World Bank Group - Membership

Membership

All of the 193 of the UN members and Kosovo that are WBG members participate as a minimum in the IBRD. Most of them also participate in some of the other 4 organizations: IDA, IFC, MIGA, ICSID.

WBG members by the number of organizations where they participate are the following:

1. only in IBRD: San Marino
2. IBRD and one other organization: Suriname, Tuvalu, Brunei
3. IBRD and two other organizations: Antigua and Barbuda, Sao Tome and Principe, Namibia, Bhutan, Myanmar, Qatar, Marshall Islands, Kiribati
4. IBRD and three other organizations: Canada, Mexico, Belize, Jamaica, Dominican Republic, Venezuela, Brazil, Bolivia, Uruguay, Ecuador, Dominica, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Niger, Equatorial Guinea, Angola, South Africa, Comoros, Seychelles, Libya, Somalia, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti, Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Malta, Montenegro, Bulgaria, Romania, Moldova, Poland, Russia, Lithuania, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, India, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Palau, Vanuatu, Samoa, Maldives
5. All five WBG organizations: the rest of the 127 WBG members

Non-members are:

• one Pacific island nation – Nauru,
• two communist states – Republic of Cuba, Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea
• two New Zealand dependencies – Cook Islands, Niue
• four European microstates – Principality of Andorra, Principality of Monaco, Principality of Liechtenstein, State of Vatican City
• and states with limited recognition – Republic of Abkhazia, Taiwan, State of Palestine, Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, Republic of Somaliland, Republic of South Ossetia, Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic, Nagorno-Karabakh Republic