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UN Member States — Admission Table

Topic: United Nations member states and their date of admission Lane: Extract — data extraction and tables Artifact: un_member_states.csv (primary), un_member_states.json (machine-readable)

Source

• Wikipedia — "List of member states of the United Nations" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_member_states_of_the_United_Nations
• Extracted from the live page via web_extract (real fetch, no stale cache): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_member_states_of_the_United_Nations → cached raw page: /root/.hermes/profiles/ledger/cache/web/en.wikipedia.org-00a059c52c.md
• Parser: /root/.hermes/wizard-outputs/ledger/extract_un_member_states.py
• Verification (exit-code verdict): /root/.hermes/wizard-outputs/ledger/check_ledger.py

Schema

Column	Meaning
country	UN member state (official name as listed)
date_of_admission	Date of admission (e.g. 24 October 1945)
year	Calendar year of admission
is_founding_member	true when the state was admitted in 1945 (the 51 original members of the UN)

Provenance & counts

• Member states: 193 (per the page's summary line: "193 United Nations member states")
• Founding members (admitted 1945): 49 — the 51 original members of the UN, minus the 2 that were dissolved without a UN successor (Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia; members ended 1992) plus the Republic of China's seat, which continues in the table as "China" (People's Republic of China, admitted 1945). 51 − 2 = 49 ✓.
• Admission years range: 1945 (earliest) to 2011 (South Sudan, latest).

Notes

• Notes column from the source table was intentionally dropped: it is prose with variable length and embedded markup; only the two stable columns (country, date_of_admission) are material to this table extract.
• Founding-member flag derives purely from year == 1945, which is directly verifiable from the source table.