Editing UN Trade and Development (section)

==Membership==
[[File:UNCTAD map.png|thumb|right|334px|{{legend|#00FF00|UNCTAD Members}} {{legend|#008000|UNCTAD Members at the Trade and Development Board}}]]
[[File:UNCTAD List ABCD map 2021.png|alt=UNCTAD List ABCD|thumb|334x334px|{{legend|#E1575A|Members, List A}} {{legend|#4F79A7|Members, List B}} {{legend|#77B7B2|Members, List C}} {{legend|#F28E2C|Members, List D}} {{legend|#DDDDDD|Members, to be assigned}}]]
UNCTAD has 195 member states:<ref name="UNCTAD Members">{{cite web|url=https://unctad.org/meetings/en/SessionalDocuments/tdbinf241_en.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/https://unctad.org/meetings/en/SessionalDocuments/tdbinf241_en.pdf |archive-date=9 October 2022 |url-status=live|title=Membership of UNCTAD and membership of the Trade and Development Board|publisher=unctad.org}}</ref> all [[Member states of the United Nations|UN members]] plus UN Observer states, the [[Holy See]] and [[Palestine]]. UNCTAD members are divided into four categories based on [[United Nations Regional Groups]],<ref name="UNCTAD Members"/> with six members unassigned: Kiribati, Nauru, South Sudan, Tajikistan, Tuvalu. List A consists mostly of countries in the UN's [[African Group]] and [[Group of Asia and the Pacific Small Island Developing States|Asia-Pacific Group]]. List B consists of countries of the [[Western European and Others Group]]. List C consists of countries of the [[Latin American and Caribbean Group|Group of Latin American and Caribbean States]] (GRULAC). List D consists of countries of the [[Eastern European Group]].

The lists, originally defined in 19th General Assembly resolution 1995<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://undocs.org/A/RES/1995(XIX)|title=A/RES/1995(XIX) - E - A/RES/1995(XIX) -Desktop|website=undocs.org}}</ref> serve to balance geographical distribution of member states' representation on the Trade Development Board and other UNCTAD structures. The lists are similar to those of [[United Nations Industrial Development Organization#Membership|UNIDO]], a UN [[specialized agency]].

The full list is as follows:
:'''List A''' (100 members): Afghanistan, Algeria, Angola, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Benin, Bhutan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brunei Darussalam, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, China, Comoros, Côte d'Ivoire, Republic of Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Djibouti, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Fiji, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kenya, Kuwait, Laos, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Mauritius, Micronesia, Mongolia, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, Niger, Nigeria, North Korea, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine,<ref>{{citation|title=Palestinians join 2 UN agencies, chemical weapons pact|newspaper=Ynetnews|date=24 May 2018|url=https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5269489,00.html}}</ref> Palau, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Qatar, Rwanda, Samoa, Sao Tome and Principe, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Syria, Tanzania, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Togo, Tonga, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, Vanuatu, Viet Nam, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

:'''List B''' (32 members): Andorra, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Holy See, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Malta, Monaco, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, San Marino, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States.

:'''List C''' (33 members): Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay, Venezuela.

:'''List D''' (24 members): Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Montenegro, Poland, Moldova, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Macedonia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan.

:'''Not assigned countries''' (6 members): Kiribati, Nauru, South Sudan, Tajikistan, Tuvalu.<!--only five there-->

Other states that do not participate are [[Cook Islands]], [[Niue]], and the [[List of states with limited recognition|states with limited recognition]].