Member state
Somalia at the United Nations
- 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.
| Organisation | Joined |
|---|---|
| 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
Security Council
Permanent representatives
2 recorded. Full list
| Name | From | To |
|---|---|---|
| Abukar Dahir Osman | 2017 | in office / not recorded |
| Abdulrahim Abby Farah | 1965 | 1972 |
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
- Mr. Abukar Dahir Osman Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary / Permanent Representative
- Mr. Ahmed Dhakkar Ambassador
- Mr. Mohamed Rabi A. Yusuf Ambassador / Deputy Permanent Representative
- Mr. Jibril Ali Mohamed Counsellor
- Mr. Dahir Salad Hassan Counsellor
- Mr. Abdullahi Ali Yusuf First Secretary
- Mr. Abdulkadir Sheikh Ahmed Nur First Secretary
- Ms. Anfal Hassan Farah Second Secretary
The numbers
| Indicator | Latest | Year | Since 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
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.
Recorded votes
| Resolution | Date | Vote |
|---|---|---|
| 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.
| Attribute | Value | Source | Confidence | Fetched |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| iso2 | SO | wikidata | 1.0 | 2026-08-26T06:55:17.903108+00:00 |
| iso3 | SOM | wikidata | 1.0 | 2026-08-26T06:55:17.903121+00:00 |
| m49 | 706 | un_sdg | 1.0 | 2026-08-26T06:55:41.135497+00:00 |
| name | Somalia | wikidata | 1.0 | 2026-08-26T06:55:17.903082+00:00 |
| un_admission_date | 1960-09-20 | wikidata | 1.0 | 2026-08-26T06:55:17.903095+00:00 |
| unsd_name | Somalia | un_sdg | 1.0 | 2026-08-26T06:55:41.135508+00:00 |
Where this page comes from
- UN General Debate Corpus (Jankin, Baturo & Dasandi) — CC0 1.0 · source
- UN Research Guides (Dag Hammarskjold Library) — un.org website terms (all rights reserved) · source
- UN Statistics Division SDG Indicators API — CC BY 4.0 · source
- Wikidata — CC0 1.0 · source
- World Bank Open Data — CC BY 4.0 · source