United Nations General Debate Corpus 1946-2025

Every year since 1946, the General Debate has taken place at the beginning of the UN General Assembly session. Representatives from all UN member states deliver an address, discussing the issues they consider most important in global politics, revealing their governments’ positions, and seeking to persuade other states of their perspectives. The annual UN General Debate statements provide invaluable information for scholars of international relations – comparable globally and over time. However, these texts are stored as poor quality images without relevant metadata, preventing researchers from applying data science methods. This paper introduces the complete UN General Debate Corpus (UNGDC). Building on a previous incomplete release of UNGDC, we have extended the corpus to cover the entire 1946-present period, included additional data on all speakers, and provided advanced search and data visualisation tools on a new website. The complete corpus contains 11,141 speeches from 202 countries, including historical countries – making it the most comprehensive, unique, and accessible collection of global political speeches.

自1946年起，联合国大会一般性辩论（General Debate）每年均于联合国大会（UN General Assembly）会期之初举办。联合国全体成员国代表均会发表演讲，围绕其认定的全球政治领域核心议题展开讨论，阐明本国政府的官方立场，并试图说服其他国家认同己方观点。年度联合国大会一般性辩论发言材料为国际关系学者提供了极具价值的研究资源，其数据可在全球范围与时间跨度上实现横向与纵向比较。然而，此前这些文本仅以低质量图像形式存储，且未附带相关元数据（metadata），致使研究人员无法运用数据科学方法开展相关研究。本研究介绍了完整的联合国大会一般性辩论语料库（UN General Debate Corpus，UNGDC）。基于此前发布的不完整版UNGDC，本次研究将语料库覆盖范围拓展至1946年至今的全部时段，补充了所有发言者的附加数据，并在全新搭建的网站上提供了高级检索与数据可视化工具。完整语料库共收录来自202个国家（含历史国家）的11141篇演讲，是目前全球范围内最为全面、独特且易于获取的全球政治演讲合集。