[Reproduced from the text provided to International Legal Materials by Peter Peters. Earlier information on the status of investment treaties appeared at 21 I.L.M. 1208 (1982), 30 I.L.M. 252 (1991), 31 I.L.M. 491 (1992), 32 I.L.M. 929 (1993), and 33 I.L.M. 833 (1994). The present updating lists all investment treaties on record which were signed or which entered into force after January 1, 1990, a total of 533 treaties, of which 466 were signed after January 1, 1990 and 67 before that date. Together with investment treaties in earlier lists, this brings the total number of bilateral investment treaties (BITs) on record up to 891, of which 298 are known to be in force; in addition there are 7 multilateral investment treaties (MITs), all in force (see 33 I.L.M. 837 (1994)). The number of countries which are party to one or more BITs or MITs has risen to 156. BITs to which an OECD member state is a party are listed chronologically under the name of mat country; those concluded between other countries inter se are given at the end, again chronologically. Entries marked + have been recorded under both countries. The symbol * following the date of signature indicates that the treaty is being applied provisionally. The symbol [*] indicates that the text of a treaty appeared in International Legal Materials. The symbol "nif" indicates that a treaty was not yet in force on the date stated.]