G20 Summit 2020: Member countries, important G20 leaders, themes and important facts

 The G20 Summit 2020 will be held on November 21-22, 2020 in Saudi Arabia’s capital city of Riyadh.

Which are the G20 countries?

The G20 countries are a group of 20 countries established in September 1999 by the finance ministers of the G7 countries as an international forum which would help preserve international financial stability.

Forming this group helped in enabling informal dialogue and cooperation among important countries in the world.

The full form of G20 is Group of Twenty and it is the premier forum for the economic cooperation of the G20 member countries.

Members of G20

The members of G20 include the European Union and 19 other countries, including India. G20 countries represent around 85% of global gross domestic product, and over 75% of global trade. They form two-third of the world’s population.

The 20 member countries of G20 will be attending the G20 Summit 2020. All the 27 leaders of the European Union will meet

Here is the full list of the G20 countries:

• Argentina
• Brazil
• China
• Germany
• Indonesia
• Japan
• Australia
• Canada
• France
• India
• Italy
• Mexico
• Republic of Korea
• Russia
• Turkey
• USA
• Republic of South Africa
• Saudi Arabia
• UK
• European Union

What is the G20 Summit?

Formally known as the 'Summit on Financial Markets and the World Economy', the annual meeting of G20 members is called the G20 Summit. This year, the fifteenth such G20 Summit is scheduled to take place in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia in November.

One of the major focus areas of the G20 Summit are job creation and trade. It works together with important organisations around the world.

The recent editions of the G20 Summit focused on global issues which impact the economy including macroeconomy and trade. Some of the issues addressed before include climate change, health, migration, terrorism, water crises etc.

G20 Summit 2020 themes

The fifteenth G20 Summit will be carried out under the theme of 'Realizing Opportunities of the 21st Century for All'.

It will focus on three aims:

• Empowering People by creating the conditions in which all people especially women and youth can live, work and thrive
• Safeguarding the Planet: by fostering collective efforts to protect our global commons
• Shaping New Frontiers: by adopting long-term and bold strategies to share benefits of innovation and technological advancement

G20 Summit 2020: Important leaders to look out for

• Argentina: Alberto Fernández, President
• Australia: Scott Morrison, Prime Minister
• Brazil: Jair Bolsonaro, President
• Canada: Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister
• China: Xi Jinping, President
• France: Emmanuel Macron, President
• Germany: Angela Merkel, Chancellor
• India: Narendra Modi, Prime Minister
• Indonesia: Joko Widodo, President
• Italy: Giuseppe Conte, Prime Minister
• Japan: Shinz Abe, Prime Minister
• Mexico: Andrés Manuel López Obrador, President
• Russia: Vladimir Putin, President
• Saudi Arabia: Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, King (host)
• South Africa: Cyril Ramaphosa, President (2020 Chairperson of the African Union)
• South Korea: Moon Jae-in, President
• Turkey: Recep Tayyip Erdoan, President
• United Kingdom: Boris Johnson, Prime Minister
• United States: Donald Trump, President
• European Union: Charles Michel, President of the European Council
• European Union: Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission

G20 Summit 2020: Invited guests and countries

Here are the guest countries for G20 Summit 2020:

• Egypt: Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, President
• Jordan: Abdullah II, King
• Senegal: Macky Sall, President, 2020 Chairperson of NEPAD
• Spain: Pedro Sánchez, Prime Minister (Permanent guest invitee)
• Singapore: Lee Hsien Loong, Prime Minister
• Switzerland: Simonetta Sommaruga, President
• United Arab Emirates: Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President, 2020 Chairperson of the Gulf Cooperation Council
• Vietnam: Nguyn Xuân Phúc, Prime Minister, 2020 Chairperson of Association of Southeast Asian Nations