International organisation
Southern African Development Community
Southern Africa's development community: sixteen states from the DR Congo to the Indian Ocean islands.
- Abbreviation
- SADC
- Founded
- 1992
- Headquarters
- Gaborone
- Member states
- 15 resolved, 16 published by the organisation
- Official site
- https://www.sadc.int
The two counts differ. Southern African Development Community publishes 16 members; 15 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 compiled source carried no current membership statement for the Comoros when measured, 2026-08-28, so SADC's sixteenth member is absent from 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.
| State | Joined | Listed by the source as |
|---|---|---|
| Angola | not recorded | — |
| Botswana | not recorded | — |
| Democratic Republic of the Congo | not recorded | — |
| Eswatini | not recorded | — |
| Lesotho | not recorded | — |
| Madagascar | not recorded | — |
| Malawi | not recorded | — |
| Mauritius | not recorded | — |
| Mozambique | not recorded | — |
| Namibia | not recorded | — |
| Seychelles | not recorded | — |
| South Africa | not recorded | — |
| Tanzania | not recorded | — |
| Zambia | not recorded | — |
| Zimbabwe | not recorded | — |
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