Member state
Marshall Islands at the United Nations
- Admitted
- 1991-09-17
- ISO 3166-1
- MH / MHL
- Admitted by
- A/RES/46/3
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 |
|---|---|
| United Nations | 1991-09-17 |
| International Bank for Reconstruction and Development | 1992-05-21 |
| United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization | 1995-06-30 |
| International Telecommunication Union | 1996-02-22 |
| World Health Organization | not recorded |
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.
| Year | Estimate | Credible range | Votes cast |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 0.54 | 0.43 to 0.67 | 180 |
| 2024 | 0.48 | 0.36 to 0.60 | 92 |
| 2023 | 0.81 | 0.66 to 0.96 | 65 |
| 2022 | 0.99 | 0.83 to 1.15 | 77 |
| 2021 | 0.78 | 0.64 to 0.92 | 73 |
| 2020 | 0.82 | 0.68 to 0.97 | 74 |
People of concern
As recorded by UNHCR’s Refugee Data Finder for 2025 — UNHCR’s own reporting categories, not a census.
| Category | People |
|---|---|
| Refugees hosted | 0 |
| Asylum-seekers hosted | 0 |
| Refugees from Marshall Islands abroad | 0 |
Population projection
United Nations World Population Prospects, median variant — a projection, not a count.
| 2025 | 2030 | 2035 | 2040 | 2045 | 2050 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 36,282 | 31,186 | 28,142 | 26,597 | 25,773 | 25,195 |
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
2027 pending 2026 2025 2022 2021 2020
Permanent mission
- Mission
- Permanent Mission of Marshall Islands to the United Nations
- Address
- Permanent Mission of the Republic of the Marshall Islands to the United Nations, 800 Second Avenue, 18th Floor, New York, NY 10017
- National holiday
- Constitution Day, 1 May
- Accredited diplomats
- 3
Accredited diplomats
- Ms. Amatlain Elizabeth Kabua Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary / Permanent Representative
- Ms. Andrea C. Muller Minister Counsellor / Deputy Permanent Representative
- Mr. Garrick Ngitwa Kelen First Secretary
The numbers
| Indicator | Latest | Year | Since 2011 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adult literacy rate | 95.76 | 2021 | |
| CO2 emissions per capita | 0.002663 | 2024 | |
| GDP | 308,000,000 | 2025 | |
| GNI per capita | 9,710 | 2025 | |
| Life expectancy at birth | 67.08 | 2024 | |
| Net official development assistance received | 126,128,410 | 2023 | |
| Population | 36,282 | 2025 | |
| Refugees originating (UNHCR mandate) | 0 | 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
34 statements to the General Debate since 1991, 65,481 words in all. The longest was 1995, at 3,341 words, delivered by Mr. Muller.
Of the 31 statements since 1994 whose speaker’s post the record gives: President ×17, Minister for Foreign Affairs ×7, UN Representative ×5, Vice President ×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 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991
Emblems and location
Treaties joined
40 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/80/290 | 2026-07-10 | non-voting |
| A/RES/80/282 | - | non-voting |
| A/RES/80/286 | - | non-voting |
| 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 | MH | wikidata | 1.0 | 2026-10-12T02:20:06.567161+00:00 |
| iso3 | MHL | wikidata | 1.0 | 2026-10-12T02:20:06.567168+00:00 |
| m49 | 584 | un_sdg | 1.0 | 2026-10-12T02:20:11.771470+00:00 |
| name | Marshall Islands | wikidata | 1.0 | 2026-10-12T02:20:06.567146+00:00 |
| un_admission_date | 1991-09-17 | wikidata | 1.0 | 2026-10-12T02:20:06.567153+00:00 |
| unsd_name | Marshall Islands | un_sdg | 1.0 | 2026-10-12T02:20:11.771476+00:00 |
Where this page comes from
- UN General Assembly ideal point estimates — CC0 1.0 · source
- 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
- UN World Population Prospects — un.org website terms (all rights reserved) · source
- UNHCR Refugee Data Finder — Unassessed · source
- Wikidata — CC0 1.0 · source
- World Bank Open Data — CC BY 4.0 · source