List of countries according to the number of diplomatic missions

The following list sorts 61 countries according to the number of missions abroad in 2019. The number of missions abroad such as embassies , consulates , permanent missions and the number of other representations are also given. All information comes from the Global Diplomacy Index 2019 of the Lowy Institute .

rank	country	Total number of foreign representations	Number of messages	Number of consulates	Number of permanent missions	Number of other representations
1	People's Republic of China	276	169	96	8th	3
2	United States	273	168	88	9	8th
3	France	267	161	89	15th	2
4th	Japan	247	151	65	10	21st
5	Russia	242	144	85	11	2
6th	Turkey	235	140	81	12	2
7th	Germany	224	150	61	11	2
8th	Brazil	222	138	70	12	2
9	Spain	215	115	89	10	1
10	Italy	209	122	75	5	3
11	United Kingdom	205	149	44	9	3
12	India	186	123	54	5	4th
13	South Korea	183	114	51	5	13
14th	Argentina	157	86	62	7th	2
15th	Mexico	157	80	67	7th	3
16	Netherlands	152	107	29	12	4th
17th	Switzerland	146	103	30th	10	3
18th	Canada	144	96	36	10	2
19th	Poland	136	88	36	9	3
20th	Greece	135	82	43	9	1
21st	Indonesia	132	94	34	3	1
22nd	Hungary	131	86	35	7th	3
23	Portugal	128	71	48	8th	1
24	Chile	128	70	51	6th	1
25th	South Africa	124	106	14th	2	2
26th	Belgium	118	82	22nd	9	5
27	Australia	118	81	31	4th	2
28	Pakistan	117	85	30th	2	0
29	Czech Republic	116	90	19th	5	2
30th	Saudi Arabia	114	96	15th	2	1
31	Malaysia	107	80	23	3	1
32	Taiwan	107	15th	2	1	89
33	Sweden	104	88	8th	7th	1
34	Israel	104	77	20th	6th	1
35	Norway	99	79	9	10	1
36	Austria	98	80	9	7th	2
37	Thailand	98	65	29	3	1
38	Vietnam	96	69	22nd	4th	1
39	Denmark	89	67	14th	6th	2
40	Ireland	87	66	14th	6th	1
41	Philippines	87	60	23	4th	0
42	Finland	85	70	6th	6th	3
43	Slovakia	81	63	8th	8th	2
44	Bangladesh	75	57	16	2	0
45	New Zealand	72	50	17th	4th	1
46	Sri Lanka	67	51	13	2	1
47	Lithuania	61	40	12	8th	1
48	Slovenia	54	41	5	7th	1
49	North Korea	52	47	3	2	0
50	Singapore	50	28	17th	4th	1
51	Latvia	47	37	3	7th	0
52	Estonia	44	36	2	6th	0
53	Myanmar	44	36	6th	2	0
54	Mongolia	43	30th	11	1	1
55	Brunei	42	35	4th	3	0
56	Nepal	39	32	6th	1	0
57	Laos	39	26th	10	3	0
58	Cambodia	38	25th	10	3	0
59	Luxembourg	37	26th	7th	3	1
60	Iceland	25th	16	4th	5	0
61	Bhutan	9	5	2	2	0

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Global Diplomacy Index - Country Rank. Retrieved July 13, 2018 .