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Guyana at the United Nations

Flag of Guyana
Flag of Guyana.svg by Whitney Smith (Public domain) — Wikimedia Commons
Admitted
1970-02-23
ISO 3166-1
GY / GUY
Admitted by
A/RES/2133 (XXI)

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 1970-02-23

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

2018 2017 2016 2008 2007 2006 1998 1997 1996 1986 1985 1984

Security Council

2025 2024 1983 1982 1976 1975

Permanent representatives

1 recorded. Full list

NameFromTo
Rashleigh Jackson 1973-01-301979

Permanent mission

Mission
Permanent Mission of Guyana to the United Nations
Address
Permanent Mission of the, Co-operative Republic of Guyana to the United Nations, 801 Second Avenue, 5th Floor, New York, NY 10017
National holiday
23 February
Accredited diplomats
6

Accredited diplomats

The numbers

IndicatorLatestYearSince 1970
CO2 emissions per capita 4.55861 2024
GDP 2.70975e+10 2025
GNI per capita 28,470 2025
Life expectancy at birth 70.319 2024
Military expenditure (% of GDP) 0.868162 2024
Net official development assistance received 1.3979e+08 2023
Population 835,986 2025
Refugees hosted (UNHCR mandate) 35 2025
Refugees originating (UNHCR mandate) 342 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

56 statements to the General Debate since 1966, 165,095 words in all. The longest was 1968, at 7,077 words, delivered by Mr. RAMPHAL.

Of the 32 statements since 1994 whose speaker’s post the record gives: President ×19, Minister for Foreign Affairs ×10, Vice-President and Minister for Foreign Affairs ×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 Guyana
Coat of arms. Coat of arms of Guyana.svg by Sodacan (CC BY-SA) — Wikimedia Commons
Location of Guyana
Location. GUY orthographic.svg by Marcom266~commonswiki (CC BY-SA) — Wikimedia Commons

Treaties joined

55 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 - 28 Dec 1972 a
Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the Specialized Agencies - 13 Sep 1973 a
Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations - 28 Dec 1972 a
Vienna Convention on Consular Relations - 13 Sep 1973 a
International Convention against Apartheid in Sports 1 Oct 1986 1 Oct 1986
Convention on the Rights of the Child 30 Sep 1990 14 Jan 1991
International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families 15 Sep 2005 7 Jul 2010
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 11 Apr 2007 10 Sep 2014
International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination 11 Dec 1968 15 Feb 1977
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights 22 Aug 1968 15 Feb 1977
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 22 Aug 1968 15 Feb 1977
Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights - 5 Jan 1999 a
International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid - 30 Sep 1977 a
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women 17 Jul 1980 17 Jul 1980
Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment 25 Jan 1988 19 May 1988
Constitution of the World Health Organization - 27 Sep 1966 A
WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control - 15 Sep 2005 a
Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961 - 15 Jul 2002 a
Convention on psychotropic substances 21 Feb 1971 4 May 1977
United Nations Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances - 19 Mar 1993 a
United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods - 25 Sep 2014 a
Agreement to establish the South Centre - 16 Sep 1994 s
Agreement establishing the Caribbean Development Bank 18 Oct 1969 22 Jan 1970
Agreement establishing the International Fund for Agricultural Development - 13 Dec 1977 a
Constitution of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization 17 Jul 1984 17 Jul 1984
Convention on the International Maritime Organization - 13 May 1980 A
Convention on a Code of Conduct for Liner Conferences - 7 Jan 1980 a
International Agreement for the Establishment of the University for Peace - 9 Aug 2001 a
International Sugar Agreement, 1992 24 Dec 1992 24 Dec 1992
International Tropical Timber Agreement, 2006 - 2 Dec 2008 s
Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court 28 Dec 2000 24 Sep 2004
International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism - 12 Sep 2007 a
United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime - 14 Sep 2004 a
Agreement on the Privileges and Immunities of the International Criminal Court - 16 Nov 2005 a
United Nations Convention against Corruption - 16 Apr 2008 a
International Convention Against the Taking of Hostages - 12 Sep 2007 a
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes against Internationally Protected Persons, including Diplomatic Agents - 12 Sep 2007 a
Convention on the Safety of United Nations and Associated Personnel - 21 May 2004 a
International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings - 12 Sep 2007 a
Protocol on the Privileges and Immunities of the International Seabed Authority - 25 Oct 2011 a
Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards - 25 Sep 2014 a
Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction 6 Oct 1993 12 Sep 1997
Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty 7 Sep 2000 7 Mar 2001
Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction 4 Dec 1997 5 Aug 2003
Convention on Cluster Munitions - 31 Oct 2014 a
Arms Trade Treaty 3 Jun 2013 4 Jul 2013
Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons 20 Sep 2017 20 Sep 2017
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa - 26 Jun 1997 a
Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade - 25 Jun 2007 a
Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants - 12 Sep 2007 a
Minamata Convention on Mercury 10 Oct 2013 24 Sep 2014
Regional Agreement on Access to Information, Public Participation and Justice in Environmental Matters in Latin America and the Caribbean 27 Sep 2018 18 Apr 2019
Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer - 12 Aug 1993 a
Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal - 4 Apr 2001 a
Convention on Biological Diversity 13 Jun 1992 29 Aug 1994

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
iso2GY wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.900654+00:00
iso3GUY wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.900664+00:00
m49328 un_sdg 1.02026-08-26T06:55:41.132394+00:00
nameGuyana wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.900635+00:00
un_admission_date1970-02-23 wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.900645+00:00
unsd_nameGuyana un_sdg 1.02026-08-26T06:55:41.132402+00:00

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