CIS 9 members
CIS has 9 members; together, today’s CIS members had 3% of the world’s people and 2.8% of its GDP in 2025.
Source: Membership: the groupings’ own member listsMembers as of 10 Nov 2026
Source: World Bank Indicators2025
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Summary
The Commonwealth of Independent States: an organisation of former Soviet states, founded in 1991.
Today’s CIS members account for 3% of the world’s people (2025), 2.8% of the world’s GDP (2025), 7.1% of the world’s military spending (2025; 8 of 9 members have figures) and 6.3% of the world’s CO2 emissions (2024). Together they mine 43% of the world’s palladium, 5.2% of the world’s tungsten and 5.1% of the world’s nickel (USGS, 2025, estimated). Of its members, 6 are also in the SCO, 6 in the CSTO, 5 in the Eurasian Economic Union and 3 in OPEC+.
Membership is as each grouping lists it. A grouping’s share of the world adds up its members’ figures, against the sum for every country with a figure.
Source: Membership: the groupings’ own member lists; World Bank; Global Carbon Budget; FAOSTAT; USGSMembers as of 10 Nov 2026
Members
| Russia | 144 m | 59% | $2.56 tn | BRICS, G20, OPEC+, SCO, APEC, UN Security Council (permanent), CSTO, Eurasian Economic Union |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Uzbekistan | 37 m | 15% | $147 bn | SCO |
| Kazakhstan | 21 m | 8.5% | $306 bn | OPEC+, SCO, CSTO, Eurasian Economic Union |
| Tajikistan | 11 m | 4.4% | $18 bn | SCO, CSTO |
| Azerbaijan | 10 m | 4.2% | $76 bn | OPEC+ |
| Belarus | 9.1 m | 3.7% | $93 bn | SCO, CSTO, Eurasian Economic Union |
| Kyrgyzstan | 7.3 m | 3% | $23 bn | SCO, CSTO, Eurasian Economic Union |
| Armenia | 3.1 m | 1.3% | $29 bn | CSTO, Eurasian Economic Union |
| Moldova | 2.4 m | 1% | $20 bn | – |
Source: Membership: the groupings’ own member lists; World BankMembers as of 10 Nov 20262025