Barbados vs East Timor: Years a country was a European overseas colony

Barbados
340 years
in 2022
East Timor
334 years
in 2022
Barbados rank
13th
East Timor rank
15th

Years a country was a European overseas colony over time

  • Barbados
  • East Timor
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How they compare

Barbados currently reports 340 years against 334 years in East Timor, a difference of 6 years.

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

Barbados ranks 13th and East Timor ranks 15th 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.