Member state

South Sudan at the United Nations

Flag of South Sudan
Flag of South Sudan.svg by Achim1999 (Public domain) — Wikimedia Commons
Admitted
2011-07-14
ISO 3166-1
SS / SSD
Admitted by
A/RES/65/308

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 2011-07-14

Permanent mission

Mission
Permanent Mission of South Sudan to the United Nations
Address
Permanent Mission of the Republic of South Sudan to the United Nations, 336 East 45th Street, 5th Floor, New York, NY 10017
National holiday
July 9
Accredited diplomats
9

Accredited diplomats

The numbers

IndicatorLatestYearSince 2008
GDP 1.19978e+10 2015
GNI per capita 1,050 2015
Life expectancy at birth 57.738 2024
Military expenditure (% of GDP) 1.96171 2024
Net official development assistance received 1.79172e+09 2023
Population 1.21888e+07 2025
Refugees hosted (UNHCR mandate) 601,818 2025
Refugees originating (UNHCR mandate) 2.3865e+06 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

14 statements to the General Debate since 2011, 27,499 words in all. The longest was 2025, at 3,136 words, delivered by Josephine Joseph Lagu.

Of the 14 statements since 1994 whose speaker’s post the record gives: Vice-President ×7, President ×3, First Vice-President ×2, Minister of Foreign Affairs ×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.

2025 2024 2023 2022 2021 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011

Emblems and location

Coat of arms of South Sudan
Coat of arms. Coat of arms of South Sudan.svg (Public domain) — Wikimedia Commons
Location of South Sudan
Location. LocationSouthSudan.svg by LouisianaFan (CC BY-SA) — Wikimedia Commons

Treaties joined

20 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 Rights of the Child - 23 Jan 2015 a
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities - 5 Feb 2024 a
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights - 5 Feb 2024 a
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights - 5 Feb 2024 a
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women - 30 Apr 2015 a
Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment - 30 Apr 2015 a
Constitution of the World Health Organization - 27 Sep 2011 A
Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness - 4 Nov 2024 a
Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees - 10 Dec 2018 a
United Nations Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances - 20 Oct 2023 a
Agreement establishing the International Fund for Agricultural Development - 22 Feb 2012 a
Constitution of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization - 18 Aug 2023 a
International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism - 20 Oct 2023 a
United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime - 20 Oct 2023 a
United Nations Convention against Corruption - 23 Jan 2015 a
Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction - 11 Nov 2011 d
Convention on Cluster Munitions - 3 Aug 2023 a
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa - 17 Feb 2014 a
Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer - 12 Jan 2012 a
Convention on Biological Diversity - 17 Feb 2014 a

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 - 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
iso2SS wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.907820+00:00
iso3SSD wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.907829+00:00
m49728 un_sdg 1.02026-08-26T06:55:41.143652+00:00
nameSouth Sudan wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.907801+00:00
un_admission_date2011-07-14 wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.907810+00:00
unsd_nameSouth Sudan un_sdg 1.02026-08-26T06:55:41.143662+00:00

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