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United Nations Economic and Social Council The United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC; french: links=no, Conseil économique et social des Nations unies, ) is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations, responsible for coordinating the economic and social fields ...
has 54 member states which are elected by the
United Nations General Assembly The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA or GA; french: link=no, Assemblée générale, AG) is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations (UN), serving as the main deliberative, policymaking, and representative organ of the UN. Curr ...
for overlapping three-year terms, with terms ending on 31 December of the third year. Seats on the Council are based on
United Nations Regional Group The United Nations Regional Groups are the geopolitical regional groups of member states of the United Nations. Originally, the UN member states were unofficially organized into five groups as an informal means of sharing the distribution of posts ...
s, with fourteen seats allocated to the African Group, eleven to the Asia-Pacific Group, six to the
Eastern European Group The Group of Eastern European States (EEG) is one of the five United Nations regional groups and is composed of 23 Member States from Eastern, Central and Southern Europe. The Group, as with all the regional groups, is a non-binding dialogue ...
, ten to the Latin American and Caribbean Group, and thirteen to the
Western European and Others Group The Group of Western European and Other States, also known as the Western European and Other States Group or WEOG, is one of the five United Nations regional groups and is composed of 28 Member States mainly from Western Europe, but also fro ...
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Membership by regional group


African Group


Asia-Pacific Group


Eastern European Group


Latin American and Caribbean Group


Western European and Others Group

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Non-members

The list is a summary of all countries that have never been a member of United Nations Economic and Social Council.


See also

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United Nations Regional Groups The United Nations Regional Groups are the geopolitical regional groups of member states of the United Nations. Originally, the UN member states were unofficially organized into five groups as an informal means of sharing the distribution of post ...
*
List of United Nations member states The United Nations member states are the sovereign states that are members of the United Nations (UN) and have equal representation in the UN General Assembly. The UN is the world's largest intergovernmental organization. The criteria ...
*
List of members of the United Nations Security Council Membership of the United Nations Security Council is held by the five permanent members and ten elected, non-permanent members. Prior to 1966, there were six elected members, while the permanent members have in essence not changed since the creat ...
* List of members of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights


References


External links


Official Document System of the United Nations
– source of UN electoral records {{ECOSOC United Nations Economic and Social Council