Concordance
“sea level rise” in the General Debate
435 uses across 37 years of statements. First recorded in 1988; used most in 2024, when it appeared 74 times across 26 statements by 26 speakers.
What this counts, and what it does not. This is
the number of times the spellings
sea level rise, sea-level rise, rising sea level
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tuvalu | 72 | 19 | 2001 | 2025 |
| Federated States of Micronesia | 51 | 21 | 1991 | 2024 |
| Kiribati | 32 | 13 | 2003 | 2024 |
| Tonga | 27 | 10 | 2001 | 2024 |
| Solomon Islands | 25 | 16 | 1991 | 2022 |
| Papua New Guinea | 25 | 12 | 1998 | 2024 |
| Maldives | 20 | 14 | 1988 | 2023 |
| Marshall Islands | 14 | 11 | 1995 | 2024 |
| Palau | 11 | 9 | 1999 | 2024 |
| Samoa | 10 | 8 | 1995 | 2025 |
| Nauru | 8 | 6 | 2001 | 2021 |
| Vanuatu | 8 | 7 | 1991 | 2019 |
| Antigua and Barbuda | 8 | 7 | 1990 | 2023 |
| Seychelles | 7 | 6 | 1989 | 2024 |
| Fiji | 7 | 5 | 1997 | 2024 |
| Saint Lucia | 6 | 6 | 2006 | 2014 |
| Suriname | 6 | 6 | 2007 | 2023 |
| Grenada | 5 | 5 | 2003 | 2022 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 5 | 5 | 1991 | 2017 |
| New Zealand | 5 | 4 | 1990 | 2023 |
| Bangladesh | 5 | 5 | 1989 | 2024 |
| The Bahamas | 5 | 5 | 1998 | 2010 |
| Barbados | 4 | 4 | 2011 | 2018 |
| Iceland | 4 | 3 | 2017 | 2025 |
| Mauritius | 4 | 4 | 2007 | 2024 |
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.