Member state

Bahrain at the United Nations

Flag of Bahrain
Flag of Bahrain.svg by Source: Drawn by SKopp, rewritten by Zscout370 (Public domain) — Wikimedia Commons
Admitted
1971-09-21
ISO 3166-1
BH / BHR
Admitted by
A/RES/2752 (XXVI)

International organisations

Every organisation this state belongs to that is compiled here, with the date it joined. Membership is resolved against this site’s own list of member states rather than taken from a query.

OrganisationJoined
United Nations 1971-09-21

Service on principal organs

Elected terms as recorded by the Dag Hammarskjöld Library. A year marked pending is one the Library publishes as a partial list because its elections have not yet been held.

Economic and Social Council

2002 2001 2000 1992 1991 1990

Human Rights Council

2021 2020 2019 2010 2009 2008 2006

Security Council

2027 pending 2026 1999 1998

Permanent mission

Mission
Permanent Mission of Bahrain to the United Nations
Address
Permanent Mission of the Kingdom of Bahrain to the United Nations, 866 Second Avenue, 14th and 15th Floors, New York, NY 10017
National holiday
16 December
Accredited diplomats
6

Accredited diplomats

The numbers

IndicatorLatestYearSince 1981
Adult literacy rate 97.82 2024
CO2 emissions per capita 23.9 2024
GDP 4.89657e+10 2025
GNI per capita 28,790 2025
Life expectancy at birth 81.423 2024
Military expenditure (% of GDP) 2.89467 2024
Net official development assistance received 5.822e+07 2004
Population 1.60037e+06 2025
Refugees hosted (UNHCR mandate) 240 2025
Refugees originating (UNHCR mandate) 267 2025

World Bank, World Development Indicators, CC BY 4.0. The sparkline shows the shape of each run from its first reported year; the number beside it carries the magnitude, and there is deliberately no axis on it.

General Debate statements

54 statements to the General Debate since 1972, 160,119 words in all. The longest was 1976, at 5,027 words, delivered by Mr. Al-Khalifa.

Of the 32 statements since 1994 whose speaker’s post the record gives: Minister for Foreign Affairs ×23, Minister of Foreign Affairs ×3, Deputy Prime Minister ×2, Crown Prince ×1. Earlier years are excluded because UN records do not consistently identify a speaker’s post before 1994, and counting those years as though they did would make any state look as though it sent nobody senior.

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Emblems and location

Coat of arms of Bahrain
Coat of arms. Coat of Arms of The Kingdom of Bahrain.svg by Government of Bahrain (CC0 1.0) — Wikimedia Commons
Location of Bahrain
Location. Map of Bahrain.svg by Connormah (Public domain) — Wikimedia Commons

Treaties joined

45 actions recorded by the Secretary-General as depositary. Only treaties whose participant counts match the depositary’s own stated totals contribute rows.

TreatySignedRatified or acceded
Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations - 17 Sep 1992 a
Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the Specialized Agencies - 17 Sep 1992 a
Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations - 2 Nov 1971 a
Vienna Convention on Consular Relations - 17 Sep 1992 a
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide - 27 Mar 1990 a
Convention on the Rights of the Child - 13 Feb 1992 a
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 25 Jun 2007 22 Sep 2011
International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination - 27 Mar 1990 a
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights - 27 Sep 2007 a
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights - 20 Sep 2006 a
International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid - 27 Mar 1990 a
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women - 18 Jun 2002 a
Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment - 6 Mar 1998 a
Constitution of the World Health Organization - 2 Nov 1971 A
WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control - 20 Mar 2007 a
Convention on psychotropic substances - 7 Feb 1990 a
United Nations Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances 28 Sep 1989 7 Feb 1990
United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods - 25 Sep 2013 a
United Nations Convention on the Use of Electronic Communications in International Contracts - 4 Jun 2020 a
Constitution of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization - 4 Apr 1986 a
Agreement on International Roads between Arab Countries 8 Mar 2002 13 Dec 2006
Agreement on International Railways between Arab Countries 17 Apr 2003 18 May 2007
Convention on the International Maritime Organization - 22 Sep 1976 A
International Convention for the Protection of Performers, Producers of Phonograms and Broadcasting Organisations - 18 Oct 2005 a
Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court 11 Dec 2000 -
International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism 14 Nov 2001 21 Sep 2004
United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime - 7 Jun 2004 a
United Nations Convention against Corruption 8 Feb 2005 5 Oct 2010
International Convention Against the Taking of Hostages - 16 Sep 2005 a
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes against Internationally Protected Persons, including Diplomatic Agents - 16 Sep 2005 a
International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings - 21 Sep 2004 a
Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards - 6 Apr 1988 a
United Nations Convention on International Settlement Agreements Resulting from Mediation - 17 Feb 2025 a
Convention relating to the distribution of programme-carrying signals transmitted by satellite - 1 Feb 2007 a
Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons which may be deemed to be Excessively Injurious or to have Indiscriminate Effects (with Protocols I, II and III) - 11 Mar 2016 a
Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction 24 Feb 1993 28 Apr 1997
Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty 24 Sep 1996 12 Apr 2004
Arms Trade Treaty 21 Nov 2013 -
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa - 14 Jul 1997 a
Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade - 16 Apr 2012 a
Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants 22 May 2002 31 Jan 2006
Minamata Convention on Mercury - 6 Jul 2021 a
Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer - 27 Apr 1990 a
Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal 22 Mar 1989 15 Oct 1992
Convention on Biological Diversity 9 Jun 1992 30 Aug 1996

Recorded votes

ResolutionDateVote
S/RES/2824(2026) - yes
A/RES/80/282 - yes
A/RES/80/286 - yes
S/RES/2825(2026) - yes
A/RES/80/296 - yes
A/RES/80/293 B - yes
A/RES/80/294 - yes
A/RES/80/293 A - yes
A/RES/80/297 - yes
A/RES/80/299 - yes

Provenance

Every fact on this page, with where it came from and how sure we are.

AttributeValueSourceConfidenceFetched
iso2BH wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.905548+00:00
iso3BHR wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.905557+00:00
m4948 un_sdg 1.02026-08-26T06:55:41.141439+00:00
nameBahrain wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.905523+00:00
un_admission_date1971-09-21 wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.905534+00:00
unsd_nameBahrain un_sdg 1.02026-08-26T06:55:41.141447+00:00

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