Regional Overview Regional Overview Table 5 Country Ratification of Statelessness Conventions across Asia-Pacific Malaysia Country Party to the Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons (1954) SUB REGION - CENTRAL ASIA Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Tajikistan Turkmenistan Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness (1961) ⛔ ⛔ ⛔ ✅ (7 December 2011) ⛔ Uzbekistan SUB REGION - EAST ASIA China Hong Kong Mongolia North Korea South Korea SUB REGION - SOUTH ASIA Afghanistan Bangladesh Bhutan India Maldives Nepal Pakistan Sri Lanka SUB REGION - SOUTHEAST ASIA Brunei Cambodia Indonesia Laos ⛔ ⛔ ⛔ ⛔ ⛔ ⛔ ✅ ⛔ ⛔ ⛔ ⛔ (22 August 1962) Taiwan ✅ (29 August 2012) ⛔ ✅ ; Covered by prior UK extension to 1954 Convention Japan ⛔ ⛔ ⛔ ⛔ ⛔ ⛔ ⛔ ⛔ ⛔ ⛔ ⛔ ⛔ ⛔ ⛔ ⛔ ⛔ ⛔ ⛔ ⛔ ⛔ ⛔ ⛔ ⛔ ⛔ ⛔ ⛔ ⛔ ⛔ ⛔ Party to the Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons (1954) ⛔ ⛔ ✅ Myanmar Philippines Thailand Timor-Leste Vietnam ⛔ ⛔ ✅ (22 September 2011) (24 March 2022) ✅ ⛔ ✅ ✅ ⛔ ⛔ ⛔ ⛔ Singapore Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness (1961) ⛔ ⛔ ⛔ ⛔ SUB REGION - THE PACIFIC American Samoa U.S. territory; the United States is not party to either Statelessness Convention Australia Fiji (13 December 1973) (13 December 1973) ✅ ⛔ ⛔ ⛔ (12 June 1972) Guam U.S. territory; the United States is not party to either Statelessness Convention Kiribati Marshall Islands Micronesia Nauru New Zealand Northern Mariana Islands Palau Papua New Guinea Samoa Solomon Islands Tonga Tuvalu Vanuatu ✅ ✅ (29 November 1983) (29 November 1983) ⛔ ⛔ ⛔ ⛔ ⛔ ⛔ ⛔ ⛔ ✅ (20 September 2006) ⛔ U.S. territory; the United States is not party to either Statelessness Convention ⛔ ⛔ ⛔ ⛔ ⛔ ⛔ ⛔ ⛔ ⛔ ⛔ ⛔ ⛔ ⛔ ⛔ 46 47 STATELESSNESS ENCYCLOPEDIA ASIA PACIFIC THIRD EDITION - REGIONAL OVERVIEW REPORT 2026