Side by side

Guinea and Mali 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.

🇬🇳Guinea

2 October 1958 — Guinea votes 'Non' and proclaims independence from France

Dossier →Chronicle →

🇲🇱Mali

c. 1235 — Sundiata Keita founds the Mali Empire on the upper Niger

Dossier →Chronicle →

Shared indicators
40
Domains
9
Crossed events
2
Data through
2026-08-10

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.

Economy

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Society

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Governance

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Health

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Education

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Technology

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Geography

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Resources

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Military

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Entangled histories

2 events 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.

  1. c. 1235

    Foundation of the Mali Empire on the upper Niger

    Sundiata Keita unites the Malinké chiefdoms of the Manding heartland and founds the Mali Empire, with its capital at Niani on the upper Niger.

    Formation · from the Guinea chronicle · The Mande Heartland and the Sahelian Empires · Guinea — History, Mali Empire, Songhai Empire

  2. 1324

    Mansa Musa's pilgrimage makes Mali's gold legendary

    Under Mansa Musa, the Mali Empire — embracing the Mande lands of the upper Niger — reaches its height and becomes renowned abroad for the wealth of its rulers.

    Economy & Trade · from the Guinea chronicle · The Mande Heartland and the Sahelian Empires · Mali Empire, Guinea — History