Member states of the Arab League

The Arab League has 22 member states as of 2017. The Arab League was founded in Cairo in 1945 by the Kingdom of Egypt, Kingdom of Iraq, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Syrian Republic, Transjordan (Jordan from 1946) and North Yemen (later becoming Yemen). There was a continual increase in membership during the second half of the 20th century, with additional 15 Arab states and 4 observers being admitted.

Chad is not a member despite Arabic being one of its two official languages, some 12% of Chadians identifying as Arab and around 900,000 are Arabic-speaking. It applied for membership in March 2014.

Israel is not a member despite 20% of its population being Palestinian Arab, nearly half the Jewish population being descended from Jews from Arab countries and Arabic being an official language.

The Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic and the Republic of Somaliland are not members of the Arab League as they are recognized by only some Arab League states, while the Western Sahara and Somaliland are recognized by the League as part of Morocco and Somalia, which controls nearly 80% and 10% of the territory.

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