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Member state

Guatemala at the United Nations

Flag of Guatemala
Flag of Guatemala.svg by K21edgo (Public domain) — Wikimedia Commons
Admitted
1945-11-21
ISO 3166-1
GT / GTM
Charter signed
1945-06-26
Charter ratified
1945-11-21

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 1945-11-21

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 2016 2015 2014 2011 2010 2009 2004 2003 2002 1975 1974 1969 1968 1967

Human Rights Council

2013 2012 2011 2010 2007 2006

Security Council

2013 2012

Permanent mission

Mission
Permanent Mission of Guatemala to the United Nations
Address
Permanent Mission of Guatemala to the United Nations, 57 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10016
National holiday
Independence Day, 15 September
Accredited diplomats
11

Accredited diplomats

The numbers

IndicatorLatestYearSince 1994
Adult literacy rate 82.11 2024
CO2 emissions per capita 1.10665 2024
GDP 1.23306e+11 2025
GNI per capita 6,360 2025
Life expectancy at birth 72.746 2024
Military expenditure (% of GDP) 0.367622 2024
Net official development assistance received 4.47019e+08 2023
Population 1.86879e+07 2025
Refugees hosted (UNHCR mandate) 1,586 2025
Refugees originating (UNHCR mandate) 34,994 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

71 statements to the General Debate since 1950, 213,932 words in all. The longest was 1978, at 7,332 words, delivered by Castillo-Valdes.

Of the 32 statements since 1994 whose speaker’s post the record gives: President ×23, Minister for Foreign Affairs ×6, UN Representative ×1, Minister for Foregn Affairs ×1. 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 Guatemala
Coat of arms. Coat of arms of Guatemala.svg by User:K21edgo (Public domain) — Wikimedia Commons

Treaties joined

84 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 - 21 Nov 1945
Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations - 7 Jul 1947 a
Optional Protocol to the Convention on Special Missions concerning the compulsory settlement of disputes - 12 Feb 1988 a
Vienna Convention on the Representation of States in their Relations with International Organizations of a Universal Character - 14 Sep 1981 a
Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the Specialized Agencies - 30 Jun 1951 a
Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations 18 Apr 1961 1 Oct 1963
Vienna Convention on Consular Relations - 9 Feb 1973 a
Convention on special missions - 12 Feb 1988 a
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide 22 Jun 1949 13 Jan 1950
Convention on the Rights of the Child 26 Jan 1990 6 Jun 1990
International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families 7 Sep 2000 14 Mar 2003
Agreement establishing the Fund for the Development of the Indigenous Peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean 24 Jul 1992 28 Nov 2000
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 30 Mar 2007 7 Apr 2009
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 30 Mar 2007 7 Apr 2009
International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance 6 Feb 2007 -
International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination 8 Sep 1967 18 Jan 1983
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights - 19 May 1988 a
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights - 5 May 1992 a
Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights - 28 Nov 2000 a
International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid - 15 Jun 2005 a
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women 8 Jun 1981 12 Aug 1982
Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment - 5 Jan 1990 a
Constitution of the World Health Organization 22 Jul 1946 26 Aug 1949 A
Protocol concerning the Office international d'hygiène publique 22 Jul 1946 26 Aug 1949 A
WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control 25 Sep 2003 16 Nov 2005
Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness - 19 Jul 2001 a
Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees - 22 Sep 1983 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 13 Dec 1946 -
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 -
Protocol for Limiting and Regulating the Cultivation of the Poppy Plant, the Production of, International and Wholesale Trade in, and use of Opium - 29 May 1956 a
Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961 26 Jul 1961 1 Dec 1967
Convention on psychotropic substances - 13 Aug 1979 a
Protocol amending the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961 25 Mar 1972 9 Dec 1975
United Nations Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances 20 Dec 1988 28 Feb 1991
Protocol to amend the Convention for the suppression of the circulation of, and traffic in, obscene publications, concluded at Geneva on 12 September 1923 9 Jul 1948 26 Aug 1949 A
United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods - 11 Dec 2019 a
Agreement establishing the International Fund for Agricultural Development - 30 Nov 1978 a
Constitution of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization 13 May 1981 8 Jul 1983
Convention concerning Customs Facilities for Touring 4 Jun 1954 -
Customs Convention on the Temporary Importation of Private Road Vehicles 4 Jun 1954 -
Protocol concerning countries or territories at present occupied - 10 Jan 1962 a
Convention on the International Maritime Organization - 16 Mar 1983 A
Convention on a Code of Conduct for Liner Conferences 15 Nov 1974 3 Mar 1976
Agreement on the Importation of Educational, Scientific and Cultural Materials 22 Nov 1950 8 Jul 1960
International Convention for the Protection of Performers, Producers of Phonograms and Broadcasting Organisations - 14 Oct 1976 a
Convention for the Protection of Producers of Phonograms against Unauthorized Duplication of their Phonograms - 14 Oct 1976 a
International Agreement for the Establishment of the University for Peace - 14 Sep 1981 s
International Sugar Agreement, 1992 31 Dec 1992 31 May 2006
International Tropical Timber Agreement, 2006 14 Jul 2006 3 Feb 2011
Convention on the Political Rights of Women 31 Mar 1953 7 Oct 1959
Convention on Consent to Marriage, Minimum Age for Marriage and Registration of Marriages - 18 Jan 1983 a
Convention on the International Right of Correction 1 Apr 1953 9 May 1957
Convention on the International Right of Correction 1 Apr 1953 9 May 1957
Protocol amending the Slavery Convention signed at Geneva on 25 September 1926 - 11 Nov 1983 a
Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court - 2 Apr 2012 a
International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism 23 Oct 2001 12 Feb 2002
United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime 12 Dec 2000 25 Sep 2003
United Nations Convention against Corruption 9 Dec 2003 3 Nov 2006
International Convention Against the Taking of Hostages 30 Apr 1980 11 Mar 1983
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes against Internationally Protected Persons, including Diplomatic Agents 12 Dec 1974 18 Jan 1983
Convention on the Safety of United Nations and Associated Personnel - 23 Sep 2008 a
International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings - 12 Feb 2002 a
Convention on the Territorial Sea and the Contiguous Zone 29 Apr 1958 -
Convention on the High Seas 29 Apr 1958 27 Nov 1961
Convention on the Continental Shelf 29 Apr 1958 27 Nov 1961
Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards - 21 Mar 1984 a
Agreement governing the Activities of States on the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies 20 Nov 1980 -
Convention on the prohibition of military or any other hostile use of environmental modification techniques - 21 Mar 1988 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) - 21 Jul 1983 a
Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction 14 Jan 1993 12 Feb 2003
Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty 20 Sep 1999 12 Jan 2012
Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction 3 Dec 1997 26 Mar 1999
Convention on Cluster Munitions 3 Dec 2008 3 Nov 2010
Arms Trade Treaty 24 Jun 2013 12 Jul 2016
Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons 20 Sep 2017 13 Jun 2022
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa - 10 Sep 1998 a
Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade - 19 Apr 2010 a
Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants 29 Jan 2002 30 Jul 2008
Minamata Convention on Mercury 10 Oct 2013 -
Regional Agreement on Access to Information, Public Participation and Justice in Environmental Matters in Latin America and the Caribbean 27 Sep 2018 -
Regional Agreement on Access to Information, Public Participation and Justice in Environmental Matters in Latin America and the Caribbean 27 Sep 2018 -
Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer - 11 Sep 1987 a
Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal 22 Mar 1989 15 May 1995
Convention on Biological Diversity 13 Jun 1992 10 Jul 1995

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
iso2GT wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.907298+00:00
iso3GTM wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.907308+00:00
m49320 un_sdg 1.02026-08-26T06:55:41.143176+00:00
nameGuatemala wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.907278+00:00
un_admission_date1945-11-21 wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.907287+00:00
unsd_nameGuatemala un_sdg 1.02026-08-26T06:55:41.143186+00:00

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