International organisation
Commonwealth of Nations
A voluntary association of 56 states, most with a shared imperial past and several -- Mozambique, Rwanda, Gabon, Togo -- with none, which is the interesting part.
- Founded
- 1931-12-11
- Headquarters
- Marlborough House
- Member states
- 55 resolved, 56 published by the organisation
- Official site
- https://thecommonwealth.org
The two counts differ. Commonwealth of Nations publishes 56 members; 55 resolved against the 193 states this site has checked. Sometimes that is a disagreement about what counts as a member state — a non-UN state, a territory, a suspended member — and sometimes the compiled source lacks a current statement for a real one. Either way the gap is shown rather than smoothed over, because a table that quietly shows one number cannot be checked against the other.
Member states
Ordered by accession. A state with no recorded date is listed last rather than given one.
A joining date is the one the source records, which may be the day a treaty was signed or the day it took effect. States that joined together can therefore differ by months here.
| State | Joined | Listed by the source as |
|---|---|---|
| Australia | 1931 | — |
| Canada | 1931 | — |
| New Zealand | 1931 | — |
| South Africa | 1931-12-11 | — |
| India | 1947-08-15 | — |
| Sri Lanka | 1948 | — |
| Ghana | 1957 | — |
| Malaysia | 1957 | — |
| Cameroon | 1960 | — |
| Cyprus | 1961 | — |
| Sierra Leone | 1961 | — |
| Tanzania | 1961-12-09 | — |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 1962 | — |
| Uganda | 1962 | — |
| Kenya | 1963-12-12 | — |
| Malawi | 1964 | — |
| Malta | 1964 | — |
| Zambia | 1964 | — |
| Singapore | 1965 | — |
| Barbados | 1966 | — |
| Botswana | 1966 | — |
| Guyana | 1966 | — |
| Lesotho | 1966 | — |
| Eswatini | 1968 | — |
| Mauritius | 1968 | — |
| Samoa | 1970 | — |
| Tonga | 1970 | — |
| Bangladesh | 1972-04-18 | — |
| The Bahamas | 1973 | — |
| Grenada | 1974 | — |
| Papua New Guinea | 1975 | — |
| Seychelles | 1976 | — |
| Dominica | 1978 | — |
| Jamaica | 1978 | — |
| Solomon Islands | 1978 | — |
| Tuvalu | 1978 | — |
| Saint Lucia | 1979 | — |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 1979 | — |
| Kiribati | 1979-07-12 | — |
| Vanuatu | 1980 | — |
| Antigua and Barbuda | 1981 | — |
| Belize | 1981 | — |
| Saint Kitts and Nevis | 1983 | — |
| Brunei | 1984 | — |
| Pakistan | 1989 | — |
| Namibia | 1990 | — |
| Mozambique | 1995 | — |
| Nauru | 1999 | — |
| Nigeria | 1999 | — |
| Rwanda | 2009-11-29 | — |
| Fiji | 2014-09 | — |
| The Gambia | 2018-02-08 | — |
| Maldives | 2020-02-01 | — |
| Gabon | 2022-06-25 | — |
| Togo | 2022-06-25 | — |
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