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Bolivia at the United Nations

Flag of Bolivia
Flag of Bolivia.svg by See file history below for details (Public domain) — Wikimedia Commons
Admitted
1945-11-14
ISO 3166-1
BO / BOL
Charter signed
1945-06-26
Charter ratified
1945-11-14

A founding Member State: one of the fifty-one that signed the Charter at San Francisco in 1945.

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 1945-11-14

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

2023 2022 2021 2015 2014 2013 2009 2008 2007 2001 2000 1999 1989 1988 1987 1978 1977 1976 1974 1973 1972

Human Rights Council

2027 pending 2026 2025 2023 2022 2021 2017 2016 2015 2009 2008 2007

Security Council

2018 2017 1979 1978 1965 1964

Permanent mission

Mission
Permanent Mission of Bolivia to the United Nations
Address
Permanent Mission of Bolivia to the United Nations, 801 Second Avenue, 4th Floor, Suite 402, New York, NY 10017
National holiday
Independence Day, 6 August
Accredited diplomats
8

Accredited diplomats

The numbers

IndicatorLatestYearSince 1976
Adult literacy rate 96.73 2024
CO2 emissions per capita 2.29073 2024
GDP 6.47689e+10 2025
GNI per capita 4,420 2025
Life expectancy at birth 68.739 2024
Military expenditure (% of GDP) 1.37066 2024
Net official development assistance received 7.64393e+08 2023
Population 1.25818e+07 2025
Refugees hosted (UNHCR mandate) 1,147 2025
Refugees originating (UNHCR mandate) 710 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

76 statements to the General Debate since 1946, 230,392 words in all. The longest was 1955, at 6,143 words, delivered by Mr. Siles Zuazo.

Of the 32 statements since 1994 whose speaker’s post the record gives: President ×20, Minister for Foreign Affairs ×5, Constitutional President ×3, Vice-President ×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 Bolivia
Coat of arms. Escudo de Bolivia.svg by See File history, below, for details (Public domain) — Wikimedia Commons
Location of Bolivia
Location. BOL orthographic.svg by Addicted04 (CC BY-SA) — Wikimedia Commons

Treaties joined

73 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
Charter of the United Nations - 14 Nov 1945
Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations - 23 Dec 1949 a
Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations - 28 Dec 1977 a
Vienna Convention on Consular Relations 6 Aug 1963 22 Sep 1970
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide 11 Dec 1948 14 Jun 2005
International Convention against Apartheid in Sports 16 May 1986 27 Apr 1988
Convention on the Rights of the Child 8 Mar 1990 26 Jun 1990
Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty - 12 Jul 2013 a
International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families - 16 Oct 2000 a
Agreement establishing the Fund for the Development of the Indigenous Peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean 24 Jul 1992 4 Aug 1993
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 13 Aug 2007 16 Nov 2009
International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance 6 Feb 2007 17 Dec 2008
International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination 7 Jun 1966 22 Sep 1970
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights - 12 Aug 1982 a
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights - 12 Aug 1982 a
Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights - 12 Aug 1982 a
Convention on the non-applicability of statutory limitations to war crimes and crimes against humanity - 6 Oct 1983 a
International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid - 6 Oct 1983 a
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women 30 May 1980 8 Jun 1990
Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment 4 Feb 1985 12 Apr 1999
Constitution of the World Health Organization 22 Jul 1946 23 Dec 1949 A
Protocol concerning the Office international d'hygiène publique - 22 Jul 1946 s
WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control 27 Feb 2004 15 Sep 2005
Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness - 6 Oct 1983 a
Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees - 9 Feb 1982 a
Protocol amending the Agreements, Conventions and Protocols on Narcotic Drugs, concluded at The Hague on 23 January 1912, at Geneva on 11 February 1925 and 19 February 1925, and 13 July 1931, at Bangkok on 27 November 1931 and at Geneva on 26 June 1936 - 11 Dec 1946 s
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 19 Nov 1948 -
Convention on psychotropic substances - 20 Mar 1985 a
United Nations Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances 20 Dec 1988 20 Aug 1990
Agreement to establish the South Centre 30 Sep 1994 -
Convention on Transit Trade of Land-locked States 29 Dec 1965 -
Agreement establishing the International Fund for Agricultural Development 27 Jul 1977 30 Dec 1977
Constitution of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization 25 Jan 1980 9 Jan 1981
Convention on the International Maritime Organization - 6 Jul 1987 A
United Nations Convention on Conditions for Registration of Ships 18 Aug 1986 -
Agreement on the Importation of Educational, Scientific and Cultural Materials 22 Nov 1950 22 Sep 1970
International Convention for the Protection of Performers, Producers of Phonograms and Broadcasting Organisations - 24 Aug 1993 a
Statutes of the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology 13 Sep 1983 -
Convention on the Political Rights of Women 9 Apr 1953 22 Sep 1970
Protocol amending the Slavery Convention signed at Geneva on 25 September 1926 - 6 Oct 1983 a
Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court 17 Jul 1998 27 Jun 2002
International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism 10 Nov 2001 7 Jan 2002
United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime 12 Dec 2000 10 Oct 2005
Agreement on the Privileges and Immunities of the International Criminal Court 23 Mar 2004 20 Jan 2006
United Nations Convention against Corruption 9 Dec 2003 5 Dec 2005
International Convention Against the Taking of Hostages 25 Mar 1980 7 Jan 2002
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes against Internationally Protected Persons, including Diplomatic Agents - 22 Jan 2002 a
Convention on the Safety of United Nations and Associated Personnel 17 Aug 1995 22 Dec 2004
International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings - 22 Jan 2002 a
Convention on the Territorial Sea and the Contiguous Zone 17 Oct 1958 -
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 20 Sep 2023 -
Convention on the High Seas 17 Oct 1958 -
Convention on Fishing and Conservation of the Living Resources of the High Seas 17 Oct 1958 -
Convention on the Continental Shelf 17 Oct 1958 -
Optional Protocol of Signature concerning the Compulsory Settlement of Disputes - 17 Oct 1958 s
Agreement on the Privileges and Immunities of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea - 18 May 2006 a
Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards - 28 Apr 1995 a
United Nations Convention on Transparency in Treaty-based Investor-State Arbitration 16 Apr 2018 13 Oct 2020
Convention on the prohibition of military or any other hostile use of environmental modification techniques 18 May 1977 -
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) - 21 Sep 2001 a
Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction 14 Jan 1993 14 Aug 1998
Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty 24 Sep 1996 4 Oct 1999
Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction 3 Dec 1997 9 Jun 1998
Convention on Cluster Munitions 3 Dec 2008 30 Apr 2013
Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons 16 Apr 2018 6 Aug 2019
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa 14 Oct 1994 1 Aug 1996
Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade - 18 Dec 2003 a
Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants 23 May 2001 3 Jun 2003
Minamata Convention on Mercury 10 Oct 2013 26 Jan 2016
Regional Agreement on Access to Information, Public Participation and Justice in Environmental Matters in Latin America and the Caribbean 2 Nov 2018 26 Sep 2019
Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer - 3 Oct 1994 a
Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal 22 Mar 1989 15 Nov 1996
Convention on Biological Diversity 13 Jun 1992 3 Oct 1994

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
iso2BO wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.900778+00:00
iso2BO wikidata 1.02026-08-27T23:21:27.269525+00:00
iso3BOL wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.900788+00:00
iso3BOL wikidata 1.02026-08-27T23:21:27.269535+00:00
m4968 un_sdg 1.02026-08-26T06:55:41.132479+00:00
m4968 un_sdg 1.02026-08-27T23:21:46.428538+00:00
nameBolivia wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.900759+00:00
nameBolivia wikidata 1.02026-08-27T23:21:27.269505+00:00
un_admission_date1945-11-14 wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.900768+00:00
un_admission_date1945-11-14 wikidata 1.02026-08-27T23:21:27.269515+00:00
unsd_nameBolivia (Plurinational State of) un_sdg 1.02026-08-26T06:55:41.132493+00:00
unsd_nameBolivia (Plurinational State of) un_sdg 1.02026-08-27T23:21:46.428547+00:00

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