Algeria vs Brunei: Years a country was a European overseas colony

Algeria
115 years
in 2022
Brunei
97 years
in 2022
Algeria rank
52nd
Brunei rank
54th

Years a country was a European overseas colony over time

  • Algeria
  • Brunei
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How they compare

Algeria currently reports 115 years against 97 years in Brunei, a difference of 18 years.

That makes Algeria's figure about 1.2 times Brunei's.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 561 shared years of data; in 1462 it was Brunei ahead.

Algeria ranks 52nd and Brunei ranks 54th of 159 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Years a country was a European overseas colony
Unit
years
Source
Bastian Becker (2023) – with major processing by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
159 places, 88,747 data points, 1462–2022
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Number of years the country has been colonized from overseas by the European colonial power(s) in a specific year, between Belgium, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, and Italy, or a combination of them.