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Member state

Nicaragua at the United Nations

Flag of Nicaragua
Flag of Nicaragua.svg by C records (Public domain) — Wikimedia Commons
Admitted
1945-10-24
ISO 3166-1
NI / NIC
Charter signed
1945-06-26
Charter ratified
1945-09-06

A founding Member State: one of the fifty-one that signed the Charter at San Francisco in 1945.

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 1945-10-24

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

2022 2021 2020 2013 2012 2011 2005 2004 2003 1998 1997 1996 1991 1990 1989 1983 1982 1981

Human Rights Council

2009 2008 2007

Security Council

1984 1983 1971 1970

Permanent mission

Mission
Permanent Mission of Nicaragua to the United Nations
Address
Permanent Mission of Nicaragua to the United Nations, 820 Second Avenue, 8th Floor, New York, NY 10017
National holiday
Independence Day, 15 September
Accredited diplomats
7

Accredited diplomats

The numbers

IndicatorLatestYearSince 2001
Adult literacy rate 87.3272 2014
CO2 emissions per capita 0.829842 2024
GDP 2.22372e+10 2025
GNI per capita 2,850 2025
Life expectancy at birth 75.1 2024
Military expenditure (% of GDP) 0.545131 2024
Net official development assistance received 5.81782e+08 2023
Population 7.0075e+06 2025
Refugees hosted (UNHCR mandate) 311 2023
Refugees originating (UNHCR mandate) 35,341 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

56 statements to the General Debate since 1951, 146,948 words in all. The longest was 1981, at 5,666 words, delivered by Commander ORTEGA SAAVEDRA.

Of the 32 statements since 1994 whose speaker’s post the record gives: Minister for Foreign Affairs ×16, President ×8, Minister of Foreign Affairs ×4, Vice-President ×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

Location of Nicaragua
Location. Nicaragua (orthographic projection).svg by Addicted04 (CC BY-SA) — Wikimedia Commons

Treaties joined

77 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
Charter of the United Nations - 6 Sep 1945
Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations - 29 Nov 1947 a
Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the Specialized Agencies - 6 Apr 1959 a
Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations - 31 Oct 1975 a
Optional Protocol to the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, concerning Acquisition of Nationality - 9 Jan 1990 a
Optional Protocol to the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, concerning the Compulsory Settlement of Disputes - 9 Jan 1990 a
Vienna Convention on Consular Relations - 31 Oct 1975 a
Optional Protocol to the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations concerning Acquisition of Nationality - 9 Jan 1990 a
Optional Protocol to the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations concerning the Compulsory Settlement of Disputes - 9 Jan 1990 a
Convention on special missions 18 Sep 1970 -
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide - 29 Jan 1952 a
International Convention against Apartheid in Sports 16 May 1986 -
Convention on the Rights of the Child 6 Feb 1990 5 Oct 1990
Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty 21 Feb 1990 25 Feb 2009
International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families - 26 Oct 2005 a
Agreement establishing the Fund for the Development of the Indigenous Peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean 24 Jul 1992 10 Jul 1995
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 30 Mar 2007 7 Dec 2007
International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination - 15 Feb 1978 a
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights - 12 Mar 1980 a
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights - 12 Mar 1980 a
Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights - 12 Mar 1980 a
Convention on the non-applicability of statutory limitations to war crimes and crimes against humanity - 3 Sep 1986 a
International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid - 28 Mar 1980 a
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women 17 Jul 1980 27 Oct 1981
Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment 15 Apr 1985 5 Jul 2005
Constitution of the World Health Organization 22 Jul 1946 24 Apr 1950 A
Protocol concerning the Office international d'hygiène publique 22 Jul 1946 -
WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control 7 Jun 2004 9 Apr 2008
Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness - 29 Jul 2013 a
Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees - 28 Mar 1980 a
Protocol amending the Agreements, Conventions and Protocols on Narcotic Drugs, concluded at The Hague on 23 January 1912, at Geneva on 11 February 1925 and 19 February 1925, and 13 July 1931, at Bangkok on 27 November 1931 and at Geneva on 26 June 1936 13 Dec 1946 24 Apr 1950 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 19 Nov 1948 13 Jan 1961 A
Protocol for Limiting and Regulating the Cultivation of the Poppy Plant, the Production of, International and Wholesale Trade in, and use of Opium - 11 Dec 1959 a
Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961 30 Mar 1961 21 Jun 1973
Convention on psychotropic substances - 24 Oct 1973 a
Protocol amending the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961 25 Mar 1972 15 Feb 2005
United Nations Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances 20 Dec 1988 4 May 1990
Protocol signed at Lake Success, New York, on 12 November 1947, to amend the Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Women and Children, concluded at Geneva on 30 September 1921, and the Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Women of Full Age, concluded at Geneva on 11 October 1933 12 Nov 1947 24 Apr 1950 A
Agreement to establish the South Centre - 18 May 2016 a
Convention on the Limitation Period in the International Sale of Goods 13 May 1975 -
Agreement establishing the International Fund for Agricultural Development 18 May 1977 28 Oct 1977
Constitution of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization 16 Jan 1980 28 Mar 1980
Convention on the International Maritime Organization - 17 Mar 1982 A
Agreement on the Importation of Educational, Scientific and Cultural Materials - 17 Dec 1963 A
International Convention for the Protection of Performers, Producers of Phonograms and Broadcasting Organisations - 10 May 2000 a
Convention for the Protection of Producers of Phonograms against Unauthorized Duplication of their Phonograms 29 Oct 1971 10 May 2000
International Agreement for the Establishment of the University for Peace - 3 Apr 1981 s
International Sugar Agreement, 1992 - 29 Jan 2010 a
International Cocoa Agreement, 2001 - 3 Aug 2009 a
International Cocoa Agreement, 2010 - 15 Jul 2013 a
Convention on the Political Rights of Women - 17 Jan 1957 a
Protocol amending the Slavery Convention signed at Geneva on 25 September 1926 - 14 Jan 1986 A
International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism 17 Oct 2001 14 Nov 2002
United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime 14 Dec 2000 9 Sep 2002
United Nations Convention against Corruption 10 Dec 2003 15 Feb 2006
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 Taking of Hostages - 24 Sep 2003 a
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes against Internationally Protected Persons, including Diplomatic Agents 29 Oct 1974 10 Mar 1975
International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings - 17 Jan 2003 a
Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards - 24 Sep 2003 a
Convention relating to the distribution of programme-carrying signals transmitted by satellite - 1 Dec 1975 a
Tampere Convention on the Provision of Telecommunication Resources for Disaster Mitigation and Relief Operations 18 Jun 1998 18 Nov 1999
Convention on the prohibition of military or any other hostile use of environmental modification techniques 11 Aug 1977 6 Sep 2007
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) 20 May 1981 5 Dec 2000
Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction 9 Mar 1993 5 Nov 1999
Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty 24 Sep 1996 5 Dec 2000
Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction 4 Dec 1997 30 Nov 1998
Convention on Cluster Munitions 3 Dec 2008 2 Nov 2009
Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons 22 Sep 2017 19 Jul 2018
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa 21 Nov 1994 17 Feb 1998
Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade - 19 Sep 2008 a
Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants 23 May 2001 1 Dec 2005
Minamata Convention on Mercury 10 Oct 2013 29 Oct 2014
Regional Agreement on Access to Information, Public Participation and Justice in Environmental Matters in Latin America and the Caribbean 27 Sep 2019 9 Mar 2020
Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer - 5 Mar 1993 a
Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal - 3 Jun 1997 a
Convention on Biological Diversity 13 Jun 1992 20 Nov 1995

Recorded votes

ResolutionDateVote
A/RES/80/282 - yes
A/RES/80/286 - yes
A/RES/80/296 - yes
A/RES/80/293 B - non-voting
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
iso2NI wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.907380+00:00
iso2NI wikidata 1.02026-08-27T23:21:27.264654+00:00
iso3NIC wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.907390+00:00
iso3NIC wikidata 1.02026-08-27T23:21:27.264738+00:00
m49558 un_sdg 1.02026-08-26T06:55:41.143253+00:00
m49558 un_sdg 1.02026-08-27T23:21:46.423971+00:00
nameNicaragua wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.907356+00:00
nameNicaragua wikidata 1.02026-08-27T23:21:27.264635+00:00
un_admission_date1945-10-24 wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.907368+00:00
un_admission_date1945-10-24 wikidata 1.02026-08-27T23:21:27.264644+00:00
unsd_nameNicaragua un_sdg 1.02026-08-26T06:55:41.143267+00:00
unsd_nameNicaragua un_sdg 1.02026-08-27T23:21:46.423979+00:00

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