Side by side
Gabon and Equatorial Guinea compared
Two sourced records set beside each other — the figures each nation publishes, and the events each chronicle records of the other. Compared, never graded.
12 October 1968 — Equatorial Guinea gains independence from Spain
- Shared indicators
- 38
- Domains
- 9
- Crossed events
- 1
- Data through
- 2026-08-11
The figures, side by side
Each figure is the same observation, with the same source, as on the two dossiers. Every value shows the year it was observed — vintages differ by indicator and nation. A “—” is an absence in the source data, never a zero. Metric names link to the world ranking; values open the figure on its own dossier.
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Entangled histories
One event in which either nation’s sourced chronicle names the other — including under earlier names of the same state. Each is the same record, with the same sources, as on its own chronicle; nothing here was written for this page.
- 1900
Treaty of Paris fixes Río Muni
The 1900 Treaty of Paris with France delimited Spain's mainland enclave of Río Muni at roughly 26,000 km², far smaller than Spain had claimed, setting the borders with French Cameroon and Gabon.
Colonisation · from the Equatorial Guinea chronicle · The British base and the Spanish cocoa colony · History of Equatorial Guinea, Spanish Guinea