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Member state

Laos at the United Nations

Admitted
1955-12-14
ISO 3166-1
LA / LAO
Admitted by
A/RES/995 (X)
Formerly
Laos, until 22 December 1975

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

2025 2024 2023

Permanent mission

Mission
Permanent Mission of Laos to the United Nations
Address
Permanent Mission of the Lao People’s Democratic, Republic to the United Nations, 317 East 51st Street, New York, NY 10022
National holiday
2 December
Accredited diplomats
10

Accredited diplomats

The numbers

IndicatorLatestYearSince 1995
Adult literacy rate 75.64 2023
CO2 emissions per capita 3.35435 2024
GDP 1.8303e+10 2025
GNI per capita 2,150 2025
Life expectancy at birth 69.225 2024
Military expenditure (% of GDP) 0.189895 2013
Net official development assistance received 5.14839e+08 2023
Population 7.87305e+06 2025
Refugees hosted (UNHCR mandate) 80 1987
Refugees originating (UNHCR mandate) 6,489 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

69 statements to the General Debate since 1956, 158,231 words in all. The longest was 1959, at 6,679 words, delivered by Mr. Panya.

Of the 32 statements since 1994 whose speaker’s post the record gives: Deputy Prime Minister ×16, Minister for Foreign Affairs ×7, Prime Minister ×6, President ×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 Laos
Coat of arms. Emblem of Laos (1991-2025).svg by DTR (Public domain) — Wikimedia Commons

Treaties joined

68 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 - 24 Nov 1956 a
Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the Specialized Agencies - 9 Aug 1960 a
Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations - 3 Dec 1962 a
Optional Protocol to the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, concerning Acquisition of Nationality - 3 Dec 1962 a
Optional Protocol to the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, concerning the Compulsory Settlement of Disputes - 3 Dec 1962 a
Vienna Convention on Consular Relations - 9 Aug 1973 a
Optional Protocol to the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations concerning Acquisition of Nationality - 9 Aug 1973 a
Optional Protocol to the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations concerning the Compulsory Settlement of Disputes - 9 Aug 1973 a
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide - 8 Dec 1950 a
Convention on the Rights of the Child - 8 May 1991 a
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 15 Jan 2008 25 Sep 2009
International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance 29 Sep 2008 -
International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination - 22 Feb 1974 a
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights 7 Dec 2000 13 Feb 2007
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 7 Dec 2000 25 Sep 2009
Convention on the non-applicability of statutory limitations to war crimes and crimes against humanity - 28 Dec 1984 a
International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid - 5 Oct 1981 a
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women 17 Jul 1980 14 Aug 1981
Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment 21 Sep 2010 26 Sep 2012
Constitution of the World Health Organization - 17 May 1950 A
WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control 29 Jun 2004 6 Sep 2006
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 Oct 1950 d
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 Oct 1950 d
Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961 - 22 Jun 1973 a
Convention on psychotropic substances - 22 Sep 1997 a
Protocol amending the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961 - 16 Mar 2009 a
United Nations Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances - 1 Oct 2004 a
United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods - 24 Sep 2019 a
Charter of the Asian and Pacific Development Centre 9 Sep 1982 -
Multilateral Agreement for the Establishment of an International Think Tank for Landlocked Developing Countries 27 Sep 2011 26 Sep 2012
Convention on Transit Trade of Land-locked States 8 Jul 1965 29 Dec 1967
Agreement establishing the Asian Development Bank 4 Dec 1965 30 Aug 1966
Agreement establishing the International Fund for Agricultural Development - 13 Dec 1978 a
Constitution of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization 5 Mar 1980 3 Jun 1980
International Convention on the Harmonization of Frontier Controls of Goods - 29 Sep 2008 a
Intergovernmental Agreement on the Asian Highway Network 26 Apr 2004 10 Apr 2008
Intergovernmental Agreement on the Trans-Asian Railway Network (with annexes) 10 Nov 2006 29 Mar 2011
Intergovernmental Agreement on Dry Ports 7 Nov 2013 5 Nov 2019
Convention regarding the Measurement and Registration of Vessels Employed in Inland Navigation 22 Jun 1956 -
Agreement on the Importation of Educational, Scientific and Cultural Materials - 28 Feb 1952 A
Convention on the Political Rights of Women - 28 Jan 1969 a
International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism - 29 Sep 2008 a
United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime - 26 Sep 2003 a
United Nations Convention against Corruption 10 Dec 2003 25 Sep 2009
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 - 22 Aug 2002 a
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes against Internationally Protected Persons, including Diplomatic Agents - 22 Aug 2002 a
Convention on the Safety of United Nations and Associated Personnel - 22 Aug 2002 a
International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings - 22 Aug 2002 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 20 Sep 2023 23 Sep 2025 A
Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards - 17 Jun 1998 a
United Nations Convention on International Settlement Agreements Resulting from Mediation 7 Aug 2019 -
Constitution of the Asia-Pacific Telecommunity - 20 Oct 1989 a
Agreement establishing the Asia-Pacific Institute for Broadcasting Development - 12 Sep 1986 a
Convention on the prohibition of military or any other hostile use of environmental modification techniques 13 Apr 1978 5 Oct 1978
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) - 3 Jan 1983 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) - 3 Jan 1983 a
Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction 13 May 1993 25 Feb 1997
Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty 30 Jul 1997 5 Oct 2000
Convention on Cluster Munitions 3 Dec 2008 18 Mar 2009
Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons 21 Sep 2017 26 Sep 2019
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa 30 Aug 1995 20 Sep 1996 A
Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade - 21 Sep 2010 a
Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants 5 Mar 2002 28 Jun 2006
Minamata Convention on Mercury - 21 Sep 2017 a
Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer - 21 Aug 1998 a
Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal - 21 Sep 2010 a
Convention on Biological Diversity - 20 Sep 1996 a

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
iso2LA wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.907500+00:00
iso3LAO wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.907510+00:00
m49418 un_sdg 1.02026-08-26T06:55:41.143370+00:00
nameLaos wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.907481+00:00
un_admission_date1955-12-14 wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.907491+00:00
unsd_nameLao People's Democratic Republic un_sdg 1.02026-08-26T06:55:41.143381+00:00

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