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Latvia at the United Nations

Flag of Latvia
Flag of Latvia.svg (Public domain) — Wikimedia Commons
Admitted
1991-09-17
ISO 3166-1
LV / LVA
Admitted by
A/RES/46/5

In the European Parliament

Members representing this state in the current or previous term, from the Parliament’s own record.

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 1921-12-11
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization 1951-07-09
Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe 1991-09-10
United Nations 1991-09-17
World Meteorological Organization 1992-05-15
Universal Postal Union 1992-06-17
International Bank for Reconstruction and Development 1992-08-11
World Trade Organization 1999
North Atlantic Treaty Organization 2004-03-29
European Union 2004-05-01
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 2016-06-16
World Health Organization not recorded
Council of Europe not recorded

Peacekeeping contribution

Uniformed personnel this state had deployed to UN missions in 2026-07-31, the most recent month the UN Peace and Security Data Hub reports. Counts are deployments, not distinct people.

PersonnelDeployedOf whom women
Troops 3 2
Experts on Mission 2 1

Every contributor, month by month

Position in General Assembly voting

A statistical estimate of where this state sat on the main axis of General Assembly voting, not a record of any vote. The range is what the model treats as credible; neither end of the scale is the better one.

YearEstimate Credible rangeVotes cast
2025 1.04 0.90 to 1.17 191
2024 1.15 0.97 to 1.32 108
2023 1.10 0.93 to 1.29 87
2022 1.11 0.93 to 1.30 88
2021 1.08 0.92 to 1.24 86
2020 1.11 0.95 to 1.28 97

Every state's position

People of concern

As recorded by UNHCR’s Refugee Data Finder for 2025 — UNHCR’s own reporting categories, not a census.

CategoryPeople
Refugees hosted 32,454
Asylum-seekers hosted 487
Stateless people 167,512
Refugees from Latvia abroad 189

Population projection

United Nations World Population Prospects, median variant — a projection, not a count.

202520302035204020452050
1,853,5591,777,6201,706,4281,640,6441,577,4061,513,810

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

2022 2021 2020 2013 2012 2011 1999 1998 1997

Human Rights Council

2017 2016 2015

Security Council

2027 pending 2026

Permanent representatives

2 recorded. Full list

NameFromTo
Sanita Pavļuta-Deslandes 2023in office / not recorded
Normans Penke 20082013

Permanent mission

Mission
Permanent Mission of Latvia to the United Nations
Address
Permanent Mission of the Republic of Latvia to the United Nations, 333 East 50th Street, New York, NY 10022
National holiday
Independence Day, 18 November
Accredited diplomats
7

Accredited diplomats

The numbers

IndicatorLatestYearSince 1989
Adult literacy rate 99.9 2011
CO2 emissions per capita 3.648 2024
GDP 48,618,869,160 2025
GNI per capita 24,980 2025
Life expectancy at birth 76.43 2024
Military expenditure (% of GDP) 3.258 2024
Population 1,847,785 2025
Refugees hosted (UNHCR mandate) 32,454 2025
Refugees originating (UNHCR mandate) 189 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

35 statements to the General Debate since 1991, 59,405 words in all. The longest was 1993, at 3,620 words, delivered by MR. GUNTIS ULMANIS.

Of the 32 statements since 1994 whose speaker’s post the record gives: President ×25, Minister for Foreign Affairs ×4, Minister for Foregn Affairs ×1, UN Representative ×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.

2025 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991

Emblems and location

Coat of arms of Latvia
Coat of arms. Coat of arms of Latvia.svg (Public domain) — Wikimedia Commons

Treaties joined

85 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 - 21 Nov 1997 a
United Nations Convention on Jurisdictional Immunities of States and Their Property - 14 Feb 2014 a
Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the Specialized Agencies - 19 Dec 2005 a
Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations - 13 Feb 1992 a
Vienna Convention on Consular Relations - 13 Feb 1992 a
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide - 14 Apr 1992 a
International Convention against Apartheid in Sports - 14 Apr 1992 a
Convention on the Rights of the Child - 14 Apr 1992 a
Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty - 19 Apr 2013 a
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 18 Jul 2008 1 Mar 2010
International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination - 14 Apr 1992 a
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights - 14 Apr 1992 a
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights - 14 Apr 1992 a
Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights - 22 Jun 1994 a
Convention on the non-applicability of statutory limitations to war crimes and crimes against humanity - 14 Apr 1992 a
International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid - 14 Apr 1992 a
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women - 14 Apr 1992 a
Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment - 14 Apr 1992 a
Constitution of the World Health Organization - 4 Dec 1991 A
WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control 10 May 2004 10 Feb 2005
Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness - 14 Apr 1992 a
Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees - 31 Jul 1997 a
Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961 - 16 Jul 1993 a
Convention on psychotropic substances - 16 Jul 1993 a
Protocol amending the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961 - 16 Jul 1993 a
United Nations Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances - 24 Feb 1994 a
United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods - 31 Jul 1997 a
Customs Convention on the International Transport of Goods under Cover of TIR Carnets (TIR Convention) - 19 Apr 1993 a
International Convention on the Harmonization of Frontier Controls of Goods - 18 Dec 2003 a
Convention on the Contract for the International Carriage of Goods by Road (CMR) - 14 Jan 1994 a
Convention on the Taxation of Road Vehicles engaged in International Goods Transport - 14 May 1997 a
Convention on the Taxation of Road Vehicles Engaged in International Passenger Transport - 14 May 1997 a
Agreement concerning the International Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Road (ADR) - 11 Apr 1996 a
Agreement concerning the adoption of harmonized technical United Nations Regulations for wheeled vehicles, equipment and parts which can be fitted and/or be used on wheeled vehicles and the conditions for reciprocal recognition of approvals granted on the basis of these United Nations Regulations - 19 Nov 1998 a
European Agreement concerning the Work of Crews of Vehicles Engaged in International Road Transport (AETR) - 14 Jan 1994 a
Agreement on the International Carriage of Perishable Foodstuffs and on the Special Equipment to be used for such Carriage (ATP) 1 - 6 Feb 2003 a
European Agreement supplementing the Convention on road traffic opened for signature at Vienna on 8 November 1968 - 7 Dec 2001 a
European Agreement supplementing the Convention on Road Signs and Signals - 20 Nov 2001 a
Convention on the contract for the international carriage of passengers and luggage by road (CVR) - 14 Jan 1994 a
European Agreement on main international traffic arteries (AGR) - 12 Jun 1997 a
European Agreement on Main International Railway Lines (AGC) - 18 May 2006 a
European Agreement on Important International Combined Transport Lines and Related Installations (AGTC) - 1 Mar 2007 a
Convention on the International Maritime Organization - 1 Mar 1993 A
International Convention on Arrest of Ships, 1999 - 7 Dec 2001 a
Agreement on the Importation of Educational, Scientific and Cultural Materials - 20 Nov 2001 A
International Convention for the Protection of Performers, Producers of Phonograms and Broadcasting Organisations - 20 May 1999 a
Convention for the Protection of Producers of Phonograms against Unauthorized Duplication of their Phonograms - 29 Apr 1997 a
Protocol to the Agreement on the Importation of Educational, Scientific and Cultural Materials of 22 November 1950 - 20 Nov 2001 a
International Sugar Agreement, 1992 - 7 Jul 1994 a
International Tropical Timber Agreement, 2006 9 Dec 2010 15 Dec 2010 AA
Convention on the Political Rights of Women - 14 Apr 1992 a
Convention on the International Right of Correction - 14 Apr 1992 a
Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court 22 Apr 1999 28 Jun 2002
International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism 18 Dec 2001 14 Nov 2002
United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime 13 Dec 2000 7 Dec 2001
Agreement on the Privileges and Immunities of the International Criminal Court 29 Jun 2004 23 Dec 2004
United Nations Convention against Corruption 19 May 2005 4 Jan 2006
International Convention Against the Taking of Hostages - 14 Nov 2002 a
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes against Internationally Protected Persons, including Diplomatic Agents - 14 Apr 1992 a
International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings - 25 Nov 2002 a
Convention on the Territorial Sea and the Contiguous Zone - 17 Nov 1992 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 28 May 2025
Convention on the High Seas - 17 Nov 1992 a
Convention on the Continental Shelf - 2 Dec 1992 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 - 5 Feb 2007 a
Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards - 14 Apr 1992 a
European Convention on International Commercial Arbitration - 20 Mar 2003 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) - 4 Jan 1993 a
Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction 6 May 1993 23 Jul 1996
Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty 24 Sep 1996 20 Nov 2001
Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction - [ 1 Jul 2005 a] (withdrawn)
Arms Trade Treaty 3 Jun 2013 2 Apr 2014
Convention on long-range transboundary air pollution - 15 Jul 1994 a
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa - 21 Oct 2002 a
Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-Making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters 25 Jun 1998 14 Jun 2002
Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade - 23 Apr 2003 a
Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants 23 May 2001 28 Oct 2004
Protocol on Civil Liability and Compensation for Damage Caused by the Transboundary Effects of Industrial Accidents on Transboundary Waters to the 1992 Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes and to the 1992 Convention on the Transboundary Effects of Industrial Accidents 21 May 2003 -
Minamata Convention on Mercury 24 Sep 2014 20 Jun 2017
Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer - 28 Apr 1995 a
Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal - 14 Apr 1992 a
Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context - 31 Aug 1998 a
Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes 18 Mar 1992 10 Dec 1996
Convention on the Transboundary Effects of Industrial Accidents 18 Mar 1992 29 Jun 2004
Convention on Biological Diversity 11 Jun 1992 14 Dec 1995

Recorded votes

ResolutionDateVote
S/RES/2827(2026) 2026-07-29 yes
A/RES/80/290 2026-07-10 yes
S/RES/2824(2026) - yes
A/RES/80/282 - yes
A/RES/80/286 - yes
S/RES/2825(2026) - 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
iso2LV wikidata 1.02026-10-12T02:20:06.565183+00:00
iso3LVA wikidata 1.02026-10-12T02:20:06.565190+00:00
m49428 un_sdg 1.02026-10-12T02:20:11.770093+00:00
nameLatvia wikidata 1.02026-10-12T02:20:06.565168+00:00
un_admission_date1991-09-17 wikidata 1.02026-10-12T02:20:06.565175+00:00
unsd_nameLatvia un_sdg 1.02026-10-12T02:20:11.770100+00:00

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