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Jordan at the United Nations

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

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 1955-12-14

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

1998 1997 1996 1991 1990 1989 1982 1981 1976 1975 1974 1963 1962 1961

Human Rights Council

2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006

Security Council

2015 2014 1983 1982 1966 1965

Permanent mission

Mission
Permanent Mission of Jordan to the United Nations
Address
Permanent Mission of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan to the United Nations, 866 Second Avenue, 4th Floor, New York, NY 10017
National holiday
Independence Day, 25 May
Accredited diplomats
10

Accredited diplomats

The numbers

IndicatorLatestYearSince 1979
Adult literacy rate 94.44 2024
CO2 emissions per capita 2.08987 2024
GDP 6.16101e+10 2025
GNI per capita 5,260 2025
Life expectancy at birth 77.981 2024
Military expenditure (% of GDP) 4.80019 2024
Net official development assistance received 2.83425e+09 2023
Population 1.15207e+07 2025
Refugees hosted (UNHCR mandate) 436,226 2025
Refugees hosted (UNRWA mandate) 2.39818e+06 2025
Refugees originating (UNHCR mandate) 5,471 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

67 statements to the General Debate since 1956, 187,037 words in all. The longest was 1958, at 6,047 words, delivered by Mr. Rifa'i.

Of the 32 statements since 1994 whose speaker’s post the record gives: Minister for Foreign Affairs ×13, King ×10, Head of State ×7, Crown Prince ×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 Jordan
Coat of arms. Coat of arms of Jordan.svg by Original Author: Vector-Images.com<br>, Converted from EPS to SVG by: Oren neu dag (Public domain) — Wikimedia Commons

Treaties joined

71 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 - 3 Jan 1958 a
Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the Specialized Agencies - 12 Dec 1950 a
Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations - 29 Jul 1971 a
Vienna Convention on Consular Relations - 7 Mar 1973 a
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide - 3 Apr 1950 a
International Convention against Apartheid in Sports 16 May 1986 26 Aug 1987
Convention on the Rights of the Child 29 Aug 1990 24 May 1991
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 30 Mar 2007 31 Mar 2008
International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination - 30 May 1974 a
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights 30 Jun 1972 28 May 1975
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 30 Jun 1972 28 May 1975
International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid 5 Jun 1974 1 Jul 1992
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women 3 Dec 1980 1 Jul 1992
Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment - 13 Nov 1991 a
Constitution of the World Health Organization 22 Jul 1946 7 Apr 1947 A
Protocol concerning the Office international d'hygiène publique - 22 Jul 1946 s
WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control 28 May 2004 19 Aug 2004
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 - 7 May 1958 A
Protocol for Limiting and Regulating the Cultivation of the Poppy Plant, the Production of, International and Wholesale Trade in, and use of Opium - 7 May 1958 a
Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961 30 Mar 1961 15 Nov 1962
Convention on psychotropic substances - 8 Aug 1975 a
Protocol amending the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961 25 Mar 1972 28 Feb 1973
United Nations Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances 20 Dec 1988 16 Apr 1990
Agreement to establish the South Centre 30 Sep 1994 29 Dec 1995
Agreement Establishing the Bank for Economic Cooperation and Development in the Middle East and North Africa 24 Oct 1996 -
Agreement establishing the International Fund for Agricultural Development - 15 Feb 1979 a
Constitution of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization 29 Jun 1981 30 Aug 1982
Customs Convention on the International Transport of Goods under Cover of TIR Carnets (TIR Convention) - 8 Nov 1973 a
Customs Convention on the International Transport of Goods under Cover of TIR Carnets (TIR Convention) - 24 Dec 1985 a
International Convention on the Harmonization of Frontier Controls of Goods - 13 Nov 2008 a
Convention concerning Customs Facilities for Touring - 18 Dec 1957 a
Additional Protocol to the Convention concerning Customs Facilities for Touring, relating to the Importation of Tourist Publicity Documents and Material - 18 Dec 1957 a
Customs Convention on the Temporary Importation of Private Road Vehicles - 18 Dec 1957 a
Convention on the Contract for the International Carriage of Goods by Road (CMR) - 13 Nov 2008 a
Agreement on International Roads between Arab Countries 10 May 2001 18 Jan 2002
Agreement on International Railways between Arab Countries 14 Apr 2003 16 Apr 2004
United Nations Convention on the Carriage of Goods by Sea, 1978 - 10 May 2001 a
Memorandum of Understanding on Maritime Transport Cooperation between Arab Countries 9 May 2005 27 Sep 2005
Convention on the International Maritime Organization - 9 Nov 1973 A
Convention on a Code of Conduct for Liner Conferences - 17 Mar 1980 a
Agreement for Facilitating the International Circulation of Visual and Auditory Materials of an Educational, Scientific and Cultural Character - 7 Jul 1972 a
Agreement on the Importation of Educational, Scientific and Cultural Materials - 31 Dec 1958 A
Statutes of the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology - 8 Nov 2002 a
International Agreement on Olive Oil and Table Olives, 2015 22 Dec 2016 19 Apr 2017
Convention on the Political Rights of Women - 1 Jul 1992 a
Convention on Consent to Marriage, Minimum Age for Marriage and Registration of Marriages - 1 Jul 1992 a
Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court 7 Oct 1998 11 Apr 2002
International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism 24 Sep 2001 28 Aug 2003
United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime 26 Nov 2002 22 May 2009
Agreement on the Privileges and Immunities of the International Criminal Court 28 Jun 2004 -
United Nations Convention against Corruption 9 Dec 2003 24 Feb 2005
International Convention Against the Taking of Hostages - 19 Feb 1986 a
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes against Internationally Protected Persons, including Diplomatic Agents - 18 Dec 1984 a
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 9 Jun 2025 9 Jun 2025
Agreement on the Privileges and Immunities of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea 17 Apr 1998 -
Protocol on the Privileges and Immunities of the International Seabed Authority - 21 Dec 2017 a
Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards 10 Jun 1958 15 Nov 1979
United Nations Convention on International Settlement Agreements Resulting from Mediation 7 Aug 2019 -
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) - 19 Oct 1995 a
Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction - 29 Oct 1997 a
Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty 26 Sep 1996 25 Aug 1998
Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction 11 Aug 1998 13 Nov 1998
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa 13 Apr 1995 21 Oct 1996
Convention on the Law of the Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses 17 Apr 1998 22 Jun 1999
Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade - 22 Jul 2002 a
Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants 18 Jan 2002 8 Nov 2004
Minamata Convention on Mercury 10 Oct 2013 12 Nov 2015
Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer - 31 May 1989 a
Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal 22 Mar 1989 22 Jun 1989 AA
Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes - 6 Feb 2026 a
Convention on Biological Diversity 11 Jun 1992 12 Nov 1993

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
iso2JO wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.907132+00:00
iso3JOR wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.907141+00:00
m49400 un_sdg 1.02026-08-26T06:55:41.142568+00:00
nameJordan wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.907112+00:00
un_admission_date1955-12-14 wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.907122+00:00
unsd_nameJordan un_sdg 1.02026-08-26T06:55:41.142582+00:00

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