Concordance
“apartheid” in the General Debate
7,306 uses across 70 years of statements. First recorded in 1952; used most in 1986, when it appeared 461 times across 124 statements by 124 speakers.
What this counts, and what it does not. This is
the number of times the string apartheid appears in the
text of General Debate statements, matched on word boundaries and ignoring
case. It is a fact about a word. It is not a measure of how much any
state cared about the subject, what position it took, or whether it meant it
— and nothing on this page should be read that way.
The final year of this series is machine-transcribed from the official simultaneous interpretation rather than taken from a UN transcript, so it counts what a transcriber heard. See session 80.
Used most by
| Speaker | Uses | Statements | First | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tanzania | 222 | 30 | 1963 | 2011 |
| Nigeria | 175 | 33 | 1963 | 2012 |
| Zambia | 174 | 27 | 1965 | 2001 |
| Mozambique | 144 | 23 | 1975 | 2011 |
| Kenya | 136 | 29 | 1964 | 1994 |
| Lesotho | 129 | 23 | 1967 | 2013 |
| Ghana | 128 | 35 | 1960 | 2025 |
| Liberia | 118 | 36 | 1959 | 2002 |
| Uganda | 115 | 28 | 1963 | 2012 |
| Botswana | 115 | 24 | 1967 | 2011 |
| Somalia | 107 | 29 | 1961 | 1990 |
| Sierra Leone | 99 | 30 | 1962 | 1994 |
| Mali | 98 | 32 | 1960 | 1994 |
| Ethiopia | 96 | 28 | 1964 | 2002 |
| Malaysia | 92 | 40 | 1958 | 2024 |
| Burkina Faso | 88 | 29 | 1962 | 1998 |
| Togo | 87 | 29 | 1962 | 1994 |
| Kingdom of Denmark | 84 | 28 | 1961 | 2022 |
| Guinea | 82 | 33 | 1959 | 2018 |
| Burundi | 81 | 27 | 1964 | 1994 |
| Cuba | 80 | 30 | 1959 | 2024 |
| South Africa | 78 | 24 | 1960 | 2024 |
| Zimbabwe | 78 | 15 | 1980 | 2001 |
| Sudan | 77 | 31 | 1959 | 1994 |
| Republic of the Congo | 77 | 31 | 1961 | 1994 |
A state that speaks every year has more chances to use a word than one admitted in 2011, and a state whose statements are longer has more again. These are counts, not rates.