Haiti vs Sri Lanka: Years a country was a European overseas colony

Haiti
140 years
in 2022
Sri Lanka
189 years
in 2022
Haiti rank
50th
Sri Lanka rank
47th

Years a country was a European overseas colony over time

  • Haiti
  • Sri Lanka
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How they compare

Sri Lanka currently reports 189 years against 140 years in Haiti, a difference of 49 years.

That makes Sri Lanka's figure about 1.4 times Haiti's.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 561 shared years of data; in 1462 it was Sri Lanka ahead.

Haiti ranks 50th and Sri Lanka ranks 47th 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.