State · 1960 – present
Mali
A state of 1960 – present — 66 years, still standing in the Middle East and North Africa. It replaced Mali Federation, French West Africa and French Sudan. The atlas records 27 things within it — wars and battles 5 · regime change 5 · unrest and atrocity 4 · famine and plague 1 · people 12. Its line of rulers holds 9 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
- 66 years
- and still standing
- Rulers
- 9
- the President of Mali
- Most ground
- 1.45 million km²
- in 1960
- Within it
- 27
- 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
- Mali Federation · replaces · 1959 – 1960
- French West Africa · replaces
- French Sudan · replaces
Rulers
The line of President of Mali - the office this state names as its head of state.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Modibo Keïta | 1960 – 1968 | 8 years | deposed, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | |
| Moussa Traoré | 1968 – 1991 | 23 years | deposed, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | |
| Amadou Toumani Touré | 1991 – 1992 | 1 year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Alpha Oumar Konaré | 1992 – 2002 | 10 years | resigned or stood down, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | |
| Amadou Toumani Touré | 2002 – 2012 | 10 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Amadou Sanogo | 2012 – 2012 | under a year | ending not on record | |
| Dioncounda Traoré | 2012 – 2013 | 1 year | ending not on record | |
| Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta | 2013 – 2020 | 7 years | deposed, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | |
| Bah Ndaw | 2020 – 2021 | 1 year | ending not on record | |
| Assimi Goïta | 2021 – in office | in office since 2021 | still in office |
9 rulers, 9 with terms dated as terms, covering 1960 – 2021. Median reign 7 years. 8 of 9 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 0.61, 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 Mali, drawn and never measured: a cabinet is not a reign.
| Yoro Diakité | 1968 – 1969 |
| Mamadou Dembelé | 1986 – 1988 |
| Soumana Sacko | 1991 – 1992 |
| Younoussi Touré | 1992 – 1993 |
| Abdoulaye Sékou Sow | 1993 – 1994 |
| Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta | 1994 – 2000 |
| Mandé Sidibé | 2000 – 2002 |
| Ahmed Mohamed ag Hamani | 2002 – 2004 |
| Modibo Keita | 2002 – 2002 |
| Ousmane Issoufi Maïga | 2004 – 2007 |
| Modibo Sidibé | 2007 – 2011 |
| Cissé Mariam Kaïdama Sidibé | 2011 – 2012 |
| Cheick Modibo Diarra | 2012 – 2012 |
| Django Sissoko | 2012 – 2013 |
| Oumar Tatam Ly | 2013 – 2014 |
| Moussa Mara | 2014 – 2015 |
| Modibo Keita | 2015 – 2017 |
| Soumeylou Boubèye Maïga | 2017 – 2019 |
| Abdoulaye Idrissa Maïga | 2017 – 2017 |
| Boubou Cissé | 2019 – 2020 |
| Moctar Ouane | 2020 – 2021 |
| Choguel Kokalla Maïga | 2021 – 2024 |
| Abdoulaye Maïga | 2022 – 2022 |
| Abdoulaye Maïga | 2024 – … |
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.
1.45 million km² in 1960, 1.25 million km² in 2020; at its largest 1.45 million km² in 1960. 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 1961Flag of Mali · Public domain 
coat of arms, from 1973Coat of arms of Mali · 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 – 199915 rows · 1 wars and battles · 2 risings, regime changes and massacres
- Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta · ruler · 1945 – 2022
- Amadou Toumani Touré · ruler · 1948 – 2020
- Modibo Keïta · ruler · 1915 – 1977
- Alpha Oumar Konaré · ruler · 1946 – present
- Assimi Goïta · ruler · 1983 – present
- Moussa Traoré · ruler · 1936 – 2020
- Boubou Cissé · politician · 1974 – present
- Dioncounda Traoré · ruler · 1942 – present
and 7 more in the atlas.
2000 – 209912 rows · 4 wars and battles · 7 risings, regime changes and massacres
- Mali War · war · 2012
- 2020 Malian coup d'état · adverse regime change · 2020
- 2012 Malian coup d'état · adverse regime change · 2012
- COVID-19 pandemic in Mali · plague · 2020
- Tuareg rebellion · adverse regime change · 2012
- 2021 Malian coup d'état · adverse regime change · 2021
- Ogossagou massacre · atrocity · 2019
- 2026 Mali offensives · war · 2026
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 stood66 years
stood longer than 38% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- The most ground it held1,451,100 km²
held more ground at its peak than 88% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.
- Wars recorded per century3.0
had more wars on record per century than 99% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
- How long a reign lasted, at the median7 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 26% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
- Rulers on record9
has more rulers on record than 78% 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.
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, 1950 – 2036, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 1960, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q912 (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.