Norway
A combined view of Norway's UN General Assembly speeches, treaty commitments, and voting record.
The narrative paragraphs below are AI-generated syntheses of the data shown — the tables and figures themselves come directly from the underlying records, not from the AI.
Compare with another country →Speech history
Norway's General Assembly rhetoric has remained remarkably consistent in its strong commitment to multilateralism and UN institutional reform across 19 years, with multilateralism scores hovering in the 82–92 range. The country has maintained a measured, policy-focused tone throughout, with concreteness and self-accountability scores highest in recent years (2017–2023), reflecting increasingly specific financial and diplomatic pledges on peace, climate, and development. While emotional intensity has remained modest overall (38–68), there is a slight uptick in moral urgency in 2024–2025, particularly around defense of international law and condemnation of ongoing wars, even as concrete self-commitments have declined in 2025.
| Session | Multilateralism | Emotional intensity | Concreteness | Self-accountability |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | Very High | Medium | High | High |
| 2008 | Very High | High | High | High |
| 2009 | Very High | High | High | High |
| 2010 | Very High | Low | High | High |
| 2011 | Very High | Medium | High | Medium |
| 2013 | Very High | Medium | High | Medium |
| 2014 | High | High | High | Medium |
| 2016 | Very High | Medium | High | High |
| 2017 | Very High | Low | High | High |
| 2018 | Very High | Medium | High | High |
| 2019 | Very High | Medium | Very High | Very High |
| 2020 | Very High | Medium | High | High |
| 2021 | Very High | Medium | High | High |
| 2022 | Very High | Medium | High | High |
| 2023 | Very High | Medium | High | High |
| 2024 | Very High | High | Medium | Medium |
| 2025 | Very High | High | High | Medium |
Treaty status
Full treaty record →Norway has ratified 23 of 24 tracked treaties, demonstrating near-comprehensive engagement with international law across arms control, environment, human rights, international justice, and trade governance. The single exception is the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, on which Norway has taken no action—a notable gap given its consistent ratification of other major disarmament instruments including the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty and the Convention on Anti-Personnel Mines. Environmental treaties constitute the largest block of commitments, reflecting Norway's sustained priority on climate and conservation.
Arms control & security
- Arms Trade TreatyRatified
- Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban TreatyRatified
- Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their DestructionRatified
- Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear WeaponsNo action
Environment & climate
- Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their DisposalRatified
- Convention on Biological DiversityRatified
- Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone LayerRatified
- Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate ChangeRatified
- Minamata Convention on MercuryRatified
- Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone LayerRatified
- Paris AgreementRatified
- Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International TradeRatified
- Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic PollutantsRatified
- United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in AfricaRatified
- United Nations Framework Convention on Climate ChangeRatified
Human rights
- Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or PunishmentRatified
- Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against WomenRatified
- Convention on the Rights of Persons with DisabilitiesRatified
- Convention on the Rights of the ChildRatified
- International Covenant on Civil and Political RightsRatified
International justice
- Rome Statute of the International Criminal CourtRatified
Trade & governance
- United Nations Convention against CorruptionRatified
- United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized CrimeRatified
- United Nations Convention on the Law of the SeaRatified
Voting record
Full voting record →Norway votes affirmatively on the vast majority of General Assembly resolutions (3,575 yes votes out of 5,694 total), with a conservative abstention rate of 24.7 percent. Its rare dissents from consensus have historically centered on Palestinian questions and Israeli security issues in the 1979–1981 period, when Norway voted against resolutions that achieved 92–97 percent support; a single notable outlier in 2014 on UN development activities suggests occasional independent judgment on operational matters.
Notable dissents from consensus
Question of Palestine : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
1981-12-10 · voted N · 97% voted yes
Israeli nuclear armament : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
1980-12-12 · voted N · 94% voted yes
Operational activities for development of the United Nations system : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
2014-12-19 · voted N · 94% voted yes
Question of Palestine : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
1980-07-30 · voted N · 94% voted yes
Question of Palestine : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
1979-12-12 · voted N · 92% voted yes
Human development
Full HDI record →Human Development Index: 0.970 (Very High), ranked #2 globally in 2023.
Combines life expectancy, education, and income into one comparable score, 0 to 1. Source: UNDP Human Development Report 2025 — deterministic figures, not AI-generated.
1990–2023