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Member state

Benin at the United Nations

Flag of Benin
Flag of Benin.svg by Drawn by User:SKopp, rewritten by User:Gabbe (Public domain) — Wikimedia Commons
Admitted
1990-03-01
ISO 3166-1
BJ / BEN
Admitted by
A/RES/1481 (XV)
Formerly
Dahomey, until 2 December 1975

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 1990-03-01

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

2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2015 2014 2013 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1994 1993 1992 1984 1983 1982 1967 1966

Human Rights Council

2027 pending 2026 2025 2024 2023 2022 2014 2013 2012 2011

Security Council

2005 2004 1977 1976

Permanent mission

Mission
Permanent Mission of Benin to the United Nations
Address
Permanent Mission of the Republic of Benin to the United Nations, 355 Lexington Avenue, Unit 14B, New York, NY 10017
National holiday
1 August
Accredited diplomats
4

Accredited diplomats

The numbers

IndicatorLatestYearSince 1979
Adult literacy rate 51.38 2022
CO2 emissions per capita 0.487329 2024
GDP 2.45664e+10 2025
GNI per capita 1,600 2025
Life expectancy at birth 60.961 2024
Military expenditure (% of GDP) 0.72055 2024
Net official development assistance received 1.03493e+09 2023
Population 1.48145e+07 2025
Refugees hosted (UNHCR mandate) 16,974 2025
Refugees originating (UNHCR mandate) 1,279 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

59 statements to the General Debate since 1963, 178,103 words in all. The longest was 1974, at 6,654 words, delivered by Mr. Alladaye.

Of the 32 statements since 1994 whose speaker’s post the record gives: Minister for Foreign Affairs ×14, Chair of the Delegation ×4, President ×4, UN Representative ×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 Benin
Coat of arms. Coat of arms of Benin.svg by Tinynanorobots, Fenn-O-maniC (CC BY-SA) — Wikimedia Commons
Location of Benin
Location. Benin (orthographic projection with inset).svg by Flappiefh (CC BY-SA) — Wikimedia Commons

Treaties joined

77 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
United Nations Convention on Jurisdictional Immunities of States and Their Property - 7 Jul 2022 a
Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations - 27 Mar 1967 a
Vienna Convention on Consular Relations 24 Apr 1963 27 Apr 1979
Optional Protocol to the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations concerning the Compulsory Settlement of Disputes 24 Apr 1963 -
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide - 2 Nov 2017 a
International Convention against Apartheid in Sports 16 May 1986 2 Nov 2017
Convention on the Rights of the Child 25 Apr 1990 3 Aug 1990
Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty - 5 Jul 2012 a
International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families 15 Sep 2005 6 Jul 2018
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 8 Feb 2008 5 Jul 2012
International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance 19 Mar 2010 2 Nov 2017
International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination 2 Feb 1967 30 Nov 2001
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights - 12 Mar 1992 a
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights - 12 Mar 1992 a
Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights - 12 Mar 1992 a
International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid 7 Oct 1974 30 Dec 1974
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women 11 Nov 1981 12 Mar 1992
Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment - 12 Mar 1992 a
Constitution of the World Health Organization - 20 Sep 1960 A
WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control 18 Jun 2004 3 Nov 2005
Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness - 8 Dec 2011 a
Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees - 6 Jul 1970 a
Protocol Bringing under International Control Drugs Outside the Scope of the Convention of 13 July 1931 for Limiting the Manufacture and Regulating the Distribution of Narcotic Drugs, as amended by the Protocol signed at Lake Success, New York, on 11 December 1946 - 5 Dec 1961 d
Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961 30 Mar 1961 27 Apr 1962
Convention on psychotropic substances - 6 Nov 1973 a
Protocol amending the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961 - 6 Nov 1973 a
United Nations Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances - 23 May 1997 a
United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods - 29 Jul 2011 a
Agreement to establish the South Centre 30 Sep 1994 2 Jun 1998
United Nations Convention on the Use of Electronic Communications in International Contracts - 7 Nov 2019 a
Agreement establishing the African Development Bank 8 Oct 1963 25 Aug 1964
Articles of Association for the establishment of an Economic Community of West Africa - 4 May 1967 s
Convention on the Limitation Period in the International Sale of Goods - 29 Jul 2011 a
Agreement establishing the International Fund for Agricultural Development - 28 Dec 1977 a
Constitution of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization 4 Dec 1979 3 Mar 1983
International Convention on Maritime Liens and Mortgages, 1993 - 3 Mar 2010 a
United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Carriage of Goods Wholly or Partly by Sea - 7 Nov 2019 a
Convention on the International Maritime Organization - 19 Mar 1980 A
Convention on a Code of Conduct for Liner Conferences - 27 Oct 1975 a
International Convention on Arrest of Ships, 1999 - 3 Mar 2010 a
Agreement for Facilitating the International Circulation of Visual and Auditory Materials of an Educational, Scientific and Cultural Character - 18 May 2017 a
Agreement on the Importation of Educational, Scientific and Cultural Materials - 18 May 2017 A
International Tropical Timber Agreement, 2006 7 Dec 2011 7 Dec 2011
Convention on Consent to Marriage, Minimum Age for Marriage and Registration of Marriages - 19 Oct 1965 a
Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court 24 Sep 1999 22 Jan 2002
International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism 16 Nov 2001 30 Aug 2004
United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime 13 Dec 2000 30 Aug 2004
Agreement on the Privileges and Immunities of the International Criminal Court 10 Sep 2002 24 Jan 2006
United Nations Convention against Corruption 10 Dec 2003 14 Oct 2004
International Convention Against the Taking of Hostages - 31 Jul 2003 a
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes against Internationally Protected Persons, including Diplomatic Agents - 31 Jul 2003 a
Convention on the Safety of United Nations and Associated Personnel - 2 Nov 2017 a
International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings - 31 Jul 2003 a
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 - 2 Nov 2017 a
Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards - 16 May 1974 a
United Nations Convention on Transparency in Treaty-based Investor-State Arbitration 10 Jul 2017 19 Jul 2021
United Nations Convention on International Settlement Agreements Resulting from Mediation 7 Aug 2019 -
Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties between States and International Organizations or between International Organizations 24 Jun 1987 -
Convention relating to the distribution of programme-carrying signals transmitted by satellite - 18 May 2017 a
Tampere Convention on the Provision of Telecommunication Resources for Disaster Mitigation and Relief Operations 18 Jun 1998 -
Convention on the prohibition of military or any other hostile use of environmental modification techniques 10 Jun 1977 30 Jun 1986
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) - 27 Mar 1989 a
Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction 14 Jan 1993 14 May 1998
Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty 27 Sep 1996 6 Mar 2001
Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction 3 Dec 1997 25 Sep 1998
Convention on Cluster Munitions 3 Dec 2008 10 Jul 2017
Arms Trade Treaty 3 Jun 2013 7 Nov 2016
Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons 26 Sep 2018 11 Dec 2020
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa 14 Oct 1994 29 Aug 1996
Convention on the Law of the Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses - 5 Jul 2012 a
Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade 11 Sep 1998 5 Jan 2004
Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants 23 May 2001 5 Jan 2004
Minamata Convention on Mercury 10 Oct 2013 7 Nov 2016
Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer - 1 Jul 1993 a
Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal - 4 Dec 1997 a
Convention on Biological Diversity 13 Jun 1992 30 Jun 1994
Multilateral Convention for the Avoidance of Double Taxation of Copyright Royalties - 18 May 2017 a

Recorded votes

ResolutionDateVote
A/RES/80/282 - non-voting
A/RES/80/286 - non-voting
A/RES/80/296 - non-voting
A/RES/80/293 B - non-voting
A/RES/80/294 - non-voting
A/RES/80/293 A - non-voting
A/RES/80/297 - non-voting
A/RES/80/299 - non-voting

Provenance

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

AttributeValueSourceConfidenceFetched
iso2BJ wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.907859+00:00
iso3BEN wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.907868+00:00
m49204 un_sdg 1.02026-08-26T06:55:41.143682+00:00
nameBenin wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.907839+00:00
un_admission_date1990-03-01 wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.907849+00:00
unsd_nameBenin un_sdg 1.02026-08-26T06:55:41.143694+00:00

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