Concordance
“biodiversity” in the General Debate
1,202 uses across 38 years of statements. First recorded in 1988; used most in 2023, when it appeared 126 times across 67 statements by 67 speakers.
What this counts, and what it does not. This is
the number of times the spellings
biodiversity, biological diversity
appear 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| France | 36 | 10 | 1991 | 2025 |
| Guyana | 36 | 11 | 1991 | 2025 |
| Papua New Guinea | 34 | 13 | 2004 | 2025 |
| Federated States of Micronesia | 33 | 18 | 1991 | 2023 |
| Palau | 32 | 19 | 1999 | 2025 |
| Monaco | 29 | 14 | 1998 | 2025 |
| Gabon | 26 | 15 | 1992 | 2025 |
| New Zealand | 23 | 6 | 1990 | 2023 |
| Costa Rica | 22 | 13 | 1994 | 2024 |
| Republic of the Congo | 21 | 11 | 2002 | 2024 |
| Uganda | 21 | 6 | 2019 | 2024 |
| Samoa | 21 | 9 | 1995 | 2024 |
| Kiribati | 20 | 10 | 2008 | 2024 |
| Suriname | 20 | 14 | 1995 | 2025 |
| Solomon Islands | 19 | 15 | 1992 | 2024 |
| Belize | 19 | 6 | 1991 | 2022 |
| Tonga | 19 | 11 | 2015 | 2025 |
| Madagascar | 17 | 13 | 1996 | 2025 |
| Ecuador | 17 | 13 | 1996 | 2025 |
| Finland | 16 | 10 | 1991 | 2024 |
| Panama | 16 | 10 | 1996 | 2025 |
| The Bahamas | 16 | 12 | 1991 | 2024 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 15 | 9 | 1997 | 2023 |
| Peru | 14 | 12 | 2000 | 2025 |
| Democratic Republic of the Congo | 14 | 13 | 1992 | 2025 |
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.