Member state
South Sudan at the United Nations
- 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.
| Organisation | Joined |
|---|---|
| United Nations | 2011-07-14 |
| International Telecommunication Union | 2011-10-03 |
| Universal Postal Union | 2011-10-04 |
| United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization | 2011-10-27 |
| International Bank for Reconstruction and Development | 2012-04-18 |
| World Meteorological Organization | 2012-12-14 |
| World Health Organization | not recorded |
| African Union | not recorded |
Position in General Assembly voting
A statistical estimate of where this state sat on the main axis of General Assembly voting, not a record of any vote. The range is what the model treats as credible; neither end of the scale is the better one.
| Year | Estimate | Credible range | Votes cast |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 0.65 | 0.44 to 0.85 | 56 |
| 2024 | 0.01 | -0.22 to 0.23 | 22 |
| 2023 | 0.36 | 0.25 to 0.47 | 79 |
| 2022 | -0.06 | -0.27 to 0.15 | 39 |
| 2021 | -0.22 | -0.43 to -0.02 | 56 |
| 2020 | -0.29 | -0.54 to -0.05 | 38 |
People of concern
As recorded by UNHCR’s Refugee Data Finder for 2025 — UNHCR’s own reporting categories, not a census.
| Category | People |
|---|---|
| Refugees hosted | 601,818 |
| Asylum-seekers hosted | 3,246 |
| Internally displaced | 1,277,527 |
| Stateless people | 60,600 |
| Refugees from South Sudan abroad | 2,386,499 |
Population projection
United Nations World Population Prospects, median variant — a projection, not a count.
| 2025 | 2030 | 2035 | 2040 | 2045 | 2050 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12,188,788 | 13,457,453 | 14,798,600 | 16,101,480 | 17,286,410 | 18,341,974 |
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
- Mr. Akuei Bona Malwal Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary / Permanent Representative
- Mrs. Cecilia A. M. Adeng Ambassador / Deputy Permanent Representative
- Mr. Agok John Anyar Madut Agok Ambassador
- Mr. Emmanuel Pothwei Benjamin First Secretary
- Mr. William Deng Gatluak First Secretary
- Ms. Aliyah Akur Agoth Wek First Secretary
- Ms. Margaret Gabriel Changson Chang Second Secretary
- Ms. Hellen Ritta Merekaje Attaché
- Mr. Alison Aderi Sigin Adari Attaché / Military Adviser
The numbers
| Indicator | Latest | Year | Since 2008 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GDP | 11,997,800,760 | 2015 | |
| GNI per capita | 1,050 | 2015 | |
| Life expectancy at birth | 57.74 | 2024 | |
| Military expenditure (% of GDP) | 1.962 | 2024 | |
| Net official development assistance received | 1,791,723,999 | 2023 | |
| Population | 12,188,788 | 2025 | |
| Refugees hosted (UNHCR mandate) | 601,818 | 2025 | |
| Refugees originating (UNHCR mandate) | 2,386,499 | 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
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.
Recorded votes
| Resolution | Date | Vote |
|---|---|---|
| A/RES/80/290 | 2026-07-10 | non-voting |
| 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.
| Attribute | Value | Source | Confidence | Fetched |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| iso2 | SS | wikidata | 1.0 | 2026-10-12T02:20:06.567960+00:00 |
| iso3 | SSD | wikidata | 1.0 | 2026-10-12T02:20:06.567969+00:00 |
| m49 | 728 | un_sdg | 1.0 | 2026-10-12T02:20:11.772692+00:00 |
| name | South Sudan | wikidata | 1.0 | 2026-10-12T02:20:06.567945+00:00 |
| un_admission_date | 2011-07-14 | wikidata | 1.0 | 2026-10-12T02:20:06.567953+00:00 |
| unsd_name | South Sudan | un_sdg | 1.0 | 2026-10-12T02:20:11.772721+00:00 |
Where this page comes from
- UN General Assembly ideal point estimates — CC0 1.0 · source
- 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
- UN World Population Prospects — un.org website terms (all rights reserved) · source
- UNHCR Refugee Data Finder — Unassessed · source
- Wikidata — CC0 1.0 · source
- World Bank Open Data — CC BY 4.0 · source