Member state

Trinidad and Tobago at the United Nations

Flag of Trinidad and Tobago
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Admitted
1962-09-18
ISO 3166-1
TT / TTO
Admitted by
A/RES/1751(XVII)

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 1962-09-18

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

2017 2016 2015 1993 1992 1991 1990 1989 1988 1980 1979 1978 1975 1974 1973

Security Council

1986 1985

Permanent mission

Mission
Permanent Mission of Trinidad and Tobago to the United Nations
Address
Permanent Mission of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago to the United Nations, 633 Third Avenue, 12th Floor, New York, NY 10017
National holiday
31 August
Accredited diplomats
7

Accredited diplomats

The numbers

IndicatorLatestYearSince 1980
Adult literacy rate 96.94 1990
CO2 emissions per capita 19.5811 2024
GDP 2.59427e+10 2025
GNI per capita 18,550 2025
Life expectancy at birth 73.617 2024
Military expenditure (% of GDP) 0.921416 2024
Net official development assistance received 4.34e+06 2010
Population 1.36776e+06 2025
Refugees hosted (UNHCR mandate) 1,877 2025
Refugees originating (UNHCR mandate) 576 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

53 statements to the General Debate since 1964, 158,198 words in all. The longest was 1989, at 4,938 words, delivered by diSDEO.

Of the 32 statements since 1994 whose speaker’s post the record gives: Prime Minister ×10, Minister for Foreign Affairs ×10, UN Representative ×5, 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.

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Emblems and location

Coat of arms of Trinidad and Tobago
Coat of arms. Coat of arms of Trinidad and Tobago (2025).svg by BaronJaguar (CC BY) — Wikimedia Commons
Location of Trinidad and Tobago
Location. Trinidad and Tobago (orthographic projection).svg by L'Américain (Public domain) — Wikimedia Commons

Treaties joined

76 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 - 19 Oct 1965 a
Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the Specialized Agencies - 19 Oct 1965 a
Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations - 19 Oct 1965 a
Vienna Convention on Consular Relations - 19 Oct 1965 a
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide - 13 Dec 2002 a
International Convention against Apartheid in Sports 21 May 1986 11 Oct 1990
Convention on the Rights of the Child 30 Sep 1990 5 Dec 1991
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 27 Sep 2007 25 Jun 2015
International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination 9 Jun 1967 4 Oct 1973
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights - 8 Dec 1978 a
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights - 21 Dec 1978 a
Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights - [14 Nov 1980 a] (withdrawn)
International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid 7 Apr 1975 26 Oct 1979
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women 27 Jun 1985 12 Jan 1990
Constitution of the World Health Organization - 3 Jan 1963 A
WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control 27 Aug 2003 19 Aug 2004
Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees - 10 Nov 2000 a
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 - 11 Apr 1966 d
Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961 - 22 Jun 1964 a
Convention on psychotropic substances 21 Feb 1971 14 Mar 1979
Protocol amending the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961 - 23 Jul 1979 a
United Nations Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances 7 Dec 1989 17 Feb 1995
Agreement establishing the Caribbean Development Bank 18 Oct 1969 20 Jan 1970
Agreement establishing the International Fund for Agricultural Development - 24 Mar 1988 a
Constitution of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization 14 Apr 1980 2 May 1980
Customs Convention on the Temporary Importation for Private Use of Aircraft and Pleasure Boats - 11 Apr 1966 d
Customs Convention on Containers, 1972 - 23 Mar 1990 a
Convention concerning Customs Facilities for Touring - 11 Apr 1966 d
Additional Protocol to the Convention concerning Customs Facilities for Touring, relating to the Importation of Tourist Publicity Documents and Material - 11 Apr 1966 d
Customs Convention on the Temporary Importation of Private Road Vehicles - 11 Apr 1966 d
Customs Convention on Containers - 11 Apr 1966 d
Convention on the International Maritime Organization - 27 Apr 1965 A
Convention on a Code of Conduct for Liner Conferences - 3 Aug 1983 a
Agreement for Facilitating the International Circulation of Visual and Auditory Materials of an Educational, Scientific and Cultural Character - 31 Aug 1965 a
Agreement on the Importation of Educational, Scientific and Cultural Materials - 11 Apr 1966 d
International Convention for the Protection of Performers, Producers of Phonograms and Broadcasting Organisations - 9 Dec 2019 a
Convention for the Protection of Producers of Phonograms against Unauthorized Duplication of their Phonograms - 27 Jun 1988 a
Statutes of the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology 13 Sep 1983 13 Oct 2003
International Sugar Agreement, 1992 [31 Dec 1992 ] [ 9 Sep 1993 ] (withdrawn)
International Cocoa Agreement, 2001 - 17 Feb 2004 a
International Tropical Timber Agreement, 2006 - 5 Nov 2012 a
International Cocoa Agreement, 2010 24 Sep 2012 -
Convention on the Political Rights of Women - 24 Jun 1966 a
Convention on Consent to Marriage, Minimum Age for Marriage and Registration of Marriages - 2 Oct 1969 a
Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court 23 Mar 1999 6 Apr 1999
International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism - 23 Sep 2009 a
United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime 26 Sep 2001 6 Nov 2007
Agreement on the Privileges and Immunities of the International Criminal Court 10 Sep 2002 6 Feb 2003
United Nations Convention against Corruption 11 Dec 2003 31 May 2006
International Convention Against the Taking of Hostages - 1 Apr 1981 a
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes against Internationally Protected Persons, including Diplomatic Agents - 15 Jun 1979 a
International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings - 2 Apr 2001 a
Convention on the Territorial Sea and the Contiguous Zone - 11 Apr 1966 d
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 - 27 Jan 2026 a
Convention on the High Seas - 11 Apr 1966 d
Convention on Fishing and Conservation of the Living Resources of the High Seas - 11 Apr 1966 d
Convention on the Continental Shelf - 11 Jul 1968 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 - 13 Sep 2006 a
Protocol on the Privileges and Immunities of the International Seabed Authority 26 Aug 1998 10 Aug 2005
Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards - 14 Feb 1966 a
Convention relating to the distribution of programme-carrying signals transmitted by satellite - 1 Aug 1996 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) - 29 Jul 2024 a
Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction - 24 Jun 1997 a
Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty 8 Oct 2009 26 May 2010
Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction 4 Dec 1997 27 Apr 1998
Convention on Cluster Munitions - 21 Sep 2011 a
Arms Trade Treaty 3 Jun 2013 25 Sep 2013
Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons 26 Sep 2019 26 Sep 2019
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa - 8 Jun 2000 a
Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade - 16 Dec 2009 a
Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants - 13 Dec 2002 a
Minamata Convention on Mercury - 26 Jun 2026 a
Regional Agreement on Access to Information, Public Participation and Justice in Environmental Matters in Latin America and the Caribbean - 27 Jan 2026 a
Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer - 28 Aug 1989 a
Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal - 18 Feb 1994 a
Convention on Biological Diversity 11 Jun 1992 1 Aug 1996

Recorded votes

ResolutionDateVote
A/RES/80/282 - non-voting
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
iso2TT wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.900816+00:00
iso3TTO wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.900826+00:00
m49780 un_sdg 1.02026-08-26T06:55:41.132524+00:00
nameTrinidad and Tobago wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.900797+00:00
un_admission_date1962-09-18 wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.900807+00:00
unsd_nameTrinidad and Tobago un_sdg 1.02026-08-26T06:55:41.132539+00:00

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