State · 1976 – present
Trinidad and Tobago
A state of 1976 – present — 50 years, still standing in the Americas and Oceania. It replaced Trinidad and Tobago and followed British Windward Islands and West Indies Federation. The atlas records 10 things within it — unrest and atrocity 1 · famine and plague 1 · people 8. Its line of rulers holds 8 people, 7 with dated terms.
- 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
- 50 years
- and still standing
- Rulers
- 8
- the President of Trinidad and Tobago
- Most ground
- 6,200 km²
- in 1963
- Within it
- 10
- recorded rows
- Symbols
- 2
- 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
- Trinidad and Tobago · replaces
- British Windward Islands · follows
- West Indies Federation · follows
Rulers
The line of President of Trinidad and Tobago - the office this state names as its head of state.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ellis Clarke | 1976 – 1987 | 11 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Noor Hassanali | 1987 – 1997 | 10 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| A. N. R. Robinson | 1997 – 2003 | 6 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| George Maxwell Richards | 2003 – 2013 | 10 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Anthony Carmona | 2013 – 2018 | 5 years | ending not on record | |
| Paula-Mae Weekes | 2018 – 2023 | 5 years | ending not on record | |
| Christine Kangaloo | 2023 – in office | in office since 2023 | still in office |
8 rulers, 7 with terms dated as terms, covering 1976 – 2023. Only 47 years of the line are dated - too short for a median. 0 of 6 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 0.77, 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 Trinidad and Tobago, drawn and never measured: a cabinet is not a reign.
| Eric Williams | 1962 – 1981 |
| A. N. R. Robinson | 1986 – 1991 |
| Patrick Manning | 1991 – 1995 |
| Basdeo Panday | 1995 – 2001 |
| Patrick Manning | 2001 – 2010 |
| Kamla Persad-Bissessar | 2010 – 2015 |
| Keith Rowley | 2015 – 2025 |
| Stuart Young | 2025 – 2025 |
| Kamla Persad-Bissessar | 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.
6,200 km² in 1976, 6,200 km² in 2021; at its largest 6,200 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, from 1962Flag of Trinidad and Tobago · Public domain .svg/120px-Coat_of_arms_of_Trinidad_and_Tobago_(2025).svg.png)
coat of arms, from 1962Coat of arms of Trinidad and Tobago (2025) · CC BY 4.0 · BaronJaguar
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 – 19999 rows · 1 risings, regime changes and massacres
- Paula-Mae Weekes · ruler · 1958 – present
- Christine Kangaloo · ruler · 1961 – present
- George Maxwell Richards · ruler · 1931 – 2018
- A. N. R. Robinson · ruler · 1926 – 2014
- Anthony Carmona · ruler · 1953 – present
- Ellis Clarke · ruler · 1917 – 2010
- Noor Hassanali · ruler · 1918 – 2006
- Jamaat al Muslimeen coup attempt · unrest · 1990
and 1 more in the atlas.
2000 – 20991 row
- COVID-19 pandemic in Trinidad and Tobago · 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 stood50 years
stood longer than 34% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- The most ground it held6,200 km²
held more ground at its peak than 12% 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.
- 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: 6 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, 1966 – 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 Q754 (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.