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United Nations General Debate Corpus, 1946-2025

Source: R/data.R
corpus_ungd.Rd

A dataset containing speeches from the United Nations General Debate, covering sessions 1 through 80 (1946-2025). The corpus includes 7,075 speeches from 200 countries and other entities. This is the UNGDC v14 release (March 2026).

Format

A data frame with 7075 rows and 9 variables.

Source

https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/0TJX8Y

Variables

  • doc_id. Unique identifier derived from filename (e.g., "USA_75_2020")

  • year. Year of the speech

  • session. UN General Assembly session number

  • iso3c. ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code

  • country. Country name (mapped from iso3c)

  • speaker. Speaker name (may be NA for older sessions)

  • speaker_type. Speaker role/type (may be NA)

  • language. Original language of the speech (may be NA)

  • text. Full text of the speech

References

Jankin, Baturo, and Dasandi. (2025). "Words to unite nations: A new dataset of the UN General Debate speeches, 1946-2025." Journal of Peace Research 62(4):1339-1351. doi:10.1177/00223433241306640