Plenty of oldest companies in this map predate the countries they're currently in. The The oldest company in Mexico is apparently about 300 years older than Mexico, and the oldest company in Canada is about 200 years older than Canada.

> The actual youngest seems to be South Sudan's Ivory Bank, which was only founded in 1994. This is easily explained by the country being relatively new.

South Sudan is only a country since 2011, they include establishments older than the country they operate in.

It's distinctly 1996 here:

https://businessfinancing.co.uk/the-oldest-company-in-almost...

On the world map, it's distinctly 1962.

1996 seems to be the correct date: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guinea_Ecuatorial_Airlines

Fair point.

Regardless, with other entries in the 1990s, that's amazingly recent.