after 1970
Bangladesh 8th largest population from pakistan from UK | March 26, 1971 | United Arab Emirates | December 2, 1971 | Bahrain | December 16, 1971 | Qatar | December 18, 1971 | Bahamas | July 10, 1973 | Guinea Bissau | September 24, 1973 | Grenada | February 7, 1974 | Mozambique | June 25, 1975 | Cape Verde | July 5, 1975 | Comoros | July 6, 1975 | São Tomé and Príncipe | July 12, 1975 | Papua New Guinea | September 16, 1975 | Angola | November 11, 1975 | Suriname | November 25, 1975 | Western Sahara | February 27, 1976 | Seychelles | June 29, 1976 | Djibouti | June 27, 1977 | Solomon Islands | July 7, 1978 | Tuvalu | October 1, 1978 | Dominica | November 3, 1978 | Saint Lucia | February 22, 1979 | Kiribati | July 12, 1979 | Saint Vincent & the Grenadines | October 27, 1979 | Belize | September 21, 1981 | Antigua & Barbuda | November 1, 1981 | Northern Cyprus | September 2, 1983 | Saint Kitts and Nevis | September 19, 1983 | Brunei | January 1, 1984 | Latvia | May 4, 1990 | Lithuania | March 11, 1990 | Namibia | March 21, 1990 | Slovenia | December 26 & June 25, 1990 | Georgia | April 9, 1991 | Estonia | August 20, 1991 | Ukraine | August 24, 1991 | Moldova | August 27, 1991 | Kyrgyzstan | August 31, 1991 | Uzbekistan | September 1, 1991 | Macedonia | September 8, 1991 | Tajikistan | September 9, 1991 | Armenia | September 21, 1991 | Croatia | October 8, 1991 | Azerbaijan | October 18, 1991 | Turkmenistan | October 27, 1991 | Kazakhstan | December 16, 1991 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | March 1, 1992 | Slovakia | July 17, 1992 | Czech Republic | January 1, 1993 | Eritrea | May 24, 1993 | East Timor | May 20, 2002 | Montenegro | May 21, 2006 | Kosovo | February 17, 2008 | South Sudan | July 9, 2011 | 1898-1944
hilippines | June 12, 1898 | Cuba | May 20, 1902 | Panama | November 3, 1903 | Bulgaria | September 22, 1908 | Mongolia | December 29, 1911 | Albania | November 28, 1912 | Ireland | April 24, 1916 | Finland | December 6, 1917 | Lithuania | February 16, 1918 | Estonia | February 24, 1918 | Georgia | May 26, 1918 | Armenia | May 28, 1918 | Azerbaijan | May 28, 1918 | Czech Republic | October 28, 1918 | Poland | November 11, 1918 | Latvia | November 18, 1918 | Ukraine | January 22, 1919 | Afghanistan | August 19, 1919 | Turkey | October 29, 1923 | South Africa | December 11, 1931 | Iraq | October 3, 1932 | Lebanon | November 22, 1943 | Iceland | June 3, 1944 | Belarus | July 3, 1944 | 1776 to 1895
United States | July 4, 1776 | Haiti | January 1, 1804 | Serbia | February 15, 1804 | Ecuador | August 10, 1809 | Chile | February 12, 1810 | Colombia | July 20, 1810 | Mexico | September 16, 1810 | Paraguay | May 15, 1811 | Venezuela | July 5, 1811 | Norway | May, 1814 | Argentina | July 9, 1816 | Costa Rica | September 15, 1821 | Greece | March 25, 1821 | Peru | July 28, 1821 | Nicaragua | September 15, 1821 | Honduras | September 15, 1821 | Guatemala | September 15, 1821 | El Salvador | September 15, 1821 | Dominican Republic | December 1, 1821 | Ecuador | May 24, 1822 | Brazil | September 7, 1822 | Bolivia | August 6, 1825 | Uruguay | August 25, 1825 | Belgium | July 21, 1831 | Liberia | July 26, 1847 | Canada | July, 1867 | Romania | May 10, 1877 | x refs 1 2
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1945-1970
South Korea | August 15, 1945 | North Korea | August 15, 1945 | Vietnam | September 2, 1945 | Jordan | May 25, 1946 | Syria | April 17, 1946 | Pakistan | August 14, 1947 | India | August 15, 1947 | Myanmar | January 4, 1948 | Israel | Between April 15 & May 15, 1948 (depending on Hebrew Calendar) | Sri Lanka | February 4, 1948 | Libya | December 24, 1951 | Cambodia | November 9, 1953 | Laos | October 22, 1953 | Austria | October 26, 1955 | Morocco | November 18, 1955 | Sudan | January 1, 1956 | Tunisia | March 20, 1956 | Ghana | March 6, 1957 | Malaysia | August 31, 1957 | Guinea | October 2, 1958 | Cameroon | January 1, 1960 | Senegal | April 4, 1960 | Togo | April 27, 1960 | Madagascar | June 26, 1960 | Democratic Republic of the Congo | June 30, 1960 | Somalia | July 1, 1960 | Benin | August 1, 1960 | Burkina Faso | August 5, 1960 | Niger | August 3, 1960 | Ivory Coast | August 7, 1960 | Republic of the Congo | August 15, 1960 | Gabon | August 17, 1960 | Mali | September 22, 1960 | Nigeria | October 1, 1960 | Cyprus | October 1, 1960 | Mauritania | November 28, 1960 | Kuwait | February 25, 1961 | Sierra Leone | April 27, 1961 | Tanzania | December 9, 1961 | Samoa | June 1, 1962 | Burundi | July 1, 1962 | Rwanda | July 1, 1962 | Algeria | July 5, 1962 | Jamaica | August 6, 1962 | Trinidad & Tobago | August 31, 1962 | Uganda | October 9, 1962 | Malaysia | September 16, 1963 | Kenya | December 12, 1963 | Malawi | July 6, 1964 | Malta | September 21, 1964 | Zambia | October 24, 1964 | The Gambia | February 18, 1965 | Maldives | July 26, 1965 | Singapore | August 9, 1965 | Zimbabwe | November 11, 1965 | Guyana | May 26, 1966 | Botswana | September 30, 1966 | Lesotho | October 4, 1966 | Barbados | November 30, 1966 | Anguilla | May 30, 1967 | Yemen | November 30, 1967 | Nauru | January 31, 1968 | Mauritius | March 12, 1968 | Swaziland | September 6, 1968 | Equatorial Guinea | October 12, 1968 | Tonga | June 4, 1970 | Fiji | October 10, 1970 |
| 1900-1945 | before 1900 |
1. Individual taxpayer (no surprise, what else?)
2. Corporate taxpayer (especially those who have made a lot of money during this period)
3. Petro taxes: keeping the retail price constant, the government can cash in on the low petrol prices.
4. Insurance companies (this is what they do).
5. Governments could take debt (so finally taxpayer but spread over the years to our children and grandchildren).
6. Shareholders take risk and should bear risk as far as bankruptcy is concerned. This includes pension funds who took the risk... can't just have gains.
7. Charity.
8. Issue new money (see Milford Bateman's comment below).
9 China pays (can't understand why, wonder which country is going to be charged for Ebola or AIDS or any other illness). Of course, China may say US pays... lets make US great again?
10. Germany pays! This is a new one, in the name of European solidarity. Not so new if one remembers my paper on Greece: the price of access to markets must be social security subsidies for weaker countries. (At that time I hadn't thought of "weak" meaning those more susceptible to a virus, though).
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