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Sweden at the United Nations

Flag of Sweden
Flag of Sweden.svg by Jon Harald Søby and others (Public domain) — Wikimedia Commons
Admitted
1946-11-19
ISO 3166-1
SE / SWE
Admitted by
A/RES/34 (I)

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
United Nations 1946-11-19
World Meteorological Organization 1948-11-10
Council of Europe 1949-05-05
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization 1950-01-23
International Bank for Reconstruction and Development 1951-08-31
Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe 1973-06-25
European Union 1995-01-01
World Trade Organization 1995-01-01
North Atlantic Treaty Organization 2024-03-07
World Health Organization 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
Individual Police 8 2
Experts on Mission 2 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 0.96 0.83 to 1.09 191
2024 1.09 0.93 to 1.26 108
2023 1.06 0.89 to 1.24 88
2022 1.04 0.87 to 1.21 88
2021 0.77 0.64 to 0.92 86
2020 0.78 0.64 to 0.92 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 144,116
Asylum-seekers hosted 4,661
Stateless people 5,838
Refugees from Sweden abroad 128

Population projection

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

202520302035204020452050
10,656,63310,841,81010,964,97811,078,60211,202,87211,309,630

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

2025 2024 2023 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2009 2008 2004 2003 2002 1998 1997 1996 1992 1991 1990 1986 1985 1984 1980 1979 1978 1974 1968 1967 1966 1953 1952 1951

Security Council

2018 2017 1998 1997 1976 1975 1958 1957

Permanent representatives

3 recorded. Full list

NameFromTo
Olof Skoog 20152019
Hans Dahlgren 19972000
Dag Hammarskjöld 1953-04-101961-09-18

Permanent mission

Mission
Permanent Mission of Sweden to the United Nations
Address
Permanent Mission of Sweden to the United Nations, One Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza, 885 Second Avenue, 46th Floor, New York, NY 10017-2201
National holiday
6 June
Accredited diplomats
23

Accredited diplomats

The numbers

IndicatorLatestYearSince 1970
CO2 emissions per capita 3.574 2024
GDP 668,998,664,082 2025
GNI per capita 63,010 2025
Life expectancy at birth 84.06 2024
Military expenditure (% of GDP) 1.998 2024
Population 10,596,620 2025
Refugees hosted (UNHCR mandate) 144,116 2025
Refugees originating (UNHCR mandate) 128 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

69 statements to the General Debate since 1947, 176,724 words in all. The longest was 1978, at 5,261 words, delivered by Soder.

Of the 32 statements since 1994 whose speaker’s post the record gives: Minister for Foreign Affairs ×13, Prime Minister ×7, UN Representative ×6, Minister of Foreign Affairs ×3. 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 1978 1977 1976 1975 1974 1973 1972 1971 1969 1968 1967 1966 1965 1964 1963 1960 1959 1956 1955 1953 1952 1950 1947

Emblems and location

Coat of arms of Sweden
Coat of arms. Great coat of arms of Sweden.svg by Sodacan (Public domain) — Wikimedia Commons

Treaties joined

129 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
Revised General Act for the Pacific Settlement of International Disputes - 22 Jun 1950 a
Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations - 28 Aug 1947 a
United Nations Convention on Jurisdictional Immunities of States and Their Property 14 Sep 2005 23 Dec 2009
Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the Specialized Agencies - 12 Sep 1951 a
Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations 18 Apr 1961 21 Mar 1967
Optional Protocol to the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, concerning Acquisition of Nationality 18 Apr 1961 21 Mar 1967
Optional Protocol to the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, concerning the Compulsory Settlement of Disputes 18 Apr 1961 21 Mar 1967
Vienna Convention on Consular Relations 8 Oct 1963 19 Mar 1974
Optional Protocol to the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations concerning Acquisition of Nationality 8 Oct 1963 19 Mar 1974
Optional Protocol to the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations concerning the Compulsory Settlement of Disputes 8 Oct 1963 19 Mar 1974
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide 30 Dec 1949 27 May 1952
Convention on the Rights of the Child 26 Jan 1990 29 Jun 1990
Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty 13 Feb 1990 11 May 1990
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 30 Mar 2007 15 Dec 2008
International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance 6 Feb 2007 -
International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination 5 May 1966 6 Dec 1971
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights 29 Sep 1967 6 Dec 1971
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 29 Sep 1967 6 Dec 1971
Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 29 Sep 1967 6 Dec 1971
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women 7 Mar 1980 2 Jul 1980
Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment 4 Feb 1985 8 Jan 1986
Constitution of the World Health Organization 13 Jan 1947 28 Aug 1947 A
Protocol concerning the Office international d'hygiène publique 13 Jan 1947 28 Aug 1947 A
Agreement on the establishment of the International Vaccine Institute 2 Apr 1997 2 Apr 1997
WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control 16 Jun 2003 7 Jul 2005
Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness - 19 Feb 1969 a
Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees - 4 Oct 1967 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 - 17 Oct 1947 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 - 3 Mar 1949 s
Protocol for Limiting and Regulating the Cultivation of the Poppy Plant, the Production of, International and Wholesale Trade in, and use of Opium - 16 Jan 1958 a
Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961 3 Apr 1961 18 Dec 1964
Convention on psychotropic substances 21 Feb 1971 5 Dec 1972
Protocol amending the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961 25 Mar 1972 5 Dec 1972
United Nations Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances 20 Dec 1988 22 Jul 1991
Protocol signed at Lake Success, New York, on 12 November 1947, to amend the Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Women and Children, concluded at Geneva on 30 September 1921, and the Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Women of Full Age, concluded at Geneva on 11 October 1933 - 9 Jun 1948 s
Protocol amending the International Agreement for the Suppression of the White Slave Traffic, signed at Paris on 18 May 1904, and the International Convention for the Suppression of the White Slave Traffic, signed at Paris on 4 May 1910 - 25 Feb 1952 s
United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods 26 May 1981 15 Dec 1987
Convention on Transit Trade of Land-locked States - 16 Jun 1971 a
Agreement establishing the Asian Development Bank 31 Jan 1966 29 Sep 1966
Agreement establishing the International Fund for Agricultural Development 12 Jan 1977 17 Jun 1977
Constitution of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization 28 Sep 1979 28 Jul 1980
Customs Convention on the Temporary Importation of Commercial Road Vehicles 18 May 1956 16 Jan 1958
Customs Convention on the Temporary Importation for Private Use of Aircraft and Pleasure Boats 18 May 1956 16 Jan 1958
Customs Convention on the International Transport of Goods under Cover of TIR Carnets (TIR Convention) - 14 Apr 1959 s
European Convention on Customs Treatment of Pallets used in International Transport - 1 Mar 1961 s
Customs Convention on the International Transport of Goods under Cover of TIR Carnets (TIR Convention) - 17 Dec 1976 s
International Convention on the Harmonization of Frontier Controls of Goods - 15 Jul 1985 a
Convention on Customs Treatment of Pool Containers used in International Transport 13 Apr 1995 29 Mar 1996
Convention concerning Customs Facilities for Touring 4 Jun 1954 11 Jun 1957
Additional Protocol to the Convention concerning Customs Facilities for Touring, relating to the Importation of Tourist Publicity Documents and Material 4 Jun 1954 11 Jun 1957
Customs Convention on the Temporary Importation of Private Road Vehicles 4 Jun 1954 11 Jun 1957
Customs Convention on Containers 18 May 1956 11 Aug 1959
Convention on the Taxation of Road Vehicles for Private Use in International Traffic 18 May 1956 16 Jan 1958
Convention on the Contract for the International Carriage of Goods by Road (CMR) 19 May 1956 2 Apr 1969
Convention on the Taxation of Road Vehicles engaged in International Goods Transport 14 Dec 1956 16 Jan 1958
Convention on the Taxation of Road Vehicles Engaged in International Passenger Transport 14 Dec 1956 16 Jan 1958
Agreement concerning the International Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Road (ADR) - 1 Mar 1974 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 - 21 Apr 1959 a
European Agreement concerning the Work of Crews of Vehicles Engaged in International Road Transport (AETR) 19 Jun 1962 -
Protocol concerning countries or territories at present occupied 19 Sep 1949 -
European Agreement concerning the Work of Crews of Vehicles Engaged in International Road Transport (AETR) 19 Jan 1971 24 Aug 1973
Agreement on the International Carriage of Perishable Foodstuffs and on the Special Equipment to be used for such Carriage (ATP) 1 - 13 Dec 1978 a
European Agreement supplementing the Convention on road traffic opened for signature at Vienna on 8 November 1968 1 Feb 1972 25 Jul 1985
European Agreement supplementing the Convention on Road Signs and Signals 1 Feb 1972 25 Jul 1985
Protocol on Road Markings, additional to the European Agreement supplementing the Convention on Road Signs and Signals - 25 Jul 1985 a
European Agreement on main international traffic arteries (AGR) - 27 Oct 1992 a
Protocol on Road Signs and Signals 19 Sep 1949 25 Feb 1952
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 - 3 Dec 2002 a
Declaration on the construction of main international traffic arteries - 31 Mar 1952 a
General Agreement on Economic Regulations for International Road transport (a) Additional Protocol (b) Protocol of Signature 17 Mar 1954 -
International Convention to facilitate the crossing of frontiers for passengers and baggage carried by rail 10 Jan 1952 -
International Convention to facilitate the crossing of frontiers for goods carried by rail 10 Jan 1952 -
United Nations Convention on the Carriage of Goods by Sea, 1978 18 Apr 1979 -
International Convention on Maritime Liens and Mortgages, 1993 2 Jun 1994 -
United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Carriage of Goods Wholly or Partly by Sea 20 Jul 2011 -
Convention on the International Maritime Organization - 27 Apr 1959 A
Convention on a Code of Conduct for Liner Conferences - 28 Jun 1985 a
Protocol amending the International Convention relating to Economic Statistics, signed at Geneva on 14 December 1928 - 9 Dec 1948 s
Agreement on the Importation of Educational, Scientific and Cultural Materials 20 Nov 1951 21 May 1952
International Convention for the Protection of Performers, Producers of Phonograms and Broadcasting Organisations 26 Oct 1961 13 Jul 1962
Convention for the Protection of Producers of Phonograms against Unauthorized Duplication of their Phonograms 29 Oct 1971 18 Jan 1973
Protocol to the Agreement on the Importation of Educational, Scientific and Cultural Materials of 22 November 1950 - 30 Jul 1997 a
International Sugar Agreement, 1992 [18 Dec 1992 ] [21 Jan 1993 ] (withdrawn)
International Tropical Timber Agreement, 2006 28 Oct 2008 28 Oct 2008
Food Assistance Convention - 12 May 2014 a
Convention on the Political Rights of Women 6 Oct 1953 31 Mar 1954
Convention on Consent to Marriage, Minimum Age for Marriage and Registration of Marriages 10 Dec 1962 16 Jun 1964
Protocol amending the Slavery Convention signed at Geneva on 25 September 1926 - 17 Aug 1954 s
Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court 7 Oct 1998 28 Jun 2001
International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism 15 Oct 2001 6 Jun 2002
United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime 12 Dec 2000 30 Apr 2004
Agreement on the Privileges and Immunities of the International Criminal Court 19 Feb 2004 13 Jan 2005
United Nations Convention against Corruption 9 Dec 2003 25 Sep 2007
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 25 Feb 1980 15 Jan 1981
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes against Internationally Protected Persons, including Diplomatic Agents 10 May 1974 1 Jul 1975
Convention on the Safety of United Nations and Associated Personnel 15 Dec 1994 25 Jun 1996
International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings 12 Feb 1998 6 Sep 2001
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 -
Convention on the Continental Shelf - 1 Jun 1966 a
Optional Protocol of Signature concerning the Compulsory Settlement of Disputes 1 Jun 1966 28 Jun 1966
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 27 Jun 1996 19 Dec 2003
Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards 23 Dec 1958 28 Jan 1972
United Nations Convention on Transparency in Treaty-based Investor-State Arbitration 17 Mar 2015 -
Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties between States and International Organizations or between International Organizations 18 Jun 1987 10 Feb 1988
Tampere Convention on the Provision of Telecommunication Resources for Disaster Mitigation and Relief Operations 10 Jun 2003 13 Sep 2004
Convention on the prohibition of military or any other hostile use of environmental modification techniques - 27 Apr 1984 a
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 7 Jul 1982
Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction 13 Jan 1993 17 Jun 1993
Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty 24 Sep 1996 2 Dec 1998
Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction 4 Dec 1997 30 Nov 1998
Convention on Cluster Munitions 3 Dec 2008 23 Apr 2012
Arms Trade Treaty 3 Jun 2013 16 Jun 2014
Convention on long-range transboundary air pollution 13 Nov 1979 12 Feb 1981
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa 15 Oct 1994 12 Dec 1995
Convention on the Law of the Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses - 15 Jun 2000 a
Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-Making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters 25 Jun 1998 20 May 2005
Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade 11 Sep 1998 10 Oct 2003
Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants 23 May 2001 8 May 2002
Protocol on Civil Liability and Compensation for Damage Caused by the Transboundary Effects of Industrial Accidents on Transboundary Waters to the 1992 Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes and to the 1992 Convention on the Transboundary Effects of Industrial Accidents 21 May 2003 -
Minamata Convention on Mercury 10 Oct 2013 18 May 2017
Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer 22 Mar 1985 26 Nov 1986
Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal 22 Mar 1989 2 Aug 1991
Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context 26 Feb 1991 24 Jan 1992
Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes 18 Mar 1992 5 Aug 1993
Convention on the Transboundary Effects of Industrial Accidents 18 Mar 1992 22 Sep 1999
Convention on Biological Diversity 8 Jun 1992 16 Dec 1993
Agreement on the Conservation of Small Cetaceans of the Baltic, North East Atlantic, Irish and North Seas - 31 Mar 1992 s

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
iso2SE wikidata 1.02026-10-12T02:20:06.566453+00:00
iso3SWE wikidata 1.02026-10-12T02:20:06.566460+00:00
m49752 un_sdg 1.02026-10-12T02:20:11.770966+00:00
nameSweden wikidata 1.02026-10-12T02:20:06.566440+00:00
un_admission_date1946-11-19 wikidata 1.02026-10-12T02:20:06.566446+00:00
unsd_nameSweden un_sdg 1.02026-10-12T02:20:11.770973+00:00

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