The following tables indicate the states that are party to the various Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907. If a state has ratified, acceded, or succeeded to one of the treaties, the year of the original ratification is indicated. An "S" indicates that a state has signed but not yet ratified a particular treaty, and a "–" indicates that the state has taken no action with respect to the treaty. Italicised states have ceased to exist with no legal successor. Dates which have been struck and have a "(W)" are ratifications that have been subsequently withdrawn.
State[note 1] | (I)[1] | (II)[2] | (III)[3] | (IV,1)[4] | (IV,2)[5] | (IV,3)[6] |
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Argentina | 1907 | 1907 | 1907 | – | – | – |
Australia | 1960 | – | – | – | – | – |
Austria-Hungary[note 2] | 1900 | 1900 | 1900 | 1900 | 1900 | 1900 |
Austria | 1918 | 1918 | 1918 | – | 1918 | 1918 |
Belarus[note 3] | 1962 | 1962 | 1962 | – | 1962 | 1962 |
Belgium | 1900 | 1900 | 1900 | 1900 | 1900 | 1900 |
Bolivia | 1907 | 1907 | 1907 | – | – | – |
Brazil | 1907 | 1907 | 1907 | – | – | – |
Bulgaria[note 4] | 1900 | 1900 | 1900 | 1900 | 1900 | 1900 |
Burkina Faso | 1961 | – | – | – | – | – |
Cambodia | 1956 | – | – | – | – | – |
Cameroon | 1961 | – | – | – | – | – |
Canada | 1960 | – | – | – | – | – |
Chile | 1907 | 1907 | 1907 | – | – | – |
China[note 5] | 1904 | 1907 | 1904 | 1904 | 1904 | 1904 |
Colombia | 1907 | 1907 | 1907 | – | – | – |
Croatia | 1998 | – | – | – | – | – |
Cuba | 1907 | 1907 | 1907 | – | – | – |
Democratic Republic of the Congo | 1961 | – | – | – | – | – |
Denmark | 1900 | 1900 | 1900 | 1900 | 1900 | 1900 |
Dominican Republic | 1907 | 1907 | 1907 | – | – | – |
Ecuador | 1907 | 1907 | 1907 | – | – | – |
El Salvador | 1907 | 1902 | 1902 | – | – | – |
Ethiopia | 2003 | – | – | – | 1935[note 6] | 1935[note 6] |
Fiji | 1973 | 1973 | 1973 | – | 1973 | 1973 |
France[note 7] | 1900 | 1900 | 1900 | 1900 | 1900 | 1900 |
Germany[note 8] | 1900 | 1900 | 1900 | 1900 | 1900 | 1900 |
Greece[note 9] | 1901 | 1901 | 1901 | 1901 | 1901 | 1901 |
Guatemala | 1907 | 1906 | 1903 | – | – | – |
Haiti | 1907 | 1907 | 1907 | – | – | – |
Honduras | 1961 | 1906 | 1906 | – | – | – |
Hungary | 1918 | 1918 | 1918 | – | 1918 | 1918 |
India | 1950 | 1950 | 1950 | – | 1950 | 1950 |
Iran[note 10] | 1900 | 1900 | 1900 | 1900 | 1900 | 1900 |
Iraq | 1970 | – | – | – | – | – |
Italy[note 11] | 1900 | 1900 | 1900 | 1900 | 1900 | 1900 |
Japan[note 12] | 1900 | 1900 | 1900 | 1900 | 1900 | 1900 |
South Korea[note 13] | – | 1903 | 1903 | – | – | – |
Kyrgyzstan | 1992 | – | – | – | – | – |
Laos | 1955 | 1955 | – | – | – | – |
Lebanon | 1968 | – | – | – | – | – |
Luxembourg | 1901 | 1901 | 1901 | 1901 | 1901 | 1901 |
Republic of Macedonia | 2000 | – | – | – | – | – |
Mauritius | 1970 | – | – | – | – | – |
Mexico | 1901 | 1901 | 1901 | 1901 | 1901 | 1901 |
Principality of Montenegro[note 14] | 1901 | 1900 | 1900 | 1900 | 1900 | 1901 |
Montenegro | 2007 | 2007 | 2007 | – | 2007 | 2007 |
Netherlands | 1900 | 1900 | 1900 | 1900 | 1900 | 1900 |
New Zealand | 1959 | – | – | – | – | – |
Nicaragua | 1907 | 1907 | 1907 | – | 1907 | 1907 |
Norway | 1905 | 1907 | 1905 | 1905 | 1905 | 1905 |
Pakistan | 1950 | 1950 | 1950 | – | 1950 | 1950 |
Panama | 1907 | 1907 | 1907 | – | – | – |
Paraguay | 1907 | 1906 | 1907 | – | – | – |
Peru | 1907 | 1903 | 1903 | – | – | – |
Portugal[note 15] | 1900 | 1900 | 1900 | 1900 | 1900 | 1907 |
Romania[note 16] | 1900 | 1900 | 1900 | 1900 | 1900 | 1900 |
Russia[note 17] | 1900 | 1900 | 1900 | 1900 | 1900 | 1900 |
Senegal | 1977 | – | – | – | – | – |
Serbia[note 18] | 2001 | 2001 | 2001 | – | 2001 | 2001 |
Slovenia | 1996 | – | – | – | – | – |
South Africa | – | 1978 | 1978 | – | 1978 | 1978 |
Spain[note 19] | 1900 | 1900 | 1900 | 1900 | 1900 | 1900 |
Sri Lanka | 1955 | – | – | – | – | – |
United Kingdoms of Sweden and Norway[note 20] | 1900 | S | 1900 | 1900 | 1900 | 1900 |
Sweden | 1905 | 1907 | 1905 | 1905 | 1905 | 1905 |
Switzerland | 1900 | 1907 | 1900 | 1900 | 1900 | 1900 |
Thailand[note 21] | 1900 | 1900 | 1900 | 1900 | 1900 | 1900 |
Turkey[note 22] | 1907 | 1907 | 1907 | S | 1907 | 1907 |
Ukraine[note 23] | 1962 | 1991 | 1991 | 1991 | 1991 | 1991 |
United Kingdom[note 24] | 1900 | 1900 | 1900 | – | 1907 | 1907 |
United States | 1900 | 1902 | 1900 | S | – | – |
Uruguay | 1907 | 1906 | 1906 | – | – | – |
Venezuela | 1907 | 1907 | 1907 | – | – | – |
Vietnam | 2011 | – | – | – | – | – |
Yugoslavia[note 25] | 1901 | 1901 | 1901 | 1901 | 1901 | 1901 |
Zimbabwe | 1984 | – | – | – | – | – |
Current total number of parties[note 26] | 71 | 54 | 53 | Lapsed[note 27] | 35 | 35 |
State[note 1] | (I)[7] | (II)[8] | (III)[9] | (IV)[10] | (V)[11] | (VI)[12] | (VII)[13] | (VIII)[14] | (IX)[15] | (X)[16] | (XI)[17] | (XII)[18] | (XIII)[19] | (XIV)[20] |
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Albania | 2011 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Argentina | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | S |
Australia | 1996 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Austria-Hungary[note 2] | 1909 | 1909 | 1909 | 1909 | 1909 | 1909 | 1909 | 1909 | 1909 | 1909 | 1909 | – | 1909 | S |
Austria | 1918 | 1918 | 1918 | 1918 | 1918 | 1918 | 1918 | 1918 | 1918 | 1918 | 1918 | – | 1918 | – |
Bahamas | 2016 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Bahrain | 2008 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Bangladesh | 2011 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Belarus[note 3] | 1962 | 1962 | 1962 | 1962 | 1962 | 1962 | 1962 | – | 1962 | 1962 | – | – | 1962 | – |
Belgium | 1910 | – | 1910 | 1910 | 1910 | 1910 | 1910 | 1910 | 1910 | 1910 | 1910 | S | 1910 | 1910 |
Belize | 2002 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Benin | 2005 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Bolivia | 1909 | S | 1909 | 1909 | 1909 | – | S | S | 1909 | 1909 | S | S | S | 1909 |
Brazil | 1914 | – | 1914 | 1914 | 1914 | 1914 | 1914 | 1914 | 1914 | 1914 | 1914 | S | 1914 | 1914 |
Bulgaria | 2000 | S[note 4] | S[note 4] | S[note 4] | S[note 4] | – | S[note 4] | S[note 4] | S[note 4] | S[note 4] | S[note 4] | S[note 4] | S[note 4] | S[note 4] |
Burkina Faso | 1961 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Cambodia | 1956 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Cameroon | 1961 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Canada | 1994 | – | – | 1909 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Chile | 1997 | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | – |
China | 1909[note 5] | 1910[note 5] | 1910[note 5] | 1917[note 28] | 1910[note 5] | 1917[note 28] | 1917[note 28] | 1917[note 28] | 1910[note 5] | 1909[note 5] | 1917[note 28] | – | 1910[note 5] | 1909[note 5] |
Colombia | 1997 | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | S |
Costa Rica | 1999 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Cuba | 1912 | S | S | 1912 | 1912 | 1912 | S | – | 1912 | 1912 | S | S | – | S |
Cyprus | 1993 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Czechoslovakia[note 29] | 1922 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Czech Republic | 1993 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Democratic Republic of the Congo | 1961 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Denmark | 1909 | 1909 | 1909 | 1909 | 1909 | 1909 | 1909 | 1909 | 1909 | 1909 | 1909 | S | 1909 | – |
Djibouti | 2016 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Dominican Republic | 1958 | S | S | 1958 | S | S | – | S | S | S | S | – | S | S |
Ecuador | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | S |
El Salvador | 1909 | 1909 | 1909 | 1909 | 1909 | 1909 | 1909 | 1909 | 1909 | 1909 | 1909 | S | 1909 | 1909 |
Egypt[note 30] | 1968 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Eritrea | 1997 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Estonia | 2003 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Ethiopia[note 6] | – | – | 1935 | 1935 | 1935 | 1935 | 1935 | 1935 | 1935 | 1935 | 1935 | – | 1935 | 1935 |
Fiji | – | 1973 | 1973 | 1973 | – | – | 1973 | 1973 | 1973 | – | 1973 | – | – | 1973 |
Finland | 1922 | 1922 | 1922 | 1922 | 1922 | 1922 | 1922 | 1922 | 1922 | 1922 | 1922 | – | 1922 | 1922 |
France[note 7] | 1910 | 1910 | 1910 | 1910 | 1910 | 1910 | 1910 | 1910 | 1910 | 1910 | S | 1910 | – | |
Georgia | 2015 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Germany[note 8] | 1909 | 1909 | 1909 | 1909 | 1909 | 1909 | 1909 | 1909 | 1909 | 1909 | 1909 | S | 1909 | – |
East Germany[21][note 31] | 1974 | – | (1959)[note 32] | (1959)[note 32] | (1959)[note 32] | (1959)[note 32] | (1959)[note 32] | – | (1959)[note 32] | – | – | – | (1959)[note 32] | – |
Greece[note 9] | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | – | S | S |
Guatemala | 1911 | 1911 | 1911 | 1911 | 1911 | 1911 | 1911 | 1911 | 1911 | 1911 | 1911 | S | 1911 | – |
Guyana | 1997 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Haiti | 1910 | 1910 | 1910 | 1910 | 1910 | 1910 | 1910 | 1910 | 1910 | 1910 | 1910 | S | 1910 | 1910 |
Honduras | 1961 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Hungary | 1918 | 1918 | 1918 | 1918 | 1918 | 1918 | 1918 | 1918 | 1918 | 1918 | 1918 | – | 1918 | – |
Iceland | 1955 | 1955 | 1955 | 1955 | 1955 | 1955 | 1955 | 1955 | 1955 | 1955 | 1955 | – | 1955 | – |
India | – | 1950 | 1950 | 1950 | – | – | 1950 | 1950 | 1950 | – | 1950 | – | – | 1950 |
Iran[note 10] | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | S |
Iraq | 1970 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Ireland | 2002 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Israel | 1962 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Italy[note 11] | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | 1937 | S | S | S | – |
Japan[note 12] | 1911 | 1911 | 1911 | 1911 | 1911 | 1911 | 1911 | 1911 | 1911 | 1911 | 1911 | S | 1911 | – |
Jordan | 1991 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Kenya | 2006 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
South Korea | 1999 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Kosovo | 2015[note 33] | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Kuwait | 2003 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Kyrgyzstan | 1992 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Laos | 1955 | 1955 | 1955 | 1955 | 1955 | – | 1955 | 1955 | 1955 | 1955 | 1955 | – | 1955 | – |
Latvia | 2001 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1923 | – | – | – | – |
Lebanon | 1968 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Liberia | – | 1914 | 1914 | 1914 | 1914 | 1914 | 1914 | 1914 | 1914 | – | 1914 | – | 1914 | 1914 |
Libya | 1996 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Liechtenstein | 1994 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Lithuania | 2004 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Luxembourg | 1912 | – | 1912 | 1912 | 1912 | 1912 | 1912 | 1912 | 1912 | 1912 | 1912 | – | 1912 | 1912 |
Republic of Macedonia | 2000 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Madagascar | 2009 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Malaysia | 2002 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Malta | 1968 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Mexico | 1909 | 1909 | 1909 | 1909 | 1909 | 1909 | 1909 | 1909 | 1909 | 1909 | S | 1909 | – | |
Principality of Montenegro[note 14] | – | – | S | S | S | S | S | – | S | S | – | – | S | – |
Morocco | 2001 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Netherlands | 1909 | 1909 | 1909 | 1909 | 1909 | 1909 | 1909 | 1909 | 1909 | 1909 | 1909 | S | 1909 | 1909 |
New Zealand | 2010 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Nicaragua | 1909 | 1909 | 1909 | 1909 | 1909 | 1909 | 1909 | 1909 | 1909 | 1909 | 1909 | 1909 | 1909 | 1909 |
Nigeria | 1986 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Norway | 1910 | 1910 | 1910 | 1910 | 1910 | 1910 | 1910 | 1910 | 1910 | 1910 | 1910 | S | 1910 | 1910 |
Pakistan | – | 1950 | 1950 | 1950 | – | – | 1950 | 1950 | 1950 | – | – | – | – | 1950 |
State of Palestine | 2015[note 34] | – | – | 2014 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Panama | 1911 | 1911 | 1911 | 1911 | 1911 | 1911 | 1911 | 1911 | 1911 | 1911 | 1911 | S | 1911 | 1911 |
Paraguay | 1933 | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | – | S | – |
Peru | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | S |
Philippines | 2010 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Poland[note 35] | 1922 | – | 1925 | 1925 | 1925 | 1935 | 1935 | – | 1935 | 1935 | 1935 | – | – | – |
Portugal[note 36] | 1911 | 1911 | 1911 | 1911 | 1911 | 1911 | 1911 | – | 1911 | 1911 | 1911 | S | 1911 | 1911 |
Qatar | 2005 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Romania[note 16] | 1912 | – | 1912 | 1912 | 1912 | 1912 | 1912 | 1912 | 1912 | 1912 | 1912 | – | 1912 | – |
Russia[note 17] | 1909 | 1909 | 1909 | 1909 | 1909 | 1909 | 1909 | – | 1909 | 1909 | – | – | 1909 | – |
Rwanda | 2011 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
São Tomé and Príncipe | 2014 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Saudi Arabia | 2001 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Senegal | 1977 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Kingdom of Serbia[note 37] | – | – | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | – | S | – |
Singapore | 1993 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Slovakia | 1993 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Slovenia | 2004 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
South Africa | 1998 | 1978 | 1978 | 1978 | – | – | 1978 | 1978 | 1978 | – | 1978 | – | – | – |
Spain[note 19] | 1913 | 1913 | 1913 | – | 1913 | 1913 | 1913 | – | 1913 | 1913 | 1913 | S | – | – |
Sudan | 1966 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Suriname | 1992 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Swaziland | 1970 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Sweden | 1909 | – | 1909 | 1909 | 1909 | 1909 | 1909 | – | 1909 | 1909 | 1909 | S | 1909 | – |
Switzerland | 1910 | – | 1910 | 1910 | 1910 | 1910 | 1910 | 1910 | 1910 | 1910 | 1910 | S | 1910 | 1910 |
Thailand[note 21] | 1910 | – | 1910 | 1910 | 1910 | 1910 | 1910 | 1910 | 1910 | 1910 | 1910 | S | 1910 | 1910 |
Togo | 2004 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Turkey[note 22] | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | S |
Uganda | 1966 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Ukraine[note 23] | 1962 | 1991 | 1991 | 1991 | 1991 | 1991 | 1991 | – | 1991 | 1991 | – | – | 1991 | – |
United Arab Emirates | 2008 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
United Kingdom | 1970 | 1909[note 24] | 1909[note 24] | 1909[note 24] | S[note 24] | 1909[note 24] | 1909[note 24] | 1909[note 24] | S[note 24] | 1909[note 24] | S[note 24] | S[note 24] | 1909[note 24] | |
United States | 1909 | 1909 | 1909 | 1909 | 1909 | – | – | 1909 | 1909 | 1909 | 1909 | S | 1909 | 1909 |
Uruguay | S | S | S | S | S | S | – | S | S | S | S | S | S | S |
Venezuela | S | – | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | – | S | – |
Vietnam | 2011 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Zambia | 1999 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Current total number of parties[note 26] | 101 | 29 | 40 | 43 | 36 | 32 | 38 | 32 | 41 | 37 | 35 | None[note 38] | 32 | 22 |