Member state
Bhutan at the United Nations
- Admitted
- 1971-09-21
- ISO 3166-1
- BT / BTN
- Admitted by
- A/RES/2751 (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.
| Organisation | Joined |
|---|---|
| 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
Permanent mission
- Mission
- Permanent Mission of Bhutan to the United Nations
- Address
- Permanent Mission of the Kingdom of Bhutan to the United Nations, 343 East 43rd Street, New York, NY 10017
- National holiday
- National Day, 17 December
- Accredited diplomats
- 5
Accredited diplomats
- Col. Sonam Gyeltshen Minister / Military Adviser
- Mr. Phuntsho Norbu Minister Counsellor / Deputy Permanent Representative
- Mr. Sonam Tobgay Minister Counsellor
- Mrs. Sonam Choden Namgyel Counsellor
- Mr. Jigme Norbu First Secretary
The numbers
| Indicator | Latest | Year | Since 2005 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adult literacy rate | 64.91 | 2022 | |
| CO2 emissions per capita | 2.01118 | 2024 | |
| GDP | 3.57932e+09 | 2025 | |
| GNI per capita | 4,310 | 2025 | |
| Life expectancy at birth | 73.262 | 2024 | |
| Net official development assistance received | 1.56838e+08 | 2023 | |
| Population | 796,682 | 2025 | |
| Refugees originating (UNHCR mandate) | 7,257 | 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
51 statements to the General Debate since 1972, 95,959 words in all. The longest was 1974, at 3,409 words, delivered by Mr. Penjor.
Of the 31 statements since 1994 whose speaker’s post the record gives: Minister for Foreign Affairs ×14, Prime Minister ×10, UN Representative ×3, 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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Treaties joined
32 actions recorded by the Secretary-General as depositary. Only treaties whose participant counts match the depositary’s own stated totals contribute rows.
Recorded votes
| Resolution | Date | Vote |
|---|---|---|
| A/RES/80/282 | - | non-voting |
| 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.
| Attribute | Value | Source | Confidence | Fetched |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| iso2 | BT | wikidata | 1.0 | 2026-08-26T06:55:17.908102+00:00 |
| iso3 | BTN | wikidata | 1.0 | 2026-08-26T06:55:17.908119+00:00 |
| m49 | 64 | un_sdg | 1.0 | 2026-08-26T06:55:41.143811+00:00 |
| name | Bhutan | wikidata | 1.0 | 2026-08-26T06:55:17.908009+00:00 |
| un_admission_date | 1971-09-21 | wikidata | 1.0 | 2026-08-26T06:55:17.908089+00:00 |
| unsd_name | Bhutan | un_sdg | 1.0 | 2026-08-26T06:55:41.143822+00:00 |
Where this page comes from
- UN General Debate Corpus (Jankin, Baturo & Dasandi) — CC0 1.0 · source
- UN Research Guides (Dag Hammarskjold Library) — un.org website terms (all rights reserved) · source
- UN Statistics Division SDG Indicators API — CC BY 4.0 · source
- Wikidata — CC0 1.0 · source
- World Bank Open Data — CC BY 4.0 · source