Member state

Central African Republic at the United Nations

Flag of Central African Republic
Flag of the Central African Republic.svg by Barthélemy Boganda (Public domain) — Wikimedia Commons
Admitted
1979-09-20
ISO 3166-1
CF / CAF
Admitted by
A/RES/1488 (XV)

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 1979-09-20

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

1998 1997 1996 1980 1979 1978

Permanent mission

Mission
Permanent Mission of Central African Republic to the United Nations
Address
Permanent Mission of the Central African Republic to the United Nations, 369 Lexington Avenue, Suite 7A, 7th Floor, New York, NY 10017
National holiday
1 December
Accredited diplomats
6

Accredited diplomats

The numbers

IndicatorLatestYearSince 1975
Adult literacy rate 42.44 2019
CO2 emissions per capita 0.0632939 2024
GDP 3.06611e+09 2025
GNI per capita 560 2025
Life expectancy at birth 57.671 2024
Military expenditure (% of GDP) 2.51969 2024
Net official development assistance received 7.37596e+08 2023
Population 5.51328e+06 2025
Refugees hosted (UNHCR mandate) 55,307 2025
Refugees originating (UNHCR mandate) 674,222 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

60 statements to the General Debate since 1961, 157,920 words in all. The longest was 1976, at 6,578 words, delivered by Mr. Franck.

Of the 31 statements since 1994 whose speaker’s post the record gives: Minister for Foreign Affairs ×11, President ×10, UN Representative ×4, Head of State ×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 Central African Republic
Coat of arms. Coat of arms of Central African Republic.svg by Unknown (Public domain) — Wikimedia Commons
Location of Central African Republic
Location. CAF orthographic.svg by Addicted04 (CC BY-SA) — Wikimedia Commons

Treaties joined

59 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 - 4 Sep 1962 d
Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the Specialized Agencies - 15 Oct 1962 a
Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations 28 Mar 1962 19 Mar 1973
Optional Protocol to the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, concerning Acquisition of Nationality 28 Mar 1962 19 Mar 1973
Optional Protocol to the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, concerning the Compulsory Settlement of Disputes 28 Mar 1962 19 Mar 1973
Vienna Convention on Consular Relations 24 Apr 1963 -
Optional Protocol to the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations concerning the Compulsory Settlement of Disputes 24 Apr 1963 -
International Convention against Apartheid in Sports 16 May 1986 -
Convention on the Rights of the Child 30 Jul 1990 23 Apr 1992
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 9 May 2007 11 Oct 2016
International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance - 11 Oct 2016 a
International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination 7 Mar 1966 16 Mar 1971
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights - 8 May 1981 a
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights - 8 May 1981 a
Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights - 8 May 1981 a
International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid - 8 May 1981 a
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women - 21 Jun 1991 a
Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment - 11 Oct 2016 a
Constitution of the World Health Organization - 20 Sep 1960 A
WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control 29 Dec 2003 7 Nov 2005
Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees - 30 Aug 1967 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 - 4 Sep 1962 d
Protocol for Limiting and Regulating the Cultivation of the Poppy Plant, the Production of, International and Wholesale Trade in, and use of Opium - 4 Sep 1962 d
Convention on psychotropic substances - 15 Oct 2001 a
United Nations Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances - 15 Oct 2001 a
United Nations Convention on the Use of Electronic Communications in International Contracts 27 Feb 2006 -
Agreement establishing the African Development Bank 4 Aug 1963 26 Aug 1970 a
Convention on Transit Trade of Land-locked States 30 Dec 1965 9 Aug 1989
Agreement establishing the International Fund for Agricultural Development - 11 Dec 1978 a
Constitution of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization 8 Jan 1982 8 Jan 1982
Convention concerning Customs Facilities for Touring - 15 Oct 1962 a
Additional Protocol to the Convention concerning Customs Facilities for Touring, relating to the Importation of Tourist Publicity Documents and Material - 15 Oct 1962 a
Customs Convention on the Temporary Importation of Private Road Vehicles - 15 Oct 1962 a
Convention on a Code of Conduct for Liner Conferences - 13 May 1977 a
International Tropical Timber Agreement, 2006 1 May 2008 4 Nov 2014 A
Convention on the Political Rights of Women - 4 Sep 1962 d
Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court 7 Dec 1999 3 Oct 2001
International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism 19 Dec 2001 19 Feb 2008
United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime - 14 Sep 2004 a
Agreement on the Privileges and Immunities of the International Criminal Court - 6 Oct 2006 a
United Nations Convention against Corruption 11 Feb 2004 6 Oct 2006
International Convention Against the Taking of Hostages - 9 Jul 2007 a
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes against Internationally Protected Persons, including Diplomatic Agents - 19 Feb 2008 a
International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings - 19 Feb 2008 a
Convention on the High Seas - 15 Oct 1962 a
Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards - 15 Oct 1962 a
Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction 14 Jan 1993 20 Sep 2006
Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty 19 Dec 2001 26 May 2010
Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction - 8 Nov 2002 a
Convention on Cluster Munitions 3 Dec 2008 -
Central African Convention for the Control of Small Arms and Light Weapons, their Ammunition and all Parts and Components that can be used for their Manufacture, Repair and Assembly 19 Nov 2010 24 Oct 2012
Arms Trade Treaty - 7 Oct 2015 a
Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons 20 Sep 2017 -
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa 14 Oct 1994 5 Sep 1996
Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants 9 May 2002 12 Feb 2008
Minamata Convention on Mercury 10 Oct 2013 31 Mar 2021
Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer - 29 Mar 1993 a
Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal - 24 Feb 2006 a
Convention on Biological Diversity 13 Jun 1992 15 Mar 1995

Recorded votes

ResolutionDateVote
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.

AttributeValueSourceConfidenceFetched
iso2CF wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.908302+00:00
iso3CAF wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.908312+00:00
m49140 un_sdg 1.02026-08-26T06:55:41.143948+00:00
nameCentral African Republic wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.908282+00:00
un_admission_date1979-09-20 wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.908291+00:00
unsd_nameCentral African Republic un_sdg 1.02026-08-26T06:55:41.143958+00:00

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