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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