Concordance
“smallpox” in the General Debate
31 uses across 23 years of statements. First recorded in 1952; used most in 2015, when it appeared 3 times across 3 statements by 3 speakers.
What this counts, and what it does not. This is
the number of times the string smallpox 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brunei | 3 | 3 | 1985 | 2025 |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 2 | 1977 | 2019 |
| Cameroon | 2 | 2 | 1961 | 1967 |
| Japan | 2 | 2 | 1989 | 1990 |
| Ukraine | 1 | 1 | 1958 | 1958 |
| Sri Lanka | 1 | 1 | 2005 | 2005 |
| Latvia | 1 | 1 | 2005 | 2005 |
| Tunisia | 1 | 1 | 2012 | 2012 |
| Samoa | 1 | 1 | 1985 | 1985 |
| France | 1 | 1 | 1952 | 1952 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1 | 2025 | 2025 |
| Ireland | 1 | 1 | 2017 | 2017 |
| São Tomé and Príncipe | 1 | 1 | 2006 | 2006 |
| Mali | 1 | 1 | 1977 | 1977 |
| Saint Kitts and Nevis | 1 | 1 | 1987 | 1987 |
| Fiji | 1 | 1 | 2020 | 2020 |
| Norway | 1 | 1 | 2007 | 2007 |
| Barbados | 1 | 1 | 2007 | 2007 |
| Gabon | 1 | 1 | 1968 | 1968 |
| Sierra Leone | 1 | 1 | 1980 | 1980 |
| Peru | 1 | 1 | 1980 | 1980 |
| Chile | 1 | 1 | 1979 | 1979 |
| Bhutan | 1 | 1 | 2015 | 2015 |
| India | 1 | 1 | 2015 | 2015 |
| Botswana | 1 | 1 | 1995 | 1995 |
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.