State · 1995 – present
Ethiopia
A state of 1995 – present — 31 years, still standing in sub-Saharan Africa. The atlas records 18 things within it — wars and battles 7 · unrest and atrocity 3 · famine and plague 1 · natural disasters 1 · treaties 1 · people 5. Its line of rulers holds 8 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
- 31 years
- and still standing
- Rulers
- 8
- the President of Ethiopia
- Most ground
- 1.13 million km²
- in 1992
- Within it
- 18
- recorded rows
- Symbols
- 7
- on record, with years
Where it sits in time
Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold.
Rulers
The line of President of Ethiopia - the office this state names as its head of state.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mengistu Haile Mariam | 1977 – 1991 | 14 years | exiled, imprisoned or confined, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | |
| Tesfaye Gebre Kidan | 1991 – 1991 | under a year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Meles Zenawi | 1991 – 1995 | 4 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Negasso Gidada | 1995 – 2001 | 6 years | resigned or stood down, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | |
| Girma Wolde-Giorgis | 2001 – 2013 | 12 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Mulatu Teshome | 2013 – 2018 | 5 years | ending not on record | |
| Sahle-Work Zewde | 2018 – 2024 | 6 years | ending not on record | |
| Taye Atske Selassie | 2024 – in office | in office since 2024 | still in office |
8 rulers, 8 with terms dated as terms, covering 1977 – 2024. Only 47 years of the line are dated - too short for a median. 1 of 7 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 0.73, 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 Ethiopia, drawn and never measured: a cabinet is not a reign.
| Hailu Yimenu | 1989 – 1991 |
| Tamirat Layne | 1991 – 1991 |
| Tesfaye Dinka | 1991 – … |
| Meles Zenawi | 1995 – 2012 |
| Hailemariam Desalegn | 2012 – 2018 |
| Abiy Ahmed | 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.
1.13 million km² in 1995, 1.13 million km² in 2020; at its largest 1.13 million km² in 1995. 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.
.svg/120px-Flag_of_Ethiopia_(1897%E2%80%931974).svg.png)
flag, 1897 – 1974Flag of Ethiopia (1897–1974) · Public domain .svg/120px-Flag_of_Ethiopia_(1975%E2%80%931987).svg.png)
flag, 1975 – 1987Flag of Ethiopia (1975–1987) · Public domain .svg/120px-Flag_of_Ethiopia_(1987%E2%80%931991).svg.png)
flag, 1987 – 1991Flag of Ethiopia (1987–1991) · CC BY-SA 3.0 · TRAJAN 117 This W3C-unspecified vector image was created with Inkscape . .svg/120px-Flag_of_Ethiopia_(1991%E2%80%931996).svg.png)
flag, 1991 – 1996Flag of Ethiopia (1991–1996) · Public domain 
flag, from 1996Flag of Ethiopia · Public domain .svg/120px-Flag_of_Ethiopia_(1996%E2%80%932009).svg.png)
flag, 1996 – 1996Flag of Ethiopia (1996–2009) · Public domain 
coat of arms, from 1999Emblem of Ethiopia · 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 – 19996 rows · 1 wars and battles
- Sahle-Work Zewde · ruler · 1950 – present
- Mulatu Teshome · ruler · 1957 – present
- Girma Wolde-Giorgis · ruler · 1924 – 2018
- Eritrean–Ethiopian War · war · 1998 – 2000
- Taye Atske Selassie · ruler · 1956 – present
- Negasso Gidada · ruler · 1943 – 2019
2000 – 209912 rows · 6 wars and battles · 3 risings, regime changes and massacres
- Tigray war · war · 2020 – 2022
- COVID-19 pandemic in Ethiopia · plague · 2020
- Maersk Alabama hijacking · battle · 2009
- 2014–2016 Oromo protests · unrest · 2016
- Operation Enduring Freedom – Horn of Africa · battle · 2002
- 2024 Gofa landslides · disaster · 2024
- Amhara Region coup attempt · unrest · 2019
- Ethiopia–Tigray peace agreement · treaty · 2022
and 4 more in the atlas.
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 stood31 years
stood longer than 27% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- The most ground it held1,133,000 km²
held more ground at its peak than 85% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.
- Wars recorded per century4.0
had more wars on record per century than 99% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
- Rulers on record8
has more rulers on record than 76% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.
What led to it, and what came of it
The investigation's own picture: 8 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, 1985 – 2036, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 1992, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q115 (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.