A ministerial conference of the World Trade Organization, in the Palace of Nations (Geneva, Switzerland).

The following is a list of the major existing intergovernmental organizations (IGOs).

For a more complete listing, see the Yearbook of International Organizations,[1] which includes 25,000 international non-governmental organizations (INGOs), excluding for-profit enterprises, about 5,000 IGOs, and lists dormant and dead organizations as well as those in operation (figures as of the 400th edition, 2012/13). A 2020 academic dataset on international organizations included 561 intergovernmental organizations between 1815 and 2015; more than one-third of those IGOs ended up defunct.[2]

United Nations and agencies

Main articles: United Nations and United Nations System

See also: Member states of the United Nations and Secretary-General of the United Nations

The UN has six principal organs:

The UN also includes various Funds, Programmes and specialized agencies:

The UN also includes subsidiary organs:

Agricultural research organizations

Fisheries organizations

Maritime organizations

See also: Admiralty law, United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, international waters, and territorial waters

Financial, trade, and customs organizations

See also: International financial institutions, Trade bloc § Lists of trade blocs, List of free trade agreements, Central bank, Bretton Woods system, and Cartel

Regional organizations

Main articles: Regional organization and Continental union
Organisations grouping almost all the countries in their respective continents. Note that Cuba is a suspended member of the Organization of American States (OAS).
Several smaller regional organizations with non-overlapping memberships.
Several non-overlapping large alliances. Softer colours indicate observer/associate or candidate countries.

Europe

Asia

Transcontinental

Africa

Americas

Military alliances

See also: List of military alliances

Cultural, ethnic, linguistic, and religious organizations

Educational organizations and universities

Law enforcement cooperation

See also: Law enforcement agency and police

Transport

Humanitarian organizations


Environmental organizations

See also: List of supranational environmental agencies

Arms control

Main articles: Arms control and weapon of mass destruction

See also: List of weapons of mass destruction treaties and Naval conference (disambiguation)

Energy organizations

Multi sector organizations

Nuclear power organizations

Main articles: Nuclear power, Nuclear weapon, Nuclear proliferation, and Nuclear disarmament

Sustainable energy organizations

See also: CERN and International Commission on Radiological Protection

Digital organizations

Ideological and political groupings

See also: Warsaw Pact

(disbanded)

See also: International Workingmen's Association, Second International, Socialist International, and Fourth International

Other

Defunct

See also

References

  1. ^ Union of International Associations, ed. (1998), Yearbook of international organizations, Leiden: Brill (six volumes in print format, plus online, subscription-based edition)
  2. ^ Eilstrup-Sangiovanni, Mette (2020). "Death of international organizations. The organizational ecology of intergovernmental organizations, 1815–2015". The Review of International Organizations. 15 (2): 339–370. doi:10.1007/s11558-018-9340-5. hdl:1814/60598. ISSN 1559-744X. S2CID 158698033.
  3. ^ German Foreign Ministry, retrieved 6 July 2011
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