State · 1981 – present

Antigua and Barbuda

A state of 1981 – present — 45 years, still standing in the Americas and Oceania. It replaced Associated State of Antigua. The atlas records 4 things within it — famine and plague 1 · people 3. Its line of rulers holds 5 people.

Still standing: the span runs to the year of the build, 2026.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.

Stood: 45 years; and still standing
Rulers: 5; the Governor-General of Antigua and Barbuda
Most ground: 600 km²; in 1967
Within it: 4; recorded rows
Symbols: 4; on record, with years

Map: Antigua and Barbuda in 1967, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Antigua and Barbuda in 1967, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 600 km². Its neighbours wear their tints, as on the atlas's own map. Borders from Cliopatria (CC BY 4.0), coast and rivers from Natural Earth, cities from Reba, Reitsma & Seto 2016 (CC BY 4.0), each city under the name it bore that year.

Where it sits in time

Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold.

Before and after

The states the record files it as replacing or following, and those that replaced or followed it - Wikidata's own statements, each read from this state's side.

Before it

Associated State of Antigua · replaces

Rulers

The line of Governor-General of Antigua and Barbuda - the office this state names as its head of state.

died in officeleft alive by a regular roadstill in officeending not on recorda second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared throne

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source
Elizabeth II	1981 – 2022	41 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
James Carlisle	1993 – 2007	14 years	served out the term, the article saysread from the ruler's own article
Louise Lake-Tack	2007 – 2014	7 years	ending not on record
Rodney Williams	2014 – in office	in office since 2014	still in office
Charles III	2022 – in office	in office since 2022	still in office

5 rulers, 5 with terms dated as terms, covering 1981 – 2022. Only 41 years of the line are dated - too short for a median. 1 of 4 handovers irregular - a killing, a deposition, a rival claimant, a rising or a coup beside it. The violent-handover count is withheld: power changed hands so often that any rising falls beside one (exposure 0.67, limit 0.6). A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.

Heads of government

The line of Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda, drawn and never measured: a cabinet is not a reign.

Vere Bird	1981 – 1994
Lester Bird	1994 – 2004
Baldwin Spencer	2004 – 2014
Gaston Browne	2014 – …

Ground held, by year

km² inside its borders as the borders dataset draws them, measured on an equal-area grid; a step series, held between the years the dataset maps.

600 km² in 1981, 600 km² in 2021; at its largest 600 km² in 1981. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.

Flags and arms, in order

Each symbol with the years its own statement gives; the timeline flies the one of the year on screen.

flag, 1956 – 1962Flag of Antigua and Barbuda (1956–1962) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · FOX 52
flag, 1962 – 1967Flag of Antigua and Barbuda (1962–1967) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · FOX 52
flag, from 1967Flag of Antigua and Barbuda · Public domain
coat of arms, from 1967Coat of arms of Antigua and Barbuda · Public domain

What happened within it, by century

Every row the atlas hosts under this state, by the century it began in: wars and battles in red, risings, regime changes and massacres beside them, everything else in grey. A tall bar is a century the record is full for, which is partly a fact about Wikipedia.

1900 – 19993 rows

Rodney Williams · ruler · 1947 – present
Louise Lake-Tack · ruler · 1944 – present
James Carlisle · ruler · 1937 – present

2000 – 20991 row

COVID-19 pandemic in Antigua and Barbuda · plague · 2020

Among all states

Each measure against the states that carry it, never against all of them: a bar is the share of those states below this one.

How long it stood45 years
stood longer than 32% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held600 km²
held more ground at its peak than 2% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.
Wars recorded per centurynone
had more wars on record per century than 44% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
Rulers on record5
has more rulers on record than 64% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

What led to it, and what came of it

The investigation's own picture: 1 cause the record names and 0 results, the strongest six of each at their own years, joined to the state by the kind of claim - a recorded statement solid, the article's sentence dashed, a theory dash-dot.

linked

Open the investigation: every row with its evidence, the conditions at the time, the theories condition by condition, and the succession analysed.

Open in the atlas

On the timeline, 1971 – 2036, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 1967, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q781 (CC0) · borders Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0 · coast and rivers Natural Earth · symbols from Wikimedia Commons, each credited above · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.