Membership
Growth of united nations membership
| YEAR OF ADMISSION | MEMBERS |
| 1945 | Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Belarus (formerly Byelorussia), Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czechoslovakia (readmitted in 1993 as two separate states, the Czech and Slovak Republics), 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, Philippines, Poland, the Russian Federation (formerly the USSR), Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Syria, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States of America, Uruguay, Venezuela, Yugoslavia |
| 1946 | Afghanistan, Iceland, Sweden, Thailand |
| 1947 | Pakistan, Yemen (formerly Yemen Arab Republic) |
| 1948 | Myanmar (formerly Burma) |
| 1949 | Israel |
| 1950 | Indonesia |
| 1955 | Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Cambodia (formerly Kampuchea), Finland, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Jordan, Lao People's Democratic Republic (formerly Laos), Libya, Nepal, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Sri Lanka |
| 1956 | Japan, Morocco, Sudan, Tunisia |
| 1957 | Ghana, Malaysia |
| 1958 | Guinea |
| 1960 | Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Cyprus, Gabon, Madagascar, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Somalia, Togo, Zaire |
| 1961 | Mauritania, Mongolia, Sierra Leone, Tanzania |
| 1962 | Algeria, Burundi, Jamaica, Rwanda, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda |
| YEAR OF ADMISSION | MEMBERS |
| 1963 | Kenya, Kuwait |
| 1964 | Malawi, Malta, Zambia |
| 1965 | Gambia, Maldives, Singapore |
| 1966 | Barbados, Botswana, Guyana, Lesotho |
| 1967 | People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (since 1990, merged with Yemen) |
| 1968 | Equatorial Guinea, Mauritius, Swaziland |
| 1970 | Fiji |
| 1971 | Bahrain, Bhutan, Oman, Qatar, United Arab Emirates |
| 1973 | Bahamas, Germany (formerly the German Democratic Republic and the Federal Republic of Germany) |
| 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 | St. Lucia |
| 1980 | St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Zimbabwe |
| 1981 | Antigua and Barbuda, Belize, Vanuatu |
| 1983 | St. Kitts and Nevis |
| 1984 | Brunei Darussalam |
| 1990 | Liechtenstein, Namibia, |
| 1991 | Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Estonia, Federated States of Micronesia, Latvia, Lithuania, Marshall Islands, Republic of Korea |
| 1992 | Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Krgyz Republic, Republic of Moldova, San Marino, Slovenia, |
| 1993 | Andorra, Czech Republic, Eritrea, Monaco, Slovak Republic, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia |
| 1994 | Palau |
| 1999 | Kiribati, Nauru, Tonga |
| 2000 | Tuvalu, Serbia and Montenegro |
| 2002 | Switzerland, East Timor (Timor Leste) |
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