List of NOCs By Recognition Date
Below is a chronological list of the 204 NOCs recognized by the International Olympic Committee, since its foundation in 1894. Many of these committees were founded many years before their official recognition, while others were immediately accepted after being founded. Former states, nowadays non-existent (e.g. Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, Netherlands Antilles, etc.), are not listed, only the current states derived from them (f.i. the Czech Olympic Committee representing Bohemia was created and recognized in 1899 already, later transformed into the Czechoslovak Olympic Committee and after the split of Czechoslovakia recognized again in 1993).
| 1894 | France, United States |
| 1895 | Australia, Germany, Greece, Hungary |
| 1900 | Norway |
| 1905 | Denmark, Great Britain |
| 1906 | Belgium |
| 1907 | Canada, Finland |
| 1909 | Portugal |
| 1910 | Egypt |
| 1911 | Turkey |
| 1912 | Austria, Japan, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Serbia, Spain, Switzerland |
| 1913 | Sweden |
| 1914 | Romania |
| 1915 | Italy |
| 1919 | New Zealand, Poland |
| 1922 | Ireland |
| 1923 | Argentina, Mexico, Uruguay |
| 1924 | Bulgaria, Haiti |
| 1927 | India |
| 1929 | Philippines |
| 1934 | Chile |
| 1935 | Brazil, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Venezuela |
| 1936 | Afghanistan, Bermuda, Bolivia, Costa Rica, Jamaica, Malta, Peru |
| 1937 | Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) |
| 1947 | Guatemala, Iran, Myanmar (then Burma), Panama, Republic of Korea |
| 1948 | Colombia, Guyana (then British Guiana), Iraq, Lebanon, Pakistan, Puerto Rico, Singapore, Syria, Trinidad and Tobago |
| 1950 | Thailand |
| 1951 | Hong Kong, Nigeria |
| 1952 | Bahamas, Ghana (then Gold Coast), Indonesia, Israel |
| 1953 | Monaco |
| 1954 | Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ethiopia, Malaysia (then Malaya) |
| 1955 | Barbados, Fiji, Kenya, Liberia |
| 1956 | Honduras, Uganda |
| 1957 | North Korea, Tunisia |
| 1959 | Albania, Ecuador, Morocco, Nicaragua, San Marino, Sudan, Suriname |
| 1960 | Chinese Taipei (then Republic of China founded 1922) |
| 1962 | Benin (then Dahomey), El Salvador, Mongolia |
| 1963 | Cameroon, Côte d'Ivoire (then Ivory Coast), Jordan, Libya, Mali, Nepal, Senegal |
| 1964 | Algeria, Chad, Madagascar, Niger, Congo, Sierra Leone, Zambia |
| 1965 | Central African Republic, Guinea, Saudi Arabia, Togo |
| 1966 | Kuwait |
| 1967 | Belize (then British Honduras), Virgin Islands |
| 1968 | Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Malawi, Tanzania |
| 1970 | Paraguay |
| 1972 | Burkina Faso (then Upper Volta), Lesotho, Mauritius, Somalia, Swaziland |
| 1974 | Papua New Guinea |
| 1975 | Andorra |
| 1976 | Antigua and Barbuda, Cayman Islands, Gambia |
| 1978 | Cyprus |
| 1979 | Bahrain, Laos, Mauritania, Mozambique, People's Republic of China, Seychelles, Vietnam |
| 1980 | Angola, Bangladesh, Botswana, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Zimbabwe |
| 1981 | Yemen |
| 1982 | British Virgin Islands, Oman |
| 1983 | Bhutan, Samoa (then Western Samoa), Solomon Islands |
| 1984 | Brunei, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Grenada, Rwanda, Tonga |
| 1985 | Maldives |
| 1986 | Aruba, Cook Islands, Guam |
| 1987 | American Samoa, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Vanuatu |
| 1991 | Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Namibia, South Africa |
| 1993 | Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Burundi, Cape Verde, Comoros, Croatia, Czech Republic, Dominica, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Macedonia, Russia, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, São Tomé and Príncipe, Slovakia, Slovenia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan |
| 1994 | Nauru |
| 1995 | Cambodia, Guinea-Bissau, Palestine |
| 1997 | Federated States of Micronesia |
| 1999 | Eritrea, Palau |
| 2003 | Kiribati, Timor-Leste |
| 2006 | Marshall Islands |
| 2007 | Montenegro, Tuvalu |
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