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RCEP countries

RCEP, the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, has 15 members: ten ASEAN countries plus Australia, China, Japan, New Zealand and South Korea.

The full list

ASEAN members (10) 10

The ten states that were ASEAN members when RCEP was negotiated and signed; ASEAN convened the talks and sits at the agreement's centre.

• 🇧🇳Brunei
• 🇰🇭Cambodia
• 🇮🇩Indonesia
• 🇱🇦Laos
• 🇲🇾Malaysia
• 🇲🇲Myanmar
• 🇵🇭Philippines
• 🇸🇬Singapore
• 🇹🇭Thailand
• 🇻🇳Vietnam

ASEAN's FTA partners (5) 5

Five countries that already had separate free trade agreements with ASEAN, which RCEP draws into one agreement.

• 🇦🇺Australia
• 🇨🇳China
• 🇯🇵Japan
• 🇳🇿New Zealand
• 🇰🇷South Korea

Not on the list

• India: One of the sixteen countries that launched negotiations in November 2012, but withdrew in November 2019 before signature, so it never signed.
• Hong Kong, Chile, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh: Applicants, not members.
• Uruguay: Expressed interest in acceding in February 2026.
• Timor-Leste: Became ASEAN's eleventh member on 26 October 2025 but is not an RCEP party: it did not sign in 2020, it is not among the five economies with formal accession requests on the RCEP Support Unit's site, and the RCEP site still describes the agreement as covering ten ASEAN Member States.

Questions

How many countries are in RCEP?

RCEP, the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, has 15 members: ten ASEAN countries plus Australia, China, Japan, New Zealand and South Korea.

Which countries are on the list?

Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, Australia, China, Japan, New Zealand and South Korea.

What is an easy way to remember them?

10 + 5: ASEAN without Timor-Leste, plus China, Japan, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand.

Is India in RCEP?

No. India helped launch the talks in 2012 but withdrew in November 2019, before the agreement was signed.

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Each name checked against at least two sources, one of them RCEP Support Unit (ASEAN Secretariat), on 4 October 2026. Next review by 4 April 2027.
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