Member state

São Tomé and Príncipe at the United Nations

Flag of São Tomé and Príncipe
Flag of São Tomé and Príncipe.svg by See File history below for details (Public domain) — Wikimedia Commons
Admitted
1975-09-16
ISO 3166-1
ST / STP
Admitted by
A/RES/3364 (XXX)

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 1975-09-16

Permanent mission

Mission
Permanent Mission of São Tomé and Príncipe to the United Nations
Address
Permanent Mission of Sao Tome and Principe to the United Nations, 336 East 45th Street, 13th Floor, New York, NY 10017 (Temporary)
National holiday
Independence Day, 12 July
Accredited diplomats
1

Accredited diplomats

The numbers

IndicatorLatestYearSince 1981
Adult literacy rate 87.44 2019
CO2 emissions per capita 0.62708 2024
GDP 9.81294e+08 2025
GNI per capita 3,800 2025
Life expectancy at birth 69.905 2024
Net official development assistance received 8.68402e+07 2023
Population 240,254 2025
Refugees originating (UNHCR mandate) 8 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

40 statements to the General Debate since 1976, 82,877 words in all. The longest was 1979, at 6,037 words, delivered by de Amorim.

Of the 25 statements since 1994 whose speaker’s post the record gives: President ×11, Prime Minister ×5, Minister for Foreign Affairs ×5, UN Representative ×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.

2025 2024 2023 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 1998 1992 1991 1989 1988 1986 1985 1984 1983 1982 1981 1980 1979 1978 1977 1976

Emblems and location

Coat of arms of São Tomé and Príncipe
Coat of arms. Coat of arms of São Tomé and Príncipe.svg by Josedar (CC BY-SA) — Wikimedia Commons

Treaties joined

49 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 - 3 May 1983 a
Vienna Convention on Consular Relations - 3 May 1983 a
Convention on the Rights of the Child - 14 May 1991 a
Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty 6 Sep 2000 10 Jan 2017
International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families 6 Sep 2000 10 Jan 2017
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities - 5 Nov 2015 a
International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination 6 Sep 2000 10 Jan 2017
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights 31 Oct 1995 10 Jan 2017
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 31 Oct 1995 10 Jan 2017
Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 6 Sep 2000 23 Mar 2017
International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid - 5 Oct 1979 a
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women 31 Oct 1995 3 Jun 2003
Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment 6 Sep 2000 10 Jan 2017
Constitution of the World Health Organization - 23 Mar 1976 A
WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control 18 Jun 2004 12 Apr 2006
Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness - 15 Jan 2024 a
Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees - 1 Feb 1978 a
Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961 - 20 Jun 1996 a
Convention on psychotropic substances - 20 Jun 1996 a
United Nations Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances - 20 Jun 1996 a
Agreement establishing the African Development Bank - 14 Apr 1976 a
United Nations Convention on the International Effects of Judicial Sales of Ships 5 Sep 2023 -
Agreement establishing the International Fund for Agricultural Development - 22 Apr 1978 a
Constitution of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization 29 Nov 1983 22 Feb 1985
Convention on the International Maritime Organization - 9 Jul 1990 A
Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court 28 Dec 2000 -
International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism - 12 Apr 2006 a
United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime - 12 Apr 2006 a
United Nations Convention against Corruption 8 Dec 2005 12 Apr 2006
International Convention Against the Taking of Hostages - 23 Aug 2006 a
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes against Internationally Protected Persons, including Diplomatic Agents - 12 Apr 2006 a
International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings - 12 Apr 2006 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 24 Sep 2024 -
Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards - 20 Nov 2012 a
Convention on the prohibition of military or any other hostile use of environmental modification techniques - 5 Oct 1979 a
Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction - 9 Sep 2003 A
Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty 26 Sep 1996 22 Sep 2022
Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction 30 Apr 1998 31 Mar 2003
Convention on Cluster Munitions 3 Dec 2008 27 Jan 2020
Central African Convention for the Control of Small Arms and Light Weapons, their Ammunition and all Parts and Components that can be used for their Manufacture, Repair and Assembly 19 Nov 2010 23 Mar 2017
Arms Trade Treaty 19 Dec 2014 28 Jul 2020
Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons 20 Sep 2017 15 Jan 2024
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa 4 Oct 1995 8 Jul 1998
Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade - 23 May 2013 a
Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants 3 Apr 2002 12 Apr 2006
Minamata Convention on Mercury - 30 Aug 2018 a
Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer - 19 Nov 2001 a
Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal - 12 Nov 2013 a
Convention on Biological Diversity 12 Jun 1992 29 Sep 1999

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
iso2ST wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.902611+00:00
iso3STP wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.902622+00:00
m49678 un_sdg 1.02026-08-26T06:55:41.135221+00:00
nameSão Tomé and Príncipe wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.902593+00:00
un_admission_date1975-09-16 wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.902603+00:00
unsd_nameSao Tome and Principe un_sdg 1.02026-08-26T06:55:41.135231+00:00

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