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Jamaica at the United Nations

Flag of Jamaica
Flag of Jamaica.svg (Public domain) — Wikimedia Commons
Admitted
1962-09-18
ISO 3166-1
JM / JAM
Admitted by
A/RES/1750 (XVII)

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 1962-09-18

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

2021 2020 2019 2005 2004 2003 1997 1996 1995 1992 1991 1990 1988 1987 1986 1980 1979 1978 1977 1976 1975 1974 1971 1970 1969

Security Council

2001 2000 1980 1979

Permanent mission

Mission
Permanent Mission of Jamaica to the United Nations
Address
Permanent Mission of Jamaica to the United Nations, 767 Third Avenue, 9th Floor, New York, NY 10017
National holiday
Independence Day, 6 August
Accredited diplomats
8

Accredited diplomats

The numbers

IndicatorLatestYearSince 1970
CO2 emissions per capita 2.84378 2024
GDP 2.27049e+10 2025
GNI per capita 7,790 2025
Life expectancy at birth 71.606 2024
Military expenditure (% of GDP) 1.27386 2024
Net official development assistance received 8.6415e+07 2023
Population 2.83708e+06 2025
Refugees hosted (UNHCR mandate) 31 2022
Refugees originating (UNHCR mandate) 2,642 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 1962, 194,501 words in all. The longest was 1973, at 5,536 words, delivered by Thompson.

Of the 32 statements since 1994 whose speaker’s post the record gives: Prime Minister ×12, Minister for Foreign Affairs ×6, Deputy Prime Minister ×6, Prime Minister and Minister of Defence, Economic Growth and Job Creation ×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.

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Emblems and location

Coat of arms of Jamaica
Coat of arms. Coat of arms of Jamaica.svg by William Sancroft (Public domain) — Wikimedia Commons
Location of Jamaica
Location. Jamaica (orthographic projection).svg by Connormah (CC BY-SA) — Wikimedia Commons

Treaties joined

83 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 - 9 Sep 1963 a
Optional Protocol to the Convention on Special Missions concerning the compulsory settlement of disputes 1 Jul 1970 -
Vienna Convention on the Representation of States in their Relations with International Organizations of a Universal Character - 16 Nov 1990 a
Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the Specialized Agencies - 4 Nov 1963 a
Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations - 5 Jun 1963 a
Vienna Convention on Consular Relations - 9 Feb 1976 a
Convention on special missions 18 Dec 1969 -
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide - 23 Sep 1968 a
International Convention against Apartheid in Sports 16 May 1986 2 Oct 1986
Convention on the Rights of the Child 26 Jan 1990 14 May 1991
International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families 25 Sep 2008 25 Sep 2008
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 30 Mar 2007 30 Mar 2007
International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination 14 Aug 1966 4 Jun 1971
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights 19 Dec 1966 3 Oct 1975
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 19 Dec 1966 3 Oct 1975
Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights [19 Dec 1966 ] [ 3 Oct 1975 ] (withdrawn)
International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid 30 Mar 1976 18 Feb 1977
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women 17 Jul 1980 19 Oct 1984
Constitution of the World Health Organization - 21 Mar 1963 A
Agreement on the establishment of the International Vaccine Institute 14 Nov 1997 -
WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control 24 Sep 2003 7 Jul 2005
Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness - 9 Jan 2013 a
Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees - 30 Oct 1980 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 - 26 Dec 1963 d
Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961 - 29 Apr 1964 a
Convention on psychotropic substances - 6 Oct 1989 a
Protocol amending the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961 - 6 Oct 1989 a
United Nations Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances 2 Oct 1989 29 Dec 1995
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 - 16 Mar 1965 A
Agreement to establish the South Centre 23 Nov 1994 8 Jul 1998
Agreement establishing the Caribbean Development Bank 18 Oct 1969 9 Jan 1970
Agreement establishing the International Fund for Agricultural Development 24 Mar 1977 13 Apr 1977
Constitution of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization 1 Nov 1982 10 Dec 1982
Customs Convention on the Temporary Importation for Private Use of Aircraft and Pleasure Boats - 11 Nov 1963 d
Convention concerning Customs Facilities for Touring - 11 Nov 1963 d
Additional Protocol to the Convention concerning Customs Facilities for Touring, relating to the Importation of Tourist Publicity Documents and Material - 11 Nov 1963 d
Customs Convention on the Temporary Importation of Private Road Vehicles - 11 Nov 1963 d
Customs Convention on Containers - 11 Nov 1963 d
Convention on the International Maritime Organization - 11 May 1976 A
Convention on a Code of Conduct for Liner Conferences - 20 Jul 1982 a
International Convention for the Protection of Performers, Producers of Phonograms and Broadcasting Organisations - 27 Oct 1993 a
Convention for the Protection of Producers of Phonograms against Unauthorized Duplication of their Phonograms - 7 Oct 1993 a
International Sugar Agreement, 1992 23 Dec 1992 23 Mar 1993
International Cocoa Agreement, 2010 25 Feb 2025 -
Agreement establishing the Asian Coconut Community - 30 Nov 2011 a
Convention on the Political Rights of Women - 14 Aug 1966 a
Convention on the International Right of Correction - 15 Jun 1967 a
Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court 8 Sep 2000 -
International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism 10 Nov 2001 16 Sep 2005
United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime 26 Sep 2001 29 Sep 2003
Agreement on the Privileges and Immunities of the International Criminal Court 30 Jun 2004 -
United Nations Convention against Corruption 16 Sep 2005 5 Mar 2008
United Nations Convention against Cybercrime; Strengthening International Cooperation for Combating Certain Crimes Committed by Means of Information and Communications Technology Systems and for the Sharing of Evidence in Electronic Form of Serious Crimes 25 Oct 2025 -
International Convention Against the Taking of Hostages 27 Feb 1980 9 Aug 2005
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes against Internationally Protected Persons, including Diplomatic Agents - 21 Sep 1978 a
Convention on the Safety of United Nations and Associated Personnel - 8 Sep 2000 a
International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings - 9 Aug 2005 a
Convention on the Territorial Sea and the Contiguous Zone - 8 Oct 1965 d
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 24 Sep 2024 9 Jun 2025
Convention on the High Seas - 8 Oct 1965 d
Convention on Fishing and Conservation of the Living Resources of the High Seas - 16 Apr 1964 d
Convention on the Continental Shelf - 8 Oct 1965 a
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 -
Agreement on the Privileges and Immunities of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea - 1 Dec 2005 a
Protocol on the Privileges and Immunities of the International Seabed Authority 26 Aug 1998 25 Sep 2002
Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards - 10 Jul 2002 a
United Nations Convention on International Settlement Agreements Resulting from Mediation 7 Aug 2019 -
Convention relating to the distribution of programme-carrying signals transmitted by satellite - 12 Oct 1999 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) - 25 Sep 2008 a
Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction 18 Apr 1997 8 Sep 2000
Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty 11 Nov 1996 13 Nov 2001
Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction 3 Dec 1997 17 Jul 1998
Convention on Cluster Munitions 12 Jun 2009 -
Arms Trade Treaty 3 Jun 2013 3 Jun 2014
Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons 8 Dec 2017 23 Oct 2020
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa - 12 Nov 1997 a
Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade - 20 Aug 2002 a
Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants 23 May 2001 1 Jun 2007
Minamata Convention on Mercury 10 Oct 2013 19 Jul 2017
Regional Agreement on Access to Information, Public Participation and Justice in Environmental Matters in Latin America and the Caribbean 26 Sep 2019 -
Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer - 31 Mar 1993 a
Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal - 23 Jan 2003 a
Convention on Biological Diversity 11 Jun 1992 6 Jan 1995

Recorded votes

ResolutionDateVote
A/RES/80/282 - yes
A/RES/80/286 - non-voting
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
iso2JM wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.900956+00:00
iso3JAM wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.900962+00:00
m49388 un_sdg 1.02026-08-26T06:55:41.132643+00:00
nameJamaica wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.900945+00:00
un_admission_date1962-09-18 wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.900951+00:00
unsd_nameJamaica un_sdg 1.02026-08-26T06:55:41.132650+00:00

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