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Member state

Spain at the United Nations

Admitted
1955-12-14
ISO 3166-1
ES / ESP
Admitted by
A/RES/995 (X)

In the European Parliament

Members representing this state in the current or previous term, from the Parliament’s own record.

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
International Telecommunication Union 1866-01-01
Universal Postal Union 1875-07-01
World Meteorological Organization 1951-02-27
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization 1953-01-30
United Nations 1955-12-14
International Bank for Reconstruction and Development 1958-09-15
Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe 1973-06-25
North Atlantic Treaty Organization 1982-05-30
European Union 1986-01-01
World Trade Organization 1995-01-01
World Health Organization not recorded
Council of Europe not recorded
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development not recorded

Peacekeeping contribution

Uniformed personnel this state had deployed to UN missions in 2026-07-31, the most recent month the UN Peace and Security Data Hub reports. Counts are deployments, not distinct people.

PersonnelDeployedOf whom women
Troops 650 44
Staff Officer 12 2
Individual Police 8 2
Experts on Mission 1 0

Every contributor, month by month

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.

YearEstimate Credible rangeVotes cast
2025 0.83 0.70 to 0.96 191
2024 0.98 0.84 to 1.13 108
2023 0.96 0.81 to 1.12 88
2022 0.93 0.77 to 1.10 87
2021 0.85 0.71 to 1.00 86
2020 0.85 0.71 to 0.99 97

Every state's position

People of concern

As recorded by UNHCR’s Refugee Data Finder for 2025 — UNHCR’s own reporting categories, not a census.

CategoryPeople
Refugees hosted 511,079
Asylum-seekers hosted 248,715
Stateless people 11,580
Refugees from Spain abroad 186

Population projection

United Nations World Population Prospects, median variant — a projection, not a count.

202520302035204020452050
47,889,95847,610,52047,154,19646,591,67445,879,96444,928,558

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

2026 2025 2024 2020 2018 2017 2013 2012 2011 2006 2005 2002 1999 1998 1997 1993 1992 1991 1987 1986 1985 1981 1980 1979 1975 1974 1973 1961 1960 1959

Human Rights Council

2027 pending 2026 2025 2020 2019 2018 2013 2012 2011 2010

Security Council

2016 2015 2004 2003 1994 1993 1982 1981 1970 1969

Permanent representatives

22 recorded. Full list

NameFromTo
Marcos Gómez Martínez 2024-07-03in office / not recorded
Héctor Gómez Hernández 2023-12-062025-01-20
Agustín Santos Maraver 2018in office / not recorded
Senén Florensa Palau 20182020
Jorge Moragas 20172018
Román Oyarzun Marchesi 20132017
Fernando Arias González 20122013
José Luis Roselló Serra 20062010
Juan Antonio March Pujol 2004-05-212007-12-28
Juan Antonio March Pujol 20042007
Juan Antonio Yáñez-Barnuevo 20042010
Inocencio Arias 1997-072004-12

Permanent mission

Mission
Permanent Mission of Spain to the United Nations
Address
Permanent Mission of Spain to the United Nations, One Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza, 245 East 47th Street, 36th Floor, New York, NY 10017
National holiday
12 October
Accredited diplomats
23

Accredited diplomats

The numbers

IndicatorLatestYearSince 1981
Adult literacy rate 99.7 2021
CO2 emissions per capita 4.505 2024
GDP 1,906,453,309,986 2025
GNI per capita 37,120 2025
Life expectancy at birth 83.89 2024
Military expenditure (% of GDP) 1.432 2024
Population 49,355,143 2025
Refugees hosted (UNHCR mandate) 511,079 2025
Refugees originating (UNHCR mandate) 186 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

65 statements to the General Debate since 1956, 247,277 words in all. The longest was 1964, at 7,646 words, delivered by Mr. Aznar.

Of the 32 statements since 1994 whose speaker’s post the record gives: Minister for Foreign Affairs ×14, Prime Minister ×6, President of the Government ×3, King ×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.

2025 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991 1990 1989 1988 1987 1986 1985 1984 1983 1982 1981 1980 1979 1978 1977 1976 1975 1974 1973 1972 1971 1968 1964 1963 1962 1961 1960 1959 1958 1957 1956

Emblems and location

Coat of arms of Spain
Coat of arms. Escudo de España (variant).svg (Public domain) — Wikimedia Commons

Treaties joined

126 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 - 31 Jul 1974 a
Optional Protocol to the Convention on Special Missions concerning the compulsory settlement of disputes - 31 May 2001 a
United Nations Convention on Jurisdictional Immunities of States and Their Property - 21 Sep 2011 a
Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the Specialized Agencies - 26 Sep 1974 a
Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations - 21 Nov 1967 a
Optional Protocol to the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, concerning the Compulsory Settlement of Disputes - 21 Sep 2011 a
Vienna Convention on Consular Relations - 3 Feb 1970 a
Optional Protocol to the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations concerning the Compulsory Settlement of Disputes - 21 Sep 2011 a
Convention on special missions - 31 May 2001 a
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide - 13 Sep 1968 a
Convention on the Rights of the Child 26 Jan 1990 6 Dec 1990
Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty 23 Feb 1990 11 Apr 1991
Agreement establishing the Fund for the Development of the Indigenous Peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean 24 Jul 1992 7 Dec 1994
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 30 Mar 2007 3 Dec 2007
International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance 27 Sep 2007 24 Sep 2009
International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination - 13 Sep 1968 a
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights 28 Sep 1976 27 Apr 1977
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 28 Sep 1976 27 Apr 1977
Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights - 25 Jan 1985 a
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women 17 Jul 1980 5 Jan 1984
Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment 4 Feb 1985 21 Oct 1987
Constitution of the World Health Organization - 28 May 1951 A
Agreement on the establishment of the International Vaccine Institute - 22 Apr 2022 a
WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control 16 Jun 2003 11 Jan 2005
Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness - 25 Sep 2018 a
Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees - 14 Aug 1978 a
Protocol amending the Agreements, Conventions and Protocols on Narcotic Drugs, concluded at The Hague on 23 January 1912, at Geneva on 11 February 1925 and 19 February 1925, and 13 July 1931, at Bangkok on 27 November 1931 and at Geneva on 26 June 1936 - 26 Sep 1955 s
Protocol Bringing under International Control Drugs Outside the Scope of the Convention of 13 July 1931 for Limiting the Manufacture and Regulating the Distribution of Narcotic Drugs, as amended by the Protocol signed at Lake Success, New York, on 11 December 1946 - 26 Sep 1955 s
Protocol for Limiting and Regulating the Cultivation of the Poppy Plant, the Production of, International and Wholesale Trade in, and use of Opium 22 Oct 1953 15 Jun 1956
Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961 27 Jul 1961 1 Mar 1966
Convention on psychotropic substances - 20 Jul 1973 a
Protocol amending the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961 25 Mar 1972 4 Jan 1977
United Nations Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances 20 Dec 1988 13 Aug 1990
United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods - 24 Jul 1990 a
United Nations Convention on the Liability of Operators of Transport Terminals in International Trade 19 Apr 1991 -
Agreement establishing the African Development Bank 13 Feb 1984 13 Feb 1984
United Nations Convention on the International Effects of Judicial Sales of Ships 19 Jun 2024 21 Aug 2025
Convention on Transit Trade of Land-locked States - 5 May 2010 a
Agreement establishing the Asian Development Bank - 14 Feb 1986 P
Agreement establishing the International Fund for Agricultural Development 22 Jun 1977 27 Nov 1978
Constitution of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization 21 Jan 1980 21 Sep 1981
Customs Convention on the Temporary Importation of Commercial Road Vehicles - 17 Nov 1958 a
Customs Convention on the Temporary Importation for Private Use of Aircraft and Pleasure Boats - 2 Oct 1958 a
Customs Convention on the International Transport of Goods under Cover of TIR Carnets (TIR Convention) - 12 May 1961 a
European Convention on Customs Treatment of Pallets used in International Transport - 2 Feb 1973 a
Customs Convention on Containers, 1972 - 16 Apr 1975 a
Customs Convention on the International Transport of Goods under Cover of TIR Carnets (TIR Convention) - 11 Aug 1982 a
International Convention on the Harmonization of Frontier Controls of Goods - 2 Jul 1984 a
Convention concerning Customs Facilities for Touring 4 Jun 1954 18 Aug 1958
Additional Protocol to the Convention concerning Customs Facilities for Touring, relating to the Importation of Tourist Publicity Documents and Material - 5 Sep 1958 a
Customs Convention on the Temporary Importation of Private Road Vehicles 4 Jun 1954 18 Aug 1958
Customs Convention on Containers - 21 Jan 1959 a
Convention on the Contract for the International Carriage of Goods by Road (CMR) - 12 Feb 1974 a
Agreement concerning the International Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Road (ADR) - 22 Nov 1972 a
European Agreement on Road Markings - 3 Jan 1961 a
Agreement concerning the adoption of harmonized technical United Nations Regulations for wheeled vehicles, equipment and parts which can be fitted and/or be used on wheeled vehicles and the conditions for reciprocal recognition of approvals granted on the basis of these United Nations Regulations - 11 Aug 1961 a
Agreement on Special Equipment for the Transport of Perishable Foodstuffs and on the Use of such Equipment for the International Transport of some of those Foodstuffs - 7 Jan 1964 a
European Agreement concerning the Work of Crews of Vehicles Engaged in International Road Transport (AETR) - 3 Jan 1973 a
Agreement on the International Carriage of Perishable Foodstuffs and on the Special Equipment to be used for such Carriage (ATP) 1 - 24 Apr 1972 a
Protocol on Road Signs and Signals - 13 Feb 1958 a
Agreement concerning the Adoption of Uniform Conditions for Periodical Technical Inspections of Wheeled Vehicles and the Reciprocal Recognition of such Inspections 13 Nov 1997 -
Agreement concerning the Establishing of Global Technical Regulations for Wheeled Vehicles, Equipment and Parts which can be fitted and/or be used on Wheeled Vehicles 24 Aug 2000 23 Apr 2002
European Agreement supplementing the 1949 Convention on road traffic and the 1949 Protocol on road signs and signals - 9 Jun 1960 a
Declaration on the construction of main international traffic arteries - 25 Mar 1960 a
Agreement on Signs for Road Works, amending the European Agreement of 16 September 1950 supplementing the 1949 Convention on Road Traffic and the 1949 Protocol on Road Signs and Signals 1 - 9 Jun 1960 a
International Convention to facilitate the crossing of frontiers for goods carried by rail - 17 Apr 1962 a
International Convention on Maritime Liens and Mortgages, 1993 - 7 Jun 2002 a
United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Carriage of Goods Wholly or Partly by Sea 23 Sep 2009 19 Jan 2011
European Agreement on Important International Combined Transport Lines and Related Installations (AGTC) - 25 Nov 2025 a
Convention on the International Maritime Organization - 23 Jan 1962 A
Convention on a Code of Conduct for Liner Conferences - 3 Feb 1994 a
International Convention on Arrest of Ships, 1999 - 7 Jun 2002 a
Agreement on the Importation of Educational, Scientific and Cultural Materials - 7 Jul 1955 A
International Convention for the Protection of Performers, Producers of Phonograms and Broadcasting Organisations 26 Oct 1961 14 Aug 1991
Convention for the Protection of Producers of Phonograms against Unauthorized Duplication of their Phonograms 29 Oct 1971 16 May 1974
Protocol to the Agreement on the Importation of Educational, Scientific and Cultural Materials of 22 November 1950 - 2 Oct 1992 a
International Agreement for the Establishment of the University for Peace - 21 Apr 1981 s
Statutes of the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology 13 Sep 1983 -
International Tropical Timber Agreement, 2006 23 Sep 2008 17 Dec 2009
Food Assistance Convention - 5 Dec 2014 a
Convention on the Political Rights of Women - 14 Jan 1974 a
Convention on Consent to Marriage, Minimum Age for Marriage and Registration of Marriages - 15 Apr 1969 a
Protocol amending the Slavery Convention signed at Geneva on 25 September 1926 - 10 Nov 1976 s
Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court 18 Jul 1998 24 Oct 2000
International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism 8 Jan 2001 9 Apr 2002
United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime 13 Dec 2000 1 Mar 2002
Agreement on the Privileges and Immunities of the International Criminal Court 21 Apr 2003 24 Sep 2009
United Nations Convention against Corruption 16 Sep 2005 19 Jun 2006
United Nations Convention against Cybercrime; Strengthening International Cooperation for Combating Certain Crimes Committed by Means of Information and Communications Technology Systems and for the Sharing of Evidence in Electronic Form of Serious Crimes 25 Oct 2025 -
International Convention Against the Taking of Hostages - 26 Mar 1984 a
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes against Internationally Protected Persons, including Diplomatic Agents - 8 Aug 1985 a
Convention on the Safety of United Nations and Associated Personnel 19 Dec 1994 13 Jan 1998
International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings 1 May 1998 30 Apr 1999
Convention on the Territorial Sea and the Contiguous Zone - 25 Feb 1971 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 4 Feb 2025
Convention on the High Seas - 25 Feb 1971 a
Convention on Fishing and Conservation of the Living Resources of the High Seas - 25 Feb 1971 a
Convention on the Continental Shelf - 25 Feb 1971 a
Agreement for the Implementation of the Provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of 10 December 1982 relating to the Conservation and Management of Straddling Fish Stocks and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks 3 Dec 1996 19 Dec 2003
Agreement on the Privileges and Immunities of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea - 9 Jan 2001 a
Protocol on the Privileges and Immunities of the International Seabed Authority 14 Sep 1999 9 Jan 2001
Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards - 12 May 1977 a
European Convention on International Commercial Arbitration 14 Dec 1961 12 May 1975
Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties between States and International Organizations or between International Organizations - 24 Jul 1990 a
Convention relating to the distribution of programme-carrying signals transmitted by satellite 21 May 1974 -
Tampere Convention on the Provision of Telecommunication Resources for Disaster Mitigation and Relief Operations - 27 Feb 2006 a
Convention on the prohibition of military or any other hostile use of environmental modification techniques 18 May 1977 19 Jul 1978
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) 10 Apr 1981 29 Dec 1993
Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction 13 Jan 1993 3 Aug 1994
Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty 24 Sep 1996 31 Jul 1998
Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction 3 Dec 1997 19 Jan 1999
Convention on Cluster Munitions 3 Dec 2008 17 Jun 2009
Arms Trade Treaty 3 Jun 2013 2 Apr 2014
Convention on long-range transboundary air pollution 14 Nov 1979 15 Jun 1982
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa 14 Oct 1994 30 Jan 1996
Convention on the Law of the Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses - 24 Sep 2009 a
Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-Making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters 25 Jun 1998 29 Dec 2004
Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade 11 Sep 1998 2 Mar 2004
Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants 23 May 2001 28 May 2004
Minamata Convention on Mercury 10 Oct 2013 13 Dec 2021
Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer - 25 Jul 1988 a
Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal 22 Mar 1989 7 Feb 1994
Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context 26 Feb 1991 10 Sep 1992
Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes 18 Mar 1992 16 Feb 2000
Convention on the Transboundary Effects of Industrial Accidents 18 Mar 1992 16 May 1997
Convention on Biological Diversity 13 Jun 1992 21 Dec 1993

Recorded votes

ResolutionDateVote
A/RES/80/290 2026-07-10 yes
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
iso2ES wikidata 1.02026-10-12T02:20:06.566237+00:00
iso3ESP wikidata 1.02026-10-12T02:20:06.566244+00:00
m49724 un_sdg 1.02026-10-12T02:20:11.770822+00:00
nameSpain wikidata 1.02026-10-12T02:20:06.566222+00:00
un_admission_date1955-12-14 wikidata 1.02026-10-12T02:20:06.566230+00:00
unsd_nameSpain un_sdg 1.02026-10-12T02:20:11.770828+00:00

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