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Membership of the United Nations Security Council is held by the five permanent members and ten elected non permanent me

List of members of the United Nations Security Council

Membership of the United Nations Security Council is held by the five permanent members and ten elected, non-permanent members.

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Map showing the members of the United Nations Security Council as of 2025, with permanent members (China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States) in blue, and non-permanent members (Algeria, Denmark, Greece, Guyana, Pakistan, Panama, the Republic of Korea, Sierra Leone, Slovenia, and Somalia) in green.

Being elected requires a two-thirds majority vote from the United Nations General Assembly. Elected members hold their place on the council for a two-year term, with five seats contested in even years and five seats contested in odd years. An outgoing member cannot be immediately re-elected.

Elections usually begin in June for a term starting January 1. Because of the two-thirds majority requirement, it is possible for two evenly matched candidates to deadlock with approximately half the vote each, sometimes needing weeks of negotiations to resolve.

Non-permanent seats are distributed geographically, with a certain number of seats allocated to each of the five United Nations Regional Groups.

Current membership

Permanent members
Country Regional Group Member since
image China Asia-Pacific Group 25 October 1971, replaced the Republic of China
image France Western European and Others Group 24 October 1945
image Russia Eastern European Group 26 December 1991, replaced the Soviet Union
image United Kingdom Western European and Others Group 24 October 1945
image United States Western European and Others Group 24 October 1945
Non-permanent members
Country Regional Group Term began Term ends
image Algeria African Group (Arab) 2024 2025
image Denmark Western European and Others Group (WEOG) 2025 2026
image Greece Western European and Others Group (WEOG) 2025 2026
image Guyana Latin American and Caribbean Group (GRULAC) 2024 2025
image Pakistan Asia-Pacific Group 2025 2026
image Panama Latin American and Caribbean Group (GRULAC) 2025 2026
image South Korea Asia-Pacific Group 2024 2025
image Sierra Leone African Group 2024 2025
image Slovenia Eastern European Group (EEG) 2024 2025
image Somalia African Group 2025 2026

Regional Groups

image
  African Group
  Asia-Pacific Group
  Eastern European Group
  Latin American and Caribbean Group (GRULAC)
  Western European and Others Group
  UN member not in any voting group
  Observer states
  Non-UN state or territory

The ten non-permanent seats have the following distribution:

  • African Group: 3 members
  • Asia-Pacific Group: 2 members
  • Eastern European Group: 1 member
  • Latin American and Caribbean Group (GRULAC): 2 members
  • Western European and Others Group (WEOG): 2 members

In addition, one of the five African/Asian seats is an Arab country, alternating between the two groups. This rule was added in 1967 for it to be applied beginning with 1968.

Electoral timetable
Term beginning in years that are: Odd Even
African Group one member two members *
Asia-Pacific Group one member one member *
Eastern European Group none one member
Latin American and Caribbean Group (GRULAC) one member one member
Western European and Others Group two members none

* The representative of Arab nations alternates between these two spaces.

The odd/even distribution was effectively decided by the January 1946 and 1965 elections (the first ever election, and the first election after the expansion of seats). For each of the six and four members in the newly created seats, the UN General Assembly voted to grant either a 1-year or 2-year term.

Previous Security Council composition

From 1946 to 1965, the Security Council had six non-permanent members. Due to a lack of African and Asian member states, the seats had the following distribution:

  • Latin America: 2 members
  • Commonwealth of Nations: 1 member
  • Eastern Europe: 1 member
  • Middle East: 1 member
  • Western Europe: 1 member

As decolonization increased the number of Asian and African member states without a group, they began to contest other seats: Ivory Coast substituted a member of the Commonwealth in 1964–1965, the Eastern European seat regularly included Asian countries from 1956, Liberia took the place of a Western European country in 1961, and Mali successfully contested the Middle Eastern seat in December 1964 (the Security Council would be expanded before Mali's term began).

An amendment to the UN Charter ratified in 1965 increased the number of non-permanent seats to 10, and the Regional Groups were formalized. The amendment effectively created three African seats and one Asian seat (if treating the Commonwealth seat as a WEOG seat and the Middle Eastern seat as an Asian seat).

Membership by year

Permanent

Year Chinese seat French seat Soviet/Russian seat British seat American seat
1945 image Republic of China image Prov. Gov. of France image Union of Soviet Socialist Republics image United Kingdom image United States
1946 image French Fourth Republic
1949 image Republic of China (Taiwan)
1958 image French Fifth Republic
1971 image China
1991–present image Russia

Non-permanent (1946–1965)

Year Latin American Seats Commonwealth Seat Eastern European
& Asian Seat 		Middle Eastern Seat Western European Seat
1946 image Brazil image Mexico image Australia image Poland image Egypt image Netherlands
1947 image Colombia image Syria image Belgium
1948 image Argentina image Canada image Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic
1949 image Cuba image Egypt image Norway
1950 image Ecuador image India image Yugoslavia
1951 image Brazil image Turkey image Netherlands
1952 image Chile image Pakistan image Greece
1953 image Colombia image Lebanon image Denmark
1954 image Brazil image New Zealand image Turkey
1955 image Peru image Iran image Belgium
1956 image Cuba image Australia image Yugoslavia
1957 image Colombia image Philippines image Iraq image Sweden
1958 image Panama image Canada image Japan
1959 image Argentina image Tunisia image Italy
1960 image Ecuador image Ceylon image Poland
1961 image Chile image Turkey image United Arab Republic image Liberia
1962 image Venezuela image Ghana image Romania image Ireland
1963 image Brazil image Philippines image Morocco image Norway
1964 image Bolivia image Ivory Coast image Czechoslovakia
1965 image Uruguay image Malaysia image Jordan image Netherlands

Non-permanent (1966–present)

The African Union uses an internal rotation system to distribute seats based on its subregions:

  • 1 odd-year seat alternates between Eastern Africa and Southern Africa (only Eastern Africa prior to the creation of the Southern Africa subregion in 1979)
  • 1 even-year seat is allocated to Western Africa
  • 1 even-year seat alternates between Northern Africa (the Arab nation seat) and Central Africa (with one exception at the beginning in 1966)

Aside from the Asia-Pacific Group also allocating an Arab nation seat every four years (in even years not divisible by 4), other regional groups do not have their own subregional rotation systems. The Arab nation seat is starred below.

The Western European and Others Group in part contains three caucusing subgroups (Benelux, the Nordic countries, and CANZ), whose candidates informally coordinate with each other. While this has not resulted in a stable rotation system, it effectively guarantees that both seats will never be occupied by a single subgroup at the same time.

Year African Group Asia-Pacific Group Latin American and Caribbean Group (GRULAC) Western European and Others Group Eastern European Group
Eastern/Southern Western Northern/Central
1966 image Uganda image Mali image Nigeria image Japan image Jordan* image Argentina image Uruguay image Netherlands image New Zealand image Bulgaria
1967 image Ethiopia image India image Brazil image Canada image Denmark
1968 image Senegal image Algeria* image Pakistan image Paraguay image Hungary
1969 image Zambia image Nepal image Colombia image Finland image Spain
1970 image Sierra Leone image Burundi image Syria* image Nicaragua image Poland
1971 image Somalia image Japan image Argentina image Belgium image Italy
1972 image Guinea image Sudan* image India image Panama image Yugoslavia
1973 image Kenya image Indonesia image Peru image Australia image Austria
1974 image Mauritania image Cameroon image Iraq* image Costa Rica image Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic
1975 image Tanzania image Japan image Guyana image Italy image Sweden
1976 image Benin image Libya* image Pakistan image Panama image Romania
1977 image Mauritius image India image Venezuela image Canada image West Germany
1978 image Nigeria image Gabon image Kuwait* image Bolivia image Czechoslovakia
1979 image Zambia image Bangladesh image Jamaica image Norway image Portugal
1980 image Niger image Tunisia* image Philippines image Mexico image East Germany
1981 image Uganda image Japan image Panama image Ireland image Spain
1982 image Togo image Zaire image Jordan* image Guyana image Poland
1983 image Zimbabwe image Pakistan image Nicaragua image Malta image Netherlands
1984 image Burkina Faso image Egypt* image India image Peru image Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic
1985 image Madagascar image Thailand image Trinidad and Tobago image Australia image Denmark
1986 image Ghana image Congo image United Arab Emirates* image Venezuela image Bulgaria
1987 image Zambia image Japan image Argentina image West Germany image Italy
1988 image Senegal image Algeria* image Nepal image Brazil image Yugoslavia
1989 image Ethiopia image Malaysia image Colombia image Canada image Finland
1990 image Ivory Coast image Zaire image Yemen* image Cuba image Romania
1991 image Zimbabwe image India image Ecuador image Austria image Belgium
1992 image Cape Verde image Morocco* image Japan image Venezuela image Hungary
1993 image Djibouti image Pakistan image Brazil image New Zealand image Spain
1994 image Nigeria image Rwanda image Oman* image Argentina image Czech Republic
1995 image Botswana image Indonesia image Honduras image Germany image Italy
1996 image Guinea-Bissau image Egypt* image South Korea image Chile image Poland
1997 image Kenya image Japan image Costa Rica image Portugal image Sweden
1998 image The Gambia image Gabon image Bahrain* image Brazil image Slovenia
1999 image Namibia image Malaysia image Argentina image Canada image Netherlands
2000 image Mali image Tunisia* image Bangladesh image Jamaica image Ukraine
2001 image Mauritius image Singapore image Colombia image Ireland image Norway
2002 image Guinea image Cameroon image Syria* image Mexico image Bulgaria
2003 image Angola image Pakistan image Chile image Germany image Spain
2004 image Benin image Algeria* image Philippines image Brazil image Romania
2005 image Tanzania image Japan image Argentina image Denmark image Greece
2006 image Ghana image Congo image Qatar* image Peru image Slovakia
2007 image South Africa image Indonesia image Panama image Belgium image Italy
2008 image Burkina Faso image Libya* image Vietnam image Costa Rica image Croatia
2009 image Uganda image Japan image Mexico image Austria image Turkey
2010 image Nigeria image Gabon image Lebanon* image Brazil image Bosnia and Herzegovina
2011 image South Africa image India image Colombia image Germany image Portugal
2012 image Togo image Morocco* image Pakistan image Guatemala image Azerbaijan
2013 image Rwanda image South Korea image Argentina image Australia image Luxembourg
2014 image Nigeria image Chad image Jordan* image Chile image Lithuania
2015 image Angola image Malaysia image Venezuela image New Zealand image Spain
2016 image Senegal image Egypt* image Japan image Uruguay image Ukraine
2017 image Ethiopia image Kazakhstan image Bolivia image Italy image Sweden
2018 image Ivory Coast image Equatorial Guinea image Kuwait* image Peru image Netherlands image Poland
2019 image South Africa image Indonesia image Dominican Republic image Belgium image Germany
2020 image Niger image Tunisia* image Vietnam image Saint Vincent and the Grenadines image Estonia
2021 image Kenya image India image Mexico image Ireland image Norway
2022 image Ghana image Gabon image United Arab Emirates* image Brazil image Albania
2023 image Mozambique image Japan image Ecuador image Malta image  Switzerland
2024 image Sierra Leone image Algeria* image South Korea image Guyana image Slovenia
2025 image Somalia image Pakistan image Panama image Denmark image Greece

List by number of years as Security Council member

This list contains the 138 United Nations member states so far elected to the United Nations Security Council, including the five permanent members, all listed by number of years each country has so far spent on the UNSC. Of all the members, 6 have so far ceased to exist, leaving the list with 132 modern nations. These, combined with the 61 modern nations that have never been elected to the UNSC to date (see Non-members, below), make up the 193 current members of the UN.

Years on the Security Council, as of 2025, including current year where relevant :

  Indicates permanent member
  Indicates current elected member (2025)
  Indicates former United Nations member
Years Country First Year Most Recent Year Regional Group Notes
80 image France 1945 2025 WEOG Permanent member
80 image United Kingdom 1945 2025 WEOG Permanent member
80 image United States 1945 2025 WEOG Permanent member
54 image China 1971 2025 Asia-Pacific Permanent member
46 image Union of Soviet Socialist Republics 1945 1991 E. European Former permanent member, replaced by the Russian Federation
34 image Russia 1991 2025 E. European Permanent member
26 image Republic of China 1945 1971 Asian Former permanent member, replaced by the People's Republic of China
24 image Japan 1958 2024 Asia-Pacific
22 image Brazil 1946 2023 GRULAC
18 image Argentina 1948 2014 GRULAC
16 image India 1950 2022 Asia-Pacific
15 image Pakistan 1952 2025 Asia-Pacific
14 image Colombia 1947 2012 GRULAC
13 image Italy 1959 2017 WEOG
12 image Belgium 1947 2020 WEOG
12 image Canada 1948 2000 WEOG
12 image Germany 1977 2020 WEOG Includes 4 years when the Federal Republic of Germany consisted only of West Germany (but does not include East Germany's 2 years, listed separately below).
11 image Panama 1958 2025 GRULAC
11 image Poland 1946 2019 E. European
10 image Australia 1946 2014 WEOG
10 image Chile 1952 2015 GRULAC
10 image Netherlands 1946 2018 WEOG
10 image Nigeria 1966 2015 African
10 image Norway 1949 2022 WEOG
10 image Peru 1955 2019 GRULAC
10 image Spain 1969 2016 WEOG
10 image Venezuela 1962 2016 GRULAC
9 image Denmark 1953 2025 WEOG
9 image Egypt 1946 2017 African (Arab) Excludes 2 years with the seat held in the name of the United Arab Republic, of which for more than 15 months UAR served as the name of modern-day Egypt
9 image Mexico 1946 2022 GRULAC
8 image Algeria 1968 2025 African (Arab)
8 image Ecuador 1950 2024 GRULAC
8 image Gabon 1978 2023 African
8 image Ghana 1962 2023 African
8 image Indonesia 1973 2020 Asia-Pacific
8 image Sweden 1957 2018 WEOG
8 image Ukraine 1948 2017 E. European Includes 4 years of membership under the name of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic; the Ukrainian SSR held its own seat in the General Assembly while being part of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics during its 46 years of Security Council membership
8 image Tunisia 1959 2021 African (Arab)
7 image Ireland 1962 2022 WEOG
7 image Malaysia 1965 2016 Asia-Pacific
7 image New Zealand 1954 2016 WEOG
7 image Romania 1962 2005 E. European
7 image Turkey 1951 2010 WEOG
7 image Yugoslavia 1950 1989 E. European Predecessor of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Slovenia
6 image Austria 1973 2010 WEOG
6 image Bulgaria 1966 2003 E. European
6 image Costa Rica 1974 2009 GRULAC
6 image Ivory Coast 1964 2019 African
6 image Cuba 1949 1991 GRULAC
6 image Ethiopia 1967 2018 African
6 image Guyana 1975 2025 GRULAC
6 image Jordan 1965 2015 Asia-Pacific (Arab)
6 image Kenya 1973 2022 African
6 image South Korea 1996 2025 Asia-Pacific
6 image Morocco 1963 2013 African (Arab)
6 image Philippines 1957 2005 Asia-Pacific
6 image Portugal 1979 2012 WEOG
6 image Bolivia 1964 2018 GRULAC
6 image Senegal 1968 2017 African
6 image South Africa 2007 2020 African
6 image Syria 1947 2003 Asia-Pacific (Arab) Excludes one year (1961) during which the United Arab Republic was a member, for the greater part of which Syria was a member of that union
6 image Zambia 1969 1988 African
5 image Greece 1952 2025 WEOG
5 image Uganda 1966 2010 African
4 image Angola 2003 2016 African
4 image Bangladesh 1979 2001 Asia-Pacific
4 image Benin 1976 2005 African
4 image Burkina Faso 1984 2009 African For the first 7 months of membership of the Security Council in 1984 was known as Upper Volta.
4 image Cameroon 1974 2003 African
4 image Congo 1986 2007 African
4 image Finland 1969 1990 WEOG
4 image Guinea 1972 2003 African
4 image Hungary 1968 1993 E. European
4 image Iraq 1957 1975 Asia-Pacific (Arab)
4 image Jamaica 1979 2001 GRULAC
4 image Kuwait 1978 2019 Asia-Pacific (Arab)
4 image Lebanon 1953 2011 Asia-Pacific (Arab)
4 image Libya 1976 2009 African (Arab)
4 image Mali 1966 2001 African
4 image Malta 1983 2024 WEOG
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Membership of the United Nations Security Council is held by the five permanent members and ten elected non permanent members Map showing the members of the United Nations Security Council as of 2025 update with permanent members China France Russia the United Kingdom and the United States in blue and non permanent members Algeria Denmark Greece Guyana Pakistan Panama the Republic of Korea Sierra Leone Slovenia and Somalia in green Being elected requires a two thirds majority vote from the United Nations General Assembly Elected members hold their place on the council for a two year term with five seats contested in even years and five seats contested in odd years An outgoing member cannot be immediately re elected Elections usually begin in June for a term starting January 1 Because of the two thirds majority requirement it is possible for two evenly matched candidates to deadlock with approximately half the vote each sometimes needing weeks of negotiations to resolve Non permanent seats are distributed geographically with a certain number of seats allocated to each of the five United Nations Regional Groups Current membershipPermanent members Country Regional Group Member since China Asia Pacific Group 25 October 1971 replaced the Republic of China France Western European and Others Group 24 October 1945 Russia Eastern European Group 26 December 1991 replaced the Soviet Union United Kingdom Western European and Others Group 24 October 1945 United States Western European and Others Group 24 October 1945 Non permanent members Country Regional Group Term began Term ends Algeria African Group Arab 2024 2025 Denmark Western European and Others Group WEOG 2025 2026 Greece Western European and Others Group WEOG 2025 2026 Guyana Latin American and Caribbean Group GRULAC 2024 2025 Pakistan Asia Pacific Group 2025 2026 Panama Latin American and Caribbean Group GRULAC 2025 2026 South Korea Asia Pacific Group 2024 2025 Sierra Leone African Group 2024 2025 Slovenia Eastern European Group EEG 2024 2025 Somalia African Group 2025 2026Regional Groups African Group Asia Pacific Group Eastern European Group Latin American and Caribbean Group GRULAC Western European and Others Group UN member not in any voting group Observer states Non UN state or territory The ten non permanent seats have the following distribution African Group 3 members Asia Pacific Group 2 members Eastern European Group 1 member Latin American and Caribbean Group GRULAC 2 members Western European and Others Group WEOG 2 members In addition one of the five African Asian seats is an Arab country alternating between the two groups This rule was added in 1967 for it to be applied beginning with 1968 Electoral timetable Term beginning in years that are Odd Even African Group one member two members Asia Pacific Group one member one member Eastern European Group none one member Latin American and Caribbean Group GRULAC one member one member Western European and Others Group two members none The representative of Arab nations alternates between these two spaces The odd even distribution was effectively decided by the January 1946 and 1965 elections the first ever election and the first election after the expansion of seats For each of the six and four members in the newly created seats the UN General Assembly voted to grant either a 1 year or 2 year term Previous Security Council compositionFrom 1946 to 1965 the Security Council had six non permanent members Due to a lack of African and Asian member states the seats had the following distribution Latin America 2 members Commonwealth of Nations 1 member Eastern Europe 1 member Middle East 1 member Western Europe 1 member As decolonization increased the number of Asian and African member states without a group they began to contest other seats Ivory Coast substituted a member of the Commonwealth in 1964 1965 the Eastern European seat regularly included Asian countries from 1956 Liberia took the place of a Western European country in 1961 and Mali successfully contested the Middle Eastern seat in December 1964 the Security Council would be expanded before Mali s term began An amendment to the UN Charter ratified in 1965 increased the number of non permanent seats to 10 and the Regional Groups were formalized The amendment effectively created three African seats and one Asian seat if treating the Commonwealth seat as a WEOG seat and the Middle Eastern seat as an Asian seat Membership by yearPermanent Year Chinese seat French seat Soviet Russian seat British seat American seat 1945 Republic of China Prov Gov of France Union of Soviet Socialist Republics United Kingdom United States 1946 French Fourth Republic 1949 Republic of China Taiwan 1958 French Fifth Republic 1971 China 1991 present Russia Non permanent 1946 1965 Year Latin American Seats Commonwealth Seat Eastern European amp Asian Seat Middle Eastern Seat Western European Seat 1946 Brazil Mexico Australia Poland Egypt Netherlands 1947 Colombia Syria Belgium 1948 Argentina Canada Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic 1949 Cuba Egypt Norway 1950 Ecuador India Yugoslavia 1951 Brazil Turkey Netherlands 1952 Chile Pakistan Greece 1953 Colombia Lebanon Denmark 1954 Brazil New Zealand Turkey 1955 Peru Iran Belgium 1956 Cuba Australia Yugoslavia 1957 Colombia Philippines Iraq Sweden 1958 Panama Canada Japan 1959 Argentina Tunisia Italy 1960 Ecuador Ceylon Poland 1961 Chile Turkey United Arab Republic Liberia 1962 Venezuela Ghana Romania Ireland 1963 Brazil Philippines Morocco Norway 1964 Bolivia Ivory Coast Czechoslovakia 1965 Uruguay Malaysia Jordan Netherlands Non permanent 1966 present The African Union uses an internal rotation system to distribute seats based on its subregions 1 odd year seat alternates between Eastern Africa and Southern Africa only Eastern Africa prior to the creation of the Southern Africa subregion in 1979 1 even year seat is allocated to Western Africa 1 even year seat alternates between Northern Africa the Arab nation seat and Central Africa with one exception at the beginning in 1966 Aside from the Asia Pacific Group also allocating an Arab nation seat every four years in even years not divisible by 4 other regional groups do not have their own subregional rotation systems The Arab nation seat is starred below The Western European and Others Group in part contains three caucusing subgroups Benelux the Nordic countries and CANZ whose candidates informally coordinate with each other While this has not resulted in a stable rotation system it effectively guarantees that both seats will never be occupied by a single subgroup at the same time Year African Group Asia Pacific Group Latin American and Caribbean Group GRULAC Western European and Others Group Eastern European Group Eastern Southern Western Northern Central 1966 Uganda Mali Nigeria Japan Jordan Argentina Uruguay Netherlands New Zealand Bulgaria 1967 Ethiopia India Brazil Canada Denmark 1968 Senegal Algeria Pakistan Paraguay Hungary 1969 Zambia Nepal Colombia Finland Spain 1970 Sierra Leone Burundi Syria Nicaragua Poland 1971 Somalia Japan Argentina Belgium Italy 1972 Guinea Sudan India Panama Yugoslavia 1973 Kenya Indonesia Peru Australia Austria 1974 Mauritania Cameroon Iraq Costa Rica Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic 1975 Tanzania Japan Guyana Italy Sweden 1976 Benin Libya Pakistan Panama Romania 1977 Mauritius India Venezuela Canada West Germany 1978 Nigeria Gabon Kuwait Bolivia Czechoslovakia 1979 Zambia Bangladesh Jamaica Norway Portugal 1980 Niger Tunisia Philippines Mexico East Germany 1981 Uganda Japan Panama Ireland Spain 1982 Togo Zaire Jordan Guyana Poland 1983 Zimbabwe Pakistan Nicaragua Malta Netherlands 1984 Burkina Faso Egypt India Peru Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic 1985 Madagascar Thailand Trinidad and Tobago Australia Denmark 1986 Ghana Congo United Arab Emirates Venezuela Bulgaria 1987 Zambia Japan Argentina West Germany Italy 1988 Senegal Algeria Nepal Brazil Yugoslavia 1989 Ethiopia Malaysia Colombia Canada Finland 1990 Ivory Coast Zaire Yemen Cuba Romania 1991 Zimbabwe India Ecuador Austria Belgium 1992 Cape Verde Morocco Japan Venezuela Hungary 1993 Djibouti Pakistan Brazil New Zealand Spain 1994 Nigeria Rwanda Oman Argentina Czech Republic 1995 Botswana Indonesia Honduras Germany Italy 1996 Guinea Bissau Egypt South Korea Chile Poland 1997 Kenya Japan Costa Rica Portugal Sweden 1998 The Gambia Gabon Bahrain Brazil Slovenia 1999 Namibia Malaysia Argentina Canada Netherlands 2000 Mali Tunisia Bangladesh Jamaica Ukraine 2001 Mauritius Singapore Colombia Ireland Norway 2002 Guinea Cameroon Syria Mexico Bulgaria 2003 Angola Pakistan Chile Germany Spain 2004 Benin Algeria Philippines Brazil Romania 2005 Tanzania Japan Argentina Denmark Greece 2006 Ghana Congo Qatar Peru Slovakia 2007 South Africa Indonesia Panama Belgium Italy 2008 Burkina Faso Libya Vietnam Costa Rica Croatia 2009 Uganda Japan Mexico Austria Turkey 2010 Nigeria Gabon Lebanon Brazil Bosnia and Herzegovina 2011 South Africa India Colombia Germany Portugal 2012 Togo Morocco Pakistan Guatemala Azerbaijan 2013 Rwanda South Korea Argentina Australia Luxembourg 2014 Nigeria Chad Jordan Chile Lithuania 2015 Angola Malaysia Venezuela New Zealand Spain 2016 Senegal Egypt Japan Uruguay Ukraine 2017 Ethiopia Kazakhstan Bolivia Italy Sweden 2018 Ivory Coast Equatorial Guinea Kuwait Peru Netherlands Poland 2019 South Africa Indonesia Dominican Republic Belgium Germany 2020 Niger Tunisia Vietnam Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Estonia 2021 Kenya India Mexico Ireland Norway 2022 Ghana Gabon United Arab Emirates Brazil Albania 2023 Mozambique Japan Ecuador Malta Switzerland 2024 Sierra Leone Algeria South Korea Guyana Slovenia 2025 Somalia Pakistan Panama Denmark GreeceList by number of years as Security Council memberThis list contains the 138 United Nations member states so far elected to the United Nations Security Council including the five permanent members all listed by number of years each country has so far spent on the UNSC Of all the members 6 have so far ceased to exist leaving the list with 132 modern nations These combined with the 61 modern nations that have never been elected to the UNSC to date see Non members below make up the 193 current members of the UN Years on the Security Council as of 2025 update including current year where relevant Indicates permanent member Indicates current elected member 2025 Indicates former United Nations member Years Country First Year Most Recent Year Regional Group Notes 80 France 1945 2025 WEOG Permanent member 80 United Kingdom 1945 2025 WEOG Permanent member 80 United States 1945 2025 WEOG Permanent member 54 China 1971 2025 Asia Pacific Permanent member 46 Union of Soviet Socialist Republics 1945 1991 E European Former permanent member replaced by the Russian Federation 34 Russia 1991 2025 E European Permanent member 26 Republic of China 1945 1971 Asian Former permanent member replaced by the People s Republic of China 24 Japan 1958 2024 Asia Pacific 22 Brazil 1946 2023 GRULAC 18 Argentina 1948 2014 GRULAC 16 India 1950 2022 Asia Pacific 15 Pakistan 1952 2025 Asia Pacific 14 Colombia 1947 2012 GRULAC 13 Italy 1959 2017 WEOG 12 Belgium 1947 2020 WEOG 12 Canada 1948 2000 WEOG 12 Germany 1977 2020 WEOG Includes 4 years when the Federal Republic of Germany consisted only of West Germany but does not include East Germany s 2 years listed separately below 11 Panama 1958 2025 GRULAC 11 Poland 1946 2019 E European 10 Australia 1946 2014 WEOG 10 Chile 1952 2015 GRULAC 10 Netherlands 1946 2018 WEOG 10 Nigeria 1966 2015 African 10 Norway 1949 2022 WEOG 10 Peru 1955 2019 GRULAC 10 Spain 1969 2016 WEOG 10 Venezuela 1962 2016 GRULAC 9 Denmark 1953 2025 WEOG 9 Egypt 1946 2017 African Arab Excludes 2 years with the seat held in the name of the United Arab Republic of which for more than 15 months UAR served as the name of modern day Egypt 9 Mexico 1946 2022 GRULAC 8 Algeria 1968 2025 African Arab 8 Ecuador 1950 2024 GRULAC 8 Gabon 1978 2023 African 8 Ghana 1962 2023 African 8 Indonesia 1973 2020 Asia Pacific 8 Sweden 1957 2018 WEOG 8 Ukraine 1948 2017 E European Includes 4 years of membership under the name of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic the Ukrainian SSR held its own seat in the General Assembly while being part of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics during its 46 years of Security Council membership 8 Tunisia 1959 2021 African Arab 7 Ireland 1962 2022 WEOG 7 Malaysia 1965 2016 Asia Pacific 7 New Zealand 1954 2016 WEOG 7 Romania 1962 2005 E European 7 Turkey 1951 2010 WEOG 7 Yugoslavia 1950 1989 E European Predecessor of Bosnia and Herzegovina Croatia Montenegro North Macedonia Serbia and Slovenia 6 Austria 1973 2010 WEOG 6 Bulgaria 1966 2003 E European 6 Costa Rica 1974 2009 GRULAC 6 Ivory Coast 1964 2019 African 6 Cuba 1949 1991 GRULAC 6 Ethiopia 1967 2018 African 6 Guyana 1975 2025 GRULAC 6 Jordan 1965 2015 Asia Pacific Arab 6 Kenya 1973 2022 African 6 South Korea 1996 2025 Asia Pacific 6 Morocco 1963 2013 African Arab 6 Philippines 1957 2005 Asia Pacific 6 Portugal 1979 2012 WEOG 6 Bolivia 1964 2018 GRULAC 6 Senegal 1968 2017 African 6 South Africa 2007 2020 African 6 Syria 1947 2003 Asia Pacific Arab Excludes one year 1961 during which the United Arab Republic was a member for the greater part of which Syria was a member of that union 6 Zambia 1969 1988 African 5 Greece 1952 2025 WEOG 5 Uganda 1966 2010 African 4 Angola 2003 2016 African 4 Bangladesh 1979 2001 Asia Pacific 4 Benin 1976 2005 African 4 Burkina Faso 1984 2009 African For the first 7 months of membership of the Security Council in 1984 was known as Upper Volta 4 Cameroon 1974 2003 African 4 Congo 1986 2007 African 4 Finland 1969 1990 WEOG 4 Guinea 1972 2003 African 4 Hungary 1968 1993 E European 4 Iraq 1957 1975 Asia Pacific Arab 4 Jamaica 1979 2001 GRULAC 4 Kuwait 1978 2019 Asia Pacific Arab 4 Lebanon 1953 2011 Asia Pacific Arab 4 Libya 1976 2009 African Arab 4 Mali 1966 2001 African 4 Malta 1983 2024 WEOG 4 img

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