Treaty Tracker

Trade & governance

United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea

Source: UN Treaty Collection · scraped 2026-09-26

Figures below count the 193 UN member states separately from other parties to this treaty (international organizations and non-member observer states) — a treaty can have more parties than there are UN member states.

168/193

RatifiedUN member states

172 in total, incl. 4 non-UN members (Cook Islands, European Union, Niue, State of Palestine)

12

Signed, not ratifiedUN member states

0

WithdrawnUN member states

13

No actionUN member states

CountrySignatureRatificationWithdrawalStatus

No countries match this filter.