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Barbados at the United Nations

Flag of Barbados
Flag of Barbados.svg by User:Denelson83 (Public domain) — Wikimedia Commons
Admitted
1966-12-09
ISO 3166-1
BB / BRB
Admitted by
A/RES/2175 (XXI)

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 1966-12-09

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

2009 2008 2007 1981 1980 1979

Permanent mission

Mission
Permanent Mission of Barbados to the United Nations
Address
Permanent Mission of Barbados to the United Nations, 820 Second Avenue, 9th Floor, New York, NY 10017
National holiday
30 November
Accredited diplomats
4

Accredited diplomats

The numbers

IndicatorLatestYearSince 1970
CO2 emissions per capita 2.52348 2024
GDP 8.01655e+09 2025
GNI per capita 27,080 2025
Life expectancy at birth 76.332 2024
Net official development assistance received 1.558e+07 2010
Population 282,623 2025
Refugees hosted (UNHCR mandate) 5 2025
Refugees originating (UNHCR mandate) 577 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

56 statements to the General Debate since 1967, 157,854 words in all. The longest was 1980, at 4,565 words, delivered by Forde.

Of the 32 statements since 1994 whose speaker’s post the record gives: Minister for Foreign Affairs ×9, Deputy Prime Minister ×8, Prime Minister ×7, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade ×3. 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 Barbados
Coat of arms. Coat of arms of Barbados (2).svg by Neville C. Connell, director of the Barbados Museum (CC BY-SA) — Wikimedia Commons
Location of Barbados
Location. BRB orthographic.svg by Addicted04 (CC BY-SA) — Wikimedia Commons

Treaties joined

64 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 - 10 Jan 1972 d
Vienna Convention on the Representation of States in their Relations with International Organizations of a Universal Character 29 Mar 1976 26 Nov 1979
Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the Specialized Agencies - 19 Nov 1971 a
Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations - 6 May 1968 d
Vienna Convention on Consular Relations - 11 May 1992 a
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide - 14 Jan 1980 a
International Convention against Apartheid in Sports 16 May 1986 2 Oct 1986
Convention on the Rights of the Child 19 Apr 1990 9 Oct 1990
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 19 Jul 2007 27 Feb 2013
International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination - 8 Nov 1972 a
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights - 5 Jan 1973 a
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights - 5 Jan 1973 a
Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights - 5 Jan 1973 a
International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid - 7 Feb 1979 a
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women 24 Jul 1980 16 Oct 1980
Constitution of the World Health Organization - 25 Apr 1967 A
WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control 28 Jun 2004 3 Nov 2005
Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961 - 21 Jun 1976 d
Convention on psychotropic substances - 28 Jan 1975 a
Protocol amending the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961 - 21 Jun 1976 a
United Nations Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances - 15 Oct 1992 a
Agreement to establish the South Centre - 20 Jul 2004 a
United Nations Convention on the International Effects of Judicial Sales of Ships 8 May 2025 8 May 2025
Agreement establishing the Caribbean Development Bank 18 Oct 1969 16 Jan 1970
Agreement establishing the International Fund for Agricultural Development - 13 Dec 1978 a
Constitution of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization 30 May 1980 30 May 1980
Convention concerning Customs Facilities for Touring - 5 Mar 1971 d
Additional Protocol to the Convention concerning Customs Facilities for Touring, relating to the Importation of Tourist Publicity Documents and Material - 5 Mar 1971 d
Customs Convention on the Temporary Importation of Private Road Vehicles - 5 Mar 1971 d
United Nations Convention on the Carriage of Goods by Sea, 1978 - 2 Feb 1981 a
International Convention on Maritime Liens and Mortgages, 1993 - 23 Feb 2023 a
Convention on the International Maritime Organization - 7 Jan 1970 A
Convention on a Code of Conduct for Liner Conferences - 29 Oct 1980 a
Agreement on the Importation of Educational, Scientific and Cultural Materials - 13 Apr 1973 d
International Convention for the Protection of Performers, Producers of Phonograms and Broadcasting Organisations - 18 Jun 1983 a
Convention for the Protection of Producers of Phonograms against Unauthorized Duplication of their Phonograms - 23 Mar 1983 a
Protocol to the Agreement on the Importation of Educational, Scientific and Cultural Materials of 22 November 1950 - 10 Apr 1979 a
International Sugar Agreement, 1992 - 27 Mar 2007 a
Convention on the Political Rights of Women - 12 Jan 1973 a
Convention on Consent to Marriage, Minimum Age for Marriage and Registration of Marriages - 1 Oct 1979 a
Protocol amending the Slavery Convention signed at Geneva on 25 September 1926 - 22 Jul 1976 d
Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court 8 Sep 2000 10 Dec 2002
International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism 13 Nov 2001 18 Sep 2002
United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime 26 Sep 2001 11 Nov 2014
United Nations Convention against Corruption 10 Dec 2003 10 Oct 2023
International Convention Against the Taking of Hostages - 9 Mar 1981 a
International Convention Against the Recruitment, Use, Financing and Training of Mercenaries - 10 Jul 1992 a
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes against Internationally Protected Persons, including Diplomatic Agents - 26 Oct 1979 a
International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings - 18 Sep 2002 a
Agreement under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea on the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Marine Biological Diversity of Areas beyond National Jurisdiction 26 Sep 2024 26 Sep 2024
Agreement for the Implementation of the Provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of 10 December 1982 relating to the Conservation and Management of Straddling Fish Stocks and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks - 22 Sep 2000 a
Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards - 16 Mar 1993 a
Tampere Convention on the Provision of Telecommunication Resources for Disaster Mitigation and Relief Operations - 25 Jul 2003 a
Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction - 7 Mar 2007 a
Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty 14 Jan 2008 14 Jan 2008
Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction 3 Dec 1997 26 Jan 1999
Arms Trade Treaty 25 Sep 2013 20 May 2015
Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons 22 Sep 2022 -
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa - 14 May 1997 a
Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade 11 Sep 1998 8 Oct 2020
Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants - 7 Jun 2004 a
Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer - 16 Oct 1992 a
Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal - 24 Aug 1995 a
Convention on Biological Diversity 12 Jun 1992 10 Dec 1993

Recorded votes

ResolutionDateVote
A/RES/80/282 - yes
A/RES/80/286 - non-voting
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
iso2BB wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.904880+00:00
iso2BB wikidata 1.02026-08-27T23:21:27.268053+00:00
iso3BRB wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.904890+00:00
iso3BRB wikidata 1.02026-08-27T23:21:27.268057+00:00
m4952 un_sdg 1.02026-08-26T06:55:41.141053+00:00
m4952 un_sdg 1.02026-08-27T23:21:46.427638+00:00
nameBarbados wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.904861+00:00
nameBarbados wikidata 1.02026-08-27T23:21:27.268045+00:00
un_admission_date1966-12-09 wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.904870+00:00
un_admission_date1966-12-09 wikidata 1.02026-08-27T23:21:27.268049+00:00
unsd_nameBarbados un_sdg 1.02026-08-26T06:55:41.141064+00:00
unsd_nameBarbados un_sdg 1.02026-08-27T23:21:46.427644+00:00

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