Concordance

“détente” in the General Debate

3,937 uses across 53 years of statements. First recorded in 1953; used most in 1973, when it appeared 476 times across 91 statements by 91 speakers.

Uses per year, 1953–2023. The tallest bar is 1973. Counted by worldbody.org over the UN General Debate Corpus; the chart is our own measurement.

What this counts, and what it does not. This is the number of times the spellings detente, détente 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.

Used most by

Speaker	Uses	Statements	First	Last
Czechoslovakia	152	17	1953	1991
Russia	145	19	1968	2022
Poland	139	24	1960	1989
Hungary	106	17	1963	1988
Bulgaria	106	19	1963	1989
Belarus	104	14	1971	1995
Germany	103	18	1973	2023
German Democratic Republic	98	16	1973	1989
Ukraine	86	16	1953	2002
Romania	83	21	1963	1995
Turkey	76	17	1964	1985
Mongolia	76	16	1963	1989
France	71	15	1955	1987
Austria	71	18	1965	1987
Italy	66	19	1960	1991
Tunisia	60	16	1960	2002
Yugoslavia	60	22	1953	1990
Rwanda	54	18	1963	1990
Belgium	53	17	1963	1990
Kingdom of the Netherlands	47	13	1967	1987
Algeria	47	17	1964	2000
Spain	46	15	1968	1991
Malaysia	46	11	1968	1989
Sweden	44	16	1966	1985
Kingdom of Denmark	42	14	1962	1986

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.

“détente” in the General Debate

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