Libya vs Malawi: Sovereign state

Libya

in 2025

Malawi

in 2025

Libya rank

1st

Malawi rank

1st

Sovereign state over time

Libya currently reports 1 against 1 in Malawi, a difference of 0.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 210 shared years of data; in 1816 it was Libya ahead.

Libya ranks 1st and Malawi ranks 1st of 194 countries.

Indicator: Sovereign state
Source: Gleditsch and Ward (2007) – with minor processing by Our World in Data
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage: 194 places, 40,740 data points, 1816–2025
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

The country is identified as a sovereign state by Gleditsch and Ward dataset.