by Linda Straker
- 28 December 2023 was last time Grenada paid UN membership dues
- Annual membership fee approximately US$30,000
- A Member State in arrears can lose vote in General Assembly
As of 2 April 2024, Grenada is not among the list of United Nations (UN) Members that have paid its annual membership fee of approximately US$30,000.
According to the UN website, as of that date 96 members paid fees as required by General Assembly resolution 76/238 which states that the scale of assessments for the period 2022–2024 shall be based on 8 elements and criteria.
- Estimates of gross national income
- Average statistical base periods of 3 and 6 years
- Conversion rates based on market exchange rates, except where that would cause excessive fluctuations and distortions in the income of some Member States, when price-adjusted rates of exchange or other appropriate conversion rates should be employed, taking due account of its resolution 46/221 B
- The debt-burden approach employed in the scale of assessments for the period 2019–2021
- A low per capita income adjustment of 80%, with a threshold per capita income limit of the average per capita gross national income of all Member States for the statistical base periods
- A minimum assessment rate of 0.001%
- A maximum assessment rate for the least developed countries of 0.01%
- A maximum assessment rate of 22%
Members are expected to pay in January of each year, but several members pay up later in the year. The Caricom Members who have paid up as of 2 April are Barbados, Guyana, St Lucia, Trinidad and Tobago, and Dominica.
Under Article 19 of the Charter of the United Nations, a Member State in arrears in the payment of its dues in an amount that equals or exceeds the contributions due for 2 preceding years can lose its vote in the General Assembly. A search of the UN website shows that 28 December 2023 was the last time Grenada paid its dues.
Grenada was admitted to the UN on 17 September 1974.
