Member state

Somalia at the United Nations

Flag of Somalia
Flag of Somalia.svg by see upload history (Public domain) — Wikimedia Commons
Admitted
1960-09-20
ISO 3166-1
SO / SOM
Admitted by
A/RES/1479 (XV)

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 1960-09-20

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

2018 2017 2016 2009 2008 2007 1993 1992 1991 1989 1988 1987 1986 1985 1984 1980 1979 1978 1977

Human Rights Council

2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019

Security Council

2026 2025 1972 1971

Permanent representatives

2 recorded. Full list

NameFromTo
Abukar Dahir Osman 2017in office / not recorded
Abdulrahim Abby Farah 19651972

Permanent mission

Mission
Permanent Mission of Somalia to the United Nations
Address
Permanent Mission of the Federal Republic of Somalia to the United Nations, 425 East 61st Street, Suite 702, New York, NY 10021
National holiday
1 July
Accredited diplomats
8

Accredited diplomats

The numbers

IndicatorLatestYearSince 2019
Adult literacy rate 54.12 2022
CO2 emissions per capita 0.0455149 2024
GDP 1.29952e+10 2025
GNI per capita 640 2025
Life expectancy at birth 58.967 2024
Military expenditure (% of GDP) 1.58578 2024
Net official development assistance received 2.28109e+09 2023
Population 1.96547e+07 2025
Refugees hosted (UNHCR mandate) 20,967 2025
Refugees originating (UNHCR mandate) 892,037 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

55 statements to the General Debate since 1961, 165,304 words in all. The longest was 1976, at 6,575 words, delivered by Mr. Kassim.

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.

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Emblems and location

Coat of arms of Somalia
Coat of arms. Coat of arms of Somalia.svg by Thommy (Public domain) — Wikimedia Commons
Location of Somalia
Location. Somalia (orthographic projection)2.svg by Notradeuussrs (CC0 1.0) — Wikimedia Commons

Treaties joined

34 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 - 9 Jul 1963 a
Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations - 29 Mar 1968 a
Vienna Convention on Consular Relations - 29 Mar 1968 a
International Convention against Apartheid in Sports 4 Jun 1986 -
Convention on the Rights of the Child 9 May 2002 1 Oct 2015
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 2 Oct 2018 6 Aug 2019
International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination 26 Jan 1967 26 Aug 1975
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights - 24 Jan 1990 a
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights - 24 Jan 1990 a
Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights - 24 Jan 1990 a
International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid 2 Aug 1974 28 Jan 1975
Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment - 24 Jan 1990 a
Constitution of the World Health Organization - 26 Jan 1961 A
Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees - 10 Oct 1978 a
Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961 - 9 Jun 1988 a
Convention on psychotropic substances - 2 Sep 1986 a
Agreement establishing the African Development Bank 4 Aug 1963 22 Oct 1964
Agreement establishing the International Fund for Agricultural Development 26 Jan 1977 8 Sep 1977
Constitution of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization 21 Mar 1980 20 Nov 1981
Convention on the International Maritime Organization - 4 Apr 1978 A
Convention on a Code of Conduct for Liner Conferences - 14 Nov 1988 a
International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism 19 Dec 2001 -
United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime - 25 Mar 2025 a
United Nations Convention against Corruption - 11 Aug 2021 a
Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction - 29 May 2013 a
Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty 8 Sep 2023 -
Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction - 16 Apr 2012 a
Convention on Cluster Munitions 3 Dec 2008 30 Sep 2015
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa - 24 Jul 2002 a
Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade - 26 Jul 2010 a
Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants - 26 Jul 2010 a
Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer - 1 Aug 2001 a
Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal - 26 Jul 2010 a
Convention on Biological Diversity - 11 Sep 2009 a

Recorded votes

ResolutionDateVote
S/RES/2824(2026) - yes
A/RES/80/282 - non-voting
A/RES/80/286 - non-voting
S/RES/2825(2026) - 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 - 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
iso2SO wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.903108+00:00
iso3SOM wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.903121+00:00
m49706 un_sdg 1.02026-08-26T06:55:41.135497+00:00
nameSomalia wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.903082+00:00
un_admission_date1960-09-20 wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.903095+00:00
unsd_nameSomalia un_sdg 1.02026-08-26T06:55:41.135508+00:00

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