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Member state

Finland at the United Nations

Flag of Finland
Flag of Finland.svg by Unknown (Public domain) — Wikimedia Commons
Admitted
1955-12-14
ISO 3166-1
FI / FIN
Admitted by
A/RES/995 (X)

In the European Parliament

Members representing this state in the current or previous term, from the Parliament’s own record.

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
Universal Postal Union 1918-02-12
International Telecommunication Union 1920-09-01
International Bank for Reconstruction and Development 1948-01-14
World Meteorological Organization 1949-01-07
United Nations 1955-12-14
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization 1956-10-10
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 1969
Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe 1973-06-25
Council of Europe 1989-05-05
European Union 1995-01-01
World Trade Organization 1995-01-01
North Atlantic Treaty Organization 2023-04-04
World Health Organization not recorded

Peacekeeping contribution

Uniformed personnel this state had deployed to UN missions in 2026-07-31, the most recent month the UN Peace and Security Data Hub reports. Counts are deployments, not distinct people.

PersonnelDeployedOf whom women
Troops 147 5
Experts on Mission 15 3
Individual Police 9 3
Staff Officer 3 0

Every contributor, month by month

Position in General Assembly voting

A statistical estimate of where this state sat on the main axis of General Assembly voting, not a record of any vote. The range is what the model treats as credible; neither end of the scale is the better one.

YearEstimate Credible rangeVotes cast
2025 0.92 0.79 to 1.05 191
2024 1.06 0.90 to 1.22 108
2023 1.03 0.87 to 1.21 88
2022 1.00 0.83 to 1.18 88
2021 0.85 0.70 to 1.00 86
2020 0.89 0.76 to 1.04 97

Every state's position

People of concern

As recorded by UNHCR’s Refugee Data Finder for 2025 — UNHCR’s own reporting categories, not a census.

CategoryPeople
Refugees hosted 102,544
Asylum-seekers hosted 1,879
Stateless people 1,296
Refugees from Finland abroad 5

Population projection

United Nations World Population Prospects, median variant — a projection, not a count.

202520302035204020452050
5,623,3295,592,0515,540,6555,480,5235,418,3505,351,645

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

2028 pending 2027 pending 2026 2025 2022 2021 2020 2016 2015 2012 2011 2010 2004 2003 2002 1998 1997 1996 1992 1991 1990 1986 1985 1984 1980 1979 1978 1974 1973 1972 1959 1958 1957

Human Rights Council

2024 2023 2022 2006

Security Council

1990 1989 1970 1969

Permanent representatives

4 recorded. Full list

NameFromTo
Elina Kalkku 2022-08-01in office / not recorded
Jukka Salovaara 2019-06-04in office / not recorded
Kai Sauer 2014-08-192019
Keijo Korhonen 19821986

Permanent mission

Mission
Permanent Mission of Finland to the United Nations
Address
Permanent Mission of Finland to the United Nations, 605 Third Avenue, 35th Floor, New York, NY 10158
National holiday
Independence Day, 6 December
Accredited diplomats
15

Accredited diplomats

The numbers

IndicatorLatestYearSince 1970
CO2 emissions per capita 5.535 2024
GDP 317,039,368,820 2025
GNI per capita 55,250 2025
Life expectancy at birth 82.34 2024
Military expenditure (% of GDP) 2.3 2024
Population 5,646,436 2025
Refugees hosted (UNHCR mandate) 102,544 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

63 statements to the General Debate since 1959, 121,220 words in all. The longest was 1982, at 4,338 words, delivered by STENBACK.

Of the 32 statements since 1994 whose speaker’s post the record gives: President ×20, Minister for Foreign Affairs ×9, UN Representative ×3. 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.

2025 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991 1990 1989 1988 1987 1986 1985 1984 1983 1982 1981 1980 1979 1978 1977 1976 1975 1974 1973 1972 1971 1969 1968 1967 1966 1965 1963 1961 1959

Emblems and location

Coat of arms of Finland
Coat of arms. Coat of arms of Finland.svg (Public domain) — Wikimedia Commons

Treaties joined

131 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 - 31 Jul 1958 a
Optional Protocol to the Convention on Special Missions concerning the compulsory settlement of disputes 28 Dec 1970 -
United Nations Convention on Jurisdictional Immunities of States and Their Property 14 Sep 2005 23 Apr 2014 A
Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the Specialized Agencies - 31 Jul 1958 a
Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations 20 Oct 1961 9 Dec 1969
Optional Protocol to the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, concerning Acquisition of Nationality 20 Oct 1961 9 Dec 1969
Optional Protocol to the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, concerning the Compulsory Settlement of Disputes 20 Oct 1961 9 Dec 1969
Vienna Convention on Consular Relations 28 Oct 1963 2 Jul 1980
Optional Protocol to the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations concerning Acquisition of Nationality 28 Oct 1963 2 Jul 1980
Optional Protocol to the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations concerning the Compulsory Settlement of Disputes 28 Oct 1963 2 Jul 1980
Convention on special missions 28 Dec 1970 -
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide - 18 Dec 1959 a
Convention on the Rights of the Child 26 Jan 1990 20 Jun 1991
Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty 13 Feb 1990 4 Apr 1991
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 30 Mar 2007 11 May 2016
International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance 6 Feb 2007 24 Mar 2023
International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination 6 Oct 1966 14 Jul 1970
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights 11 Oct 1967 19 Aug 1975
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 11 Oct 1967 19 Aug 1975
Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 11 Dec 1967 19 Aug 1975
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women 17 Jul 1980 4 Sep 1986
Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment 4 Feb 1985 30 Aug 1989
Constitution of the World Health Organization 22 Jul 1946 7 Oct 1947 A
Protocol concerning the Office international d'hygiène publique - 22 Jul 1946 s
Agreement on the establishment of the International Vaccine Institute - 7 Jul 2020 a
WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control 16 Jun 2003 24 Jan 2005
Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness - 7 Aug 2008 a
Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees - 10 Oct 1968 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 - 3 Feb 1948 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 - 31 Oct 1949 A
Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961 30 Mar 1961 6 Jul 1965
Convention on psychotropic substances 15 Oct 1971 20 Nov 1972
Protocol amending the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961 16 May 1972 12 Jan 1973
United Nations Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances 8 Feb 1989 15 Feb 1994 A
Protocol signed at Lake Success, New York, on 12 November 1947, to amend the Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Women and Children, concluded at Geneva on 30 September 1921, and the Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Women of Full Age, concluded at Geneva on 11 October 1933 - 6 Jan 1949 A
Protocol amending the International Agreement for the Suppression of the White Slave Traffic, signed at Paris on 18 May 1904, and the International Convention for the Suppression of the White Slave Traffic, signed at Paris on 4 May 1910 - 31 Oct 1949 A
Protocol to amend the Convention for the suppression of the circulation of, and traffic in, obscene publications, concluded at Geneva on 12 September 1923 - 6 Jan 1949 A
Protocol amending the Agreement for the Suppression of the Circulation of Obscene Publications, signed at Paris, on 4 May 1910 - 31 Oct 1949 A
United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods 26 May 1981 15 Dec 1987
Convention on Transit Trade of Land-locked States - 22 Jan 1971 a
Agreement establishing the Asian Development Bank 28 Jan 1966 22 Aug 1966
Agreement establishing the International Fund for Agricultural Development 24 Feb 1977 30 Nov 1977
Constitution of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization 28 Sep 1979 5 Jun 1981
Customs Convention on the Temporary Importation of Commercial Road Vehicles - 23 May 1967 a
Customs Convention on the Temporary Importation for Private Use of Aircraft and Pleasure Boats - 30 Sep 1965 a
Customs Convention on the International Transport of Goods under Cover of TIR Carnets (TIR Convention) - 14 Jun 1960 a
European Convention on Customs Treatment of Pallets used in International Transport - 19 Aug 1966 a
Customs Convention on Containers, 1972 26 Dec 1973 22 Feb 1983 A
Customs Convention on the International Transport of Goods under Cover of TIR Carnets (TIR Convention) 28 Dec 1976 27 Feb 1978
International Convention on the Harmonization of Frontier Controls of Goods - 8 Aug 1985 a
Convention concerning Customs Facilities for Touring - 21 Jun 1962 a
Additional Protocol to the Convention concerning Customs Facilities for Touring, relating to the Importation of Tourist Publicity Documents and Material - 21 Jun 1962 a
Customs Convention on the Temporary Importation of Private Road Vehicles - 21 Jun 1962 a
Customs Convention on Containers - 15 Jun 1961 a
Convention on the Taxation of Road Vehicles for Private Use in International Traffic - 18 May 1956 s
Convention on the Contract for the International Carriage of Goods by Road (CMR) - 27 Jun 1973 a
Convention on the Taxation of Road Vehicles engaged in International Goods Transport - 11 Jan 1967 a
Convention on the Taxation of Road Vehicles Engaged in International Passenger Transport - 11 Jan 1967 a
Agreement concerning the International Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Road (ADR) - 28 Feb 1979 a
Agreement concerning the adoption of harmonized technical United Nations Regulations for wheeled vehicles, equipment and parts which can be fitted and/or be used on wheeled vehicles and the conditions for reciprocal recognition of approvals granted on the basis of these United Nations Regulations - 19 Jul 1976 a
European Agreement concerning the Work of Crews of Vehicles Engaged in International Road Transport (AETR) - 16 Feb 1999 a
Agreement on the International Carriage of Perishable Foodstuffs and on the Special Equipment to be used for such Carriage (ATP) 1 - 15 May 1980 a
European Agreement supplementing the Convention on road traffic opened for signature at Vienna on 8 November 1968 22 Dec 1972 1 Apr 1985
European Agreement supplementing the Convention on Road Signs and Signals 22 Dec 1972 1 Apr 1985
Protocol on Road Markings, additional to the European Agreement supplementing the Convention on Road Signs and Signals - 1 Apr 1985 a
European Agreement on main international traffic arteries (AGR) - 19 Nov 1991 a
Protocol on Road Signs and Signals - 24 Sep 1958 a
Agreement concerning the Adoption of Uniform Conditions for Periodical Technical Inspections of Wheeled Vehicles and the Reciprocal Recognition of such Inspections 13 Nov 1997 20 Apr 2001
Agreement concerning the Establishing of Global Technical Regulations for Wheeled Vehicles, Equipment and Parts which can be fitted and/or be used on Wheeled Vehicles - 8 Jun 2001 a
Declaration on the construction of main international traffic arteries - 9 Sep 1965 a
United Nations Convention on the Carriage of Goods by Sea, 1978 18 Apr 1979 -
International Convention on Maritime Liens and Mortgages, 1993 29 Aug 1994 -
European Agreement on Main Inland Waterways of International Importance (AGN) 23 Jun 1997 -
European Agreement on Important International Combined Transport Lines and Related Installations (AGTC) 30 Oct 1991 -
Convention on the International Maritime Organization 6 Mar 1948 21 Apr 1959 A
Convention on a Code of Conduct for Liner Conferences - 31 Dec 1985 a
International Convention on Arrest of Ships, 1999 31 Aug 2000 -
Protocol amending the International Convention relating to Economic Statistics, signed at Geneva on 14 December 1928 - 17 Aug 1949 A
Agreement on the Importation of Educational, Scientific and Cultural Materials - 30 Apr 1956 A
International Convention for the Protection of Performers, Producers of Phonograms and Broadcasting Organisations 21 Jun 1962 21 Jul 1983
Convention for the Protection of Producers of Phonograms against Unauthorized Duplication of their Phonograms 21 Apr 1971 18 Dec 1972
Protocol to the Agreement on the Importation of Educational, Scientific and Cultural Materials of 22 November 1950 - 17 Feb 1987 a
International Sugar Agreement, 1992 [22 Dec 1992 ] [21 Sep 1993 ] (withdrawn)
International Tropical Timber Agreement, 2006 19 Feb 2008 17 Dec 2009 A
Food Assistance Convention 21 Dec 2012 21 Dec 2012 A
Convention on the Political Rights of Women - 6 Oct 1958 a
Convention on Consent to Marriage, Minimum Age for Marriage and Registration of Marriages - 18 Aug 1964 a
Protocol amending the Slavery Convention signed at Geneva on 25 September 1926 - 19 Mar 1954 A
Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court 7 Oct 1998 29 Dec 2000
International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism 10 Jan 2000 28 Jun 2002 A
United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime 12 Dec 2000 10 Feb 2004
Agreement on the Privileges and Immunities of the International Criminal Court 10 Sep 2002 8 Dec 2004 A
United Nations Convention against Corruption 9 Dec 2003 20 Jun 2006 A
International Convention Against the Taking of Hostages 29 Oct 1980 14 Apr 1983
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes against Internationally Protected Persons, including Diplomatic Agents 10 May 1974 31 Oct 1978
Convention on the Safety of United Nations and Associated Personnel 15 Dec 1994 5 Jan 2001
International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings 23 Jan 1998 28 May 2002 A
Convention on the Territorial Sea and the Contiguous Zone 27 Oct 1958 16 Feb 1965
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 28 May 2025 A
Convention on the High Seas 27 Oct 1958 16 Feb 1965
Convention on Fishing and Conservation of the Living Resources of the High Seas 27 Oct 1958 16 Feb 1965
Convention on the Continental Shelf 27 Oct 1958 16 Feb 1965
Optional Protocol of Signature concerning the Compulsory Settlement of Disputes 27 Oct 1958 16 Feb 1965
Agreement for the Implementation of the Provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of 10 December 1982 relating to the Conservation and Management of Straddling Fish Stocks and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks 27 Jun 1996 19 Dec 2003
Agreement on the Privileges and Immunities of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea 31 Mar 1999 28 Jul 2006
Protocol on the Privileges and Immunities of the International Seabed Authority 31 Mar 1999 31 Oct 2007 A
Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards 29 Dec 1958 19 Jan 1962
European Convention on International Commercial Arbitration 21 Dec 1961 -
United Nations Convention on Transparency in Treaty-based Investor-State Arbitration 17 Mar 2015 -
Tampere Convention on the Provision of Telecommunication Resources for Disaster Mitigation and Relief Operations 18 Jun 1998 1 Apr 1999 A
Convention on the prohibition of military or any other hostile use of environmental modification techniques 18 May 1977 12 May 1978
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) 10 Apr 1981 8 Apr 1982
Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction 14 Jan 1993 7 Feb 1995
Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty 24 Sep 1996 15 Jan 1999
Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction - [ 9 Jan 2012 a] (withdrawn)
Arms Trade Treaty 3 Jun 2013 2 Apr 2014
Convention on long-range transboundary air pollution 13 Nov 1979 15 Apr 1981
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa 15 Oct 1994 20 Sep 1995 A
Convention on the Law of the Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses 31 Oct 1997 23 Jan 1998 A
Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-Making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters 25 Jun 1998 1 Sep 2004 A
Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade 11 Sep 1998 4 Jun 2004 A
Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants 23 May 2001 3 Sep 2002 A
Protocol on Civil Liability and Compensation for Damage Caused by the Transboundary Effects of Industrial Accidents on Transboundary Waters to the 1992 Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes and to the 1992 Convention on the Transboundary Effects of Industrial Accidents 21 May 2003 -
Minamata Convention on Mercury 10 Oct 2013 1 Jun 2017 A
Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer 22 Mar 1985 26 Sep 1986
Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal 22 Mar 1989 19 Nov 1991 A
Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context 26 Feb 1991 10 Aug 1995 A
Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes 18 Mar 1992 21 Feb 1996 A
Convention on the Transboundary Effects of Industrial Accidents 18 Mar 1992 13 Sep 1999 A
Convention on Biological Diversity 5 Jun 1992 27 Jul 1994 A
Agreement on the Conservation of Small Cetaceans of the Baltic, North East Atlantic, Irish and North Seas - 13 Sep 1999 a

Recorded votes

ResolutionDateVote
A/RES/80/290 2026-07-10 yes
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
iso2FI wikidata 1.02026-10-12T02:20:06.565387+00:00
iso3FIN wikidata 1.02026-10-12T02:20:06.565394+00:00
m49246 un_sdg 1.02026-10-12T02:20:11.770226+00:00
nameFinland wikidata 1.02026-10-12T02:20:06.565372+00:00
un_admission_date1955-12-14 wikidata 1.02026-10-12T02:20:06.565380+00:00
unsd_nameFinland un_sdg 1.02026-10-12T02:20:11.770233+00:00

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