Name: Country with the Most COUPS? #Shorts ⚔️📊
Uploaded: 2021-09-17T17:49:16+00:00
Duration: 30 s
Description: Watch as this data visualization and bar chart race ranks each country by its cumulative number of coups since 1945, categorized by the following regions: Asia, North America, South America, MENA (Mid

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Watch as this data visualization and bar chart race ranks each country by its cumulative number of coups since 1945, categorized by the following regions: Asia, North America, South America, MENA (Middle East and North Africa), Africa, Oceania, and Europe.

A coup d'état, usually shortened to coup, is the seizure and removal of a government and its powers. Typically, it is an illegal, unconstitutional seizure of power by a political faction, the military, or a dictator. Many scholars consider a coup successful when the usurpers seize and hold power for at least seven days.

According to Clayton Thyne and Jonathan Powell's coup dataset, there were 457 coup attempts from 1950 to 2010, of which 227 (49.7%) were successful and 230 (50.3%) were unsuccessful. They find that coups have "been most common in Africa and the Americas (36.5% and 31.9%, respectively). Asia and the Middle East have experienced 13.1% and 15.8% of total global coups, respectively. Europe has experienced by far the fewest coup attempts: 2.6%." Most coup attempts occurred in the mid-1960s, but there were also large numbers of coup attempts in the mid-1970s and the early 1990s. From 1950 to 2010, a majority of coups failed in the Middle East and Latin America. They had a somewhat higher chance of success in Africa and Asia. Numbers of successful coups have decreased over time.

This video is based on the most current data available as of the publish date.

Ranking the most coups by country as of 2021:
Bolivia
Sudan
Argentina
Haiti
Syria
Venezuela
Thailand
Guatemala
Iraq
Panama
Burundi
Congo
Ecuador
Nigeria
Togo
Chad
Paraguay
Sierra Leone
Egypt
Ghana