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The Bahamas at the United Nations

Flag of The Bahamas
Flag of the Bahamas.svg (Public domain) — Wikimedia Commons
Admitted
1973-09-18
ISO 3166-1
BS / BHS
Admitted by
A/RES/3051 (XXVIII)
Formerly
Bahamas, until 11 April 2025

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 1973-09-18

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

2012 2011 2010 1995 1994 1993 1991 1990 1989 1982 1981

Human Rights Council

2021 2020 2019

Permanent mission

Mission
Permanent Mission of The Bahamas to the United Nations
Address
Permanent Mission of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas to the United Nations, 231 East 46th Street, New York, NY 10017
National holiday
Independence Day, 10 July
Accredited diplomats
10

Accredited diplomats

The numbers

IndicatorLatestYearSince 1970
CO2 emissions per capita 3.63634 2024
GDP 1.58328e+10 2024
GNI per capita 37,020 2024
Life expectancy at birth 74.71 2024
Net official development assistance received 4.39e+06 1995
Population 403,033 2025
Refugees hosted (UNHCR mandate) 10 2025
Refugees originating (UNHCR mandate) 1,598 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

47 statements to the General Debate since 1973, 113,494 words in all. The longest was 1981, at 5,559 words, delivered by Mr. ADDERLEY.

Of the 32 statements since 1994 whose speaker’s post the record gives: Minister for Foreign Affairs ×13, Prime Minister ×10, Deputy Prime Minister ×4, 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 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 1973

Treaties joined

56 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 - 17 Mar 1977 d
Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the Specialized Agencies - 17 Mar 1977 d
Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations - 17 Mar 1977 d
Optional Protocol to the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, concerning the Compulsory Settlement of Disputes - 17 Mar 1977 a
Vienna Convention on Consular Relations - 17 Mar 1977 d
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide - 5 Aug 1975 d
International Convention against Apartheid in Sports 20 May 1986 13 Nov 1986
Convention on the Rights of the Child 30 Oct 1990 20 Feb 1991
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 24 Sep 2013 28 Sep 2015
International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination - 5 Aug 1975 d
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights 4 Dec 2008 23 Dec 2008
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 4 Dec 2008 23 Dec 2008
International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid - 31 Mar 1981 a
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women - 6 Oct 1993 a
Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment 16 Dec 2008 31 May 2018
Constitution of the World Health Organization - 1 Apr 1974 A
WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control 29 Jun 2004 3 Nov 2009
Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees - 15 Sep 1993 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 - 13 Aug 1975 d
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 - 13 Aug 1975 d
Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961 - 13 Aug 1975 d
Convention on psychotropic substances - 31 Aug 1987 a
Protocol amending the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961 - 23 Nov 1976 a
United Nations Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances 20 Dec 1988 30 Jan 1989
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 - 10 Jun 1976 d
Agreement establishing the Caribbean Development Bank 18 Oct 1969 28 Jan 1970
Agreement establishing the International Fund for Agricultural Development - 28 Feb 2008 a
Constitution of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization - 13 Nov 1986 a
Convention on the International Maritime Organization - 22 Jul 1976 A
International Convention for the Protection of Performers, Producers of Phonograms and Broadcasting Organisations - 16 Jul 2026 a
Convention on the Political Rights of Women - 16 Aug 1977 d
Protocol amending the Slavery Convention signed at Geneva on 25 September 1926 - 10 Jun 1976 d
Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court 29 Dec 2000 -
International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism 2 Oct 2001 1 Nov 2005
United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime 9 Apr 2001 26 Sep 2008
Agreement on the Privileges and Immunities of the International Criminal Court 30 Jun 2004 -
United Nations Convention against Corruption - 10 Jan 2008 a
International Convention Against the Taking of Hostages - 4 Jun 1981 a
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes against Internationally Protected Persons, including Diplomatic Agents - 22 Jul 1986 a
International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings - 5 May 2008 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 12 Apr 2024 9 Jun 2025
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 - 16 Jan 1997 a
Protocol on the Privileges and Immunities of the International Seabed Authority 26 Aug 1998 -
Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards - 20 Dec 2006 a
Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction 2 Mar 1994 21 Apr 2009
Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty 4 Feb 2005 30 Nov 2007
Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction 3 Dec 1997 31 Jul 1998
Arms Trade Treaty 3 Jun 2013 25 Sep 2014
Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons 19 Sep 2023 -
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa - 10 Nov 2000 a
Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants 20 Mar 2002 3 Oct 2005
Minamata Convention on Mercury - 12 Feb 2020 a
Regional Agreement on Access to Information, Public Participation and Justice in Environmental Matters in Latin America and the Caribbean - 5 Jun 2025 a
Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer - 1 Apr 1993 a
Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal - 12 Aug 1992 a
Convention on Biological Diversity 12 Jun 1992 2 Sep 1993

Recorded votes

ResolutionDateVote
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
iso2BS wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.907338+00:00
iso3BHS wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.907347+00:00
m4944 un_sdg 1.02026-08-26T06:55:41.143214+00:00
nameThe Bahamas wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.907318+00:00
un_admission_date1973-09-18 wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.907327+00:00
unsd_nameBahamas un_sdg 1.02026-08-26T06:55:41.143228+00:00

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