Member state

Belize at the United Nations

Flag of Belize
Flag of Belize.svg by Caleb Moore (Public domain) — Wikimedia Commons
Admitted
1981-09-25
ISO 3166-1
BZ / BLZ
Admitted by
A/RES/36/3

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 1981-09-25

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

2024 2023 2022 2006 2005 2004 1989 1988 1987

Permanent mission

Mission
Permanent Mission of Belize to the United Nations
Address
Permanent Mission of Belize to the United Nations, 675 Third Avenue, Suite 1911, New York, NY 10017
National holiday
Independence Day, 21 September
Accredited diplomats
5

Accredited diplomats

The numbers

IndicatorLatestYearSince 1991
Adult literacy rate 87.88 2022
CO2 emissions per capita 0.932453 2024
GDP 3.3265e+09 2025
GNI per capita 7,530 2025
Life expectancy at birth 73.739 2024
Military expenditure (% of GDP) 0.898886 2024
Net official development assistance received 3.18588e+07 2023
Population 422,924 2025
Refugees hosted (UNHCR mandate) 347 2025
Refugees originating (UNHCR mandate) 108 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

44 statements to the General Debate since 1982, 102,565 words in all. The longest was 1988, at 4,262 words, delivered by Mr. ΤILLETT.

Of the 32 statements since 1994 whose speaker’s post the record gives: Minister for Foreign Affairs ×12, Deputy Prime Minister ×6, Prime Minister ×5, Minister of Foreign Affairs ×2. 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 Belize
Coat of arms. Coat of arms of Belize.svg by Original by Caleb Moore<br>, Extracted by Himasaram (Public domain) — Wikimedia Commons
Location of Belize
Location. BLZ orthographic.svg by Addicted04 (CC BY-SA) — Wikimedia Commons

Treaties joined

54 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 - 14 Sep 2005 a
Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations - 30 Nov 2000 a
Vienna Convention on Consular Relations - 30 Nov 2000 a
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide - 10 Mar 1998 a
Convention on the Rights of the Child 2 Mar 1990 2 May 1990
International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families - 14 Nov 2001 a
Agreement establishing the Fund for the Development of the Indigenous Peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean 1 Feb 1996 1 Feb 1996
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 9 May 2011 2 Jun 2011
International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance - 14 Aug 2015 a
International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination 6 Sep 2000 14 Nov 2001
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights 6 Sep 2000 9 Mar 2015
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights - 10 Jun 1996 a
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women 7 Mar 1990 16 May 1990
Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment - 17 Mar 1986 a
Constitution of the World Health Organization - 23 Aug 1990 A
WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control 26 Sep 2003 15 Dec 2005
Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness - 14 Aug 2015 a
Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees - 27 Jun 1990 a
Convention on psychotropic substances - 18 Dec 2001 a
United Nations Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances - 24 Jul 1996 a
United Nations Convention on the Use of Electronic Communications in International Contracts - 19 Jan 2023 a
Agreement establishing the Caribbean Development Bank 18 Oct 1969 26 Jan 1970
Agreement establishing the International Fund for Agricultural Development - 15 Dec 1982 a
Constitution of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization - 27 Feb 1986 a
Convention on the International Maritime Organization - 13 Sep 1990 A
International Convention for the Protection of Performers, Producers of Phonograms and Broadcasting Organisations - 9 Nov 2018 a
International Sugar Agreement, 1992 - 24 Jan 1994 a
Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court 5 Apr 2000 5 Apr 2000
International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism 14 Nov 2001 1 Dec 2003
United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime - 26 Sep 2003 a
Agreement on the Privileges and Immunities of the International Criminal Court 26 Sep 2003 14 Sep 2005
United Nations Convention against Corruption - 12 Dec 2016 a
International Convention Against the Taking of Hostages - 14 Nov 2001 a
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes against Internationally Protected Persons, including Diplomatic Agents - 14 Nov 2001 a
International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings - 14 Nov 2001 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 22 Sep 2023 8 Apr 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 4 Dec 1995 14 Jul 2005
Agreement on the Privileges and Immunities of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea - 14 Sep 2005 a
Protocol on the Privileges and Immunities of the International Seabed Authority - 13 Oct 2025 a
Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards - 15 Mar 2021 a
Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction - 1 Dec 2003 a
Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty 14 Nov 2001 26 Mar 2004
Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction 27 Feb 1998 23 Apr 1998
Convention on Cluster Munitions - 2 Sep 2014 a
Arms Trade Treaty 3 Jun 2013 19 Mar 2015
Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons 6 Feb 2020 19 May 2020
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa - 23 Jul 1998 a
Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade - 20 Apr 2005 a
Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants 14 May 2002 25 Jan 2010
Minamata Convention on Mercury - 12 Jun 2023 a
Regional Agreement on Access to Information, Public Participation and Justice in Environmental Matters in Latin America and the Caribbean 24 Sep 2020 7 Mar 2023
Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer - 6 Jun 1997 a
Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal - 23 May 1997 a
Convention on Biological Diversity 13 Jun 1992 30 Dec 1993

Recorded votes

ResolutionDateVote
A/RES/80/282 - yes
A/RES/80/286 - 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
iso2BZ wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.904842+00:00
iso2BZ wikidata 1.02026-08-27T23:21:27.268037+00:00
iso3BLZ wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.904851+00:00
iso3BLZ wikidata 1.02026-08-27T23:21:27.268041+00:00
m4984 un_sdg 1.02026-08-26T06:55:41.141021+00:00
m4984 un_sdg 1.02026-08-27T23:21:46.427619+00:00
nameBelize wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.904822+00:00
nameBelize wikidata 1.02026-08-27T23:21:27.268030+00:00
un_admission_date1981-09-25 wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.904832+00:00
un_admission_date1981-09-25 wikidata 1.02026-08-27T23:21:27.268033+00:00
unsd_nameBelize un_sdg 1.02026-08-26T06:55:41.141032+00:00
unsd_nameBelize un_sdg 1.02026-08-27T23:21:46.427624+00:00

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