International organisation

World Meteorological Organization

The weather agency. An observation network is only as good as its least-connected member, which is why its membership reaches past states to the territories that run their own meteorological services.

Abbreviation
WMO
Founded
1950-03-23
Headquarters
Geneva
Member states
180 resolved, 193 published by the organisation
Official site
https://wmo.int/

The two counts differ. World Meteorological Organization publishes 193 members; 180 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.

Six territories are WMO Members alongside the member states -- Hong Kong and French Polynesia among them -- and territories do 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
Iceland 1948-01-16
New Zealand 1948-04-02
Russia 1948-04-02
Belarus 1948-04-12
Ukraine 1948-04-12
Romania 1948-08-18
Sweden 1948-11-10
Norway 1948-12-09
United Kingdom 1948-12-14
Lebanon 1948-12-22
Finland 1949-01-07
Switzerland 1949-02-23
Australia 1949-03-14
Philippines 1949-04-05
India 1949-04-27
United States 1949-05-04
Mexico 1949-05-27
Thailand 1949-07-11
Turkey 1949-08-05
Myanmar 1949-08-19
Dominican Republic 1949-09-15
Israel 1949-09-30
France 1949-12-05
Peru 1949-12-30
Egypt 1950-01-10
South Africa 1950-01-17
Greece 1950-01-20
Iraq 1950-02-21
Ireland 1950-03-14
Brazil 1950-03-15
Pakistan 1950-04-11
Poland 1950-05-16
Canada 1950-07-28
Paraguay 1950-09-15
Indonesia 1950-11-16
Argentina 1951-01-02
Italy 1951-01-09
Uruguay 1951-01-11
Portugal 1951-01-15
Belgium 1951-02-02
Hungary 1951-02-15
Spain 1951-02-27
China 1951-04-01 People's Republic of China
Sri Lanka 1951-05-23
Ecuador 1951-06-07
Kingdom of Denmark 1951-07-10
Haiti 1951-08-14
Kingdom of the Netherlands 1951-09-12 Netherlands
Cuba 1952-03-04
Bulgaria 1952-03-12
Guatemala 1952-03-21
Syria 1952-07-16
Luxembourg 1952-10-29
Japan 1953-08-11
Ethiopia 1953-12-03
Germany 1954-06-10
Libya 1955
Austria 1955-02-23
El Salvador 1955-05-27
Laos 1955-06-01
Jordan 1955-07-11
Cambodia 1955-11-08
South Korea 1956-02-15
Afghanistan 1956-09-11
Sudan 1956-12-03
Morocco 1957-01-03
Tunisia 1957-01-22
Ghana 1957-05-06
Chile 1957-05-09
Albania 1957-07-29
Malaysia 1958-05-19
Saudi Arabia 1959-02-26
Nicaragua 1959-02-27
Guinea 1959-03-27
Honduras 1960-10-10
Niger 1960-10-28
Togo 1960-10-28
Burkina Faso 1960-10-31
Ivory Coast 1960-10-31
Democratic Republic of the Congo 1960-11-05
Mali 1960-11-11
Nigeria 1960-11-30
Senegal 1960-12-11
Madagascar 1960-12-15
Costa Rica 1960-12-16
Cameroon 1960-12-17
Chad 1961-02-02
Benin 1961-05-14
Gabon 1961-06-05
Central African Republic 1961-06-28
Colombia 1962-01-05
Mauritania 1962-01-23
Sierra Leone 1962-03-30
Tanzania 1962-09-14
Burundi 1962-10-30
Kuwait 1962-12-01
Trinidad and Tobago 1963-02-01
Rwanda 1963-02-04
Uganda 1963-03-15
Algeria 1963-04-04
Mongolia 1963-04-04
Cyprus 1963-04-11
Jamaica 1963-05-29
Somalia 1964-04-01
Kenya 1964-06-02
Zambia 1964-12-28
Malawi 1965-02-15
Singapore 1966-01-24
Nepal 1966-08-12
Guyana 1966-11-22
Barbados 1967-03-22
Panama 1967-09-12
Botswana 1967-10-16
Mauritius 1969-07-17
Yemen 1971-07-08
Bangladesh 1973-08-24
The Bahamas 1973-11-29
Liberia 1974-02-07
Oman 1975-01-03
Qatar 1975-04-04
North Korea 1975-05-27
Vietnam 1975-07-08
Cape Verde 1975-10-21
Papua New Guinea 1975-12-15
Comoros 1976-03-19
Mozambique 1976-06-21
Suriname 1976-07-26
São Tomé and Príncipe 1976-11-23
Malta 1976-12-28
Seychelles 1977-02-15
Angola 1977-03-16
Guinea-Bissau 1977-12-15
Maldives 1978-06-01
Djibouti 1978-06-30
The Gambia 1978-11-01
Lesotho 1979-08-03
Dominica 1980-02-21
Fiji 1980-03-18
Bahrain 1980-04-21
Zimbabwe 1981-01-12
Saint Lucia 1981-03-02
Belize 1982-05-25
Vanuatu 1982-06-24
Eswatini 1982-11-02
Brunei 1984-11-26
Solomon Islands 1985-05-06
United Arab Emirates 1986-12-17
Antigua and Barbuda 1988-11-16
Namibia 1991-02-06
Latvia 1992-05-15
Lithuania 1992-06-03
Slovenia 1992-08-20
Estonia 1992-08-21
Armenia 1992-09-16
Croatia 1992-10-09
Turkmenistan 1992-12-04
Uzbekistan 1992-12-23
Czech Republic 1993-01-25
Slovakia 1993-02-11
Kazakhstan 1993-05-05
North Macedonia 1993-06-01
Eritrea 1993-07-08
Tajikistan 1993-08-10
Azerbaijan 1993-12-27
Bosnia and Herzegovina 1994-06-01
Kyrgyzstan 1994-07-20
Moldova 1994-11-21
Samoa 1995-07-11
Tonga 1996-02-25
Monaco 1996-04-09
Serbia 2001-03-23
Bhutan 2003-02-11
Kiribati 2003-03-26
Montenegro 2007-01-05
Timor-Leste 2009-12-04
Tuvalu 2012-09-22
South Sudan 2012-12-14
Andorra 2018-11-16
Nauru 2019-05-16
Bolivia not recorded

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