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Mr. Goodlad
The total number of United Kingdom diplomats (with the rank of second secretary and above) serving in United Kingdom diplomatic posts overseas is 1,263.
The total number of trade representatives at these posts, including locally engaged staff, is 451.
A breakdown of the figures by post is as follows:
| Foreign and Commonwealth Office diplomatic post overseas |
| Country |
Post |
Number of diplomats |
Trade representatives1 |
| Albania |
Tirana |
1.0 |
0 |
| Algeria |
Algiers |
7.0 |
1 |
| Angola |
Luanda |
6.0 |
2 |
| Antigua |
Antigua |
1.0 |
0 |
83W
| Country |
Post |
Number of diplomats |
Trade representatives1 |
| Argentina |
Buenos Aires |
8.0 |
3 |
| Australia |
Brisbane |
2.0 |
2 |
| Australia |
Canberra |
11.0 |
0 |
| Australia |
Melbourne |
3.0 |
5 |
| Australia |
Perth |
2.0 |
3 |
| Australia |
Sydney |
3.0 |
3 |
| Austria |
Vienna |
10.0 |
3 |
| Austria |
Vienna CFE |
5.0 |
0 |
| Austria |
Vienna UKMIS |
4.0 |
0 |
| Azerbaijan |
Baku |
2.0 |
0 |
| British Virgin |
Tortola |
1.0 |
0 |
| Isles |
| Bahamas |
Nassau |
2.0 |
1 |
| Bahrain |
Bahrain |
5.0 |
0 |
| Bangladesh |
Dhaka |
11.0 |
1 |
| Barbados |
Bridgetown |
5.0 |
1 |
| Barbados |
DT Secretar |
2.0 |
0 |
| Belarus |
Minsk |
1.0 |
0 |
| Belgium |
Brussels |
11.0 |
5 |
| Belgium |
Brussels JMO |
4.0 |
0 |
| Belgium |
Brussels UKDL |
9.0 |
0 |
| Belgium |
Brussels UKRP |
39.0 |
1 |
| Belize |
Belmopan |
2.0 |
0 |
| Bolivia |
La Paz |
2.0 |
1 |
| Botswana |
Gaborone |
3.0 |
1 |
| Brazil |
Brasilia |
8.0 |
0 |
| Brazil |
Rio de Janeiro |
2.0 |
3 |
| Brazil |
Sao Paulo |
3.0 |
5 |
| Brunei |
Ban Sen Beg |
3.0 |
0 |
| Bulgaria |
Sofia |
7.0 |
0 |
| Burma |
Rangoon |
2.0 |
1 |
| Cambodia |
Phnom Penh |
3.0 |
0 |
| Cameroon |
Douala |
1.0 |
2 |
| Cameroon |
Yaounde |
2.0 |
0 |
| Canada |
Montreal |
3.0 |
4 |
| Canada |
Ottawa |
8.0 |
3 |
| Canada |
Toronto |
3.0 |
6 |
| Canada |
Vancouver |
2.0 |
2 |
| Chile |
Santiago |
8.0 |
4 |
| China |
Peking |
17.0 |
7 |
| China |
Shanghai |
2.0 |
1 |
| Colombia |
Bogota |
5.0 |
1 |
| Costa Rica |
San Jose |
2.0 |
2 |
| Croatia |
Zagreb |
4.0 |
1 |
| Croatia |
Zagreb ECMM |
1.0 |
0 |
| Cuba |
Havana |
4.0 |
0 |
| Cyprus |
Nicosia |
11.0 |
3 |
| Czechoslovakia |
Prague |
11.0 |
5 |
| Denmark |
Copenhagen |
10.0 |
5 |
| Ecuador |
Quito |
3.0 |
2 |
| Egypt |
Alexandria |
1.0 |
0 |
| Egypt |
Cairo |
13.0 |
4 |
| El Salvador |
San Salvador |
1.0 |
1 |
| Estonia |
Tallinn |
1.0 |
0 |
| Ethiopia |
Addis Ababa |
5.0 |
1 |
| Falklands |
Stanley |
1.0 |
0 |
| Fiji |
Suva |
2.0 |
1 |
| Finland |
Helsinki |
8.0 |
4 |
| France |
Bordeaux |
1.0 |
1 |
| France |
Lille |
1.0 |
1 |
| France |
Lyons |
1.0 |
2 |
| France |
Marseilles |
1.0 |
1 |
| France |
Paris |
33.0 |
10 |
| France |
Paris OECD |
6.0 |
0 |
| France |
Strasbourg |
2.0 |
0 |
| Gambia |
Banjul |
2.0 |
0 |
| Germany |
Berlin |
12.0 |
4 |
| Germany |
Bonn |
25.0 |
0 |
| Germany |
Dusseldorf |
7.0 |
7 |
| Germany |
Frankfurt |
3.0 |
3 |
| Germany |
Hamburg |
2.0 |
2 |
| Germany |
Munich |
4.0 |
3 |
| Germany |
Stuttgart |
1.0 |
2 |
| Ghana |
Accra |
10.0 |
2 |
| Gibraltar |
Gibraltar |
2.0 |
0 |
| Greece |
Athens |
11.0 |
4 |
| Grenada |
St. George's |
1.0 |
0 |
84W
| Country |
Post |
Number of diplomats |
Trade representatives1 |
| Guatemala |
Guatemala City |
3.0 |
1 |
| Guyana |
Georgetown |
2.0 |
0 |
| Holy See |
Vatican City |
2.0 |
0 |
| Honduras |
Tegucigalpa |
1.0 |
0 |
| Hong Kong |
Hong Kong BTC |
11.0 |
4 |
| Hong Kong |
Hong Kong CTU |
2.1 |
3 |
| Hong Kong |
Hong Kong JLG |
3.0 |
0 |
| Hungary |
Budapest |
9.0 |
5 |
| Iceland |
Reykjavik |
2.0 |
0 |
| India |
Bombay |
7.0 |
5 |
| India |
Calcutta |
2.0 |
2 |
| India |
Madras |
2.0 |
3 |
| India |
New Delhi |
21.0 |
5 |
| Indonesia |
Jakarta |
14.0 |
5 |
| Iran |
Tehran |
8.0 |
2 |
| Iraq |
Baghdad |
4.0 |
0 |
| Ireland |
Dublin |
9.0 |
3 |
| Israel |
Tel Aviv |
7.0 |
3 |
| Italy |
Florence |
1.0 |
1 |
| Italy |
Milan |
5.0 |
8 |
| Italy |
Naples |
2.0 |
1 |
| Italy |
Rome |
17.0 |
3 |
| Ivory Coast |
Abidjan |
3.0 |
2 |
| Jamaica |
Kingston |
5.0 |
1 |
| Japan |
Osaka |
3.0 |
5 |
| Japan |
Tokyo |
23.0 |
14 |
| Jerusalem |
Jerusalem |
2.0 |
0 |
| Jordan |
Amman |
7.0 |
1 |
| Kazakhstan |
Alma Ata |
2.0 |
0 |
| Kenya |
Nairobi |
16.0 |
3 |
| Kiribati |
Tarawa |
1.0 |
0 |
| Korea |
Seoul |
9.0 |
9 |
| Kuwait |
Kuwait |
10.0 |
4 |
| Latvia |
Riga |
2.0 |
0 |
| Lebanon |
Beirut |
2.0 |
1 |
| Lesotho |
Maseru |
3.0 |
0 |
| Libya |
Tripoli |
1.0 |
0 |
| Lithuania |
Vilnius |
2.0 |
0 |
| Luxembourg |
Luxembourg |
2.0 |
0 |
| Macedonia |
Skopje |
1.0 |
0 |
| Madagascar |
Antananarivo |
2.0 |
0 |
| Malawi |
Lilongwe |
5.0 |
0 |
| Malaysia |
Kuala Lumpur |
9.0 |
6 |
| Malta |
Valletta |
4.0 |
1 |
| Mauritius |
Port Louis |
2.0 |
0 |
| Mexico |
Mexico City |
10.0 |
5 |
| Mongolia |
Ulaanbaatar |
2.0 |
0 |
| Montserrat |
Plymouth |
1.0 |
0 |
| Morocco |
Casablanca |
2.0 |
2 |
| Morocco |
Rabat |
4.0 |
0 |
| Mozambique |
Maputo |
6.0 |
0 |
| Namibia |
Windhoek |
3.0 |
0 |
| Nepal |
Kathmandu |
5.0 |
0 |
| Netherlands |
Amsterdam |
2.0 |
0 |
| Netherlands |
The Hague |
13.0 |
5 |
| New Zealand |
Auckland |
2.0 |
3 |
| New Zealand |
Wellington |
8.0 |
2 |
| Nicaragua |
Managua |
1.0 |
0 |
| Nigeria |
Abuja |
4.0 |
2 |
| Nigeria |
Kaduna |
2.0 |
2 |
| Nigeria |
Lagos |
17.0 |
5 |
| Norway |
Oslo |
10.0 |
3 |
| Oman |
Muscat |
6.0 |
3 |
| Pakistan |
Islamabad |
21.0 |
3 |
| Pakistan |
Karachi |
4.0 |
3 |
| Panama |
Panama City |
1.0 |
1 |
| Papua New |
Port Moresby |
2.0 |
0 |
| Guinea |
| Paraguay |
Asuncion |
2.0 |
1 |
| Peru |
Lima |
4.0 |
1 |
| Philippines |
Manila |
7.0 |
3 |
| Poland |
Warsaw |
12.0 |
3 |
| Portugal |
Lisbon |
11.0 |
5 |
| Portugal |
Oporto |
1.0 |
1 |
| Qatar |
Doha |
3.0 |
3 |
| Romania |
Bucharest |
8.0 |
2 |
| Russia |
Moscow |
26.0 |
6 |
85W
| Country |
Post |
Number of diplomats |
Trade representatives1 |
| Russia |
St. Petersburg |
3.0 |
1 |
| Saudi Arabia |
Al Khobar |
2.0 |
1 |
| Saudi Arabia |
Jedda |
4.0 |
3 |
| Saudi Arabia |
Riyadh |
13.0 |
8 |
| Senegal |
Dakar |
2.0 |
0 |
| Seychelles |
Victoria |
2.0 |
0 |
| Sierra Leone |
Freetown |
2.0 |
0 |
| Singapore |
Singapore |
8.0 |
5 |
| Slovakia |
Bratislava |
2.0 |
0 |
| Slovenia |
Ljubljana |
1.0 |
0 |
| Solomon Islands |
Honiara |
2.0 |
0 |
| South Africa |
Cape Town |
4.0 |
2 |
| South Africa |
Durban |
1.0 |
1 |
| South Africa |
Johannesburg |
8.0 |
6 |
| South Africa |
Pretoria |
11.0 |
0 |
| Spain |
Barcelona |
2.0 |
3 |
| Spain |
Bilbao |
1.0 |
3 |
| Spain |
Madrid |
19.0 |
8 |
| Spain |
Malaga |
1.0 |
0 |
| Spain |
Palma |
1.0 |
0 |
| Sri Lanka |
Colombo |
7.0 |
2 |
| St. Lucia |
Castries |
1.0 |
0 |
| St. Vincent |
Kingstown |
1.0 |
0 |
| Sudan |
Khartoum |
4.0 |
1 |
| Swaziland |
Mbabane |
2.0 |
0 |
| Sweden |
Stockholm |
10.0 |
5 |
| Switzerland |
Berne |
6.0 |
1 |
| Switzerland |
Geneva CG |
7.0 |
1 |
| Switzerland |
Geneva UKDEL |
3.0 |
0 |
| Switzerland |
Geneva UKMIS |
10.0 |
0 |
| Switzerland |
Zurich |
2.0 |
6 |
| Syria |
Damascus |
6.0 |
1 |
| Taiwan |
Taipei Attc |
3.0 |
4 |
| Tanzania |
Dar Es Salaam |
7.0 |
0 |
| Thailand |
Bangkok |
13.0 |
8 |
| Tonga |
Nuku'alofa |
1.0 |
0 |
| Trinidad |
Port of Spain |
3.0 |
2 |
| Tunisia |
Tunis |
5.0 |
0 |
| Turkey |
Ankara |
10.0 |
3 |
| Turkey |
Istanbul |
5.0 |
5 |
| Turks/Caicos |
Grand Turk |
1.0 |
0 |
| U. A. Emirates |
Abu Dhabi |
7.0 |
3 |
| U. A. Emirates |
Dubai |
5.0 |
3 |
| Uganda |
Kampala |
7.0 |
0 |
| Ukraine |
Kiev |
6.0 |
0 |
| Country |
GDP growth 1988–92 |
British exports 1992 £ million |
Export league position 1992 |
Percentage of British exports 1992 |
Percentage change British trade representation 1988–92 |
| Thailand |
10.17 |
476 |
34 |
0.40 |
+79.0 |
| Maldives |
9.51 |
4 |
160 |
0.00 |
1 |
| Malaysia |
9.09 |
635 |
28 |
0.60 |
-3.2 |
| Belize |
8.80 |
11 |
127 |
0.01 |
2 |
| Singapore |
8.06 |
1,145 |
19 |
1.10 |
-9.9 |
| South Korea |
7.96 |
654 |
27 |
0.60 |
+35.2 |
| China |
7.90 |
429 |
36 |
0.40 |
+32.5 |
| United Arab Emirates |
7.20 |
926 |
23 |
0.90 |
2 |
| Chile |
7.14 |
125 |
57 |
0.10 |
-1.6 |
| Botswana |
6.94 |
20 |
105 |
0.02 |
-16.0 |
| Source: IMF. |
| 1 No local representation. |
| 2 No change. |