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Samoa at the United Nations

Flag of Samoa
Flag of Samoa.svg by {{AutVec|o= and |v=See the file history below, for details.}} (Public domain) — Wikimedia Commons
Admitted
1976-12-15
ISO 3166-1
WS / WSM
Admitted by
A/RES/31/104

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 1976-12-15

Permanent mission

Mission
Permanent Mission of Samoa to the United Nations
Address
Permanent Mission of the Independent State of Samoa to the United Nations, 685 Third Avenue, 11th Floor, Suite 1102, New York, NY 10017
National holiday
Independence Celebration Day, 1 June
Accredited diplomats
4

Accredited diplomats

The numbers

IndicatorLatestYearSince 1991
Adult literacy rate 97.99 2019
CO2 emissions per capita 1.60445 2024
GDP 1.28794e+09 2025
GNI per capita 5,640 2025
Life expectancy at birth 71.826 2024
Net official development assistance received 1.17172e+08 2023
Population 219,306 2025
Refugees hosted (UNHCR mandate) 5 2018
Refugees originating (UNHCR mandate) 17 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

41 statements to the General Debate since 1977, 92,881 words in all. The longest was 1988, at 3,808 words, delivered by TOFILAU ETI ALESANA.

Of the 29 statements since 1994 whose speaker’s post the record gives: Prime Minister ×20, Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade ×5, Deputy Prime Minister ×2, Prime minister ×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 Samoa
Coat of arms. Public Seal of Samoa.svg by Simitukidia (CC BY-SA) — Wikimedia Commons

Treaties joined

43 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 - 17 Dec 2014 a
Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations - 26 Oct 1987 a
Vienna Convention on Consular Relations - 26 Oct 1987 a
Convention on the Rights of the Child 30 Sep 1990 29 Nov 1994
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 24 Sep 2014 2 Dec 2016
International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance 6 Feb 2007 27 Nov 2012
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights - 15 Feb 2008 a
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women - 25 Sep 1992 a
Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment - 28 Mar 2019 a
Constitution of the World Health Organization - 16 May 1962 A
WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control 25 Sep 2003 3 Nov 2005
Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees - 29 Nov 1994 a
United Nations Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances - 19 Aug 2005 a
Agreement establishing the Asian Development Bank 4 Dec 1965 23 Jun 1966
Agreement establishing the International Fund for Agricultural Development - 13 Dec 1977 a
Constitution of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization - 11 Dec 2008 a
Convention on the International Maritime Organization - 25 Oct 1996 A
Agreement establishing the Asian Coconut Community - 28 Dec 1972 a
Convention on Consent to Marriage, Minimum Age for Marriage and Registration of Marriages - 24 Aug 1964 a
Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court 17 Jul 1998 16 Sep 2002
International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism 13 Nov 2001 27 Sep 2002
United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime - 17 Dec 2014 a
Agreement on the Privileges and Immunities of the International Criminal Court - 8 Apr 2016 a
United Nations Convention against Corruption - 16 Apr 2018 a
Convention on the Safety of United Nations and Associated Personnel 16 Jan 1995 19 Aug 2005
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 -
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 25 Oct 1996
United Nations Convention on International Settlement Agreements Resulting from Mediation 7 Aug 2019 -
Constitution of the Asia-Pacific Telecommunity - 6 Nov 2000 a
Agreement establishing the Asia-Pacific Institute for Broadcasting Development - 25 Nov 1999 a
Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction 14 Jan 1993 27 Sep 2002
Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty 9 Oct 1996 27 Sep 2002
Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction 3 Dec 1997 23 Jul 1998
Convention on Cluster Munitions 3 Dec 2008 28 Apr 2010
Arms Trade Treaty 25 Sep 2013 3 Jun 2014
Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons 20 Sep 2017 26 Sep 2018
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa - 21 Aug 1998 a
Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade - 30 May 2002 a
Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants 23 May 2001 4 Feb 2002
Minamata Convention on Mercury 10 Oct 2013 24 Sep 2015
Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer - 21 Dec 1992 a
Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal - 22 Mar 2002 a
Convention on Biological Diversity 12 Jun 1992 9 Feb 1994

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 - non-voting
A/RES/80/294 - yes
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
iso2WS wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.899489+00:00
iso3WSM wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.899500+00:00
m49882 un_sdg 1.02026-08-26T06:55:41.131880+00:00
nameSamoa wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.899470+00:00
un_admission_date1976-12-15 wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.899480+00:00
unsd_nameSamoa un_sdg 1.02026-08-26T06:55:41.131891+00:00

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