Vital Statistics on Diplomatic Corps

Here are some facts and figures about the foreign diplomatic community in Washington:

HOW MANY--Washington is home to 22,102 career foreign diplomats and their dependents, including ambassadors of 143 countries and the delegation of the Commission of the European Communities. The ambassadors of seven other countries reside in New York.

The United States does not have diplomatic relations with Cuba, Iraq and Iran. Cuba’s interests here are handled by the Swiss Embassy, those of Iran and Iraq by the Algerian Embassy.

* WHERE THEY ARE--Most embassies are located in northwest Washington along Massachusetts Avenue (popularly known as Embassy Row), in the wooded glens adjacent to Rock Creek Park or along 16th Street north of the White House.

Mexico and Canada have built new embassies on Pennsylvania Avenue. Half a dozen embassies occupy suites in the Watergate complex overlooking the Potomac River. And a group of embassies, among them Israel and Jordan, are clustered in an enclave on upper Connecticut Avenue.

* SENIOR DIPLOMAT--The dean of the diplomatic corps is ambassador Abdellah Ould Daddah of Mauritania, an Islamic republic and former French colony on the northwestern coast of Africa. Daddah presented his credentials to President Jimmy Carter on Nov. 24, 1980.

* WOMEN--Five of the 144 ambassadors in Washington are women. They are, in order of seniority, Margaret E. McDonald of the Bahamas, Eugenia Wordsworth-Stevenson of Liberia, Margaret Taylor of Papua New Guinea, Rita Klimova of Czechoslovakia and Syeda Abida Hussain of Pakistan.