Member state

Maldives at the United Nations

Flag of Maldives
Flag of Maldives.svg by See File history, below, for details (Public domain) — Wikimedia Commons
Admitted
1965-09-21
ISO 3166-1
MV / MDV
Admitted by
A/RES/2009 (XX)
Formerly
Maldive Islands, until 14 April 1969

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 1965-09-21

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.

Human Rights Council

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Permanent representatives

6 recorded. Full list

NameFromTo
Ahmed Sareer 20122017
Fathulla Jameel 1977-04-141978
Abdul Sattar Moosa Didi 19671970
Ahmed Khaleel -in office / not recorded
Ali Naseer Mohamed -in office / not recorded
Thilmeeza Hussain -in office / not recorded

Permanent mission

Mission
Permanent Mission of Maldives to the United Nations
Address
Permanent Mission of the Republic of Maldives to the United Nations, 801 Second Avenue, Suite 202, New York, NY 10017
National holiday
Independence Day, 26 July
Accredited diplomats
4

Accredited diplomats

The numbers

IndicatorLatestYearSince 1977
Adult literacy rate 98.21 2019
CO2 emissions per capita 3.56651 2024
GDP 7.74107e+09 2025
GNI per capita 12,950 2025
Life expectancy at birth 81.285 2024
Net official development assistance received 2.00508e+08 2023
Population 529,676 2025
Refugees originating (UNHCR mandate) 62 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

52 statements to the General Debate since 1966, 112,940 words in all. The longest was 1984, at 4,335 words, delivered by Jameel.

Of the 32 statements since 1994 whose speaker’s post the record gives: Minister for Foreign Affairs ×17, President ×6, UN Representative ×3, Minister of Foreign Affairs ×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 Maldives
Coat of arms. Emblem of Maldives.svg by Ichwan Palongengi. Original emblem is property of the Maldivian government (Public domain) — Wikimedia Commons

Treaties joined

53 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 Specialized Agencies - 26 May 1969 a
Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations - 2 Oct 2007 a
Vienna Convention on Consular Relations - 21 Jan 1991 a
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide - 24 Apr 1984 a
International Convention against Apartheid in Sports 3 Oct 1986 -
Convention on the Rights of the Child 21 Aug 1990 11 Feb 1991
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 2 Oct 2007 5 Apr 2010
International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance 6 Feb 2007 31 Jul 2023
International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination - 24 Apr 1984 a
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights - 19 Sep 2006 a
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights - 19 Sep 2006 a
Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights - 19 Sep 2006 a
International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid - 24 Apr 1984 a
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women - 1 Jul 1993 a
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women - 1 Jul 1993 a
Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment - 20 Apr 2004 a
Constitution of the World Health Organization - 5 Nov 1965 A
WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control 17 May 2004 20 May 2004
Convention on psychotropic substances - 7 Sep 2000 a
United Nations Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances 5 Dec 1989 7 Sep 2000
Charter of the Asian and Pacific Development Centre - 25 Apr 1983 s
Agreement establishing the Asian Development Bank - 14 Feb 1978 P
Agreement establishing the International Fund for Agricultural Development - 15 Jan 1980 a
Constitution of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization - 10 May 1988 a
Convention on the International Maritime Organization - 31 May 1967 A
Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court - 21 Sep 2011 a
International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism - 20 Apr 2004 a
United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime - 4 Feb 2013 a
United Nations Convention against Corruption - 22 Mar 2007 a
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 Recruitment, Use, Financing and Training of Mercenaries 17 Jul 1990 11 Sep 1991
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes against Internationally Protected Persons, including Diplomatic Agents - 21 Aug 1990 a
International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings - 7 Sep 2000 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 3 Sep 2024 24 Sep 2024
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 8 Oct 1996 30 Dec 1998
Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards - 17 Sep 2019 a
United Nations Convention on International Settlement Agreements Resulting from Mediation 7 Aug 2019 -
Constitution of the Asia-Pacific Telecommunity - 17 Mar 1980 a
Agreement establishing the Asia-Pacific Institute for Broadcasting Development - 25 Jun 1985 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) - 7 Sep 2000 a
Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction 4 Oct 1993 31 May 1994
Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty 1 Oct 1997 7 Sep 2000
Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction 1 Oct 1998 7 Sep 2000
Convention on Cluster Munitions - 27 Sep 2019 a
Arms Trade Treaty - 27 Sep 2019 a
Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons 26 Sep 2019 26 Sep 2019
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa - 3 Sep 2002 a
Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade - 17 Oct 2006 a
Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants - 17 Oct 2006 a
Minamata Convention on Mercury - 24 Sep 2024 a
Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer - 26 Apr 1988 a
Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal - 28 Apr 1992 a
Convention on Biological Diversity 12 Jun 1992 9 Nov 1992

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
iso2MV wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.907576+00:00
iso3MDV wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.907586+00:00
m49462 un_sdg 1.02026-08-26T06:55:41.143435+00:00
nameMaldives wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.907557+00:00
un_admission_date1965-09-21 wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.907567+00:00
unsd_nameMaldives un_sdg 1.02026-08-26T06:55:41.143447+00:00

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