutions, United States and Zambia mostly disagree: they voted the same way in 11.7% of 927 shared human-rights votes at the UN General Assembly.
When did United States and Zambia last disagree at the UN?
Among their biggest recent splits, on 2017-12-07 United States voted "no" and Zambia voted "yes" on 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).