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United States at the United Nations

Flag of United States
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Admitted
1945-10-24
ISO 3166-1
US / USA
Charter signed
1945-06-26
Charter ratified
1945-08-08

A founding Member State: one of the fifty-one that signed the Charter at San Francisco in 1945. A permanent member of the Security Council.

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 1945-10-24

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

2027 pending 2026 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 1970 1969 1968 1967 1966 1965 1964 1963 1962 1961 1960 1959 1958 1957 1956 1955 1954 1953 1952 1951 1950 1949 1948 1947 1946

Human Rights Council

2024 2023 2022 2018 2017 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009

Security Council

2027 pending 2026 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 1970 1969 1968 1967 1966 1965 1964 1963 1962 1961 1960 1959 1958 1957 1956 1955 1954 1953 1952 1951 1950 1949 1948 1947 1946

Permanent representatives

44 recorded. Full list

NameFromTo
Mike Waltz 2025-09-21in office / not recorded
Linda Thomas-Greenfield 2021-02-25in office / not recorded
Richard M. Mills, Jr. 2021-01-202021-02-25
Kelly Craft 2019-09-122021-01-20
Jonathan Cohen 2019-01-012019-09-12
Nikki Haley 2017-01-272018-12-31
Michele J. Sison 2017-01-202017-01-27
Claire Underwood 2015-04-012015-11-01
Samantha Power 2013-08-052017-01-20
Rosemary DiCarlo 2013-06-302013-08-05
Susan Rice 2009-01-222013-06-30
Zalmay Khalilzad 2007-04-302009-01-20

Permanent mission

Mission
Permanent Mission of United States to the United Nations
Address
United States Mission to the United Nations, 799 United Nations Plaza, New York, NY 10017
National holiday
Independence Day, 4 July
Accredited diplomats
153

Accredited diplomats

The numbers

IndicatorLatestYearSince 1970
CO2 emissions per capita 13.6239 2024
GDP 3.07697e+13 2025
GNI per capita 88,810 2025
Life expectancy at birth 78.8902 2024
Military expenditure (% of GDP) 3.41922 2024
Population 3.41785e+08 2025
Refugees hosted (UNHCR mandate) 457,647 2025
Refugees originating (UNHCR mandate) 3,667 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

80 statements to the General Debate since 1946, 324,638 words in all. The longest was 2025, at 8,242 words, delivered by Donald Trump.

Of the 32 statements since 1994 whose speaker’s post the record gives: President ×29, Minister for Foreign Affairs ×2, Minister for Foregn 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.

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Emblems and location

Coat of arms of United States
Coat of arms. Greater coat of arms of the United States.svg by Ssolbergj (Public domain) — Wikimedia Commons

Treaties joined

100 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
Charter of the United Nations - 8 Aug 1945
Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations - 29 Apr 1970 a
Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations 29 Jun 1961 13 Nov 1972
Optional Protocol to the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, concerning the Compulsory Settlement of Disputes [29 Jun 1961 ] [13 Nov 1972 ] (withdrawn)
Vienna Convention on Consular Relations 24 Apr 1963 24 Nov 1969
Optional Protocol to the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations concerning the Compulsory Settlement of Disputes [24 Apr 1963 ] [24 Nov 1969 ] (withdrawn)
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide 11 Dec 1948 25 Nov 1988
Convention on the Rights of the Child 16 Feb 1995 -
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 30 Jul 2009 -
International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination 28 Sep 1966 21 Oct 1994
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights 5 Oct 1977 -
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 5 Oct 1977 8 Jun 1992
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women 17 Jul 1980 -
Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment 18 Apr 1988 21 Oct 1994
Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment 18 Apr 1988 21 Oct 1994
Constitution of the World Health Organization 22 Jul 1946 21 Jun 1948 A
Constitution of the World Health Organization 22 Jul 1946 21 Jun 1948 A
Protocol concerning the Office international d'hygiène publique 22 Jul 1946 7 Aug 1947 A
WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control 10 May 2004 -
Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees - 1 Nov 1968 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 11 Dec 1946 12 Aug 1947 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 19 Nov 1948 -
Protocol for Limiting and Regulating the Cultivation of the Poppy Plant, the Production of, International and Wholesale Trade in, and use of Opium 23 Jun 1953 18 Feb 1955
Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961 - 25 May 1967 a
Convention on psychotropic substances 21 Feb 1971 16 Apr 1980
Protocol amending the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961 25 Mar 1972 1 Nov 1972
United Nations Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances 20 Dec 1988 20 Feb 1990
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 4 May 1949 14 Aug 1950 A
Protocol amending the Agreement for the Suppression of the Circulation of Obscene Publications, signed at Paris, on 4 May 1910 4 May 1949 14 Aug 1950 A
United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods 31 Aug 1981 11 Dec 1986
United Nations Convention on International Bills of Exchange and International Promissory Notes 29 Jun 1990 -
United Nations Convention on the Liability of Operators of Transport Terminals in International Trade 30 Apr 1992 -
United Nations Convention on Independent Guarantees and Stand-by Letters of Credit 11 Dec 1997 -
Agreement Establishing the Bank for Economic Cooperation and Development in the Middle East and North Africa 22 Nov 1996 -
United Nations Convention on the Assignment of Receivables in International Trade 30 Dec 2003 15 Oct 2019
Convention on Transit Trade of Land-locked States 30 Dec 1965 29 Oct 1968
Agreement establishing the Asian Development Bank 4 Dec 1965 16 Aug 1966 A
Convention on the Limitation Period in the International Sale of Goods - 5 May 1994 a
Agreement establishing the International Fund for Agricultural Development 22 Dec 1976 4 Oct 1977
Constitution of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization [17 Jan 1980 ] [ 2 Sep 1983 ] (withdrawn)
Customs Convention on the International Transport of Goods under Cover of TIR Carnets (TIR Convention) - 3 Dec 1968 a
Customs Convention on Containers, 1972 5 Dec 1972 12 Nov 1984
Customs Convention on the International Transport of Goods under Cover of TIR Carnets (TIR Convention) - 18 Sep 1981 a
Convention concerning Customs Facilities for Touring 4 Jun 1954 25 Jul 1956
Customs Convention on the Temporary Importation of Private Road Vehicles 4 Jun 1954 25 Jul 1956
Customs Convention on Containers - 3 Dec 1968 a
Protocol concerning countries or territories at present occupied 19 Sep 1949 30 Aug 1950
Agreement on the International Carriage of Perishable Foodstuffs and on the Special Equipment to be used for such Carriage (ATP) 1 - 20 Jan 1983 a
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 25 Jun 1998 26 Jul 1999 A
United Nations Convention on the Carriage of Goods by Sea, 1978 30 Apr 1979 -
United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Carriage of Goods Wholly or Partly by Sea 23 Sep 2009 -
Convention on the International Maritime Organization 6 Mar 1948 17 Aug 1950 A
Agreement for Facilitating the International Circulation of Visual and Auditory Materials of an Educational, Scientific and Cultural Character 13 Sep 1949 14 Oct 1966 A
Agreement on the Importation of Educational, Scientific and Cultural Materials 24 Jun 1959 2 Nov 1966
Convention for the Protection of Producers of Phonograms against Unauthorized Duplication of their Phonograms 29 Oct 1971 26 Nov 1973
Protocol to the Agreement on the Importation of Educational, Scientific and Cultural Materials of 22 November 1950 1 Sep 1981 15 May 1989
International Tropical Timber Agreement, 2006 - 27 Apr 2007 s
International Tropical Timber Agreement, 2006 - 27 Apr 2007 s
Food Assistance Convention 26 Sep 2012 26 Sep 2012 A
Convention on the Political Rights of Women - 8 Apr 1976 a
Convention on Consent to Marriage, Minimum Age for Marriage and Registration of Marriages 10 Dec 1962 -
Protocol amending the Slavery Convention signed at Geneva on 25 September 1926 16 Dec 1953 7 Mar 1956 A
Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court 31 Dec 2000 -
International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism 10 Jan 2000 26 Jun 2002
United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime 13 Dec 2000 3 Nov 2005
United Nations Convention against Corruption 9 Dec 2003 30 Oct 2006
International Convention Against the Taking of Hostages 21 Dec 1979 7 Dec 1984
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes against Internationally Protected Persons, including Diplomatic Agents 28 Dec 1973 26 Oct 1976
Convention on the Safety of United Nations and Associated Personnel 19 Dec 1994 -
International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings 12 Jan 1998 26 Jun 2002
Convention on the Territorial Sea and the Contiguous Zone 15 Sep 1958 12 Apr 1961
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 High Seas 15 Sep 1958 12 Apr 1961
Convention on Fishing and Conservation of the Living Resources of the High Seas 15 Sep 1958 12 Apr 1961
Convention on the Continental Shelf 15 Sep 1958 12 Apr 1961
Optional Protocol of Signature concerning the Compulsory Settlement of Disputes 15 Sep 1958 -
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 4 Dec 1995 21 Aug 1996
Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards - 30 Sep 1970 a
United Nations Convention on Transparency in Treaty-based Investor-State Arbitration 17 Mar 2015 -
United Nations Convention on International Settlement Agreements Resulting from Mediation 7 Aug 2019 -
Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties between States and International Organizations or between International Organizations 26 Jun 1987 -
Convention relating to the distribution of programme-carrying signals transmitted by satellite 21 May 1974 7 Dec 1984
Tampere Convention on the Provision of Telecommunication Resources for Disaster Mitigation and Relief Operations 17 Nov 1998 -
Convention on the prohibition of military or any other hostile use of environmental modification techniques 18 May 1977 17 Jan 1980
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) 8 Apr 1982 24 Mar 1995
Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction 13 Jan 1993 25 Apr 1997
Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty 24 Sep 1996 -
Arms Trade Treaty 25 Sep 2013 -
Arms Trade Treaty 25 Sep 2013 -
Convention on long-range transboundary air pollution 13 Nov 1979 30 Nov 1981 A
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa 14 Oct 1994 17 Nov 2000
Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade 11 Sep 1998 -
Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants 23 May 2001 -
Minamata Convention on Mercury 6 Nov 2013 6 Nov 2013 A
Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer 22 Mar 1985 27 Aug 1986
Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal 22 Mar 1990 -
Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal 22 Mar 1990 -
Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context 26 Feb 1991 -
Convention on the Transboundary Effects of Industrial Accidents 18 Mar 1992 -
Convention on Biological Diversity 4 Jun 1993 -

Recorded votes

ResolutionDateVote
S/RES/2824(2026) - yes
A/RES/80/282 - no
A/RES/80/286 - no
S/RES/2825(2026) - yes
A/RES/80/296 - no
A/RES/80/293 B - no
A/RES/80/294 - no
A/RES/80/293 A - no
A/RES/80/297 - no
A/RES/80/299 - no

Provenance

Every fact on this page, with where it came from and how sure we are.

AttributeValueSourceConfidenceFetched
iso2US wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.905193+00:00
iso3USA wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.905203+00:00
m49840 un_sdg 1.02026-08-26T06:55:41.141303+00:00
nameUnited States wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.905170+00:00
un_admission_date1945-10-24 wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.905181+00:00
unsd_nameUnited States of America un_sdg 1.02026-08-26T06:55:41.141312+00:00

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