There are 54 members in the present day organisation.

The Balfour Declaration of 18th November 1926 originated the Commonwealth.

There are currently 54 member states with one under suspension.

Queen Elizabeth II is the head of the Commonwealth.

The London Declaration of 1949 was issued by the heads of the Commonwealth on the issue of India's continuedmemebership of the organisation and was largely responsible for the modern Commonwealth.

There are over 2 billion people in the Commonwealth.

Mozambique has no previous ties to the U.K as a former colony.

The British Commonwealth first came into being with the Balfour Declaration of the 18th November 1926. It originally existed as an organisation of members who swore allegiance to the British monarch. After the independence of Pakistan and India in the 1940's the organisation was modernised with the word British being dropped and the allegiance to the crown being scrapped from the statute. The Commonwealth became an organisation for former colonial countries.