Jabarkan Indonesia – Fadjar Harapan dari Gerakan Pionir

Republic of Malawi – Malawi Youth Pioneers – this is atypical as Malawi was not a communist country. Its Pioneers were linked to the Malawi Congress Party, the only political party allowed in what was at the time a one-party state.

Republic of Mali – Young Pioneers (Mali)/Jeunes Pionniers (1960–?), Socialist youth brigades established by the US-RDA of Modibo Keïta.

Republic of Niger – Young Pioneers (Niger)/Jeunes Pionniers (1961–1974) non-communist youth paramilitary group, one of several set up in post independence Africa, funded by and modeled on the Israeli Nahal ("Fighting Pioneer Youth").

Republic of Upper Volta / Burkina Faso – Pioneers of the Revolution, the youth movement of Thomas Sankara and the Council of Popular Salvation.

Kingdom of Norway – Young Pioneers

People's Republic of Poland – 1950–1956, later Związek Harcerstwa Polskiego, a mixture of Scouting and pioneering

Socialist Republic of Romania – Pioneer Organization

Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia – Union of Pioneers of Yugoslavia (Pioniri)

United States – Young Pioneers of America (1922-1934)