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Member state

Malawi at the United Nations

Flag of Malawi
Flag of Malawi.svg (Public domain) — Wikimedia Commons
Admitted
1964-12-01
ISO 3166-1
MW / MWI
Admitted by
A/5815 (the decision is recorded in this document rather than in a resolution of its own)

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 1964-12-01

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

2020 2019 2018 2013 2012 2011 2009 2008 2007 1982 1981

Human Rights Council

2026 2025 2023 2022 2021

Permanent mission

Mission
Permanent Mission of Malawi to the United Nations
Address
Permanent Mission of the Republic of Malawi to the United Nations, 866 United Nations Plaza, Suite 486, New York, NY 10017
National holiday
Republic Day, 6 July
Accredited diplomats
10

Accredited diplomats

The numbers

IndicatorLatestYearSince 1987
Adult literacy rate 70.15 2020
CO2 emissions per capita 0.221419 2024
GDP 1.49183e+10 2025
GNI per capita 600 2025
Life expectancy at birth 67.561 2024
Military expenditure (% of GDP) 1.02496 2024
Net official development assistance received 1.7315e+09 2023
Population 2.22161e+07 2025
Refugees hosted (UNHCR mandate) 35,241 2025
Refugees originating (UNHCR mandate) 551 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

51 statements to the General Debate since 1964, 122,813 words in all. The longest was 1980, at 4,905 words, delivered by Muwamba.

Of the 32 statements since 1994 whose speaker’s post the record gives: President ×19, Minister for Foreign Affairs ×9, Permanent Representative to the United Nations ×1, President and Minister for Defense ×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 Malawi
Coat of arms. Coat of arms of Malawi.svg by Sodacan (CC BY-SA) — Wikimedia Commons
Location of Malawi
Location. LocationMalawi.svg by Rei-artur (CC BY-SA) — Wikimedia Commons

Treaties joined

73 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 - 17 May 1966 a
Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the Specialized Agencies - 2 Aug 1965 a
Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations - 19 May 1965 a
Optional Protocol to the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, concerning Acquisition of Nationality - 29 Apr 1980 a
Optional Protocol to the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, concerning the Compulsory Settlement of Disputes - 29 Apr 1980 a
Vienna Convention on Consular Relations - 29 Apr 1980 a
Optional Protocol to the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations concerning Acquisition of Nationality - 23 Feb 1981 a
Optional Protocol to the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations concerning the Compulsory Settlement of Disputes - 23 Feb 1981 a
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide - 14 Jul 2017 a
Convention on the Rights of the Child - 2 Jan 1991 a
International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families 23 Sep 2022 23 Sep 2022
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 27 Sep 2007 27 Aug 2009
International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance - 14 Jul 2017 a
International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination - 11 Jun 1996 a
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights - 22 Dec 1993 a
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights - 22 Dec 1993 a
Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights - 11 Jun 1996 a
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women - 12 Mar 1987 a
Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment - 11 Jun 1996 a
Constitution of the World Health Organization - 9 Apr 1965 A
WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control - 18 Aug 2023 a
Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees - 10 Dec 1987 a
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 - 22 Jul 1965 d
Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961 - 8 Jun 1965 a
Convention on psychotropic substances - 9 Apr 1980 a
Protocol amending the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961 - 4 Oct 1973 a
United Nations Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances - 12 Oct 1995 a
Agreement to establish the South Centre 30 Sep 1994 11 Mar 1996
Agreement establishing the African Development Bank - 25 Jul 1966 a
Convention on Transit Trade of Land-locked States - 12 Dec 1966 a
Agreement establishing the International Fund for Agricultural Development - 13 Dec 1977 a
Constitution of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization 12 Feb 1980 30 May 1980
Customs Convention on Containers - 24 May 1969 a
United Nations Convention on the Carriage of Goods by Sea, 1978 - 18 Mar 1991 a
United Nations Convention on International Multimodal Transport of Goods - 2 Feb 1984 a
Convention on the International Maritime Organization - 19 Jan 1989 A
Agreement for Facilitating the International Circulation of Visual and Auditory Materials of an Educational, Scientific and Cultural Character - 5 Jul 1967 a
Agreement on the Importation of Educational, Scientific and Cultural Materials - 17 Aug 1965 A
Agreement establishing the International Tea Promotion Association 17 Aug 1977 22 Feb 1978
International Sugar Agreement, 1992 - 13 Sep 1993 a
Convention on the Political Rights of Women - 29 Jun 1966 a
Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court 2 Mar 1999 19 Sep 2002
International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism - 11 Aug 2003 a
United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime 13 Dec 2000 17 Mar 2005
Agreement on the Privileges and Immunities of the International Criminal Court - 7 Oct 2009 a
United Nations Convention against Corruption 21 Sep 2004 4 Dec 2007
International Convention Against the Taking of Hostages - 17 Mar 1986 a
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes against Internationally Protected Persons, including Diplomatic Agents - 14 Mar 1977 a
Convention on the Safety of United Nations and Associated Personnel - 7 Oct 2009 a
International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings - 11 Aug 2003 a
Convention on the Territorial Sea and the Contiguous Zone - 3 Nov 1965 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 27 Feb 2025
Convention on the High Seas - 3 Nov 1965 a
Convention on Fishing and Conservation of the Living Resources of the High Seas - 3 Nov 1965 a
Convention on the Continental Shelf - 3 Nov 1965 a
Optional Protocol of Signature concerning the Compulsory Settlement of Disputes - 17 Dec 1965 s
Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards - 4 Mar 2021 a
Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties between States and International Organizations or between International Organizations 30 Jun 1987 -
Convention on the prohibition of military or any other hostile use of environmental modification techniques - 5 Oct 1978 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) - 23 Sep 2022 a
Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction 14 Jan 1993 11 Jun 1998
Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty 9 Oct 1996 21 Nov 2008
Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction 4 Dec 1997 13 Aug 1998
Convention on Cluster Munitions 3 Dec 2008 7 Oct 2009
Arms Trade Treaty 9 Jan 2014 11 Jul 2024
Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons 20 Sep 2017 29 Jun 2022
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa 17 Jan 1995 13 Jun 1996
Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade - 27 Feb 2009 a
Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants 22 May 2002 27 Feb 2009
Minamata Convention on Mercury 10 Oct 2013 23 Jun 2023
Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer - 9 Jan 1991 a
Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal - 21 Apr 1994 a
Convention on Biological Diversity 10 Jun 1992 2 Feb 1994

Recorded votes

ResolutionDateVote
A/RES/80/282 - non-voting
A/RES/80/286 - non-voting
A/RES/80/296 - non-voting
A/RES/80/293 B - non-voting
A/RES/80/294 - non-voting
A/RES/80/293 A - non-voting
A/RES/80/297 - non-voting
A/RES/80/299 - non-voting

Provenance

Every fact on this page, with where it came from and how sure we are.

AttributeValueSourceConfidenceFetched
iso2MW wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.901993+00:00
iso3MWI wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.902005+00:00
m49454 un_sdg 1.02026-08-26T06:55:41.134729+00:00
nameMalawi wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.901970+00:00
un_admission_date1964-12-01 wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.901982+00:00
unsd_nameMalawi un_sdg 1.02026-08-26T06:55:41.134740+00:00

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