Independent Members of the Commonwealth in descending order of date of independence.
| United Kingdom | Botswana |
| Canada | Lesotho |
| Australia | Barbados |
| New Zealand | Nauru |
| South Africa | Mauritius |
| India | Swaziland |
| Pakistan | Tonga |
| Sri Lanka | Bangladesh |
| Ghana | The Bahamas |
| Malaysia | Grenada |
| Cyprus | Mozambique |
| Sierra Leone | Papua New Guinea |
| Cameroon | Seychelles |
| Tanzania | Solomon Islands |
| Western Samoa | Tuvalu |
| Jamaica | Dominica |
| Trinidad & Tobago | Saint Lucia |
| Uganda | Kiribati |
| Kenya | Saint Vincent & the Grenadines |
| Malawi | Zimbabwe |
| Malta | Vanuatu |
| Zambia | Belize |
| The Gambia | Antigua & Barbuda |
| Singapore | Saint Christopher and Nevis |
| Maldives | Brunei |
| Guyana | Namibia |
There are 14 remaining British Dependent Territories in the world. In most dependent territories there is considerable self-government, with a legislature and civil service; Britain has responsibility for defense, internal security and foreign relations. British policy is to give independence to those dependent territories which want it, and not to force it on those which do not.
| Anguilla |
| Bermuda |
| British Antarctic Territory |
| British Indian Ocean Territory |
| British Virgin Islands |
| Cayman Islands |
| Falkland Islands |
| Gibraltar |
| Montserrat |
| Pitcairn Islands |
| Saint Helena |
| Saint Helena Dependencies (Ascension, Tristan de Cunha |
| South Georgia and the Sandwich Islands |
| Turks and Caicos Islands |