State · 1962 – present
Burundi
A state of 1962 – present — 64 years, still standing in sub-Saharan Africa. It replaced Kingdom of Burundi. The atlas records 18 things within it — wars and battles 1 · unrest and atrocity 4 · famine and plague 1 · people 12. Its line of rulers holds 12 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
- 64 years
- and still standing
- Rulers
- 12
- the President of Burundi
- Most ground
- 24,600 km²
- in 1963
- Within it
- 18
- recorded rows
- Symbols
- 2
- on record, with years
Where it sits in time
Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold, what it replaced or followed and what replaced or followed it in grey.
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
- Kingdom of Burundi · replaces · 1680 – 1966
Rulers
The line of President of Burundi - the office this state names as its head of state.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Michel Micombero | 1966 – 1976 | 10 years | exiled, imprisoned or confined, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | |
| Jean-Baptiste Bagaza | 1976 – 1987 | 11 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Pierre Buyoya | 1987 – 1993 | 6 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Melchior Ndadaye | 1993 – 1993 | under a year | killedWikidata's manner of death | |
| François Ngeze | 1993 – 1993 | under a year | ending not on record | |
| Sylvie Kinigi | 1993 – 1994 | 1 year | resigned or stood down, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | |
| Cyprien Ntaryamira | 1994 – 1994 | under a year | killedWikidata's manner of death | |
| Sylvestre Ntibantunganya | 1994 – 1996 | 2 years | deposed, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | |
| Pierre Buyoya | 1996 – 2003 | 7 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Domitien Ndayizeye | 2003 – 2005 | 2 years | ending not on record | |
| Pierre Nkurunziza | 2005 – 2020 | 15 years | died in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of death | |
| Pascal Nyabenda | 2020 – 2020 | under a year | ending not on record | |
| Évariste Ndayishimiye | 2020 – in office | in office since 2020 | still in office |
12 rulers, 12 with terms dated as terms, covering 1966 – 2020. Median reign 2 years. 8 of 12 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 0.71, 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 Burundi, drawn and never measured: a cabinet is not a reign.
| Joseph Cimpaye | 1961 – 1961 |
| André Muhirwa | 1961 – 1963 |
| Louis Rwagasore | 1961 – 1961 |
| Pierre Ngendandumwe | 1963 – 1964 |
| Albin Nyamoya | 1964 – 1965 |
| Pierre Ngendandumwe | 1965 – 1965 |
| Pié Masumbuko | 1965 – 1965 |
| Léopold Biha | 1965 – 1966 |
| Joseph Bamina | 1965 – 1965 |
| Michel Micombero | 1966 – 1966 |
| Albin Nyamoya | 1972 – 1973 |
| Édouard Nzambimana | 1976 – 1978 |
| Adrien Sibomana | 1988 – 1993 |
| Sylvie Kinigi | 1993 – 1994 |
| Anatole Kanyenkiko | 1994 – 1995 |
| Antoine Nduwayo | 1995 – 1996 |
| Pascal-Firmin Ndimira | 1996 – 1998 |
| Pascal Nyabenda | 2020 – 2020 |
| Alain-Guillaume Bunyoni | 2020 – 2022 |
| Évariste Ndayishimiye | 2020 – 2020 |
| Gervais Ndirakobuca | 2022 – … |
| Nestor Ntahontuye | 2025 – … |
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.
24,600 km² in 1972, 24,600 km² in 2022; at its largest 24,600 km² in 1972. 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, from 1967Flag of Burundi · Public domain 
coat of arms, from 1996Coat of arms of Burundi · 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 – 199916 rows · 1 wars and battles · 3 risings, regime changes and massacres
- Pierre Nkurunziza · ruler · 1964 – 2020
- Évariste Ndayishimiye · ruler · 1968 – present
- Sylvie Kinigi · ruler · 1952 – present
- Melchior Ndadaye · ruler · 1953 – 1993
- Pierre Buyoya · ruler · 1949 – 2020
- Michel Micombero · ruler · 1940 – 1983
- Jean-Baptiste Bagaza · ruler · 1946 – 2016
- Domitien Ndayizeye · ruler · 1953 – present
and 8 more in the atlas.
2000 – 20992 rows · 1 risings, regime changes and massacres
- COVID-19 pandemic in Burundi · plague · 2020
- 2015 Burundian coup attempt · unrest · 2015
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 stood64 years
stood longer than 38% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- The most ground it held24,600 km²
held more ground at its peak than 24% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.
- Wars recorded per century1.0
had more wars on record per century than 94% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
- How long a reign lasted, at the median2 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 5% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
- Rulers on record12
has more rulers on record than 84% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.
What led to it, and what came of it
The investigation's own picture: 2 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.
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, 1952 – 2036, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 1963, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q967 (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.