Member state

Kuwait at the United Nations

Flag of Kuwait
Flag of Kuwait.svg (Public domain) — Wikimedia Commons
Admitted
1963-05-14
ISO 3166-1
KW / KWT
Admitted by
A/RES/1872 (S-IV)

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
International Telecommunication Union 1959-08-14
Universal Postal Union 1960-02-16
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization 1960-11-18
League of Arab States 1961-07-20
International Bank for Reconstruction and Development 1962-09-13
World Meteorological Organization 1962-12-01
United Nations 1963-05-14
Organisation of Islamic Cooperation 1969
World Health Organization not recorded
World Trade Organization not recorded

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

2015 2014 2013 1994 1993 1992 1969 1968 1967

Human Rights Council

2026 2025 2024 2014 2013 2012 2011

Security Council

2019 2018 1979 1978

Permanent mission

Mission
Permanent Mission of Kuwait to the United Nations
Address
Permanent Mission of the State of Kuwait to the United Nations, 321 East 44th Street, New York, NY 10017
National holiday
25 February
Accredited diplomats
9

Accredited diplomats

The numbers

IndicatorLatestYearSince 1975
Adult literacy rate 96.46 2020
CO2 emissions per capita 23.6727 2024
GDP 1.57209e+11 2025
GNI per capita 41,110 2024
Life expectancy at birth 84.5805 2024
Military expenditure (% of GDP) 4.84093 2024
Net official development assistance received 4.23e+06 1995
Population 4.8653e+06 2025
Refugees hosted (UNHCR mandate) 386 2025
Refugees originating (UNHCR mandate) 3,369 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

62 statements to the General Debate since 1963, 178,872 words in all. The longest was 1974, at 4,781 words, delivered by Mr. Al-Sabah.

Of the 31 statements since 1994 whose speaker’s post the record gives: Prime Minister ×17, Deputy Prime Minister ×6, Minister for Foreign Affairs ×3, Crown Prince ×2. 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 Kuwait
Coat of arms. Emblem of the State of Kuwait.svg by AK Alrabah (CC0 1.0) — Wikimedia Commons
Location of Kuwait
Location. KWT orthographic.svg by Addicted04 (CC BY-SA) — Wikimedia Commons

Treaties joined

59 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 - 13 Dec 1963 a
Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the Specialized Agencies - 13 Nov 1961 a
Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations - 23 Jul 1969 a
Optional Protocol to the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, concerning the Compulsory Settlement of Disputes - 21 Feb 1991 a
Vienna Convention on Consular Relations 10 Jan 1964 31 Jul 1975
Optional Protocol to the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations concerning Acquisition of Nationality 10 Jan 1964 -
Optional Protocol to the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations concerning the Compulsory Settlement of Disputes 10 Jan 1964 -
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide - 7 Mar 1995 a
International Convention against Apartheid in Sports - 28 Aug 1998 a
Convention on the Rights of the Child 7 Jun 1990 21 Oct 1991
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities - 22 Aug 2013 a
International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination - 15 Oct 1968 a
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights - 21 May 1996 a
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights - 21 May 1996 a
Convention on the non-applicability of statutory limitations to war crimes and crimes against humanity - 7 Mar 1995 a
International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid - 23 Feb 1977 a
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women - 2 Sep 1994 a
Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment - 8 Mar 1996 a
Constitution of the World Health Organization - 9 May 1960 A
WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control 16 Jun 2003 12 May 2006
Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961 - 16 Apr 1962 a
Convention on psychotropic substances - 13 Jul 1979 a
Protocol amending the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961 - 7 Nov 1973 a
United Nations Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances 2 Oct 1989 3 Nov 2000
United Nations Convention on Independent Guarantees and Stand-by Letters of Credit - 28 Oct 1998 a
Agreement establishing the International Fund for Agricultural Development 4 Mar 1977 29 Jul 1977
Constitution of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization 7 Jan 1981 7 Apr 1982
Customs Convention on the International Transport of Goods under Cover of TIR Carnets (TIR Convention) - 26 May 1977 a
Customs Convention on the International Transport of Goods under Cover of TIR Carnets (TIR Convention) - 23 Nov 1983 a
Agreement on International Roads between Arab Countries - 12 May 2006 a
Agreement on International Railways between Arab Countries 10 May 2004 7 Nov 2013
Memorandum of Understanding on Maritime Transport Cooperation between Arab Countries - 8 May 2015 a
Convention on the International Maritime Organization - 5 Jul 1960 A
Convention on a Code of Conduct for Liner Conferences - 31 Mar 1986 a
Statutes of the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology 13 Sep 1983 21 Oct 1986
Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court 8 Sep 2000 -
International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism - 11 Jul 2013 a
United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime 12 Dec 2000 12 May 2006
United Nations Convention against Corruption 9 Dec 2003 16 Feb 2007
International Convention Against the Taking of Hostages - 6 Feb 1989 a
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes against Internationally Protected Persons, including Diplomatic Agents - 1 Mar 1989 a
Convention on the Safety of United Nations and Associated Personnel - 19 Jul 2004 a
International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings - 19 Apr 2004 a
Agreement on the Privileges and Immunities of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea 15 Jun 1999 2 Aug 2002
Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards - 28 Apr 1978 a
Agreement governing the Activities of States on the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies - 28 Apr 2014 a
Tampere Convention on the Provision of Telecommunication Resources for Disaster Mitigation and Relief Operations 18 Jun 1998 13 Jun 2002
Convention on the prohibition of military or any other hostile use of environmental modification techniques - 2 Jan 1980 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) - 24 May 2013 a
Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction 27 Jan 1993 29 May 1997
Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty 24 Sep 1996 6 May 2003
Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction - 30 Jul 2007 a
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa 22 Sep 1995 27 Jun 1997
Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade 11 Sep 1998 12 May 2006
Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants 23 May 2001 12 Jun 2006
Minamata Convention on Mercury 10 Oct 2013 3 Dec 2015
Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer - 23 Nov 1992 a
Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal 22 Mar 1989 11 Oct 1993
Convention on Biological Diversity 9 Jun 1992 2 Aug 2002

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
iso2KW wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.907462+00:00
iso2KW wikidata 1.02026-08-27T23:21:27.264803+00:00
iso3KWT wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.907471+00:00
iso3KWT wikidata 1.02026-08-27T23:21:27.264809+00:00
m49414 un_sdg 1.02026-08-26T06:55:41.143332+00:00
m49414 un_sdg 1.02026-08-27T23:21:46.424015+00:00
nameKuwait wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.907442+00:00
nameKuwait wikidata 1.02026-08-27T23:21:27.264789+00:00
un_admission_date1963-05-14 wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.907452+00:00
un_admission_date1963-05-14 wikidata 1.02026-08-27T23:21:27.264796+00:00
unsd_nameKuwait un_sdg 1.02026-08-26T06:55:41.143344+00:00
unsd_nameKuwait un_sdg 1.02026-08-27T23:21:46.424022+00:00

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