Party to all four instruments: compared across the record

What the set looks like

81 jurisdictions fall into this set. 81 of 81 are party to all four instruments tracked here and 0 of 81 are outside the Firearms Protocol. 70 of 81 carry at least one national instrument confirmed against an official register, 71 of 81 name an enforcement authority confirmed on their own government domain, and 9 of 81 are currently under FATF increased monitoring.

It does not predict much. Within this set are jurisdictions with several confirmed statutes and jurisdictions with none, jurisdictions under monitoring and jurisdictions not, dependent territories and large states. That is the argument for recording national legislation separately rather than treating the treaty position as a proxy for it, and it is the reason this dataset exists in the shape it does.

The comparison

Where the set diverges

A comparison earns its place by showing where members of a set differ, not where they agree. Across these 81 jurisdictions the ratifications recorded here span 36 years, from 1989 to 2025 — a range wide enough that the earliest and the latest were responding to different problems.

Treaty coverage. Every jurisdiction in this set is party to all four instruments, so nothing here distinguishes them on the treaty record. Whatever differentiates them sits in the columns to the right of it.

Citable legislation. Burkina Faso, Comoros, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Liberia, Libya, Malawi, Mozambique, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Sao Tome and Principe, South Sudan, Turkmenistan carry no national instrument confirmed against an official register, while 70 do. That is the widest split in most sets on this site, and it is a split in what can be sourced rather than in what exists.

Named authority. Angola, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Guinea Bissau, Mauritius, Sao Tome and Principe, Sudan, Uruguay name no enforcement body confirmed on their own government domain. Since only a body's own domain is accepted as proof, this tracks how much of a jurisdiction's administration publishes on the open web as much as it tracks the administration itself.

How to read the columns

Conventions counts the four instruments the jurisdiction is party to, taken from the depositary's status tables. For a dependent territory the count reflects extension from the metropolitan state rather than its own accession. Instruments counts national statutes confirmed against an official register — never the number a jurisdiction has, only the number this dataset can cite. FATF is the listing status as of the most recent plenary statement, revised three times a year. Tier records which of those source paths applied.

The distinction that matters most here is between an empty cell and a zero. Nothing in this table asserts that a jurisdiction has no drug legislation; where the instruments column says none confirmed, it means no citable register published one that could be tied to that jurisdiction. The reasoning is set out under sources and methodology.

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