United Nations membership

1945 Argentina, Australia, Belarus (Belorussia), Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Ethiopia, France, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, India, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Liberia, Luxembourg, Mexico, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Russia (U.S.S.R.)¹, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Syria, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Venezuela, Yugoslavia²

1946 Afghanistan, Iceland, Sweden, Thailand

1947 Pakistan, Yemen³

1948 Myanmar (Burma)

1949 Israel

1950 Indonesia

1955 Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Finland, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Jordan, Laos, Libya, Nepal, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Sri Lanka (Ceylon)

1956 Japan, Morocco, The Sudan, Tunisia

1957 Ghana, Malaysia

1958 Guinea

1960 Benin (Dahomey), Burkina Faso (Upper Volta), Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo (capital at Brazzaville), Congo (Zaire; capital at Kinshasa), Côte d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Cyprus, Gabon, Madagascar, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Somalia, Togo

1961 Mauritania, Mongolia, Sierra Leone, Tanzania⁴

1962 Algeria, Burundi, Jamaica, Rwanda, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda

1963 Kenya, Kuwait

1964 Malawi, Malta, Zambia

1965 The Gambia, Maldives, Singapore

1966 Barbados, Botswana, Guyana, Lesotho

1968 Equatorial Guinea, Mauritius, Swaziland

1970 Fiji

1971 Bahrain, Bhutan, Oman, Qatar, United Arab Emirates

1973 The Bahamas, Germany⁵

1974 Bangladesh, Grenada, Guinea-Bissau

1975 Cape Verde, Comoros, Mozambique, Papua New Guinea, São Tomé and Príncipe, Suriname

1976 Angola, Samoa, Seychelles

1977 Djibouti, Vietnam

1978 Dominica, Solomon Islands

1979 Saint Lucia

1980 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Zimbabwe

1981 Antigua and Barbuda, Belize, Vanuatu

1983 Saint Kitts and Nevis

1984 Brunei

1990 Liechtenstein, Namibia

1991 Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, North Korea, South Korea

1992 Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, San Marino, Slovenia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan

1993 Andorra, Czech Republic⁶, Eritrea, Macedonia, Monaco, Slovakia⁶

1994 Palau

1999 Kiribati, Nauru, Tonga

2000 Tuvalu

2002 East Timor, Switzerland

2006 Montenegro²

¹The seat held by the U.S.S.R. was assumed by Russia in 1991.

²The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was a member from 1945 until its dissolution following the establishment and admission of the new member states of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Slovenia (1992), Macedonia (1993), and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (2000), the last reconstituted as Serbia and Montenegro in 2003. In 2006 Serbia and Montenegro split into separate countries.

³North Yemen (capital at San‘a’) merged in 1990 with South Yemen (capital at Aden). Upon unification, there was one membership.

⁴Tanganyika merged in 1964 with Zanzibar. The country’s name after the merger became Tanzania, with a single UN membership.

⁵East Germany and West Germany were admitted as separate members in 1973. Upon unification of the two countries in 1990, there was one membership.

⁶Czechoslovakia, a member from 1945, split into two countries, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, in 1993.