Enlargement of the United Nations
There are currently 193 United Nations (UN) member states, each of which is a member of the United Nations General Assembly.[1]
The following is a list of United Nations member states arranged in chronological order according to their dates of admission (with the United Nations General Assembly resolutions that admitted them),[2] including former members. Members denoted with "→" changed their names, had their memberships in the UN continued by a successor state, merged with other members, or were dissolved.
1940s
1945 (original members)
The UN officially came into existence on 24 October 1945, after ratification of the United Nations Charter by the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council (the Republic of China, France, the USSR, the United Kingdom, and the United States) and a majority of the other signatories.[3] A total of 51 original members (or founding members) joined that year; 50 of them signed the Charter at the United Nations Conference on International Organization in San Francisco on 26 June 1945, while Poland, which was not represented at the conference, signed it on 15 October 1945.[4]
- 24 October 1945
- 25 October 1945
- 30 October 1945
- 31 October 1945
- 1 November 1945
- 2 November 1945
- 5 November 1945
- 7 November 1945
- 9 November 1945
- 13 November 1945
- 14 November 1945
- Bolivia → Bolivia (Plurinational State of)
- 15 November 1945
- Venezuela → Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)
- 21 November 1945
- 27 November 1945
- 10 December 1945
- 17 December 1945
- 18 December 1945
- 21 December 1945
- 27 December 1945
1946
- 19 November 1946
- 16 December 1946
- Siam (Resolution 101) → Thailand
1947
- 30 September 1947
1948
- 19 April 1948
- Burma (Resolution 188) → Myanmar
1949
- 11 May 1949
1950s
1950
- 28 September 1950
1955
- 14 December 1955
1956
- 12 November 1956
- 18 December 1956
1957
- 8 March 1957
- 17 September 1957
1958
- 12 December 1958
1960s
1960
- 20 September 1960
- 28 September 1960
- 7 October 1960
1961
- 27 September 1961
- 27 October 1961
- 14 December 1961
1962
- 18 September 1962
- 8 October 1962
- 25 October 1962
1963
- 14 May 1963
- 16 December 1963
1964
- 1 December 1964
- Malawi (General Assembly decision)
- Malta (General Assembly decision)
- Zambia (General Assembly decision)
1965
- 21 September 1965
1966
- 20 September 1966
- 17 October 1966
- 9 December 1966
1967
- 14 December 1967
1968
- 24 April 1968
- 24 September 1968
- 12 November 1968
1970s
1970
- 13 October 1970
1971
- 21 September 1971
- 7 October 1971
- 9 December 1971
1973
- 18 September 1973
1974
- 17 September 1974
1975
- 16 September 1975
- 10 October 1975
- 12 November 1975
- 4 December 1975
- Surinam (Resolution 3413) → Suriname
1976
- 21 September 1976
- 1 December 1976
- 15 December 1976
- Samoa (Resolution 31/104)
1977
- 20 September 1977
1978
- 19 September 1978
- 18 December 1978
1979
- 18 September 1979
1980s
1980
- 25 August 1980
- 16 September 1980
1981
- 15 September 1981
- 25 September 1981
- 11 November 1981
1983
- 23 September 1983
1984
- 21 September 1984
1990s
1990
- 23 April 1990
- 18 September 1990
1991
- 17 September 1991
1992
- 2 March 1992
- 22 May 1992
- 31 July 1992
1993
- 19 January 1993
- 8 April 1993
- 28 May 1993
- 28 July 1993
1994
- 15 December 1994
1999
- 14 September 1999
2000s
2000
- 5 September 2000
- 1 November 2000
2002
- 10 September 2002
- 27 September 2002
2006
- 28 June 2006
2010s
2011
- 14 July 2011
Summary
Below is a summary of the growth in UN membership.[5]
| Year |
# of admissions |
# of members |
| 1945 |
51 |
51 |
| 1946 |
4 |
55 |
| 1947 |
2 |
57 |
| 1948 |
1 |
58 |
| 1949 |
1 |
59 |
| 1950 |
1 |
60 |
| 1951–1954 |
0 |
60 |
| 1955 |
16 |
76 |
| 1956 |
4 |
80 |
| 1957 |
2 |
82 |
| 1958 |
1 |
[A]82[A] |
| 1959 |
0 |
82 |
| 1960 |
17 |
99 |
| 1961 |
4 |
[A]104[A] |
| 1962 |
6 |
110 |
| 1963 |
3 |
113 |
| 1964 |
3 |
[B]115[B] |
| 1965 |
3 |
[C]117[C] |
| 1966 |
4 |
[C]122[C] |
| 1967 |
1 |
123 |
| 1968 |
3 |
126 |
| 1969 |
0 |
126 |
| 1970 |
1 |
127 |
| 1971 |
5 |
132 |
| 1972 |
0 |
132 |
| 1973 |
3 |
135 |
| 1974 |
3 |
138 |
| 1975 |
6 |
144 |
| 1976 |
3 |
147 |
| 1977 |
2 |
149 |
| 1978 |
2 |
151 |
| 1979 |
1 |
152 |
| 1980 |
2 |
154 |
| 1981 |
3 |
157 |
| 1982 |
0 |
157 |
| 1983 |
1 |
158 |
| 1984 |
1 |
159 |
| 1985–1989 |
0 |
159 |
| 1990 |
2 |
[D][E]159[D][E] |
| 1991 |
7 |
166 |
| 1992 |
13 |
179 |
| 1993 |
6 |
[F]184[F] |
| 1994 |
1 |
185 |
| 1995–1998 |
0 |
185 |
| 1999 |
3 |
188 |
| 2000 |
2 |
[G]189[G] |
| 2001 |
0 |
189 |
| 2002 |
2 |
191 |
| 2003–2005 |
0 |
191 |
| 2006 |
1 |
192 |
| 2007–2010 |
0 |
192 |
| 2011 |
1 |
193 |
Notes
- ^ a b c d Egypt and Syria merged to form the United Arab Republic on 22 February 1958. They resumed as separate UN members on 13 October 1961 after Syria resumed its status as an independent state.
- ^ a b c Tanganyika and Zanzibar merged to form the United Republic of Tanganyika and Zanzibar on 26 April 1964, which later changed its name to the United Republic of Tanzania.
- ^ a b c Indonesia temporarily withdrew from the UN on 20 January 1965. It announced its intention "to resume full cooperation with the United Nations and to resume participation in its activities" on 19 September 1966, and was invited to rejoin the UN on 28 September 1966.
- ^ a b c Yemen and Democratic Yemen merged on 22 May 1990.
- ^ a b c The German Democratic Republic acceded to the Federal Republic of Germany on 3 October 1990.
- ^ a b Czechoslovakia ceased to be a UN member on 1 January 1993 after its dissolution into the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
- ^ a b Yugoslavia (referring to the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia), effectively dissolved by 1992, was removed from the official roster of UN members in 2000 following the admission of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Slovenia, Macedonia, and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (name later changed to Serbia and Montenegro) as new UN members.
References
- ^ "What are Member States?". United Nations. http://www.un.org/depts/dhl/unms/whatisms.shtml.
- ^ "Current Member States". United Nations. http://www.un.org/depts/dhl/unms/cms.shtml.
- ^ "History of the United Nations". United Nations. http://www.un.org/aboutun/unhistory/.
- ^ "Founding Member States". United Nations. http://www.un.org/depts/dhl/unms/founders.shtml.
- ^ "Growth in United Nations membership, 1945–present". United Nations. http://www.un.org/en/members/growth.shtml.