The Worst Country You Have Never Heard Of 

And by miles. Its Wikipedia article states "Mayotte is the most prosperous territory in the Mozambique Channel, making it a major destination for immigration.", in 2019 "as a result of immigration from neighboring islands [i.e., Comoros], 48% of the population were foreign nationals", and "In recent national elections, Mayotte has been a stronghold for the right-wing populist National Rally party, and gave its presidential candidate Marine Le Pen her highest vote percentage in the 2022 French presidential election first round." The causality is obvious. I have no idea why the UN General Assembly takes such issue with France retaining Mayotte; the Mahorais clearly want to remain part of France and the relationship is clearly beneficial for them.

@@howtoappearincompletely9739 Yeah the whole UN list of "colonized places" is mostly BS, specifically places that are part of the UK and France. They are all freely able to leave but choose not to.

Not really ironic, the more colonized a country was the the better off they were.

@@Distress. Contextually, for only remote and island nations, colonization was good. If you take African failed states, they are remote and island like due to terrain.

@@bitthalsarangi5471 Tbf, most of the mainland countries have a lot of problems that aren’t as properly able to be linked to colonization as one might think. For example, if we use the border/non-liked tribes argument, you get issues with places like the DPRC, which is too diverse to even make a modern sovereign state of if that argument was heeded, or places like, say, South Africa, in which you have situations where for example the Zulu was already making empires in the area and committing things that are risky to say on RU-vid during “the crushing”. Hell, there’s some issue with the broad idea of colonization within much of the African continent in general because arguably, the Bantu people groups themselves are colonizers, most well known within South Africa (with the “Khoisan” people being the “natives” there, for example), but ironically it’s the case for most of subsaharan and in some cases sehalian Africa even before the Europeans colonized). There’s also interesting concepts such as the colonial powers being the ones to end the slave trade as we think of it (at least officially, as we all know that it still happens under the radar around the world, especially in post-colonial Africa), with the British working to stamp out the trans-Atlantic trade, and the various colonial powers working to stamp out the other types on the continent such as the Arab slave trade (much to the displeasure of many of the native polities on the continent of which slavery what built many of them and continued to be important parts of their economy), with the most notable semi-exception in the the Belgian congo when Leopold II ruled it, quite rightly leading to harsh international condemnation at the time (to the point where the Belgian government took it away from him), and villainized in the annals of history. Effectively, it’s not so much the colonization in and of itself that’s the problem, but for the most part that after the fact, the people of the various African countries didn’t want to go back to their old systems for various reasons, but also were unable (or in some cases, I’d imagine) to fully and properly embrace “new” systems that their former colonial ruler countries and the wider western world generally used to great effect at the time (with notable exceptions, obviously).

they have a negative economy

Haiti has more of an economy, it's just extremely poor because of lots of debt. Comoros just has no income.

Haiti has economic problems, but their priblems are more the fact its an active PVP zone

@@japanpanda2179 And the debt problem goes back to being loan-sharked by the French in the 19th century!

Not to mention their leaders are assassinated. Haiti has trillions of dollars of minerals that US corporations are stealing.

According to Mayotte's Wikipedia article, 48% of the population of Mayotte in 2019 were foreign nationals. The situation is likely to have worsened since then, but it sounds unlikely to me than the Anjouanais now outnumber the Mahorais on Mayotte. Do you have a source for this claim?

@@howtoappearincompletely9739 48% foreign nationals doesn't mean 52% Mahorese, it means 52% French nationals, a lot of whom aren't Mahorese. Since we're talking clandestine immigration, it's basically impossible to have solid numbers, but as you said things have gotten way worse since 2019 especially last year, and even back in 2019 the government published that report with the note that the share of foreign-born was "highly underestimated".

France was right to say no. They wanted their independence and they have it. Why should occidental countries accept them back??

I think it’s because they don’t want more immigrants form coming in to the EU so they send them money to help there economy so they won’t leave

They have plenty to give. It would be a worse look if they didn't give away money 😅

That money should have been mine

@@dominiquerobinson3530 They could use it to tackle the issues in the union first, of which there are plenty.

@@dominiquerobinson3530 yes ISRAEL NEED THE AID!

They also have many local languages. Arabic and French are uncommon as first languages.

i saw a lot of arabic and french in morocco too, but morrocco reminded me of gta 5. (sunny, white houses on montains and it was very modern looking.)

@@Darkest_matter In Morocco, Arabic is spoken as a native language by a large portion of the population. Whereas in the Comoros, it is spoken as a second language.

They do better than Madagascar. They do better than us. They even helped us and sent us aid during a hurricane.

I don't think Madagascar want them?

@@nunyabiznes33 Madagascar never envisioned to have the Comoros. Instead, we want the French-controlled Scattered Islands around us because they were supposed to be Malagasy territories at the moment of the independence. However, at the last moment, France excluded these islands from the process and still controls them.

@@nunyabiznes33 madagascar is poorer than comoros

That's silly. There are smaller islands like Seychelles or Mauritius that have already reached developed status. There are no excuses.

comoros was nowhere near singapore decades ago. Stop with this bs that Singapore was some poor nation with nothing but fishing villages and swamps. It was literally the most developed and richest city in south east asia even before ww2. It already had the largest dry docks (yes docks, multiple of the largest at the time was in singapore) meaning that it has quite an active ship maintainance industry. It was already the world's 7th largest port at the time. Literally every manufacturing and natural resource processing within british malaya borneo was sent to singapore. Heck singapore was the de jure british malaya borneo capital back then. The tiny island alone has almost half of the entire protectorate/colonies gdp and was also the most populated settlement. In comparison, the second most developed town in malaya borneo at the time (Taiping) has nowhere near the development and population singapore has

Singapore is the richest and most developed city under British Malaya. Nowhere near London, but much developed indeed.

@@zebimicio5204 Yes Singapore was already one of the more developed cities in Southeast Asia, but still doesn’t change the fact it is a densely populated city-state with zero resources after independence from Malaysia. Also to be honest I just have to say the French were relatively terrible colonisers that failed to develop the industry and economy in any of their former colonies, whereas the British managed to do that with Hong Kong and Singapore. What Singapore has over Comoros is definitely geographic position though as it is situated at the mouth of the Straits of Malacca which is one of the world’s busiest trading ship routes.

@@YummYakitori Majority of Singapore's economy revolves around the service sector and it has been that way since the 13th century (parameswara's ancestors turned the island into world trading hub and was the religious and academic centre for buddhism). In fact natural resources meant nothing when they were THE place for natural resource processing and turned into final goods which is the actual value that consumers want. Again remember, the island itself already has half the gdp on the entire malaya borneo back then, it only dropped after the war which they still managed to retain at least have 1/3 of the rest of malaya borneo. What they did after 1965 is not much different than what the british colonial government did after they took the island from Johor. Do remember that one of the reasons Singapore actually left (yes, they left, the whole kicking out thing was a ruse by both Lee and Tunku so that the British wouldn't put a stop to it, read the albatross file to know more) was that Singaporean mps felt Singapore was the bread basket of Malaysia and they were essentially sucked dry to fund Borneo's development. And comoros have nothing compared to sg. SIngapore already had the skilled manpower, infrastructure, and economy to propell the island forward, comoros has none of that.

@@YummYakitori Singapore has always been a service oriented economy ever since the 13th century (when parameswara's ancestor turned the fishing vilage into world trading hub that led to singapore once being a centre of economics and buddist teachings). They never really rely on natural resources like the singapore government like to make people think. One of the reasons why singapore left the federation (yes left, the whole kicking out thing was a ruse by tunku and lee so that the british wouldn't intervene, you can read this in the declassified albatross file) was because of Singapore cabinet members thought of Singapore being sucked dry to fund Malaysian Borneo's development. Comoro's has nowhere near anything Singapore has. Singapore already had the infrastructure, skilled manpower, and economy to back them up.

Yes, Mayotte's doing much better, but they have high unemployment, in large part because of large-scale immigration from Comoros (48% of the population of Mayotte in 2019 were foreign nationals). I have no idea why the UN General Assembly takes such issue with France retaining Mayotte; the Mahorais clearly want to remain part of France and the relationship is clearly beneficial for them.

​@@howtoappearincompletely9739 Probably just pressure from the many firmly anti-colonial "revanchist" african countries.

Well then you'd also have to consider how well Mayotte would be doing if they didn't have the option to leave at any time Europeans only treat colonies right if they have the option to leave, otherwise you'll see regular bloodbaths and legalized slavery

@@AN456d its not 1900 my friend. Theres no colonies anymore.

@@ldubt4494 you're right. Exclusively because the ones who were colonies got away, and therefore countries are forced to treat the leftovers as regions They're not colonies but the reasons are not the right ones

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How did you figure that out?

@@WillieFungo there's a website that says the RU-vid revenue for every country, Comoros and Djibouti are higher than US.

​@ethandouro4334 now I imagine the comoros government forcing their citizens to livestream on youtube.

@@Granochereal lmao

and how you think they will afford computer and internet?

As someone who's just obsessed with history and geography, I have also heard of it.

Pointless collectivist tribalism, letting your life be defined by dead people centuries ago.

They were. But decolonization

fishing aint gonna do much.

Lack of creativity. Most of these countries never bother to buy large modern fishing vessels and instead rely on canoes to fish like it's the 15th century.

​@@WillieFungo More like they almost never have the budget to actually expand on what little industries they have, and they cant get any investments to come in and do it for them because the country itself has no potential.

@@GeoBlits Actually the deep water fishing industry could create tons of money and jobs, especially if they target high value fish like tuna for export.

@@WillieFungo They already have fishing and a small population and a lot of competition. It may help them but not that much.

I think it just makes the content more accessible to non-native english speakers as you can see by the names in the comments, and it's also useful when you're in public transport or someplace where you can't watch with sound.

Using AI (de)generated thumbnails ruined youtube of the game I make videos about, I simply can't grow my channel anymore, because 1 microsecond attention spam zoomers rather click on some AI generated slop thumbnail, than a real one

there is extremely high danger of insurgents coming from Comores to Mayotte. I believe France own's CIA actively observe mayotte for terrorist reasons

singapore?

​@@9ENSOKYO Was developed by the British before Singapore became independent. Having a bunch of deep water ports built for you for free is a very good boost

Liechtenstein doesn't think so

Go tell that to Iceland.

@@malcolmpalmer535 More NATO than anything.

I think what he was trying to highlight is that most countries have significantly larger industries than farming so that farming is only a small percentage of GDP - e.g. if agriculture was 100% of GDP, that would mean that every single person is just working in the fields and they have no other prospects, which would be a subsistence agriculture situation (generally a very precarious way for a country to live since one bad harvest can lead to mass starvation).

@@akirak1871 Yeah but it is 50%, they still have some GDP besides agriculture, also in tropical lands bad harvests are rare, since there is no f**king frost that ruins everything, God I hate frost, still I don't get people thinking that it is better for country to have almost no GDP in agriculture, Agriculture is the most important branch of economy, because at the end of the day, everyone has to eat

they dont have guns? why do you randomly bring up guns??

@Sama-nv5ek bcos u seem oblivious on how those weapons end up there, since they don't manufacture guns...sleeping beauty. I'll give you a hint. FRANCE

What are you talking about? Guns are really cheap. You can easily get a large amount of them tru illegal/legal means

​@@Sama-nv5ekAsk Haitians, they will tell you.

You put "undeveloped" in quotations when talking about a country with a life expectancy of 65 and adult literacy rate of 60% and that would have way worse living standards without massive foreign assistance (charity, basically). There are dark sides to development, no doubt, but I would still rather be the average citizen of any country considered developed than of a country like Comoros.

In the context of Economics, it meant one thing, having to heavily rely on Agriculture meant that the country hasn't developed a strong industrial yet... so, aside from food they weren't producing other stuffs. So they are still underdeveloped since they have to rely on others for pretty much everything.

@@edmondantes4338 Now, those mentioned factors make sense (including infrastructure, etc). I was criticizing the idea of relying on agriculture as a factor for underdevelopment, I wasn't referring to Comoros being developed.

@@flyveto457 Understood, and I agree to some extent. But, it also makes sense sometimes to understand a simple fact that not all countries "need" to be industrialized.

Yea you have no idea what development factors of a country. it"s factors by the countries standard of living, income, economic and industrial. You basically saying "guys, ins't it great how they don't have working plumbing".

Which country?

Samoa?

I’m very sure you’re from philippines

Man's really trying to kill others by curiosity torture 😮

@@RK-cj4oc I would guess the Philippines.

Yea, it may be the only option to break themselves out of the "no capital" rut. Once they have some capital built up from tax sheltering, they could conceivably invest some of it back into tourism, fishing, agriculture of specialty things like vanilla and spices, etc. Then eventually transition from tax haven to a place with actual industry.

I see a 35% corporate tax. That’s not going to attract any business from abroad

The US declared independence… So did India, Singapore, etc. Do you mean that only colonizers know how to do things?

France really got almost the same results after decolonization as USSR (and sometimes even worse). Metropoly almost wasn't affected whereas poorly designed colonial administrative units turned into 'tajikistans'

​@@user-ft9ul5ul5v If by metropoly you mean Russia or Moscow that's not true, economically it was very harsh for them as well (economic collapse, huge rise in crime, chechen war...)

@@Bastille9513 Yes, but nowhere near as union republics. I lived in Crimea and we had a full blown famine and starvation in 1990s while West Ukraine and Kiev lived fairly comfortably. Whereas Central Russia finally got all its money it previously invested in the periphery and lived even more 'luxuriously'. When we came to visit our relatives in early 200s they moved from a shabby railside wooden private house to an newly constructed (!) apartment block with all the amenities.

Comorians are now throwing their lives away on dinghy boats for a chance to land in France

But he didnt said african...

It's strict Muslim country. No is going to go there except Muslims.

Bruh... you are sick in the Head

Start with yourself, you have 160 Million people on tiny Java

​@@sejozwak Holy shit funny hoi4 monkey man

You can't simply "reduce population". That's called genocide, and it's a horrible thing.

Yes. According to Mayotte's Wikipedia article, 48% of the population of Mayotte in 2019 were foreign nationals, in large part because of large-scale immigration from Comoros.

Meanwhile every functional microstate:

He literally said that they cant invest into tourism because of political turmoil

safety is a pretty big issue there, def something they need to get sorted before even thinking about tourism

​@@lememzFrance is causing it all as always

Yeah, develop first before slowly asking for more and more autonomy. However, people let emotions get the best of them.

It certainly worked for Mayotte, which "is the most prosperous territory in the Mozambique Channel", according to the island-department's Wikipedia article. Unfortunately, this has "ma[de] it a major destination for immigration", so much so that in 2019, "as a result of immigration from neighboring islands [i.e., Comoros], 48% of the population were foreign nationals". Consequently, "[i]n recent national elections, Mayotte has been a stronghold for the right-wing populist National Rally party, and gave its presidential candidate Marine Le Pen her highest vote percentage in the 2022 French presidential election first round." I have no idea why the UN General Assembly takes such issue with France retaining Mayotte; the Mahorais clearly want to remain part of France and the relationship is clearly beneficial for them.

Funnily enough in the 90s 2 of the 3 islands seceded and asked to rejoin france, but france declined. I think this was a mistake, it would have been better for all involved, also mayotte, as they wouldnt have been overrun with immigrants like now.

@@ldubt4494 Yes, both Anjouan/Nzwani and Mohéli/Mwali seceded in 1997, although Mohéli/Mwali rejoined Comoros the following year. Anjouan/Nzwani wasn't conclusively returned to the fold until it was invaded by Comorian forces in 2008. Most of the Comorian immigrants to Mayotte are Anjouanais, so you're probably right that the level of immigration to Mayotte would not have become such an issue had France acceded to the Anjouanais' request for reannexation. I imagine the French government regarded the burden of administering Anjouan/Nzwani not to have been worth the extra territory, given that it retains Mayotte. Moreover, accepting the annexation request of a territory that had seceded illegally would probably have opened up France to diplomatic criticism which would have been best avoided.

@@howtoappearincompletely9739 what was in it for France? A bunch of welfare payments, petty criminals, social unrest...

Wait for China to find strategic value to these islands, these islanders don‘t really need French at all. 😆😲

Not a great draw for tourists.