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Zambia at the United Nations

Flag of Zambia
Flag of Zambia.svg by Gabriel Ellison (Public domain) — Wikimedia Commons
Admitted
1964-12-01
ISO 3166-1
ZM / ZMB
Admitted by
A/5815 (the decision is recorded in this document rather than in a resolution of its own)

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 1964-12-01

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 2012 2011 2010 1999 1998 1997 1991 1990 1989 1981 1980 1979 1976 1975 1974

Human Rights Council

2010 2009 2008 2007 2006

Security Council

1988 1987 1980 1979 1970 1969

Permanent representatives

1 recorded. Full list

NameFromTo
Ngosa Simbyakula 2020-01-28in office / not recorded

Permanent mission

Mission
Permanent Mission of Zambia to the United Nations
Address
Permanent Mission of the Republic of Zambia to the United Nations, 237 East 52nd Street, New York, NY 10022
National holiday
24 October
Accredited diplomats
11

Accredited diplomats

The numbers

IndicatorLatestYearSince 1990
Adult literacy rate 71.77 2024
CO2 emissions per capita 0.542961 2024
GDP 2.88798e+10 2025
GNI per capita 1,200 2025
Life expectancy at birth 66.528 2024
Military expenditure (% of GDP) 1.33268 2024
Net official development assistance received 1.42193e+09 2023
Population 2.19139e+07 2025
Refugees hosted (UNHCR mandate) 83,225 2025
Refugees originating (UNHCR mandate) 346 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

57 statements to the General Debate since 1964, 170,200 words in all. The longest was 1974, at 6,823 words, delivered by Mr. Mwanga.

Of the 31 statements since 1994 whose speaker’s post the record gives: President ×17, Minister for Foreign Affairs ×8, Minister of Foreign Affairs ×2, UN Representative ×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.

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Emblems and location

Coat of arms of Zambia
Coat of arms. Coat of arms of Zambia.svg by FXXX (Public domain) — Wikimedia Commons
Location of Zambia
Location. Zambia (orthographic projection).svg by Marcos Elias de Oliveira Júnior (Public domain) — Wikimedia Commons

Treaties joined

64 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 - 16 Jun 1975 d
Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the Specialized Agencies - 16 Jun 1975 d
Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations - 16 Jun 1975 d
Vienna Convention on Consular Relations - 18 May 2016 a
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide - 20 Apr 2022 a
International Convention against Apartheid in Sports 10 Feb 1988 8 Mar 1988
Convention on the Rights of the Child 30 Sep 1990 6 Dec 1991
Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty - 19 Dec 2024 a
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 9 May 2008 1 Feb 2010
International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance 27 Sep 2010 4 Apr 2011
International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination 11 Oct 1968 4 Feb 1972
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights - 10 Apr 1984 a
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights - 10 Apr 1984 a
Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights - 10 Apr 1984 a
International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid - 14 Feb 1983 a
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women 17 Jul 1980 21 Jun 1985
Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment - 7 Oct 1998 a
Constitution of the World Health Organization - 2 Feb 1965 s
WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control - 23 May 2008 a
Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees - 24 Sep 1969 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 - 9 Apr 1973 d
Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961 - 12 Aug 1965 a
Convention on psychotropic substances - 28 May 1993 a
Protocol amending the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961 - 13 May 1998 a
United Nations Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances 9 Feb 1989 28 May 1993
United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods - 6 Jun 1986 a
Agreement establishing the African Development Bank - 1 Sep 1966 a
Convention on Transit Trade of Land-locked States 23 Dec 1965 2 Dec 1966
Convention on the Limitation Period in the International Sale of Goods - 6 Jun 1986 P
Agreement establishing the International Fund for Agricultural Development - 16 Dec 1977 a
Constitution of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization 5 Oct 1979 15 May 1981
United Nations Convention on the Carriage of Goods by Sea, 1978 - 7 Oct 1991 a
United Nations Convention on International Multimodal Transport of Goods - 7 Oct 1991 a
Convention on the International Maritime Organization - 2 Oct 2014 A
Convention on a Code of Conduct for Liner Conferences - 8 Apr 1988 a
Agreement on the Importation of Educational, Scientific and Cultural Materials - 1 Nov 1974 d
International Sugar Agreement, 1992 31 Dec 1992 21 Jun 2000
Convention on the Political Rights of Women - 4 Feb 1972 a
Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court 17 Jul 1998 13 Nov 2002
International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism - 7 Apr 2017 a
United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime - 24 Apr 2005 a
United Nations Convention against Corruption 11 Dec 2003 7 Dec 2007
International Convention Against the Taking of Hostages - 17 Oct 2016 a
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes against Internationally Protected Persons, including Diplomatic Agents - 17 Oct 2016 a
International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings - 7 Apr 2017 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 13 Feb 2024 -
Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards - 14 Mar 2002 a
Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties between States and International Organizations or between International Organizations 21 Mar 1986 -
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) - 25 Sep 2013 a
Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction 13 Jan 1993 9 Feb 2001
Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty 3 Dec 1996 23 Feb 2006
Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction 12 Dec 1997 23 Feb 2001
Convention on Cluster Munitions 3 Dec 2008 12 Aug 2009
Arms Trade Treaty 25 Sep 2013 20 May 2016
Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons 26 Sep 2019 -
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa 15 Oct 1994 19 Sep 1996
Lusaka Agreement on Co-operative Enforcement Operations Directed at Illegal Trade in Wild Fauna and Flora 9 Sep 1994 9 Nov 1995
Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade - 28 Jan 2011 a
Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants 23 May 2001 7 Jul 2006
Minamata Convention on Mercury 10 Oct 2013 11 Mar 2016
Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer - 24 Jan 1990 a
Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal - 15 Nov 1994 a
Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes - 4 Sep 2024 a
Convention on Biological Diversity 11 Jun 1992 28 May 1993

Recorded votes

ResolutionDateVote
A/RES/80/282 - yes
A/RES/80/286 - non-voting
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
iso2ZM wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.907735+00:00
iso3ZMB wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.907746+00:00
m49894 un_sdg 1.02026-08-26T06:55:41.143576+00:00
nameZambia wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.907711+00:00
un_admission_date1964-12-01 wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.907723+00:00
unsd_nameZambia un_sdg 1.02026-08-26T06:55:41.143588+00:00

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