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Member state

Zimbabwe at the United Nations

Flag of Zimbabwe
Flag of Zimbabwe.svg by See File history below for details (Public domain) — Wikimedia Commons
Admitted
1980-08-25
ISO 3166-1
ZW / ZWE
Admitted by
A/RES/S-11/1

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 1980-08-25

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

2023 2022 2021 2017 2016 2015 2004 2003 2002 1996 1995 1994 1987 1986 1985

Security Council

1992 1991 1984 1983

Permanent representatives

3 recorded. Full list

NameFromTo
Stuart Comberbach 2021-04in office / not recorded
Frederick Shava 2014-092021-02-08
Boniface Chidyausiku 20032010

Permanent mission

Mission
Permanent Mission of Zimbabwe to the United Nations
Address
Permanent Mission of the Republic of Zimbabwe to the United Nations, 228 East 45th Street, Third Floor, New York, NY 10017
National holiday
18 April
Accredited diplomats
51

Accredited diplomats

The numbers

IndicatorLatestYearSince 1982
Adult literacy rate 93.23 2019
CO2 emissions per capita 0.772821 2024
GDP 5.12156e+10 2025
GNI per capita 2,660 2025
Life expectancy at birth 63.064 2024
Military expenditure (% of GDP) 0.351195 2024
Net official development assistance received 7.91534e+08 2023
Population 1.69508e+07 2025
Refugees hosted (UNHCR mandate) 8,570 2025
Refugees originating (UNHCR mandate) 6,632 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

45 statements to the General Debate since 1980, 111,680 words in all. The longest was 1985, at 5,450 words, delivered by Mr. Mangwende.

Of the 31 statements since 1994 whose speaker’s post the record gives: President ×24, Minister for Foreign Affairs ×5, Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Trade ×1, 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.

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Emblems and location

Coat of arms of Zimbabwe
Coat of arms. Coat of arms of Zimbabwe.svg by FischX, Meul (Public domain) — Wikimedia Commons
Location of Zimbabwe
Location. Zimbabwe (orthographic projection).svg by L'Américain (Public domain) — Wikimedia Commons

Treaties joined

52 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 - 13 May 1991 a
Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the Specialized Agencies - 5 Mar 1991 a
Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations - 13 May 1991 a
Vienna Convention on Consular Relations - 13 May 1991 a
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide - 13 May 1991 a
International Convention against Apartheid in Sports 16 May 1986 14 Jul 1987
Convention on the Rights of the Child 8 Mar 1990 11 Sep 1990
International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families - 5 Nov 2024 a
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities - 23 Sep 2013 a
International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination - 13 May 1991 a
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights - 13 May 1991 a
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights - 13 May 1991 a
International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid - 13 May 1991 a
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women - 13 May 1991 a
Constitution of the World Health Organization - 16 May 1980 A
WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control - 4 Dec 2014 a
Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees - 25 Aug 1981 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 - 1 Dec 1998 d
Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961 - 1 Dec 1998 d
Convention on psychotropic substances - 30 Jul 1993 a
United Nations Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances - 30 Jul 1993 a
Agreement to establish the South Centre - 30 Sep 1994 s
Agreement establishing the African Development Bank - 5 Sep 1980 a
Agreement establishing the International Fund for Agricultural Development - 22 Jan 1981 a
Constitution of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization - 21 Jun 1985 a
Convention on the International Maritime Organization - 16 Aug 2005 A
Agreement on the Importation of Educational, Scientific and Cultural Materials - 1 Dec 1998 d
Statutes of the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology - 20 Dec 2018 a
International Sugar Agreement, 1992 - 14 Dec 1994 a
Convention on the Political Rights of Women - 5 Jun 1995 a
Convention on Consent to Marriage, Minimum Age for Marriage and Registration of Marriages - 23 Nov 1994 a
Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court 17 Jul 1998 -
International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism - 30 Jan 2013 a
United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime 12 Dec 2000 12 Dec 2007
United Nations Convention against Corruption 20 Feb 2004 8 Mar 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 -
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 5 Mar 2025 -
Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards - 29 Sep 1994 a
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 13 Oct 1999 13 Feb 2019
Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction 3 Dec 1997 18 Jun 1998
Arms Trade Treaty 18 Dec 2014 -
Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons 4 Dec 2020 -
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa 15 Oct 1994 23 Sep 1997
Convention on the Law of the Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses - 19 Jul 2024 a
Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade - 1 Mar 2012 a
Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants 23 May 2001 1 Mar 2012
Minamata Convention on Mercury 11 Oct 2013 19 Aug 2021
Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer - 3 Nov 1992 a
Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal - 1 Mar 2012 a
Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes - 19 Jul 2024 a
Convention on Biological Diversity 12 Jun 1992 11 Nov 1994

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
iso2ZW wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.907780+00:00
iso3ZWE wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.907790+00:00
m49716 un_sdg 1.02026-08-26T06:55:41.143612+00:00
nameZimbabwe wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.907758+00:00
un_admission_date1980-08-25 wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.907767+00:00
unsd_nameZimbabwe un_sdg 1.02026-08-26T06:55:41.143625+00:00

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