Member state

Singapore at the United Nations

Flag of Singapore
Flag of Singapore.svg (Public domain) — Wikimedia Commons
Admitted
1965-09-21
ISO 3166-1
SG / SGP
Admitted by
A/RES/2010 (XX)

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 1965-09-21

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.

Security Council

2002 2001

Permanent representatives

1 recorded. Full list

NameFromTo
S. Jayakumar 19711974

Permanent mission

Mission
Permanent Mission of Singapore to the United Nations
Address
Permanent Mission of the Republic of Singapore to the United Nations, 318 East 48th Street, New York, NY 10017
National holiday
National Day, 9 August
Accredited diplomats
12

Accredited diplomats

The numbers

IndicatorLatestYearSince 1980
Adult literacy rate 97.65 2021
CO2 emissions per capita 9.75144 2024
GDP 6.0387e+11 2025
GNI per capita 81,760 2025
Life expectancy at birth 83.3463 2024
Military expenditure (% of GDP) 2.84177 2024
Net official development assistance received 1.666e+07 1995
Population 6.11118e+06 2025
Refugees hosted (UNHCR mandate) 0 2025
Refugees originating (UNHCR mandate) 43 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

60 statements to the General Debate since 1965, 141,870 words in all. The longest was 1976, at 4,102 words, delivered by Mr. Rajaratnam.

Of the 31 statements since 1994 whose speaker’s post the record gives: Minister for Foreign Affairs ×23, Minister of Foreign Affairs ×4, UN Representative ×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

Location of Singapore
Location. Singapore on the globe (Southeast Asia centered) zoom.svg by Seloloving (CC BY-SA) — Wikimedia Commons

Treaties joined

52 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 United Nations - 18 Mar 1966 d
Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the Specialized Agencies - 18 Mar 1966 d
Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations - 1 Apr 2005 a
Vienna Convention on Consular Relations - 1 Apr 2005 a
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide - 18 Aug 1995 a
Convention on the Rights of the Child - 5 Oct 1995 a
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 30 Nov 2012 18 Jul 2013
International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination 19 Oct 2015 27 Nov 2017
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women - 5 Oct 1995 a
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women - 5 Oct 1995 a
Constitution of the World Health Organization - 25 Feb 1966 A
WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control 29 Dec 2003 14 May 2004
Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961 - 15 Mar 1973 a
Convention on psychotropic substances - 17 Sep 1990 a
Protocol amending the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961 - 9 Jul 1975 a
United Nations Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances - 23 Oct 1997 a
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 - 26 Oct 1966 A
United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods 11 Apr 1980 16 Feb 1995
United Nations Convention on the Use of Electronic Communications in International Contracts 6 Jul 2006 7 Jul 2010
United Nations Convention on the International Effects of Judicial Sales of Ships 5 Sep 2023 -
Agreement establishing the Asian Development Bank 28 Jan 1966 21 Sep 1966
Customs Convention on the Temporary Importation of Commercial Road Vehicles - 15 Aug 1966 d
Convention concerning Customs Facilities for Touring - [22 Nov 1966 d] (withdrawn)
Additional Protocol to the Convention concerning Customs Facilities for Touring, relating to the Importation of Tourist Publicity Documents and Material - 22 Nov 1966 d
Customs Convention on the Temporary Importation of Private Road Vehicles - 15 Aug 1966 d
United Nations Convention on the Carriage of Goods by Sea, 1978 31 Mar 1978 -
Convention on the International Maritime Organization - 17 Jan 1966 A
Agreement on the Importation of Educational, Scientific and Cultural Materials - 11 Jul 1969 A
International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism 18 Dec 2001 30 Dec 2002
United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime 13 Dec 2000 28 Aug 2007
United Nations Convention against Corruption 11 Nov 2005 6 Nov 2009
International Convention Against the Taking of Hostages - 22 Oct 2010 a
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes against Internationally Protected Persons, including Diplomatic Agents - 2 May 2008 a
Convention on the Safety of United Nations and Associated Personnel - 26 Mar 1996 a
International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings - 31 Dec 2007 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 24 Sep 2024
Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards - 21 Aug 1986 a
United Nations Convention on International Settlement Agreements Resulting from Mediation 7 Aug 2019 25 Feb 2020
Convention relating to the distribution of programme-carrying signals transmitted by satellite - 27 Jan 2005 a
Constitution of the Asia-Pacific Telecommunity 23 Jun 1977 6 Oct 1977
Agreement establishing the Asia-Pacific Institute for Broadcasting Development - 29 Jun 1982 a
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) - 21 Sep 2023 a
Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction 14 Jan 1993 21 May 1997
Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty 14 Jan 1999 10 Nov 2001
Arms Trade Treaty 5 Dec 2014 -
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa - 26 Apr 1999 a
Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade - 24 May 2005 a
Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants 23 May 2001 24 May 2005
Minamata Convention on Mercury 10 Oct 2013 22 Sep 2017
Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer - 5 Jan 1989 a
Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal - 2 Jan 1996 a
Convention on Biological Diversity 10 Mar 1993 21 Dec 1995

Recorded votes

ResolutionDateVote
A/RES/80/282 - yes
A/RES/80/286 - yes
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
iso2SG wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.905114+00:00
iso3SGP wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.905120+00:00
m49702 un_sdg 1.02026-08-26T06:55:41.141233+00:00
nameSingapore wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.905092+00:00
un_admission_date1965-09-21 wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.905105+00:00
unsd_nameSingapore un_sdg 1.02026-08-26T06:55:41.141243+00:00

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