Member state
Libya at the United Nations
- Admitted
- 1955-12-14
- ISO 3166-1
- LY / LBY
- 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.
| Organisation | Joined |
|---|---|
| Universal Postal Union | 1952-06-04 |
| International Telecommunication Union | 1953-02-03 |
| League of Arab States | 1953-03-28 |
| United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization | 1953-06-27 |
| World Meteorological Organization | 1955 |
| United Nations | 1955-12-14 |
| International Bank for Reconstruction and Development | 1958-09-17 |
| Organisation of Islamic Cooperation | 1969 |
| World Health Organization | not recorded |
| African Union | 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
2023 2022 2021 2014 2013 2012 2004 2003 2002 1995 1994 1993 1990 1989 1988 1982 1981 1969 1968 1967
Human Rights Council
2022 2021 2020 2013 2012 2011 2010
Security Council
Permanent mission
- Mission
- Permanent Mission of Libya to the United Nations
- Address
- Permanent Mission of the State of Libya to the United Nations, 309-315 East 48th Street, New York, NY 10017
- National holiday
- Independence Day, 24 December
- Accredited diplomats
- 17
Accredited diplomats
- Mr. Taher M. T. Elsonni Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary / Permanent Representative
- Mr. Hamza A. A. Alokly Ambassador / Deputy Permanent Representative
- Mr. Marwan A. T. Abusrewel Minister Plenipotentiary
- Mr. Esam O. Ben Zitun Minister Plenipotentiary
- Mr. Essam M. E. Elghffa Minister Plenipotentiary
- Ms. Intisar M. KH Etomzini Minister Plenipotentiary
- Mr. Dia A. A. Ahmed Minister Plenipotentiary
- Mr. Ashraf A. O. Hamed Counsellor
- Mr. Yousef A. S. Farag Counsellor
- Mr. Esam El M Daghash Counsellor / Administrative Counsellor
- Mr. Amer M. M. Abukhshim Counsellor
- Ms. Hanan M. M. Habib Counsellor
- Mr. Mahmoud F. H. Marzouqi Counsellor
- Mr. Mohamed E. M. Abu Snaina Counsellor
- Mr. Yousef S. I. Salah First Secretary
- Mr. Ihab M. M. Elhabishi First Secretary
- Mr. Ahmed M. A. Abraheem Second Secretary
The numbers
| Indicator | Latest | Year | Since 1970 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CO2 emissions per capita | 8.66457 | 2024 | |
| GDP | 4.80989e+10 | 2025 | |
| GNI per capita | 7,250 | 2025 | |
| Life expectancy at birth | 71.121 | 2024 | |
| Military expenditure (% of GDP) | 5.28705 | 2023 | |
| Net official development assistance received | 3.59675e+08 | 2023 | |
| Population | 7.45856e+06 | 2025 | |
| Refugees hosted (UNHCR mandate) | 552,523 | 2025 | |
| Refugees originating (UNHCR mandate) | 17,161 | 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
68 statements to the General Debate since 1956, 256,310 words in all. The longest was 2009, at 10,342 words, delivered by Colonel Maummar Al-Qadhafi.
Of the 30 statements since 1994 whose speaker’s post the record gives: Minister for Foreign Affairs ×9, President of the Presidency Council of the Government of National Accord ×4, UN Representative ×4, President ×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
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Treaties joined
60 actions recorded by the Secretary-General as depositary. Only treaties whose participant counts match the depositary’s own stated totals contribute rows.
Recorded votes
| Resolution | Date | Vote |
|---|---|---|
| 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.
| Attribute | Value | Source | Confidence | Fetched |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| iso2 | LY | wikidata | 1.0 | 2026-08-26T06:55:17.902244+00:00 |
| iso2 | LY | wikidata | 1.0 | 2026-08-27T23:21:27.267027+00:00 |
| iso3 | LBY | wikidata | 1.0 | 2026-08-26T06:55:17.902250+00:00 |
| iso3 | LBY | wikidata | 1.0 | 2026-08-27T23:21:27.267030+00:00 |
| m49 | 434 | un_sdg | 1.0 | 2026-08-26T06:55:41.134907+00:00 |
| m49 | 434 | un_sdg | 1.0 | 2026-08-27T23:21:46.426065+00:00 |
| name | Libya | wikidata | 1.0 | 2026-08-26T06:55:17.902230+00:00 |
| name | Libya | wikidata | 1.0 | 2026-08-27T23:21:27.267019+00:00 |
| un_admission_date | 1955-12-14 | wikidata | 1.0 | 2026-08-26T06:55:17.902237+00:00 |
| un_admission_date | 1955-12-14 | wikidata | 1.0 | 2026-08-27T23:21:27.267023+00:00 |
| unsd_name | Libya | un_sdg | 1.0 | 2026-08-26T06:55:41.134920+00:00 |
| unsd_name | Libya | un_sdg | 1.0 | 2026-08-27T23:21:46.426072+00:00 |
Where this page comes from
- UN General Debate Corpus (Jankin, Baturo & Dasandi) — CC0 1.0 · source
- UN Research Guides (Dag Hammarskjold Library) — un.org website terms (all rights reserved) · source
- UN Statistics Division SDG Indicators API — CC BY 4.0 · source
- Wikidata — CC0 1.0 · source
- World Bank Open Data — CC BY 4.0 · source