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Member state

Marshall Islands at the United Nations

Flag of Marshall Islands
Flag of the Marshall Islands.svg (Public domain) — Wikimedia Commons
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.

OrganisationJoined
United Nations 1991-09-17

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

The numbers

IndicatorLatestYearSince 2011
Adult literacy rate 95.7629 2021
CO2 emissions per capita 0.00266326 2024
GDP 3.08e+08 2025
GNI per capita 9,710 2025
Life expectancy at birth 67.075 2024
Net official development assistance received 1.26128e+08 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.

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Emblems and location

Coat of arms of Marshall Islands
Coat of arms. Seal of the Marshall Islands.svg by Ericmetro (Public domain) — Wikimedia Commons

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.

TreatySignedRatified or acceded
Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations - 9 Aug 1991 a
Vienna Convention on Consular Relations - 9 Aug 1991 a
Convention on the Rights of the Child 14 Apr 1993 4 Oct 1993
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities - 17 Mar 2015 a
International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination - 11 Apr 2019 a
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights - 12 Mar 2018 a
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights - 12 Mar 2018 a
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women - 2 Mar 2006 a
Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment - 12 Mar 2018 a
Constitution of the World Health Organization - 5 Jun 1991 A
WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control 16 Jun 2003 8 Dec 2004
Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961 - 9 Aug 1991 a
Convention on psychotropic substances - 9 Aug 1991 a
United Nations Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances - 5 Nov 2010 a
Agreement establishing the International Fund for Agricultural Development - 18 Feb 2009 a
Constitution of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization - 16 Mar 2015 a
Convention on the International Maritime Organization - 26 Mar 1998 A
Agreement establishing the Asian Coconut Community - 30 Aug 2004 a
Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court 6 Sep 2000 7 Dec 2000
International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism - 27 Jan 2003 a
United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime - 15 Jun 2011 a
United Nations Convention against Corruption - 17 Nov 2011 a
International Convention Against the Taking of Hostages - 27 Jan 2003 a
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes against Internationally Protected Persons, including Diplomatic Agents - 27 Jan 2003 a
International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings - 27 Jan 2003 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 12 Mar 2025
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 4 Dec 1995 19 Mar 2003
Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards - 21 Dec 2006 a
Constitution of the Asia-Pacific Telecommunity - 25 Jan 2005 a
Tampere Convention on the Provision of Telecommunication Resources for Disaster Mitigation and Relief Operations 11 Nov 1998 -
Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction 13 Jan 1993 19 May 2004
Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty 24 Sep 1996 28 Oct 2009
Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction 4 Dec 1997 12 Mar 2025
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa - 2 Jun 1998 a
Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade - 27 Jan 2003 a
Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants - 27 Jan 2003 a
Minamata Convention on Mercury - 29 Jan 2019 a
Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer - 11 Mar 1993 a
Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal - 27 Jan 2003 a
Convention on Biological Diversity 12 Jun 1992 8 Oct 1992

Recorded votes

ResolutionDateVote
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.

AttributeValueSourceConfidenceFetched
iso2MH wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.900372+00:00
iso2MH wikidata 1.02026-08-27T23:21:27.269288+00:00
iso3MHL wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.900379+00:00
iso3MHL wikidata 1.02026-08-27T23:21:27.269298+00:00
m49584 un_sdg 1.02026-08-26T06:55:41.132141+00:00
m49584 un_sdg 1.02026-08-27T23:21:46.428317+00:00
nameMarshall Islands wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.900352+00:00
nameMarshall Islands wikidata 1.02026-08-27T23:21:27.269035+00:00
un_admission_date1991-09-17 wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.900364+00:00
un_admission_date1991-09-17 wikidata 1.02026-08-27T23:21:27.269277+00:00
unsd_nameMarshall Islands un_sdg 1.02026-08-26T06:55:41.132184+00:00
unsd_nameMarshall Islands un_sdg 1.02026-08-27T23:21:46.428323+00:00

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