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ECOSOC MEMBERS

The Council's 54 member Governments are elected by the General Assembly for overlapping three-year terms. Seats on the Council are allotted based on geographical representation with fourteen allocated to African States, eleven to Asian States, six to Eastern European States, ten to Latin American and Caribbean States, and thirteen to Western European and other States.

Full list of members of the Economic and Social Council for 2016 and the expiration date of membership

Countries Term expires on 31 December
Afghanistan 2018
Algeria 2018
Antigua and Barbuda 2016
Argentina 2017
Australia 2018
Bangladesh 2016
Belgium 2018
Botswana 2016
Brazil 2017
Burkina Faso 2017
Chile 2018
China 2016
Congo 2016
Czech Republic 2018
Democratic Republic of the Congo 2016
Estonia 2017
Finland 2016
France 2017
Georgia 2016
Germany 2017
Ghana 2017
Greece 2017
Guatemala 2016
Guyana 2018
Honduras 2017
India 2017
Iraq 2018
Ireland 2017
Italy 2018
Japan 2017
Kazakhstan 2016
Lebanon 2018
Mauritania 2017
Nigeria 2018
Pakistan 2017
Panama 2016
Peru 2018
Portugal 2017
Republic of Korea 2016
Republic of Moldova 2018
Russian Federation 2016
Rwanda 2018
Serbia 2016
Somalia 2018
South Africa 2018
Sweden 2016
Switzerland 2016
Togo 2016
Trinidad and Tobago 2017
Uganda 2017
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 2016
United States of America 2018
Viet Nam 2018
Zimbabwe 2017

FROM GLOBAL COMMITMENT TO NATIONAL IMPLEMENTATION