State · 1964 – present
Malawi
A state of 1964 – present — 62 years, still standing in sub-Saharan Africa. It replaced Commonwealth realm of Malawi. The atlas records 8 things within it — famine and plague 2 · people 6. Its line of rulers holds 6 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
- 62 years
- and still standing
- Rulers
- 6
- the President of Malawi
- Most ground
- 93,300 km²
- in 1976
- Within it
- 8
- recorded rows
- Symbols
- 4
- on record, with years
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
- Commonwealth realm of Malawi · replaces
Rulers
The line of President of Malawi - the office this state names as its head of state.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hastings Banda | 1966 – 1994 | 28 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Bakili Muluzi | 1994 – 2004 | 10 years | served out the term, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | |
| Bingu wa Mutharika | 2004 – 2012 | 8 years | died in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of death | |
| Joyce Banda | 2012 – 2014 | 2 years | lost an election, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | |
| Peter Mutharika | 2014 – 2020 | 6 years | ending not on record | |
| Lazarus Chakwera | 2020 – 2025 | 5 years | ending not on record | |
| Peter Mutharika | 2025 – in office | in office since 2025 | still in office |
6 rulers, 6 with terms dated as terms, covering 1966 – 2025. Median reign 7 years. 0 of 6 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”.
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.
93,200 km² in 1974, 93,300 km² in 2024; at its largest 93,300 km² in 1984. 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, 1964 – 2010Flag of Malawi · Public domain 
coat of arms, from 1964Coat of arms of Malawi · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Sodacan .svg/120px-Flag_of_Malawi_(2010%E2%80%932012).svg.png)
flag, 2010 – 2012Flag of Malawi (2010–2012) · Public domain flag, from 2012Flag of Malawi · 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 – 19995 rows
- Joyce Banda · ruler · 1950 – present
- Peter Mutharika · ruler · 1940 – present
- Bingu wa Mutharika · ruler · 1934 – 2012
- Lazarus Chakwera · ruler · 1955 – present
- Bakili Muluzi · ruler · 1943 – present
2000 – 20992 rows
- COVID-19 pandemic in Malawi · plague · 2020
- Food security in Malawi · famine · 2012 – 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 stood62 years
stood longer than 37% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- The most ground it held93,300 km²
held more ground at its peak than 44% 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 median8 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 29% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
- Rulers on record6
has more rulers on record than 69% 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.
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, 1954 – 2036, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 1976, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q1020 (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.