International organisation

International Bank for Reconstruction and Development

The World Bank's founding institution: membership requires joining the IMF first, and 189 states have.

Abbreviation
IBRD
Founded
1945-12-27
Headquarters
Washington, D.C.
Member states
187 resolved, 189 published by the organisation
Official site
https://www.worldbank.org/en/about/what-we-do/brief/ibrd

The two counts differ. International Bank for Reconstruction and Development publishes 189 members; 187 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.

StateJoinedListed by the source as
Belgium 1945-12-27 —
Bolivia 1945-12-27 —
Canada 1945-12-27 —
China 1945-12-27 People's Republic of China
Egypt 1945-12-27 —
Ethiopia 1945-12-27 —
France 1945-12-27 —
Greece 1945-12-27 —
Honduras 1945-12-27 —
Iceland 1945-12-27 —
India 1945-12-27 —
Iraq 1945-12-27 —
Kingdom of the Netherlands 1945-12-27 —
Luxembourg 1945-12-27 —
Norway 1945-12-27 —
Philippines 1945-12-27 —
South Africa 1945-12-27 —
United Kingdom 1945-12-27 —
United States 1945-12-27 —
Ecuador 1945-12-28 —
Guatemala 1945-12-28 —
Paraguay 1945-12-28 —
Iran 1945-12-29 —
Chile 1945-12-31 —
Mexico 1945-12-31 —
Peru 1945-12-31 —
Costa Rica 1946-01-08 —
Brazil 1946-01-14 —
Uruguay 1946-03-11 —
El Salvador 1946-03-14 —
Nicaragua 1946-03-14 —
Panama 1946-03-14 —
Colombia 1946-12-24 —
Venezuela 1946-12-30 —
Turkey 1947-03-11 —
Italy 1947-03-27 —
Syria 1947-04-10 —
Lebanon 1947-04-14 —
Australia 1947-08-05 —
Finland 1948-01-14 —
Austria 1948-08-27 —
Thailand 1949-05-03 —
Pakistan 1950-07-11 —
Sri Lanka 1950-08-29 —
Sweden 1951-08-31 —
Myanmar 1952-01-03 —
Japan 1952-08-13 —
Germany 1952-08-14 —
Jordan 1952-08-29 —
Haiti 1953-09-08 —
Israel 1954-07-12 —
South Korea 1955-08-26 —
Argentina 1956-09-20 —
Vietnam 1956-09-21 —
Ireland 1957-08-08 —
Saudi Arabia 1957-08-26 —
Sudan 1957-09-05 —
Ghana 1957-09-20 —
Malaysia 1958-03-07 —
Tunisia 1958-04-14 —
Morocco 1958-04-25 —
Spain 1958-09-15 —
Libya 1958-09-17 —
Kingdom of Denmark 1960-11-30 —
Portugal 1961-03-29 —
Nigeria 1961-03-30 —
Laos 1961-07-05 —
New Zealand 1961-08-31 —
Nepal 1961-09-06 —
Dominican Republic 1961-09-18 —
Cyprus 1961-12-21 —
Liberia 1962-03-28 —
Togo 1962-08-01 —
Senegal 1962-08-31 —
Somalia 1962-08-31 —
Sierra Leone 1962-09-10 —
Tanzania 1962-09-10 —
Kuwait 1962-09-13 —
Jamaica 1963-02-21 —
Ivory Coast 1963-03-11 —
Niger 1963-04-24 —
Burkina Faso 1963-05-02 —
Benin 1963-07-10 —
Cameroon 1963-07-10 —
Central African Republic 1963-07-10 —
Chad 1963-07-10 —
Republic of the Congo 1963-07-10 —
Gabon 1963-09-10 —
Mauritania 1963-09-10 —
Trinidad and Tobago 1963-09-16 —
Madagascar 1963-09-25 —
Algeria 1963-09-26 —
Mali 1963-09-27 —
Uganda 1963-09-27 —
Burundi 1963-09-28 —
Democratic Republic of the Congo 1963-09-28 —
Guinea 1963-09-28 —
Rwanda 1963-09-30 —
Kenya 1964-02-03 —
Malawi 1965-07-19 —
Zambia 1965-09-23 —
Singapore 1966-08-03 —
Guyana 1966-09-26 —
Indonesia 1967-04-13 —
The Gambia 1967-10-18 —
Botswana 1968-07-24 —
Lesotho 1968-07-25 —
Mauritius 1968-09-23 —
Eswatini 1969-09-22 —
Yemen 1969-10-03 —
Equatorial Guinea 1970-07-01 —
Cambodia 1970-07-22 —
Oman 1971 —
Fiji 1971-05-28 —
Bangladesh 1972-08-17 —
Bahrain 1972-09-15 —
United Arab Emirates 1972-09-22 —
Qatar 1972-09-25 —
Romania 1972-12-15 —
The Bahamas 1973-08-21 —
Samoa 1974-06-28 —
Barbados 1974-09-12 —
Grenada 1975-08-27 —
Papua New Guinea 1975-10-09 —
Comoros 1976-10-28 —
Guinea-Bissau 1977-03-24 —
São Tomé and Príncipe 1977-09-30 —
Maldives 1978-01-13 —
Suriname 1978-06-27 —
Solomon Islands 1978-09-22 —
Cape Verde 1978-11-20 —
Saint Lucia 1980-06-27 —
Dominica 1980-09-29 —
Seychelles 1980-09-29 —
Zimbabwe 1980-09-29 —
Djibouti 1980-10-01 —
Bhutan 1981-09-28 —
Vanuatu 1981-09-28 —
Belize 1982-03-19 —
Hungary 1982-07-07 —
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 1982-08-31 —
Antigua and Barbuda 1983-09-22 —
Malta 1983-09-26 —
Saint Kitts and Nevis 1984-08-15 —
Mozambique 1984-09-24 —
Tonga 1985-09-13 —
Poland 1986-06-27 —
Kiribati 1986-09-29 —
Angola 1989-09-19 —
Bulgaria 1990-09-25 —
Namibia 1990-09-25 —
Mongolia 1991-02-14 —
Albania 1991-10-15 —
Marshall Islands 1992-05-21 —
Switzerland 1992-05-29 —
Russia 1992-06-16 —
Estonia 1992-06-23 —
Lithuania 1992-07-06 —
Belarus 1992-07-10 —
Kazakhstan 1992-07-23 —
Georgia 1992-08-07 —
Latvia 1992-08-11 —
Moldova 1992-08-12 —
Ukraine 1992-09-03 —
Armenia 1992-09-16 —
Azerbaijan 1992-09-18 —
Kyrgyzstan 1992-09-18 —
Uzbekistan 1992-09-21 —
Turkmenistan 1992-09-22 —
Czech Republic 1993-01-01 —
Slovakia 1993-01-01 —
Bosnia and Herzegovina 1993-02-25 —
Croatia 1993-02-25 —
North Macedonia 1993-02-25 —
Serbia 1993-02-25 —
Slovenia 1993-02-25 —
Tajikistan 1993-06-04 —
Federated States of Micronesia 1993-06-24 —
Eritrea 1994-07-06 —
Afghanistan 1995-07-14 —
Brunei 1995-10-10 —
Palau 1997-12-16 —
San Marino 2000-09-21 —
Timor-Leste 2002-07-23 —
Montenegro 2007-01-18 —
Tuvalu 2010-06-24 —
South Sudan 2012-04-18 —

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