Member countries and organizations
In 2010, there are 20 members of the G-20. These include, at the leaders summits, the leaders of 19 countries and of the European Union and, at the ministerial-level meetings, the finance ministers and central bank governors of 19 countries and of the European Union :[2][6]
Region |
Member |
Leader |
Finance Minister |
Central Bank Governor |
GDP (nominal·PPP)
$Million USD |
Population |
Africa |
South Africa |
President |
Jacob Zuma |
Minister of Finance |
Pravin Gordhan |
Gill Marcus |
287,219 |
492,684 |
49,320,500 |
North
America |
Canada |
Prime Minister |
Stephen Harper |
Minister of Finance |
Jim Flaherty |
Mark Carney |
1,336,427 |
1,281,064 |
34,088,000 |
Mexico |
President |
Felipe Calderón |
Secretary of Finance |
Ernesto Cordero Arroyo |
AgustÃn Carstens |
874,903 |
1,465,726 |
111,211,789 |
United States |
President |
Barack Obama |
Secretary of the Treasury |
Timothy Geithner |
Ben Bernanke |
14,256,275 |
14,256,275 |
309,173,000 |
South
America |
Argentina |
President |
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner |
Minister of Economy |
Amado Boudou |
Mercedes Marcó del Pont |
310,065 |
584,392 |
40,134,425 |
Brazil |
President |
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva |
Minister of Finance |
Guido Mantega |
Henrique Meirelles |
1,574,039 |
2,013,186 |
192,859,000 |
East Asia |
China |
President |
Hu Jintao |
Minister of Finance |
Xie Xuren |
Zhou Xiaochuan |
4,326,187 |
7,903,235 |
1,338,612,968 |
Japan |
Prime Minister |
Yukio Hatoyama |
Minister of Finance |
Naoto Kan |
Masaaki Shirakawa |
5,068,059 |
4,159,432 |
127,390,000 |
South Korea |
President |
Lee Myung-bak |
Minister of Strategy
and Finance |
Yoon Jeung-hyun |
Kim Joong-soo |
832,512 |
1,364,148 |
50,060,000 |
South Asia |
India |
Prime Minister |
Manmohan Singh |
Minister of Finance |
Pranab Mukherjee |
Duvvuri Subbarao |
1,235,975 |
3,526,124 |
1,180,251,000 |
Southeast
Asia |
Indonesia |
President |
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono |
Minister of Finance |
Agus Martowardojo |
Darmin Nasution |
539,337 |
962,471 |
231,369,500 |
Southwest
Asia |
Saudi Arabia |
King |
Abdullah I |
Minister of Finance |
Ibrahim Abdulaziz Al-Assaf |
Muhammed Al-jasser |
369,671 |
593,385 |
25,721,000 |
Europe |
European Union |
E. Council President[7]
Commission President[7]
|
Herman Van Rompuy
José Manuel Barroso
|
Commissioner for Economic
and Monetary Affairs |
Olli Rehn |
Jean-Claude Trichet |
16,447,259 |
14,793,979 |
501,259,840 |
France |
President |
Nicolas Sarkozy |
Minister of the Economy,
Industry and Employment |
Christine Lagarde |
Christian Noyer |
2,675,951 |
2,108,228 |
65,447,374 |
Germany |
Chancellor |
Angela Merkel |
Minister of Finance |
Wolfgang Schäuble |
Axel A. Weber |
3,352,742 |
2,806,226 |
81,757,600 |
Italy |
Prime Minister |
Silvio Berlusconi |
Minister of Economy
and Finance |
Giulio Tremonti |
Mario Draghi |
2,118,264 |
1,740,123 |
60,325,805 |
Russia |
President |
Dmitry Medvedev |
Minister of Finance |
Alexei Leonidovich Kudrin |
Sergey Mikhaylovich Ignatyev |
1,229,227 |
2,109,551 |
141,927,297 |
Turkey |
Prime Minister |
Recep Tayyip ErdoÄŸan |
Minister of Finance |
Mehmet ÅžimÅŸek |
Durmuş Yılmaz |
615,329 |
880,061 |
72,561,312 |
United Kingdom |
Prime Minister |
David Cameron |
Chancellor of the Exchequer |
George Osborne |
Mervyn King |
2,183,607 |
2,139,400 |
62,041,708 |
Oceania |
Australia |
Prime Minister |
Kevin Rudd |
Treasurer |
Wayne Swan |
Glenn Stevens |
997,201 |
851,170 |
22,328,632 |
In addition to these 20 members, the following forums and institutions, as represented by their respective chief executive officers, participate in meetings of the G-20:[2]
Membership does not reflect exactly the 19 largest national economies of the world in any given year. The organization states:[1]
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In a forum such as the G-20, it is particularly important for the number of countries involved to be restricted and fixed to ensure the effectiveness and continuity of its activity. There are no formal criteria for G-20 membership and the composition of the group has remained unchanged since it was established. In view of the objectives of the G-20, it was considered important that countries and regions of systemic significance for the international financial system be included. Aspects such as geographical balance and population representation also played a major part. |
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