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user-inactivated  ·  2944 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Flag Stories

The neat thing about this graph is it shows the death of the empires during and after WWI as a spike. Then the final death of the British empire and the chaos of new nation states in the late 40's and 50's. Most of the countries that exist are new, barely infants.