42 lines
2.1 KiB
Markdown
42 lines
2.1 KiB
Markdown
# 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.
|