Chronology
| Edition | Year | Host | Participants | Countries | Motto |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | 1947 | Prague, Czechoslovakia | 17,000 | 71 | "Youth Unite, Forward for Lasting Peace!" |
| 2nd | 1949 | Budapest, Hungary | 20,000 | 82 | "Youth Unite, Forward for Lasting Peace, Democracy, National Independence and a better future for the people" |
| 3rd | 1951 | East Berlin, East Germany | 26,000 | 104 | "For Peace and Friendship – Against Nuclear Weapons" |
| 4th | 1953 | Bucharest, Romania | 30,000 | 111 | "No! Our generation will not serve death and destruction!." |
| 5th | 1955 | Warsaw, Poland | 30,000 | 114 | "For Peace and Friendship – Against the Aggressive Imperialist Pacts" |
| 6th | 1957 | Moscow, Soviet Union | 34,000 | 131 | "For Peace and Friendship" |
| 7th | 1959 | Vienna, Austria | 18,000 | 112 | "For Peace and Friendship and Peaceful Coexistence" |
| 8th | 1962 | Helsinki, Finland | 18,000 | 137 | "For Peace and Friendship" |
| 9th | 1968 | Sofia, Bulgaria | 20,000 | 138 | "For Solidarity, Peace and Friendship" |
| 10th | 1973 | East Berlin, East Germany | 25,600 | 140 | "For Anti-Imperialist Solidarity, Peace and Friendship" |
| 11th | 1978 | Havana, Cuba | 18,500 | 145 | "For Anti-Imperialist Solidarity, Peace and Friendship" |
| 12th | 1985 | Moscow, Soviet Union | 26,000 | 157 | "For Anti-Imperialist Solidarity, Peace and Friendship" |
| 13th | 1989 | Pyongyang, North Korea | 22,000 | 177 | "For Anti-Imperialist Solidarity, Peace and Friendship" |
| 14th | 1997 | Havana, Cuba | 12,325 | 136 | "For Anti-Imperialist Solidarity, Peace and Friendship" |
| 15th | 2001 | Algiers, Algeria | 6,500 | 110 | "Let’s Globalize the Struggle For Peace, Solidarity, Development, Against Imperialism" |
| 16th | 2005 | Caracas, Venezuela | 17,000 | 144 | "For Peace and Solidarity, We Struggle Against Imperialism and War" |
| 17th | 2010 | Pretoria, South Africa | 15,000 | 126 | "Let's Defeat Imperialism, for a World of Peace, Solidarity and Social Transformation!" |
| 18th | TBD | TBD | TBD |
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