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.