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Iceland at the United Nations

Flag of Iceland
Flag of Iceland.svg (Public domain) — Wikimedia Commons
Admitted
1946-11-19
ISO 3166-1
IS / ISL
Admitted by
A/RES/34 (I)

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 1946-11-19

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

2008 2007 2006 2005 1999 1998 1997 1987 1986 1985

Human Rights Council

2027 pending 2026 2025 2019 2018

Permanent mission

Mission
Permanent Mission of Iceland to the United Nations
Address
Permanent Mission of Iceland to the United Nations, 733 Third Avenue, 18th Floor, New York, NY 10017
National holiday
Anniversary of the Establishment of the Republic, 17 June
Accredited diplomats
6

Accredited diplomats

The numbers

IndicatorLatestYearSince 1970
CO2 emissions per capita 8.51992 2024
GDP 3.85825e+10 2025
GNI per capita 89,220 2025
Life expectancy at birth 82.8098 2024
Population 392,404 2025
Refugees hosted (UNHCR mandate) 8,459 2025
Refugees originating (UNHCR mandate) 0 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 1953, 145,585 words in all. The longest was 1959, at 5,660 words, delivered by Mr. Thors.

Of the 32 statements since 1994 whose speaker’s post the record gives: Minister for Foreign Affairs ×23, Minister of Foreign Affairs ×4, Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Development Coperation ×1, Prime Minister ×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 Iceland
Coat of arms. Coat of arms of Iceland.svg by Rkt2312 (Public domain) — Wikimedia Commons
Location of Iceland
Location. Iceland (orthographic projection).svg by Ninrouter (CC BY-SA) — Wikimedia Commons

Treaties joined

69 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 - 10 Mar 1948 a
United Nations Convention on Jurisdictional Immunities of States and Their Property 16 Sep 2005 -
Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the Specialized Agencies - 17 Jan 2006 a
Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations - 18 May 1971 a
Optional Protocol to the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, concerning Acquisition of Nationality - 18 May 1971 a
Optional Protocol to the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, concerning the Compulsory Settlement of Disputes - 18 May 1971 a
Vienna Convention on Consular Relations - 1 Jun 1978 a
Optional Protocol to the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations concerning Acquisition of Nationality - 1 Jun 1978 a
Optional Protocol to the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations concerning the Compulsory Settlement of Disputes - 1 Jun 1978 a
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide 14 May 1949 29 Aug 1949
Convention on the Rights of the Child 26 Jan 1990 28 Oct 1992
Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty 30 Jan 1991 2 Apr 1991
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 30 Mar 2007 23 Sep 2016
International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance 1 Oct 2008 -
International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination 14 Nov 1966 13 Mar 1967
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights 30 Dec 1968 22 Aug 1979
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 30 Dec 1968 22 Aug 1979
Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights - 22 Aug 1979 a
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women 24 Jul 1980 18 Jun 1985
Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment 4 Feb 1985 23 Oct 1996
Constitution of the World Health Organization - 17 Jun 1948 A
WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control 16 Jun 2003 14 Jun 2004
Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness - 26 Jan 2021 a
Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees - 26 Apr 1968 a
Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961 - 18 Dec 1974 a
Convention on psychotropic substances - 18 Dec 1974 a
Protocol amending the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961 - 18 Dec 1974 a
United Nations Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances - 2 Sep 1997 a
Protocol amending the Agreement for the Suppression of the Circulation of Obscene Publications, signed at Paris, on 4 May 1910 - 25 Oct 1950 A
United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods - 10 May 2001 a
Agreement establishing the International Fund for Agricultural Development - 8 Aug 2001 a
Agreement concerning the International Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Road (ADR) - 24 Feb 2011 a
Convention on the International Maritime Organization - 8 Nov 1960 A
International Convention for the Protection of Performers, Producers of Phonograms and Broadcasting Organisations 26 Oct 1961 15 Mar 1994 a
Convention on the Political Rights of Women 25 Nov 1953 30 Jun 1954
Convention on Consent to Marriage, Minimum Age for Marriage and Registration of Marriages - 18 Oct 1977 a
Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court 26 Aug 1998 25 May 2000
International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism 1 Oct 2001 15 Apr 2002
United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime 13 Dec 2000 13 May 2010
Agreement on the Privileges and Immunities of the International Criminal Court 10 Sep 2002 1 Dec 2003
United Nations Convention against Corruption - 1 Mar 2011 a
International Convention Against the Taking of Hostages - 6 Jul 1981 a
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes against Internationally Protected Persons, including Diplomatic Agents 10 May 1974 2 Aug 1977
Convention on the Safety of United Nations and Associated Personnel - 10 May 2001 a
International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings 28 Sep 1998 15 Apr 2002
Convention on the Territorial Sea and the Contiguous Zone 29 Apr 1958 -
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 17 Dec 2025
Convention on the High Seas 29 Apr 1958 -
Convention on Fishing and Conservation of the Living Resources of the High Seas 29 Apr 1958 -
Convention on the Continental Shelf 29 Apr 1958 -
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 4 Dec 1995 14 Feb 1997
Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards - 24 Jan 2002 a
Tampere Convention on the Provision of Telecommunication Resources for Disaster Mitigation and Relief Operations 20 Jun 2003 13 May 2011
Convention on the prohibition of military or any other hostile use of environmental modification techniques 18 May 1977 -
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 22 Aug 2008
Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction 13 Jan 1993 28 Apr 1997
Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty 24 Sep 1996 26 Jun 2000
Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction 4 Dec 1997 5 May 1999
Convention on Cluster Munitions 3 Dec 2008 31 Aug 2015
Arms Trade Treaty 3 Jun 2013 2 Jul 2013
Convention on long-range transboundary air pollution 13 Nov 1979 5 May 1983
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa - 3 Jun 1997 a
Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-Making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters 25 Jun 1998 20 Oct 2011
Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants 23 May 2001 29 May 2002
Minamata Convention on Mercury - 3 May 2018 a
Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer - 29 Aug 1989 a
Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal - 28 Jun 1995 a
Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context 26 Feb 1991 -
Convention on Biological Diversity 10 Jun 1992 12 Sep 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
iso2IS wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.903653+00:00
iso3ISL wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.903665+00:00
m49352 un_sdg 1.02026-08-26T06:55:41.135889+00:00
nameIceland wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.903632+00:00
un_admission_date1946-11-19 wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.903643+00:00
unsd_nameIceland un_sdg 1.02026-08-26T06:55:41.135896+00:00

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