State · 1966 – present

Barbados

A state of 1966 – present — 60 years, still standing in the Americas and Oceania. It replaced Colony of Barbados and followed West Indies Federation. The atlas records 3 things within it — famine and plague 1 · people 2. Its line of rulers holds 3 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: 60 years; and still standing
Rulers: 3; the President of Barbados
Most ground: 700 km²; in 1967
Within it: 3; recorded rows
Symbols: 3; on record, with years

Map: Barbados in 1967, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Barbados in 1967, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 700 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

Colony of Barbados · replaces
West Indies Federation · follows

Rulers

The line of President of Barbados - the office this state names as its head of state.

left alive by a regular roadstill in officeending not on record

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source
Elizabeth II	1966 – 2021	55 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone
Sandra Mason	2021 – 2025	4 years	ending not on record
Jeffrey Bostic	2025 – in office	in office since 2025	still in office

3 rulers, 3 with terms dated as terms, covering 1966 – 2025. Median reign 29.5 years. 0 of 2 handovers irregular - a killing, a deposition, a rival claimant, a rising or a coup beside it. 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 Barbados, drawn and never measured: a cabinet is not a reign.

Hugh Gordon Cummins	lived 1891 – 1970
Errol Barrow	1966 – 1976
Tom Adams	1976 – 1985
Errol Barrow	1986 – 1987
Lloyd Erskine Sandiford	1987 – 1994
Owen Arthur	1994 – 2008
David Thompson	2008 – 2010
Freundel Stuart	2010 – 2018
Mia Mottley	2018 – …

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.

700 km² in 1976, 700 km² in 2016; at its largest 700 km² in 1976. 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, to 1966Flag of Barbados (1870–1966) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Sodacan
coat of arms, from 1966Coat of arms of Barbados (2) · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Neville C. Connell, director of the Barbados Museum
flag, from 1966Flag of Barbados · 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 – 19992 rows

Sandra Mason · ruler · 1949 – present
Jeffrey Bostic · ruler · 1960 – present

2000 – 20991 row

COVID-19 pandemic in Barbados · 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 stood60 years
stood longer than 37% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held700 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.
How long a reign lasted, at the median55 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 96% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
Rulers on record3
has more rulers on record than 48% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

What led to it, and what came of it

The investigation's own picture: 4 causes 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.

linkedcoincidence

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, 1956 – 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 Q244 (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.