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Counties Gaining Independence Since 1943 Counties Gaining Independence Since 1943

1943 Lebanon

1944 Syria, Iceland

1945 Indonesia, Taiwan

1946 Jordan, Philippines

1947 Pakistan, India

1948 Burma (now Myanmar), Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), Israel, Korea (South), Korea (North)

1951 Oman, Libya

1953 Laos, Cambodia (Kampuchea)

1954 Vietnam

1956 Sudan, Morocco, Tunisia

1957 Ghana, Malaysia

1958 Guinea

1960 Cameroon, Togo, Madagascar, Congo (now Zaire), Somalia, Dahomey (now Benin), Niger, Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso), Ivory Coast (now Cote d'Ivoire), Chad, Central African Republic, Republic of The Congo, Cyprus, Gabon Senegal, Mali, Nigeria, Mauritania

1961 Sierra Leone, Kuwait, Tanganyika (with Zanzibar, now Tanzania)

1962 Western Samoa, Burundi, Rwanda, Algeria, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda

1963 Zanzibar (with Tanganyika, now Tanzania), Kenya

1964 Malawi, Malta, Zambia

1965 The Gambia, Maldives, Singapore,

1966 Guyana, Botswana, Lesotho, Barbados

1968 Nauru, Mauritius, Swaziland, Equatorial Guinea

1970 Tonga, Fiji

1971 Bangladesh, Bahrain, Qatar, United Arab Emirates

1973 The Bahamas

1974 Grenada, Guinea-Bissau

1975 Mozambique, Cape Verde, Comoros, Sao Tome e Principe, Papua New Guinea , Angola, Suriname

1976 Seychelles

1977 Djibouti

1978 Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Dominica

1979 Saint Lucia, Kiribati, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

1980 Zimbabwe, Vanuatu

1981 Belize, Antigua and Barbuda

1983 Saint Christopher and Nevis(now Saint Kitts and Nevis)

1984 Brunei

1986 Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia

1990 Namibia, Armenia

1991 Georgia, Croatia, Slovenia, Estonia, Latvia, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Lithuania, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Russia, Kazakhstan

1992 Bosnia and Herzegovina

1993 Eritrea

1994 Palau