International organisation

International Telecommunication Union

The oldest organisation in the UN system -- founded in 1865 for the telegraph -- and the registry through which states share spectrum, orbital slots and numbering.

Abbreviation
ITU
Founded
1865
Headquarters
Geneva
Member states
188 resolved, 193 published by the organisation
Official site
https://www.itu.int

The two counts differ. International Telecommunication Union publishes 193 members; 188 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.

The Holy See is an ITU member state without being a UN member, and does not appear in the table below.

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
Austria 1866-01-01
Belgium 1866-01-01
France 1866-01-01
Germany 1866-01-01
Greece 1866-01-01
Hungary 1866-01-01
Italy 1866-01-01
Kingdom of Denmark 1866-01-01 Denmark
Kingdom of the Netherlands 1866-01-01 Netherlands
Norway 1866-01-01
Portugal 1866-01-01
Russia 1866-01-01
Spain 1866-01-01
Sweden 1866-01-01
Switzerland 1866-01-01
Turkey 1866-01-01
Romania 1866-02-09
Luxembourg 1866-03-02
India 1869-01-01
Iran 1869-01-01
United Kingdom 1871-02-24
Egypt 1876-12-09
Brazil 1877-07-04
Australia 1878-05-27
New Zealand 1878-06-03
Japan 1879-01-29
Bulgaria 1880-09-18
Thailand 1883-04-21
Argentina 1889-01-01
Sri Lanka 1897-01-01
Uruguay 1902-07-01
Iceland 1906-10-01
Bolivia 1907-06-01
Chile 1908-01-01
Canada 1908-07-01
Mexico 1908-07-01
Monaco 1908-07-01
United States 1908-07-01
South Africa 1910-01-01
Philippines 1912-05-25
Guatemala 1914-07-10
Panama 1914-07-14
Colombia 1914-08-25
Peru 1915-07-12
Cuba 1918-01-16
Ecuador 1920-04-17
Venezuela 1920-08-13
China 1920-09-01 People's Republic of China
Finland 1920-09-01
Poland 1921
Latvia 1921-12-11
Estonia 1922-05-19
Albania 1922-06-02
Lithuania 1923-07-01
Ireland 1923-12-08
Lebanon 1924-01-12
Syria 1924-01-12
Honduras 1925-10-27
Nicaragua 1926-05-12
Dominican Republic 1926-07-11
Paraguay 1927-09-27
Haiti 1927-10-10
Liberia 1927-10-10
El Salvador 1927-10-12
Afghanistan 1928-04-12
Iraq 1928-11-12
Yemen 1931-01-01
Ethiopia 1932-02-20
Costa Rica 1932-09-13
Myanmar 1937-09-15
Belarus 1947-05-07
Ukraine 1947-05-07
Jordan 1947-05-20
Pakistan 1947-08-26
Israel 1948-06-24
Indonesia 1949-01-01
Saudi Arabia 1949-02-07
Vietnam 1951-09-24
Cambodia 1952-04-10
Libya 1953-02-03
Morocco 1956-11-01
Tunisia 1956-12-14
Ghana 1957-05-17
Sudan 1957-10-23
Nepal 1957-12-05
Malaysia 1958-02-03
Guinea 1959-03-09
Kuwait 1959-08-14
Mali 1960-10-21
Niger 1960-11-14
Senegal 1960-11-15
Chad 1960-11-25
Central African Republic 1960-12-02
Cameroon 1960-12-22
Ivory Coast 1960-12-23
Gabon 1960-12-28
Benin 1961-01-01
Nigeria 1961-04-11
Cyprus 1961-04-24
Madagascar 1961-05-11
Togo 1961-09-14
Democratic Republic of the Congo 1961-12-06
Sierra Leone 1961-12-30
Burkina Faso 1962-01-16
Mauritania 1962-04-18
Somalia 1962-09-28
Tanzania 1962-10-31
Rwanda 1962-12-12
Burundi 1963-02-16
Jamaica 1963-02-18
Uganda 1963-03-08
Algeria 1963-05-03
Liechtenstein 1963-07-25
Kenya 1964-04-11
Mongolia 1964-08-27
Malta 1965-01-01
Malawi 1965-02-19
Trinidad and Tobago 1965-03-06
Zambia 1965-08-23
Singapore 1965-10-22
Maldives 1967-02-28
Guyana 1967-03-08
Lesotho 1967-05-26
Barbados 1967-08-16
Botswana 1968-04-02
Nauru 1969-06-10
Mauritius 1969-08-30
Equatorial Guinea 1970-07-02
Eswatini 1970-11-11
Fiji 1971-05-05
Tonga 1972-01-07
Oman 1972-04-28
United Arab Emirates 1972-06-27
Qatar 1973-03-27
Bangladesh 1973-09-05
The Gambia 1974-05-27
The Bahamas 1974-08-19
Bahrain 1975-01-01
North Korea 1975-09-24
Papua New Guinea 1975-10-31
Mozambique 1975-11-04
Guinea-Bissau 1976-01-15
Suriname 1976-07-15
São Tomé and Príncipe 1976-09-01
Cape Verde 1976-09-10
Angola 1976-10-13
San Marino 1977-03-25
Djibouti 1977-11-22
Zimbabwe 1981-02-10
Grenada 1981-11-17
Belize 1981-12-16
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 1983-03-25
Namibia 1984-01-25
Brunei 1984-11-19
Kiribati 1986-11-03
Antigua and Barbuda 1987-02-04
Solomon Islands 1987-07-27
Vanuatu 1988-03-30
Bhutan 1988-09-15
Samoa 1988-10-07
Azerbaijan 1992-04-10
Croatia 1992-06-03
Slovenia 1992-06-16
Armenia 1992-06-30
Uzbekistan 1992-07-10
Bosnia and Herzegovina 1992-10-20
Moldova 1992-10-20
Czech Republic 1993-01-01
Georgia 1993-01-07
Kazakhstan 1993-02-23
Slovakia 1993-02-23
Federated States of Micronesia 1993-03-18
North Macedonia 1993-05-04
Turkmenistan 1993-05-07
Eritrea 1993-08-06
Andorra 1993-11-12
Kyrgyzstan 1994-01-20
Tajikistan 1994-04-28
Marshall Islands 1996-02-22
Tuvalu 1996-08-15
Dominica 1996-10-28
Saint Lucia 1997-09-04
Seychelles 1999-09-17
Serbia 2001-06-01
Saint Kitts and Nevis 2006-03-15
Montenegro 2006-06-21
Timor-Leste 2010-08-24
South Sudan 2011-10-03

Its digital estate, measured by us

1 zone of this organisation are in scope for our own passive observation — certificate transparency, DNS, and one ordinary request per host per cycle. This is first-party measurement: nobody else publishes it.

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