310/11–552
Document Prepared in the Division of International Administration1
[Washington, November 18, 1952.]
Member Contributions to the United Nations and Member Populations
United Nations (UN)
Regular 1952 Budget
$48,096,780
| Country | Member | Assessments | Population† |
| % | $42,940,000* | ||
| Afghanistan | .08 | 34,352 | Between 11 and 12 million |
| Argentina | 1.62 | 695,628 | 15,893,827 |
| Australia | 1.77 | 760,038 | 8,431,391 |
| Belgium | 1.35 | 579,690 | 8,653,653 |
| Bolivia | .06 | 25,764 | 3,019,031 |
| Brazil | 1.62 | 695,628 | 52,645,479 |
| Burma | .15 | 64,410 | Estimated 17 million |
| Byelorussian S.S.R. | .34 | 145,996 | 10,400,000 |
| Canada | 3.35 | 1,438,490 | 14,009,429 |
| Chile | .35 | 150,290 | 5,866,189 |
| China | 5.75 | 2,469,050 | 452,548,000 |
| Colombia | .37 | 158,878 | 11,259,700 (Est.) |
| Costa Rica | .04 | 17,176 | 8,77288 (Est.) |
| Cuba | .33 | 141,702 | 4,778,583 |
| Czechoslovakia | 1.05 | 450,870 | 12,513,000 |
| Denmark | .79 | 339,226 | 4,281,275 |
| Dominican Republic | .05 | 21,470 | 2,121,083 |
| Ecuador | .05 | 21,470 | 3,200,000 |
| Egypt | .60 | 257,640 | 19,087,304 |
| El Salvador | .05 | 21,470 | 1,187,136 |
| Ethiopia | .10 | 42,940 | 8 million to 10 million |
| France | 5.75 | 2,469,050 | 42,400,000 (Est.) |
| Greece | .18 | 77,292 | 7,603,599 |
| Guatemala | .06 | 25,764 | 2,787,030 |
| Haiti | .04 | 17,176 | 3,111,973 |
| Honduras | .04 | 17,176 | 1,533,625 |
| Iceland | .04 | 17,176 | 144,293 |
| India | 3.53 | 1,515,782 | 356,891,624 |
| Indonesia | .60 | 257,640 | 78,000,000 (Est.) |
| Iran | .40 | 171,760 | Between 14 and 16 million |
| Iraq | .14 | 60,116 | 4,799,500 |
| Israel | .17 | 72,998 | 1,535,000 |
| Lebanon | .06 | 25,764 | 1,246,580 |
| Liberia | .04 | 17,176 | Over 1½ millions |
| Luxembourg | .05 | 21,470 | 298,578 |
| Mexico | .65 | 279,110 | 25,581,250 |
| Netherlands | 1.27 | 545,338 | 10,200,280 |
| New Zealand | .50 | 214,700 | 1,939,472 |
| Nicaragua | .04 | 17,176 | 1,053,189 |
| Norway | .50 | 214,700 | 3,156,950 |
| Pakistan | .79 | 339,226 | 4,021,616 |
| Panama | .05 | 21,470 | 801,982 |
| Paraguay | .04 | 17,176 | 1,405,627 (provisional) |
| Peru | .20 | 85,880 | 7,023,111 |
| Philippines | .29 | 124,526 | 19,234,182 |
| Poland | 1. 36 | 583,984 | Total not given |
| Saudi Arabia | .08 | 34,352 | About 2 million |
| Sweden | 1.73 | 742,862 | 7,043,701 |
| Syria | .09 | 38,646 | 3,252,687 (Est.) |
| Thailand | .21 | 90,174 | 17,517,742 |
| Turkey | .75 | 322,050 | 20,934,740 |
| Ukrainian S.S.R. | 1.30 | 558,220 | 38,500,000 |
| Union of South Africa | .90 | 386,460 | 12,646,375 |
| U.S.S.R | 9.85 | 4,229,590 | 143,194,778‡ |
| United Kingdom | 10.56 | 4,534,464 | 48,998,876 |
| United States | 36.90 | 15,844,860║ | 150,697,000 |
| Uruguay | .18 | 77,292 | 2,353,000 (Est.) |
| Venezuela | .32 | 137,408 | 4,985,716 |
| Yemen | .04 | 17,176 | 3,500,000 |
| Yugoslavia | .43 | 184,642 | 15,772,098 |
- Drafted by G. Rice of the Division of International Administration and concurred in by the Acting Assistant Chief of the Division of International Administration (Anderson). Source text was attachment to letter from the Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Congressional Relations (Brown) to Congressman Prince H. Preston of Georgia, not printed (310/11–552).↩
- Census figures as shown in The Statesman’s Year-Book 1952. [Footnote in the source text.]↩
- Regular 1952 budget less $6,399,800 estimated miscellaneous income, plus $1,765,400 adjustment in the 1951 budget and miscellaneous income, less $522,380 savings in 1951 accounts. [Footnote in the source text.]↩
- Does not include Byelorussian S.S.R. and Ukrainian S.S.R. population figures. [Footnote in the source text.]↩
- Gross assessment. Due to credit of $404,000 as result of adjustment of advances to Working Capital Fund on basis of 1952 scale of assessments, U.S. net assessment is $15,440,860. [Footnote in the source text.]↩