BRICS
Sign in to saveBRICS is an intergovernmental organization comprising ten countries: Brazil, China, South Africa, Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Iran, Russia, and the United Arab Emirates. Its conceptual origins were articulated by Russian foreign minister Yevgeny Primakov in 1998, and can be traced to informal forums and dialogue groups such as RIC (Russia, India, and China) and IBSA (India, Brazil, and South Africa). BRIC was originally a term coined by British economist Jim O'Neill, and later championed by his employer Goldman Sachs in 2001, to designate a group of emerging markets.
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BRICS is a group of ten countries—Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Egypt, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Iran, and the United Arab Emirates—that work together on shared interests through an intergovernmental organization. The group emerged from the idea of identifying major emerging market economies and has grown through various informal dialogue forums since the late 1990s.
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- Logo of BRICS during India’s 2026 presidency
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43 sectionsContents
- History
- Founding
- 2010 expansion
- New Development Bank
- Other initiatives
- Discussions
- 2024 expansion
- 2025 expansion
- Statistics
- Comparison of G7 and BRICS countries in GDP (nominal) (1990–2030)
- Rotating BRICS presidency
- Leaders' summits
- Member states
- Financial architecture
- New Development Bank
- BRICS Contingent Reserve Arrangement
- BRICS payment system
- Potential common currency and BRICS Bridge
- Important issues
- Peace and security
- Reception
- Belgium
- Brazil
- Canada
- China
- France
- Germany
- India
- Iran
- Russia
- Ukraine
- United States
- United Kingdom
- Global opinion
- Current leaders
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Further reading
- Declarations
- BRICS Academic Review
- External links
- Journals
BRICS is an intergovernmental organization comprising ten countries: Brazil, China, South Africa, Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Iran, Russia, and the United Arab Emirates. Its conceptual origins were articulated by Russian foreign minister Yevgeny Primakov in 1998, and can be traced to informal forums and dialogue groups such as RIC (Russia, India, and China) and IBSA (India, Brazil, and South Africa). BRIC was originally a term coined by British economist Jim O'Neill, and later championed by his employer Goldman Sachs in 2001, to designate a group of emerging markets.
The bloc's inaugural summit was held in 2009 and featured the founding countries of Brazil, Russia, India, and China; they adopted the acronym BRIC and formed an informal diplomatic group where their governments could meet annually at formal summits and coordinate multilateral policies. South Africa joined the organization in September 2010, which was then renamed BRICS, and attended the third summit in 2011 as a full member. Iran, Egypt, Ethiopia, and the United Arab Emirates attended their first summit as member states in 2024 in Russia. Indonesia officially joined in early 2025, becoming the first Southeast Asian member. The acronym BRICS+ or BRICS Plus has been informally used to reflect new membership since 2024.
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