Growth in United Nations membership

1945-1950          1950s          1960s          1970s          1980s          1990s          2000-Present

Original 51 Members (1945)

Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, 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, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippine Republic, Poland, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Union of South Africa, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Venezuela, Yugoslavia

55 Members (1946)

Added: Afghanistan, Iceland, Siam, Sweden

57 Members (1947)

Added: Pakistan, Yemen

58 Members (1948)

Added: Burma

59 Members (1949)

Added: Israel

60 Members (1950)

Added: Indonesia

76 Members (1955)

Added: Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Ceylon, Finland, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Jordan, Laos, Libya, Nepal, Portugal, Romania, Spain

80 Members (1956)

Added: Japan, Morocco, Sudan, Tunisia

82 Members (1957)

Added: Ghana, Federation of Malaya

82 Members (1958)

Added: Guinea

99 Members (1960)

Added: Cameroun, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo (Brazzaville), Congo (Leopoldville), Cyprus, Dahomey, Gabon, Ivory Coast, Malagasy Republic, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Somalia, Togo, Upper Volta

104 Members (1961)

Added: Mauritania, Mongolia, Sierra Leone, Tanganyika

110 Members (1962)

Added: Algeria, Burundi, Jamaica, Rwanda, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda

113 Members (1963)

Added: Kenya, Kuwait, Zanzibar

115 Members (1964)

Added: Malawi, Malta, Zambia

117 Members (1965)

Added: The Gambia, Maldive Islands, Singapore

122 Members (1966)

Added: Barbados, Botswana, Guyana, Lesotho

123 Members (1967)

Added: Yemen

126 Members (1968)

Added: Equatorial Guinea, Mauritius, Swaziland

127 Members (1970)

Added: Fiji

132 Members (1971)

Added: Bahrain, Bhutan, Oman, Qatar, United Arab Emirates

135 Members (1973)

Added: Bahamas, Federal Republic of Germany, German Democratic Republic

138 Members (1974)

Added: Bangladesh, Grenada, Guinea-Bissau

144 Members (1975)

Added: Cape Verde, Comoros, Mozambique, Papua New Guinea, Sao Tome and Principe, Suriname

147 Members (1976)

Added: Angola, Samoa, Seychelles

149 Members (1977)

Added: Djibouti, Viet Nam

151 Members (1978)

Added: Dominica, Solomon Islands

152 Members (1979)

Added: Saint Lucia

154 Members (1980)

Added: Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Zimbabwe

157 Members (1981)

Added: Antigua and Barbuda, Belize, Vanuatu

158 Members (1983)

Added: Saint Christopher and Nevis

159 Members (1984)

Added: Brunei Darussalam

159 Members (1990)

Added: Liechtenstein, Namibia

166 Members (1991)

Added: Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Republic of Korea

179 Members (1992)

Added: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Republic of Moldova, San Marino, Slovenia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan

184 Members (1993)

Added: Andorra, Czech Republic, Eritrea, Monaco, Slovakia, The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia

185 Members (1994)

Added: Palau

188 Members (1999)

Added: Kiribati, Nauru, Tonga

189 Members (2000)

Added: Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Tuvalu

191 Members (2002)

Added: Switzerland, Timor-Leste

192 Members (2006)

Added: Montenegro

193 Members (2011)

Added: South Sudan

 

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