By Betsy
Towner
In 50 Years…
A Whole
New
Map
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; Power of 50
Since 1960, more than half of
the world’s 195 countries have
been born—or reborn. How
many of the 103 countries,
listed by birth date,
do you know?
72 56 48 1 34 100 99
39
21
44
3 7461 62 68 65 73
1960s
1 Cameroon 1/1/1960
2 Senegal 4/4/60
3 Togo 4/27/60
4 Madagascar 6/26/60
5 Democratic Republic
of the Congo 6/30/60
6 Somalia 7/1/60
7 Benin 8/1/60
8 Niger 8/3/60
9 Burkina Faso 8/5/60
10 Côte d’Ivoire 8/7/60
11 Chad 8/11/60
12 Central African
Republic 8/13/60
13 Congo 8/15/60
14 Cyprus 8/16/60
15 Gabon 8/17/60
16 Mali 9/22/60
17 Nigeria 10/1/60
18 Mauritania 11/28/60
19 Sierra Leone 4/27/61
20 Kuwait 6/19/61
2 1 Samoa 1/1/62
22 Burundi 7/1/62
23 Rwanda 7/1/62
24 Algeria 7/5/62
25 Jamaica 8/6/62
26 Trinidad and
Tobago 8/31/62
2
7 Uganda10/9/62
28 Kenya 12/12/63
29 Tanzania 4/26/64
30 Malawi 7/6/64
31 Malta9/21/64
32 Zambia 10/24/64
33 Gambia 2/18/65
34 Singapore 8/9/65
35 Guyana 5/26/66
36 Botswana 9/30/66
37 Lesotho 10/4/66
38 Barbados 11/30/66
39 Nauru 1/31/68
40 Mauritius 3/12/68
4 1 Swaziland9/6/68
42 Equatorial Guinea
10/12/68
Sources: National Geographic maps; U.S. Department of State
country background reports; Online CIA Factbook; Federal
Research Division, Library of Congress Country Studies
1970s
43 Tonga 6/4/70
44 Fiji Islands 10/10/70
45 Bahrain 8/15/71
46 Qatar 9/3/71
47 United Arab
Emirates 12/2/71
48 Bangladesh 12/16/71
49 Bahamas 7/10/73
50 Guinea Bissau 9/24/73
5 1 Grenada2/7/74
52 Mozambique 6/25/75
53 Cape Verde 7/5/75
54 Comoros 7/6/75
55 São Tome and
Principé 7/12/75
56 Papua New Guinea 9/16/75
57 Angola 11/11/75
58 Suriname 11/25/75
59 Seychelles 6/29/76
60 Djibouti 6/27/77
6 1 Solomon Islands 7/7/78
62 Tuvalu 10/1/78
63 Dominica 11/3/78
64 St. Lucia 2/22/79
65 Kiribati 6/12/79
66 St. Vincent and the
Grenadines 10/27/79
1980s
67 Zimbabwe 4/18/80
68 Vanuatu 7/30/80
69 Belize 9/21/81
70 Antigua and
Barbuda 11/1/81
7 1 St. Kitts and
Nevis 9/19/83
72 Brunei 1/1/84
73 Marshall Islands 10/21/86
74 Federated States
of Micronesia 11/3/86
1990s
75 Lithuania 3/11/90
76 Namibia 3/21/90
77 Yemen 5/22/90
78 Georgia 4/9/91
79 Slovenia 6/25/91
80 Croatia 6/25/91
8 1 Estonia 8/20/91
82 Latvia 8/21/91
83 Ukraine 8/24/91
84 Russia 8/24/91
85 Belarus 8/25/91
86 Moldova 8/27/91
87 Azerbaijan 8/30/91
88 Kyrgyzstan 8/31/91
89 Uzbekistan 9/1/91
90 Macedonia 9/8/91
91 Tajikistan 9/9/91
9
2 Armenia 9/21/91
93 Turkmenistan 10/27/91
94 Kazakhstan 12/16/91
95 Bosnia and
Herzegovina 3/1/92
96 Slovakia 1/1/93
97 Czech Republic 1/1/93
98 Eritrea 5/24/93
99 Palau 10/1/94
2000s
100 Timor-Leste 5/20/02
101 Serbia 5/21/06
102 Montenegro 6/3/06
103 Kosovo 2/17/08
Map graphic by Nigel Holmes
