Year abolished Country Countries per year Running total 1863 Venezuela 1 1 1865 San Marino 1 2 1877 Costa Rica 1 3 1903 Panama 1 4 1906 Ecuador 1 5 1907 Uruguay 1 6 1910 Colombia 1 7 1928 Iceland 1 8 1948 Italy 1 9 1949 Germany 1 10 1956 Honduras 1 11 1962 Monaco 1 12 1966 Dominican Republic 1 13 1968 Austria 1 14 1969 Vatican City 1 15 1972 Finland 1 16 1973 Sweden 1 17 1976 Portugal 1 18 1978 Denmark Solomon Islands Tuvalu 3 21 1979 Kiribati Luxembourg Nicaragua Norway 4 25 1980 Vanuatu 1 26 1981 Cape Verde France 2 28 1982 Netherlands 1 29 1985 Australia 1 30 1986 Marshall Islands F.S. Micronesia 2 32 1987 Haiti Liechtenstein 2 34 1989 Cambodia 1 35 1990 Andorra Czech Republic+ Slovakia (as Czechoslovakia) Hungary Ireland Mozambique Namibia Romania São Tomé and Príncipe 9 44 1991 Croatia Macedonia Slovenia 3 47 1992 Angola Paraguay Switzerland 3 50 1993 Guinea-Bissau Seychelles 2 52 1994 Palau 1 53 1995 Djibouti Mauritius South Africa Spain Serbia+ Montenegro (as Yugoslavia) 6 59 1996 Belgium 1 60 1997 Nepal Poland 2 62 1998 Armenia Azerbaijan Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Canada Estonia Lithuania United Kingdom 8 70 1999 Turkmenistan 1 71 2000 Ivory Coast Malta Ukraine 3 74 2002 Cyprus Timor-Leste 2 76 2004 Bhutan Greece Samoa Senegal Turkey 5 81 2005 Mexico Moldova 2 83 2006 Georgia Philippines 2 85 2007 Albania Kyrgyzstan New Zealand[278] (In Cook Islands, NZ proper in 1989) Rwanda 4 89 2008 Uzbekistan 1 90 2009 Argentina Bolivia Burundi Togo 4 94 2010 Gabon 1 95 2012 Latvia 1 96 2015 Congo Fiji Madagascar Suriname 4 100 2016 Benin Nauru 2 102 2017 Mongolia 1 103