As an initiating member state of ICAO, China remains committed to the purposes and objectives of the Convention on International Civil Aviation and has actively promoted the safe, efficient and sustainable growth of international civil aviation.
The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) was founded in 1944. France is a founding member and the sixth-largest contributor. Since the creation of the ICAO, France has been on the organization's Council in the category of States of chief importance in air transport.
The following States were elected from among ICAO's 193 Member States to the Organization's 36 Member Governing Council during the 2022 ICAO Assembly. Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, United Kingdom and the United States.
English Releases. India is one of the ICAO's founder members, having attended the Chicago Conference in 1944, and has since been a member of the council of the ICAO, including the Provisional ICAO between 1944 and 1947. India has maintained a permanent delegation at the headquarters of ICAO in Montreal.
Pakistan has been an ICAO contracting State since November 1974 and has been active in the council of ICAO since 1974 while playing a prominent cum important role in regional cooperation under auspices of ICAO.
Currently, there are 193 members or contracting states in ICAO, which is governed by the ICAO Council, which is composed of 36 member states including the United States.
The top five countries in the ICAO ranking are Iceland (95.73%), France (96.42%), South Korea (98.24%), UAE with a score of 98.8% and Singapore with a score of 99.69%.The US was in 22nd place and Qatar in 25th place.China is in 49th place.
New Zealand was among the 52 States that signed the Chicago Convention on 7 December 1944, bringing the Provisional International Civil Aviation Organization (PICAO) into being.