List of Members of the Commonwealth of Nations

This map shows current member of the Commonwealth of Nations by their dates of Joined. The Commonwealth of Nations, normally referred to as the Commonwealth and previously as the British Commonwealth is a voluntary association of 54 countries that support each other and work together towards shared goals in democracy and development.

How does a country become a Member of the Commonwealth of Nations?

All member states, except for Mozambique, have experienced direct or indirect British rule or been linked administratively to another Commonwealth country. At the 1997 summit in Edinburgh, Heads of Government considered the criteria for Commonwealth membership and agreed that in order to become a member of the Commonwealth, an applicant country should, as a rule, have had a constitutional association with an existing Commonwealth member state; that it should comply with Commonwealth values, principles and priorities as set out in the Harare Commonwealth Declaration of 1991; and that it should accept Commonwealth norms and conventions.