Member state

Brunei at the United Nations

Admitted
1984-09-21
ISO 3166-1
BN / BRN
Admitted by
A/RES/39/1

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 1984-09-21

Permanent mission

Mission
Permanent Mission of Brunei to the United Nations
Address
Permanent Mission of Brunei Darussalam to the United Nations, 771 United Nations Plaza, New York, NY 10017
National holiday
National Day, 23 February
Accredited diplomats
7

Accredited diplomats

The numbers

IndicatorLatestYearSince 1981
Adult literacy rate 96.09 2011
CO2 emissions per capita 20.2427 2024
GDP 1.5032e+10 2025
GNI per capita 34,790 2025
Life expectancy at birth 75.501 2024
Military expenditure (% of GDP) 3.57782 2024
Net official development assistance received 4.29e+06 1995
Population 466,330 2025
Refugees hosted (UNHCR mandate) 0 2025
Refugees originating (UNHCR mandate) 5 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

38 statements to the General Debate since 1985, 43,892 words in all. The longest was 1986, at 1,846 words, delivered by Mr. PBNGIRAN BAHRIN.

Of the 29 statements since 1994 whose speaker’s post the record gives: Minister for Foreign Affairs ×11, Head of State ×8, Minister of Foreign Affairs ×3, Second Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade ×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

39 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 - 1 Aug 2013 a
Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the Specialized Agencies - 1 Feb 2017 a
Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations - 24 May 2013 a
Vienna Convention on Consular Relations - 24 May 2013 a
Convention on the Rights of the Child - 27 Dec 1995 a
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 18 Dec 2007 11 Apr 2016
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women - 24 May 2006 a
Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment 22 Sep 2015 -
Constitution of the World Health Organization - 25 Mar 1985 A
WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control 3 Jun 2004 3 Jun 2004
Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961 - 25 Nov 1987 a
Convention on psychotropic substances - 24 Nov 1987 a
Protocol amending the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961 - 25 Nov 1987 a
United Nations Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances 26 Oct 1989 12 Nov 1993
Charter of the Asian and Pacific Development Centre - 14 Feb 1985 s
Convention on the International Maritime Organization - 31 Dec 1984 A
International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism - 4 Dec 2002 a
United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime - 25 Mar 2008 a
United Nations Convention against Corruption 11 Dec 2003 2 Dec 2008
United Nations Convention against Cybercrime; Strengthening International Cooperation for Combating Certain Crimes Committed by Means of Information and Communications Technology Systems and for the Sharing of Evidence in Electronic Form of Serious Crimes 25 Oct 2025 -
International Convention Against the Taking of Hostages - 18 Oct 1988 a
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes against Internationally Protected Persons, including Diplomatic Agents - 13 Nov 1997 a
Convention on the Safety of United Nations and Associated Personnel - 20 Mar 2002 a
International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings - 14 Mar 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 19 Sep 2025 -
Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards - 25 Jul 1996 a
United Nations Convention on International Settlement Agreements Resulting from Mediation 7 Aug 2019 -
Constitution of the Asia-Pacific Telecommunity - 27 Mar 1986 a
Constitution of the Asia-Pacific Telecommunity - 27 Mar 1986 a
Agreement establishing the Asia-Pacific Institute for Broadcasting Development - 6 Dec 1988 a
Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction 13 Jan 1993 28 Jul 1997
Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty 22 Jan 1997 10 Jan 2013
Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction 4 Dec 1997 24 Apr 2006
Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons 26 Sep 2018 -
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa - 4 Dec 2002 a
Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants 21 May 2002 -
Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer - 26 Jul 1990 a
Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal - 16 Dec 2002 a
Convention on Biological Diversity - 28 Apr 2008 a

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
iso2BN wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.908180+00:00
iso3BRN wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.908190+00:00
m4996 un_sdg 1.02026-08-26T06:55:41.143841+00:00
nameBrunei wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.908131+00:00
un_admission_date1984-09-21 wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.908141+00:00
unsd_nameBrunei Darussalam un_sdg 1.02026-08-26T06:55:41.143851+00:00

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