Member state

Cape Verde at the United Nations

Flag of Cape Verde
Flag of Cape Verde (10-17).svg (Public domain) — Wikimedia Commons
Admitted
1975-09-16
ISO 3166-1
CV / CPV
Admitted by
A/RES/3363 (XXX)
Formerly
Cape Verde, until 24 October 2013

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 1975-09-16

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

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Security Council

1993 1992

Permanent mission

Mission
Permanent Mission of Cape Verde to the United Nations
Address
Permanent Mission of the Republic of Cabo Verde to the United Nations, 27 East 69th Street, New York, NY 10021
National holiday
5 July
Accredited diplomats
3

Accredited diplomats

The numbers

IndicatorLatestYearSince 1990
Adult literacy rate 88.47 2024
CO2 emissions per capita 1.2883 2024
GDP 3.05663e+09 2025
GNI per capita 5,590 2025
Life expectancy at birth 76.224 2024
Military expenditure (% of GDP) 0.623903 2024
Net official development assistance received 1.01708e+08 2023
Population 527,326 2025
Refugees hosted (UNHCR mandate) 0 2025
Refugees originating (UNHCR mandate) 15 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

48 statements to the General Debate since 1976, 122,343 words in all. The longest was 1981, at 5,435 words, delivered by SM da LUZ.

Of the 31 statements since 1994 whose speaker’s post the record gives: Prime Minister ×9, President ×7, Minister for Foreign Affairs ×5, UN Representative ×4. 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 Cape Verde
Coat of arms. Coat of arms of Cape Verde.svg by Tonyjeff, based on national symbol, with the help of Waldir (Public domain) — Wikimedia Commons
Location of Cape Verde
Location. CPV orthographic NaturalEarth.svg by Gringer (Public domain) — Wikimedia Commons

Treaties joined

52 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
Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations - 30 Jul 1979 a
Vienna Convention on Consular Relations - 30 Jul 1979 a
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide - 10 Oct 2011 a
International Convention against Apartheid in Sports 16 May 1986 -
Convention on the Rights of the Child - 4 Jun 1992 a
Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty - 19 May 2000 a
International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families - 16 Sep 1997 a
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 30 Mar 2007 10 Oct 2011
International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance 6 Feb 2007 20 Dec 2022
International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination - 3 Oct 1979 a
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights - 6 Aug 1993 a
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights - 6 Aug 1993 a
Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights - 19 May 2000 a
International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid - 12 Jun 1979 a
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women - 5 Dec 1980 a
Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment - 4 Jun 1992 a
Constitution of the World Health Organization - 5 Jan 1976 A
WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control 17 Feb 2004 4 Oct 2005
Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees - 9 Jul 1987 a
Convention on psychotropic substances - 24 May 1990 a
United Nations Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances - 8 May 1995 a
Agreement to establish the South Centre 30 Sep 1994 -
Agreement establishing the African Development Bank - 15 Apr 1976 a
Agreement establishing the International Fund for Agricultural Development - 12 Oct 1977 a
Constitution of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization 28 Jan 1983 27 Nov 1984
Convention on the International Maritime Organization - 24 Aug 1976 A
Convention on a Code of Conduct for Liner Conferences - 13 Jan 1978 a
International Convention for the Protection of Performers, Producers of Phonograms and Broadcasting Organisations - 3 Apr 1997 a
Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court 28 Dec 2000 10 Oct 2011
International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism 13 Nov 2001 10 May 2002
United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime 13 Dec 2000 15 Jul 2004
United Nations Convention against Corruption 9 Dec 2003 23 Apr 2008
International Convention Against the Taking of Hostages - 10 Sep 2002 a
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes against Internationally Protected Persons, including Diplomatic Agents - 10 Sep 2002 a
International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings - 10 May 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 20 Sep 2023 27 Aug 2025
Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards - 22 Mar 2018 a
Tampere Convention on the Provision of Telecommunication Resources for Disaster Mitigation and Relief Operations - 22 Mar 2018 a
Convention on the prohibition of military or any other hostile use of environmental modification techniques - 3 Oct 1979 a
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) - 16 Sep 1997 a
Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction 15 Jan 1993 10 Oct 2003
Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty 1 Oct 1996 1 Mar 2006
Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction 4 Dec 1997 14 May 2001
Convention on Cluster Munitions 3 Dec 2008 19 Oct 2010
Arms Trade Treaty 25 Sep 2013 23 Sep 2016
Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons 20 Sep 2017 20 Jun 2022
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa 14 Oct 1994 8 May 1995
Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade - 1 Mar 2006 a
Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants - 1 Mar 2006 a
Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer - 31 Jul 2001 a
Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal - 2 Jul 1999 a
Convention on Biological Diversity 12 Jun 1992 29 Mar 1995

Recorded votes

ResolutionDateVote
A/RES/80/282 - non-voting
A/RES/80/286 - non-voting
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
iso2CV wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.902122+00:00
iso3CPV wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.902131+00:00
m49132 un_sdg 1.02026-08-26T06:55:41.134830+00:00
nameCape Verde wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.902102+00:00
un_admission_date1975-09-16 wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.902112+00:00
unsd_nameCabo Verde un_sdg 1.02026-08-26T06:55:41.134838+00:00

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