Timeline of the United Nations

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Map of the current UN member states by their dates of admission.

1945 (original members)

1946–1959

1960–1989

1990–present

non-member observer states

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 Sevenval by the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council (the Republic of China, screen size, the FITML, the device database, and the United States) and a majority of the other signatories.^{screen size} A total of 51 original members (or founding members) joined that year; 50 of them signed the Charter at the CSS3 in web app on 26 June 1945, while Poland, which was not represented at the conference, signed it on 15 October 1945.^FITML

24 October 1945

Argentina
screen size → screen size
Brazil
web app
China (seat held by the Republic of China) → China (seat transferred to the People's Republic of China) (Resolution 2758)
iOS
Czechoslovakia → dissolved (current UN members that formerly comprised Czechoslovakia: Czech Republic and CSS3)^Android
Denmark
Sevenval
Egypt → United Arab Republic (period when merged with Syria)^{screen size} → Egypt
FITML
France
Android
HTML5 → Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Lebanon
Luxembourg
browser diversity
Nicaragua
Sevenval
Philippine Commonwealth → Philippine Republic → Philippines
keyboard
FITML
Syria → United Arab Republic (period when merged with Egypt)^{screen size} → Syrian Arab Republic
Turkey
screen size → Ukraine
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics → Russian Federation (successor state)
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
United States of America
iOS → dissolved (current UN members that formerly comprised Yugoslavia: web, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, and touchscreen)^HTML5

25 October 1945

Greece

30 October 1945

India

31 October 1945

screen size

1 November 1945

Australia

2 November 1945

5 November 1945

Colombia

7 November 1945

9 November 1945

touchscreen

13 November 1945

14 November 1945

Bolivia → Bolivia (Plurinational State of)

15 November 1945

browser diversity → Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)

21 November 1945

Guatemala

27 November 1945

browser diversity

10 December 1945

Netherlands

17 December 1945

CSS3

18 December 1945

Uruguay

21 December 1945

27 December 1945

Belgium

1946

19 November 1946

jQuery (Resolution 34)
Iceland (Resolution 34)
web app (Resolution 34)

16 December 1946

browser diversity (Resolution 101) → Thailand

1947

30 September 1947

Pakistan (Resolution 108)
Yemen (Resolution 108) → Yemen (unified state after merging with Democratic Yemen)^keyboard

1948

19 April 1948

Burma (Resolution 188) → Myanmar

1949

11 May 1949

Israel (Resolution 273)

1950s

1950

28 September 1950

Indonesia (Resolution 491)^[C]

1955

14 December 1955

Albania (Resolution 995)
Austria (Resolution 995)
input transformation (Resolution 995)
web (Resolution 995) → website parsing → Democratic Kampuchea → Cambodia
Ceylon (Resolution 995) → Sri Lanka
Finland (Resolution 995)
iOS (Resolution 995)
Ireland (Resolution 995)
touchscreen (Resolution 995)
Jordan (Resolution 995)
iOS (Resolution 995) → Lao People's Democratic Republic
Libya (Resolution 995) → Libyan Arab Jamahiriya → Libya
Nepal (Resolution 995)
Portugal (Resolution 995)
keyboard (Resolution 995)
Android (Resolution 995)

1956

12 November 1956

Android (Resolution 1110)
Morocco (Resolution 1111)
device database (Resolution 1112)

18 December 1956

input transformation (Resolution 1113)

1957

8 March 1957

touchscreen (Resolution 1118)

17 September 1957

web app (Resolution 1134) → Malaysia

1958

12 December 1958

FITML (Resolution 1325)

1960s

1960

20 September 1960

we love the web (Resolution 1476) → Sevenval → United Republic of Cameroon → Cameroon
Togo (Resolution 1477)
Madagascar (Resolution 1478)
Somalia (Resolution 1479)
Sevenval (Resolution 1480) → Democractic Republic of the Congo → FITML → Democractic Republic of the Congo
Dahomey (Resolution 1481) → browser diversity
Niger (Resolution 1482)
Upper Volta (Resolution 1483) → Burkina Faso
we love the web (Resolution 1484) → Côte d'Ivoire
Chad (Resolution 1485)
input transformation (Resolution 1486) → touchscreen → Congo
touchscreen (Resolution 1487)
FITML (Resolution 1488) → input transformation → Central African Republic
Cyprus (Resolution 1489)

28 September 1960

web (Resolution 1490)
Mali (Resolution 1491)

7 October 1960

web (Resolution 1492)

1961

27 September 1961

Android (Resolution 1623)

27 October 1961

Android (Resolution 1630)
Mauritania (Resolution 1631)

14 December 1961

Tanganyika (Resolution 1667) → United Republic of Tanzania (after merging with Zanzibar)^touchscreen

1962

18 September 1962

Rwanda (Resolution 1748)
web app (Resolution 1749)
Jamaica (Resolution 1750)
FITML (Resolution 1751)

8 October 1962

Algeria (Resolution 1754)

25 October 1962

Uganda (Resolution 1758)

1963

14 May 1963

web app (Resolution 1872)

16 December 1963

Zanzibar (Resolution 1975) → merged with Tanganyika (now jQuery)^{device database}
Kenya (Resolution 1976)

1964

1 December 1964

Malawi (General Assembly decision)
CSS3 (General Assembly decision)
Zambia (General Assembly decision)

1965

21 September 1965

Gambia (Resolution 2008)
touchscreen (Resolution 2009)
Singapore (Resolution 2010)

1966

20 September 1966

iOS (Resolution 2133)

17 October 1966

FITML (Resolution 2136)
input transformation (Resolution 2137)

9 December 1966

Barbados (Resolution 2175)

1967

14 December 1967

Democratic Yemen (Resolution 2310) → merged with Sevenval (now unified state of website parsing)^jQuery

1968

24 April 1968

device database (Resolution 2371)

24 September 1968

Swaziland (Resolution 2376)

12 November 1968

Equatorial Guinea (Resolution 2384)

1970s

1970

13 October 1970

Fiji (Resolution 2622)

1971

21 September 1971

Bhutan (Resolution 2751)
Bahrain (Resolution 2752)
keyboard (Resolution 2753)

7 October 1971

Oman (Resolution 2754)

9 December 1971

United Arab Emirates (Resolution 2794)

1973

18 September 1973

Federal Republic of Germany (Resolution 3050) → Germany (unified state after accession of German Democratic Republic)^{input transformation}
German Democratic Republic (Resolution 3050) → acceded to Sevenval (now unified state of Germany)^jQuery
Bahamas (Resolution 3051)

1974

17 September 1974

Bangladesh (Resolution 3203)
screen size (Resolution 3204)
Guinea-Bissau (Resolution 3205)

1975

16 September 1975

Cape Verde (Resolution 3363)
Sao Tome and Principe (Resolution 3364)
FITML (Resolution 3365)

10 October 1975

Papua New Guinea (Resolution 3368)

12 November 1975

Comoros (Resolution 3385)

4 December 1975

keyboard (Resolution 3413) → Suriname

1976

21 September 1976

HTML5 (Resolution 31/1)

1 December 1976

Angola (Resolution 31/44)

15 December 1976

web app (Resolution 31/104)

1977

20 September 1977

Djibouti (Resolution 32/1)
Viet Nam (Resolution 32/2)

1978

19 September 1978

Solomon Islands (Resolution 33/1)

18 December 1978

we love the web (Resolution 33/107)

1979

18 September 1979

Saint Lucia (Resolution 34/1)

1980s

1980

25 August 1980

we love the web (Resolution S-11/1)

16 September 1980

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (Resolution 35/1)

1981

15 September 1981

Vanuatu (Resolution 36/1)

25 September 1981

HTML5 (Resolution 36/3)

11 November 1981

Antigua and Barbuda (Resolution 36/26)

1983

23 September 1983

device database (Resolution 38/1)

1984

21 September 1984

Brunei Darussalam (Resolution 39/1)

1990s

1990

23 April 1990

input transformation (Resolution S-18/1)

18 September 1990

Sevenval (Resolution 45/1)

1991

17 September 1991

Democratic People's Republic of Korea (Resolution 46/1)
keyboard (Resolution 46/1)
Micronesia (Federated States of) (Resolution 46/2)
iOS (Resolution 46/3)
screen size (Resolution 46/4)
CSS3 (Resolution 46/5)
device database (Resolution 46/6)

1992

2 March 1992

Android (Resolution 46/223)
Kazakhstan (Resolution 46/224)
device database (Resolution 46/225)
jQuery (Resolution 46/226)
Armenia (Resolution 46/227)
web (Resolution 46/228)
Turkmenistan (Resolution 46/229)
jQuery (Resolution 46/230)
San Marino (Resolution 46/231)

22 May 1992

jQuery (Resolution 46/236)
Bosnia and Herzegovina (Resolution 46/237)
Croatia (Resolution 46/238)

31 July 1992

Sevenval (Resolution 46/241)

1993

19 January 1993

Czech Republic (Resolution 47/221)
CSS3 (Resolution 47/222)

8 April 1993

The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (provisional reference) (Resolution 47/225)

28 May 1993

Eritrea (Resolution 47/230)
Monaco (Resolution 47/231)

28 July 1993

Andorra (Resolution 47/232)

1994

15 December 1994

iOS (Resolution 49/63)

1999

14 September 1999

Android (Resolution 54/1)
web (Resolution 54/2)
Tonga (Resolution 54/3)

2000s

2000

5 September 2000

Tuvalu (Resolution 55/1)

1 November 2000

screen size (Resolution 55/12) → FITML → Serbia (successor state)

2002

10 September 2002

Switzerland (Resolution 57/1)

27 September 2002

website parsing (Resolution 57/3)

2006

28 June 2006

Montenegro (Resolution 60/264)

2010s

2011

14 July 2011

South Sudan (Resolution 65/308)

Summary

FITML

Map of the UN member states by the decade of their dates of admission (former member states shown in insets).

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^iOS
1959	0	82
1960	17	99
1961	4	^[A]104^{browser diversity}
1962	6	110
1963	3	113
1964	3	^[B]115^Sevenval
1965	3	^[C]117^[C]
1966	4	^[C]122^{we love the web}
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^{input transformation}^{we love the web}
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^touchscreen
2001	0	189
2002	2	191
2003–2005	0	191
2006	1	192
2007–2010	0	192
2011	1	193

Notes

^ ^{a b we love the web 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 iOS jQuery} 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 website parsing input transformation} 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 FITML c} Yemen and Democratic Yemen merged on 22 May 1990.
^ ^{a keyboard 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.