United Nations General Debate Corpus

Welcome to our archive of UN General Debate speeches from every member state since 1946 until today. Browse over 75 years of talks in one place for the first time.

Here, you can access and search the full official transcripts delivered by heads of state and world leaders on the floor of the United Nations General Assembly. Follow global issues and points of conflict across this unique record of our shared postwar history.

Search speeches by country, topic, word, or year, and compare priorities across recent and past eras. Discover major themes and flashpoints in world affairs from iconic leaders of the past and rising voices of today. We also provide tools to visualise words and subjects across time and region. See top topics that mattered most to the global community each decade. Or which causes united or divided member states and when.

Our goal is to open up an underutilised repository of knowledge on global thinking to researchers, journalists, diplomats, students, governments, and any global citizen. Understand how world leaders addressed collective challenges such as nuclear threats, decolonisation, poverty, climate change, and human rights across the eras.

We hope you find our complete transcripts of all General Debate speeches from 1946 to today a valuable window into the state of the post-World War II world. Now you have the possibility to explore not just what matters today, but what mattered before and to whom.

For any queries about this site, please email: caig@contacts.bham.ac.uk