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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is an organization of 188 countries, working to foster global monetary cooperation, secure financial stability, facilitate international trade, promote high employment and sustainable economic growth, and reduce poverty around the world.
Me m be rship of the IMF (Date of e ntry into force : De ce m be r 27, 1945) C hronological List (188 Me m be r C ountrie s) Member Be lgium 1 Bolivia 1 C anada 1 C hina 1 C olom bia 1 (C ze choslovak ia) 1 ,2 ,3 Egypt1 Ethiopia 1 France 1 Gre e ce 1 Honduras 1 Ice land 1 India 1 Iraq 1 Lux e m bourg 1 Ne the rlands 1 Norway1 Philippine s 1 South Africa 1 Unite d Kingdom 1 Unite d State s 1 (Yugoslavia) 1 ,4 ,5 Dom inican R e public1 Effective Date of Membership De ce m be r 27, 1945 De ce m be r 27, 1945 De ce m be r 27, 1945 De ce m be r 27, 1945 De ce m be r 27, 1945 (De ce m be r 27, 1945) De ce m be r 27, 1945 De ce m be r 27, 1945 De ce m be r 27, 1945 De ce m be r 27, 1945 De ce m be r 27, 1945 De ce m be r 27, 1945 De ce m be r 27, 1945 De ce m be r 27, 1945 De ce m be r 27, 1945 De ce m be r 27, 1945 De ce m be r 27, 1945 De ce m be r 27, 1945 De ce m be r 27, 1945 De ce m be r 27, 1945 De ce m be r 27, 1945 (De ce m be r 27, 1945) De ce m be r 28, 1945

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Ecuador1 Guate m ala 1 Paraguay1 Iran, Islam ic R e public of (Iran) 1 C hile 1 Me x ico 1 Pe ru 1 C osta R ica 1 (Poland) 1 , 6 Brazil1 Uruguay1 (C uba) 1 , 7 El Salvador8 Nicaragua 8 Panam a 8 De nm ark 8 Ve ne zue la, R e pblica Bolivariana de 8 Turk e y Italy Syrian Arab R e public (Syria) Le banon Australia Finland Austria Thailand (Siam ) Pak istan Sri Lank a (C e ylon) Swe de n Myanm ar (Burm a) Japan Ge rm any Jordan Haiti (Indone sia) 9 Israe l Afghanistan, Islam ic R e p. of (Afghanistan) Kore a Arge ntina Vie tnam (Vie t Nam )
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De ce m be r 28, 1945 De ce m be r 28, 1945 De ce m be r 28, 1945 De ce m be r 29, 1945 De ce m be r 31, 1945 De ce m be r 31, 1945 De ce m be r 31, 1945 January 8, 1946 (January 10, 1946) January 14, 1946 March 11, 1946 (March 14, 1946) March 14, 1946 March 14, 1946 March 14, 1946 March 30, 1946 De ce m be r 30, 1946 March 11, 1947 March 27, 1947 April 10, 1947 April 14, 1947 August 5, 1947 January 14, 1948 August 27, 1948 May 3, 1949 July 11, 1950 August 29, 1950 August 31, 1951 January 3, 1952 August 13, 1952 August 14, 1952 August 29, 1952 Se pte m be r 8, 1953 (April 15, 1954) July 12, 1954 July 14, 1955 August 26, 1955 Se pte m be r 20, 1956 Se pte m be r 21, 1956
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Ire land Saudi Arabia Sudan Ghana Malaysia (Malaya) Tunisia Morocco Spain Libya Portugal Nige ria Lao Pe ople 's De m ocratic R e public (Laos) Ne w Ze aland Ne pal C yprus Libe ria Togo Se ne gal Som alia Sie rra Le one Tanzania (Tanganyik a) Kuwait Jam aica C te d'Ivoire (Ivory C oast) Nige r Burk ina Faso (Uppe r Volta) C am e roon C e ntral African R e public C had C ongo, R e public of Be nin (Dahom e y) Gabon Mauritania Trinidad and Tobago Madagascar (Malagasy R e public) Alge ria Mali Uganda Burundi C ongo, De m ocratic R e public of the (Zare ) Guine a R wanda Ke nya
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August 8, 1957 August 26, 1957 Se pte m be r 5, 1957 Se pte m be r 20, 1957 March 7, 1958 April 14, 1958 April 25, 1958 Se pte m be r 15, 1958 Se pte m be r 17, 1958 March 29, 1961 March 30, 1961 July 5, 1961 August 31, 1961 Se pte m be r 6, 1961 De ce m be r 21, 1961 March 28, 1962 August 1, 1962 August 31, 1962 August 31, 1962 Se pte m be r 10, 1962 Se pte m be r 10, 1962 Se pte m be r 13, 1962 Fe bruary 21, 1963 March 11, 1963 April 24, 1963 May 2, 1963 July 10, 1963 July 10, 1963 July 10, 1963 July 10, 1963 July 10, 1963 Se pte m be r 10, 1963 Se pte m be r 10, 1963 Se pte m be r 16, 1963 Se pte m be r 25, 1963 Se pte m be r 26, 1963 Se pte m be r 27, 1963 Se pte m be r 27, 1963 Se pte m be r 28, 1963 Se pte m be r 28, 1963 Se pte m be r 28, 1963 Se pte m be r 30, 1963 Fe bruary 3, 1964
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Malawi Zam bia Singapore Guyana Indone sia 9 Gam bia, The Botswana Le sotho Malta Mauritius Swaziland (Ye m e n, Pe ople 's De m ocratic R e public of (Southe rn Ye m e n)) 1 0 Equatorial Guine a C am bodia (Ye m e n Arab R e public) 1 0 Barbados Fiji O m an Sam oa (W e ste rn Sam oa) Banglade sh Bahrain Q atar Unite d Arab Em irate s R om ania Baham as, The Gre nada Papua Ne w Guine a C om oros Guine a-Bissau Se yche lle s So Tom and Prncipe Maldive s Surinam e Solom on Islands C ape Ve rde Dom inica Djibouti St. Lucia St. Vince nt and the Gre nadine s Zim babwe
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July 19, 1965 Se pte m be r 23, 1965 August 3, 1966 Se pte m be r 26, 1966 Fe bruary 21, 1967 Se pte m be r 21, 1967 July 24, 1968 July 25, 1968 Se pte m be r 11, 1968 Se pte m be r 23, 1968 Se pte m be r 22, 1969

(Se pte m be r 29, 1969) De ce m be r 22, 1969 De ce m be r 31, 1969 (May 22, 1970) De ce m be r 29, 1970 May 28, 1971 De ce m be r 23, 1971 De ce m be r 28, 1971 August 17, 1972 Se pte m be r 7, 1972 Se pte m be r 8, 1972 Se pte m be r 22, 1972 De ce m be r 15, 1972 August 21, 1973 August 27, 1975 O ctobe r 9, 1975 Se pte m be r 21, 1976 March 24, 1977 June 30, 1977 Se pte m be r 30, 1977 January 13, 1978 April 27, 1978 Se pte m be r 22, 1978 Nove m be r 20, 1978 De ce m be r 12, 1978 De ce m be r 29, 1978 Nove m be r 15, 1979 De ce m be r 28, 1979 Se pte m be r 29, 1980
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Bhutan Vanuatu Antigua and Barbuda Be lize Hungary St. Kitts and Ne vis Mozam bique Tonga Kiribati Poland 1 ,6 Angola Ye m e n, R e public of 1 0 (C ze choslovak ia) 1 ,2 ,3 Bulgaria Nam ibia Mongolia Albania Lithuania Ge orgia Kyrgyz R e public (Kyrgyzstan) Latvia Marshall Islands Estonia Arm e nia Switze rland R ussian Fe de ration Be larus Kazak hstan Moldova Uk raine Aze rbaijan Uzbe k istan Turk m e nistan San Marino Bosnia and He rze govina 5 C roatia 5 Mace donia, form e r Yugoslav R e public of 5 Slove nia 5 Se rbia 5 C ze ch R e public3

Se pte m be r 28, 1981 Se pte m be r 28, 1981 Fe bruary 25, 1982 March 16, 1982 May 6, 1982 August 15, 1984 Se pte m be r 24, 1984 Se pte m be r 13, 1985 June 3, 1986 June 12, 1986 Se pte m be r 19, 1989 May 22, 1990 7 (Se pte m be r 20, 1990) Se pte m be r 25, 1990 Se pte m be r 25, 1990 Fe bruary 14, 1991 O ctobe r 15, 1991 April 29, 1992 May 5, 1992 May 8, 1992 May 19, 1992 May 21, 1992 May 26, 1992 May 28, 1992 May 29, 1992 June 1, 1992 July 10, 1992 July 15, 1992 August 12, 1992 Se pte m be r 3, 1992 Se pte m be r 18, 1992 Se pte m be r 21, 1992 Se pte m be r 22, 1992 Se pte m be r 23, 1992 De ce m be r 14, 1992 De ce m be r 14, 1992 De ce m be r 14, 1992 De ce m be r 14, 1992 De ce m be r 14, 1992 January 1, 1993 January 1, 1993

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Slovak R e public3 Tajik istan Microne sia, Fe de rate d State s of Eritre a Brune i Darussalam Palau Tim or-Le ste (East Tim or) Monte ne gro 5 Kosovo Tuvalu South Sudan April 27, 1993 June 24, 1993 July 6, 1994 O ctobe r 10, 1995 De ce m be r 16, 1997 July 23, 2002 January 18, 2007 June 29, 2009 June 24, 2010 April 18, 2012

"Original members" (Article II, Section 1), which signed the Articles of Agreement by December 31, 1945.

Costa Rica, Poland, Brazil, Uruguay, and Cuba signed the Articles by that date but their membership became effective upon deposit of their respective instruments of acceptance.
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Czechoslovakia became a member of the Fund on December 27, 1945 and ceased to be a member,

effective December 31, 1954; Czechoslovakia was readmitted as a member of the Fund on September 20, 1990, and ceased to be a member, effective January 1, 1993.
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The Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic succeeded to the membership of Czechoslovakia on The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia ceased to be a member, effective December 14, 1992. Croatia (on January 15, 1993), Slovenia (on January 15, 1993), the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia

January 1, 1993.
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(on April 21, 1993), Bosnia and Herzegovina (on December 20, 1995), and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (on December 20, 2000) succeeded to the membership in the Fund of the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, in each case, effective December 14, 1992. The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was later renamed Serbia and Montenegro. In June 2006, Serbia and Montenegro, separated to become the Republic of Serbia and the Republic of Montenegro. Serbia succeeded to the membership of Serbia and Montenegro.
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Poland became a member of the Fund on January 10, 1946 and withdrew from membership, effective Cuba withdrew from the Fund, effective April 2, 1964. Countries that joined the Fund under the provisions for original members as extended to December 31, Indonesia became a member of the Fund on April 15, 1954 and withdrew from membership, effective The Republic of Yemen succeeded to the membership of the Yemen Arab Republic and of the People's

March 14, 1950; Poland was readmitted as a member of the Fund on June 12, 1986.
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1946 by Board of Governors Resolution IM-9.

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August 17, 1965; Indonesia was readmitted as a member of the Fund on February 21, 1967.
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Democratic Republic of Yemen on May 22, 1990.

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