Current World Dictators Here is a comprehensive, up-to-date list of the current world dictators and authoritarian regimes. In 2022 there are 57 dictatorships in the world. We define a dictator as the ruler of a land rated “Not Free” by the Freedom House in their annual survey of freedom. See the interactive map and photos below or click to visit the current dictators category.
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NOT FREE Countries In 2022: Afghanistan – Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai, President of Afghanistan Algeria – Abdelmadjid Tebboune, President of Algeria Angola – João Lourenço, President of Angola Azerbaijan – Ilham Aliyev, President of Azerbaijan Bahrain – King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, King of Bahrain Belarus – Aleksandr Lukashenko, President of Belarus Brunei – Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah Mu’izzaddin Waddaulah Burundi – Pierre Nkurunziza, President of Burundi Cambodia – Hun Sen, Prime Minister of Cambodia Cameroon – Paul Biya, President of Cameroon Central African Republic – Faustin Archange Touadera Chad – Idriss Deby, President of Chad China – Xi Jinping, President of China Congo, Dem. Rep. of – Joseph Kabila, President of Congo Congo, Rep of (Brazzaville) – Denis Sassou Nguesso, President Cuba – Miguel Díaz-Canel, President of Cuba Djibouti – Ismaïl Omar Guelleh Egypt – Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, President of Egypt Equatorial Guinea – OBIANG NGUEMA MBASOGO, President Eritrea – Isaias Afwerki, President of Eritrea Ethiopia – Abiy Ahmed, Prime Minister of Ethiopia Gabon – Albert-Bernard Bongo, President of Gabon Guinea Haiti Iran – Ali Khamenei, 2nd Supreme Leader of Iran Iraq – Barham Salih, President of Iraq Jordan Kazakhstan – Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, Acting President of Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Laos – Bounnhang Vorachith, President Libya – Nouri Abusahmain, President Mali Myanmar – Win Myint, President Nicaragua – Daniel Ortega Saavedra, President of Nicaragua North Korea – Kim Jong-un, President of North Korea Oman – Qaboos bin Said Al-Said, Prime Minister of Oman Qatar – Sheikh Hamad Bin Jassim Bin Jabr Al-Thani Russia – Vladimir Putin, President of Russia Rwanda – Paul Kagame, President of Rwanda Saudi Arabia – King Fahd bin Abdul Aziz, King of Saudi Arabia Somalia – Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, President of Somalia South Sudan – Salva Kiir Mayardit, President Sudan – Abdel Fattah Abdelrahman Burhan, President of Sudan Swaziland (Eswatini) – Mswati III, King of Swaziland Syria – Bashar al-Assad, President of Syria Tajikistan – Emomalii Rahmon, President of Tadjikistan Thailand – Prayut Chan-o-cha, Prime Minister of Thailand Turkey – Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Prime Minister of Turkey Turkmenistan – Gurbanguly BERDIMUHAMEDOW, President of Turkmenistan Uganda – Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, President of Uganda United Arab Emirates – Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan Uzbekistan – Shavkat Mirziyoyev, President of Uzbekistan Venezuela – Nicolás Maduro, President of Venezuela Vietnam – Nguyễn Phú Trọng, President of Vietnam Western Sahara – Brahim Ghali, President of Western Sahara Yemen – Ali Abdallah Salih, President of Yemen Zimbabwe NOT FREE Countries In 2021: Afghanistan – Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai, President of Afghanistan Algeria – Abdelmadjid Tebboune, President of Algeria Angola – João Lourenço, President of Angola Azerbaijan – Ilham Aliyev, President of Azerbaijan Bahrain – King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, King of Bahrain Belarus – Aleksandr Lukashenko, President of Belarus Brunei – Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah Mu’izzaddin Waddaulah Burundi – Pierre Nkurunziza, President of Burundi Cambodia – Hun Sen, Prime Minister of Cambodia Cameroon – Paul Biya, President of Cameroon Central African Republic – Faustin Archange Touadera Chad – Idriss Deby, President of Chad China – Xi Jinping, President of China Congo, Dem. Rep. of – Joseph Kabila, President of Congo Congo, Rep of (Brazzaville) – Denis Sassou Nguesso, President Cuba – Miguel Díaz-Canel, President of Cuba Djibouti – Ismaïl Omar Guelleh Egypt – Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, President of Egypt Equatorial Guinea – OBIANG NGUEMA MBASOGO, President Eritrea – Isaias Afwerki, President of Eritrea Ethiopia – Abiy Ahmed, Prime Minister of Ethiopia Gabon – Albert-Bernard Bongo, President of Gabon Iran – Ali Khamenei, 2nd Supreme Leader of Iran Iraq – Barham Salih, President of Iraq Jordan Kazakhstan – Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, Acting President of Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Laos – Bounnhang Vorachith, President (elected on Apr 19, 2016) Libya – Nouri Abusahmain, President Mali Myanmar – Win Myint, President Nicaragua – Daniel Ortega Saavedra, President of Nicaragua North Korea – Kim Jong-un, President of North Korea Oman – Qaboos bin Said Al-Said, Prime Minister of Oman Qatar – Sheikh Hamad Bin Jassim Bin Jabr Al-Thani Russia – Vladimir Putin, President of Russia Rwanda – Paul Kagame, President of Rwanda Saudi Arabia – King Fahd bin Abdul Aziz, King of Saudi Arabia Somalia – Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, President of Somalia South Sudan – Salva Kiir Mayardit, President Sudan – Abdel Fattah Abdelrahman Burhan, President of Sudan Swaziland (Eswatini) – Mswati III, King of Swaziland Syria – Bashar al-Assad, President of Syria Tajikistan – Emomalii Rahmon, President of Tadjikistan Thailand – Prayut Chan-o-cha, Prime Minister of Thailand Turkey – Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Prime Minister of Turkey Turkmenistan – Gurbanguly BERDIMUHAMEDOW, President of Turkmenistan Uganda – Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, President of Uganda United Arab Emirates – Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan Uzbekistan – Shavkat Mirziyoyev, President of Uzbekistan Venezuela – Nicolás Maduro, President of Venezuela Vietnam – Nguyễn Phú Trọng, President of Vietnam Western Sahara – Brahim Ghali, President of Western Sahara Yemen – Ali Abdallah Salih, President of Yemen Zimbabwe NOT FREE Countries In 2020: Afghanistan – Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai, President of Afghanistan Algeria – Abdelmadjid Tebboune, President of Algeria Angola – João Lourenço, President of Angola (since Sept 26, 2017; replaced Jose Eduardo dos Santos) Azerbaijan – Ilham Aliyev, President of Azerbaijan Bahrain – King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, King of Bahrain Belarus – Aleksandr Lukashenko, President of Belarus Brunei – Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah Mu’izzaddin Waddaulah Burundi – Pierre Nkurunziza, President of Burundi Cambodia – Hun Sen, Prime Minister of Cambodia Cameroon – Paul Biya, President of Cameroon Central African Republic – Faustin Archange Touadera Chad – Idriss Deby, President of Chad China – Xi Jinping, President of China Congo, Dem. Rep. of – Joseph Kabila, President of Congo Congo, Rep of (Brazzaville) – Denis Sassou Nguesso, President Cuba – Miguel Díaz-Canel, President of Cuba Djibouti – Ismaïl Omar Guelleh – Moved from Partly Free to Not Free Egypt – Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, President of Egypt Equatorial Guinea – OBIANG NGUEMA MBASOGO, President Eritrea – Isaias Afwerki, President of Eritrea Ethiopia – Abiy Ahmed, Prime Minister of Ethiopia Gabon – Albert-Bernard Bongo, President of Gabon Iran – Ali Khamenei, 2nd Supreme Leader of Iran Iraq – Barham Salih, President of Iraq Kazakhstan – Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, Acting President of Kazakhstan Laos – Bounnhang Vorachith, President (elected on Apr 19, 2016) Libya – Nouri Abusahmain, President Myanmar – Win Myint, President – Moved from Partly Free to Not Free Mauritania – Mohamed Ould Abd Aziz, President of Mauritania Moved to Partly FreeNicaragua – Daniel Ortega Saavedra, President of Nicaragua North Korea – Kim Jong-un, President of North Korea Oman – Qaboos bin Said Al-Said, Prime Minister of Oman Qatar – Sheikh Hamad Bin Jassim Bin Jabr Al-Thani Russia – Vladimir Putin, President of Russia Rwanda – Paul Kagame, President of Rwanda Saudi Arabia – King Fahd bin Abdul Aziz, King of Saudi Arabia Somalia – Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, President of Somalia South Sudan – Salva Kiir Mayardit, President Sudan – Abdel Fattah Abdelrahman Burhan, President of Sudan Swaziland (Eswatini) – Mswati III, King of Swaziland Syria – Bashar al-Assad, President of Syria Tajikistan – Emomalii Rahmon, President of Tadjikistan Thailand – Prayut Chan-o-cha, Prime Minister of Thailand Moved to Partly FreeTurkey – Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Prime Minister of Turkey Turkmenistan – Gurbanguly BERDIMUHAMEDOW, President of Turkmenistan Uganda – Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, President of Uganda United Arab Emirates – Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan Uzbekistan – Shavkat Mirziyoyev, President of Uzbekistan Venezuela – Nicolás Maduro, President of Venezuela Vietnam – Nguyễn Phú Trọng, President of Vietnam Western Sahara – Brahim Ghali, President of Western Sahara Yemen – Ali Abdallah Salih, President of Yemen NOT FREE Countries In 2019: Afghanistan – Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai, President of Afghanistan Algeria – Abdelkader Bensalah, Acting President of Algeria Angola – João Lourenço, President of Angola (since Sept 26, 2017; replaced Jose Eduardo dos Santos) Azerbaijan – Ilham Aliyev, President of Azerbaijan Bahrain – King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, King of Bahrain Belarus – Aleksandr Lukashenko, President of Belarus Brunei – Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah Mu’izzaddin Waddaulah Burundi – Pierre Nkurunziza, President of Burundi Cambodia – Hun Sen, Prime Minister of Cambodia Cameroon – Paul Biya, President of Cameroon Central African Republic – Faustin Archange Touadera Chad – Idriss Deby, President of Chad China – Xi Jinping, President of China Congo, Dem. Rep. of – Joseph Kabila, President of Congo Congo, Rep of (Brazzaville) – Denis Sassou Nguesso, President Cuba – Miguel Díaz-Canel, President of Cuba Egypt – Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, President of Egypt Equatorial Guinea – OBIANG NGUEMA MBASOGO, President Eritrea – Isaias Afwerki, President of Eritrea Ethiopia – Abiy Ahmed, Prime Minister of Ethiopia Gabon – Albert-Bernard Bongo, President of Gabon Iran – Ali Khamenei, 2nd Supreme Leader of Iran Iraq – Barham Salih, President of Iraq Kazakhstan – Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, Acting President of Kazakhstan Laos – Bounnhang Vorachith, President (elected on Apr 19, 2016) Libya – Nouri Abusahmain, President Mauritania – Mohamed Ould Abd Aziz, President of Mauritania Nicaragua – Daniel Ortega Saavedra, President of Nicaragua – ADDED North Korea – Kim Jong-un, President of North Korea Oman – Qaboos bin Said Al-Said, Prime Minister of Oman Qatar – Sheikh Hamad Bin Jassim Bin Jabr Al-Thani Russia – Vladimir Putin, President of Russia Rwanda – Paul Kagame, President of Rwanda Saudi Arabia – King Fahd bin Abdul Aziz, King of Saudi Arabia Somalia – Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, President of Somalia South Sudan – Salva Kiir Mayardit, President Sudan – Abdel Fattah Abdelrahman Burhan, President of Sudan Swaziland – Mswati III, King of Swaziland Syria – Bashar al-Assad, President of Syria Tajikistan – Emomalii Rahmon, President of Tadjikistan Thailand – Prayut Chan-o-cha, Prime Minister of Thailand Turkey – Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Prime Minister of Turkey Turkmenistan – Gurbanguly BERDIMUHAMEDOW, President of Turkmenistan Uganda – Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, President of Uganda – ADDED United Arab Emirates – Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan Uzbekistan – Shavkat Mirziyoyev, President of Uzbekistan Venezuela – Nicolás Maduro, President of Venezuela Vietnam – Nguyễn Phú Trọng, President of Vietnam Western Sahara – Brahim Ghali, President of Western Sahara Yemen – Ali Abdallah Salih, President of Yemen Zimbabwe – Robert (Gabriel) Mugabe, President of Zimbabwe NOT FREE Countries In 2018: Afghanistan – Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai, President of Afghanistan Algeria – Abdelaziz Bouteflika, President of Algeria Angola – João Lourenço, President of Angola (since Sept 26, 2017; replaced Jose Eduardo dos Santos) Azerbaijan – Ilham Aliyev, President of Azerbaijan Bahrain – King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, King of Bahrain Belarus – Aleksandr Lukashenko, President of Belarus Brunei – Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah Mu’izzaddin Waddaulah Burundi – Pierre Nkurunziza, President of Burundi Cambodia – Hun Sen, Prime Minister of Cambodia Cameroon – Paul Biya, President of Cameroon Central African Republic – Faustin Archange Touadera Chad – Idriss Deby, President of Chad China – Xi Jinping, President of China Congo, Dem. Rep. of – Joseph Kabila, President of Congo Congo, Rep of (Brazzaville) – Denis Sassou Nguesso, President Cuba – Miguel Díaz-Canel, President of Cuba Djibouti – Ismaïl Omar Guelleh, President of Djibouti Egypt – Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, President of Egypt Equatorial Guinea – OBIANG NGUEMA MBASOGO, President Eritrea – Isaias Afwerki, President of Eritrea Ethiopia – Abiy Ahmed, Prime Minister of Ethiopia Gabon – Albert-Bernard Bongo, President of Gabon Gambia – Adama Barrow, President of Gambia Iran – Hassan Rouhan, President of Iran Iraq – Barham Salih, President of Iraq Kazakhstan – Nursultan Nazarbaev, President of Kazakhstan Laos – Bounnhang Vorachith, President (elected on Apr 19, 2016) Libya – Nouri Abusahmain, President Mauritania – Mohamed Ould Abd Aziz, President of Mauritania North Korea – Kim Jong-un, President of North Korea Oman – Qaboos bin Said Al-Said, Prime Minister of Oman Qatar – Sheikh Hamad Bin Jassim Bin Jabr Al-Thani Russia – Vladimir Putin, President of Russia Rwanda – Paul Kagame, President of Rwanda Saudi Arabia – King Fahd bin Abdul Aziz, King of Saudi Arabia Somalia – Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, President of Somalia South Sudan – Salva Kiir Mayardit, President Sudan – Omar H.A. Al-Bashier, President of Sudan Swaziland – Mswati III, King of Swaziland Syria – Bashar al-Assad, President of Syria Tajikistan – Emomalii Rahmon, President of Tadjikistan Thailand – Prayut Chan-o-cha, Prime Minister of Thailand Turkey – Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Prime Minister of Turkey – ADDED Turkmenistan – Gurbanguly BERDIMUHAMEDOW, President of Turkmenistan United Arab Emirates – Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan Uzbekistan – Shavkat Mirziyoyev, President of Uzbekistan Venezuela – Nicolás Maduro, President of Venezuela Vietnam – Nguyễn Phú Trọng, President of Vietnam Western Sahara – Brahim Ghali, President of Western Sahara – ADDED Yemen – Ali Abdallah Salih, President of Yemen Zimbabwe – Robert (Gabriel) Mugabe, President of Zimbabwe NOT FREE (authoritarian regimes/dictatorships) Countries In 2017: Afghanistan – Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai, President of Afghanistan Algeria – Abdelaziz Bouteflika, President of Algeria Angola – João Lourenço, President of Angola (since Sept 26, 2017; replaced Jose Eduardo dos Santos) Azerbaijan – Ilham Aliyev, President of Azerbaijan Bahrain – King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, King of Bahrain Belarus – Aleksandr Lukashenko, President of Belarus Brunei – Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah Mu’izzaddin Waddaulah Burundi – Pierre Nkurunziza, President of Burundi Cambodia – Hun Sen, Prime Minister of Cambodia Cameroon – Paul Biya, President of Cameroon Central African Republic – Faustin Archange Touadera Chad – Idriss Deby, President of Chad China – Xi Jinping, President of China Congo, Dem. Rep. of – Joseph Kabila, President of Congo Congo, Rep of (Brazzaville) – Denis Sassou Nguesso, President Cuba – Raul Castro, President of Cuba Djibouti – Ismaïl Omar Guelleh, President of Djibouti Egypt – Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, President of Egypt Equatorial Guinea – OBIANG NGUEMA MBASOGO, President Eritrea – Isaias Afwerki, President of Eritrea Ethiopia – Girme Wolde Giorgis, President of Ethiopia Gabon – Albert-Bernard Bongo, President of Gabon Gambia – Adama Barrow, President of Gambia Iran – Hassan Rouhan, President of Iran Iraq – Muhammad Fuad Masum, President of Iraq Kazakhstan – Nursultan Nazarbaev, President of Kazakhstan Laos – Bounnhang Vorachith, President (elected on Apr 19, 2016) Libya – Nouri Abusahmain, President Mauritania – Mohamed Ould Abd Aziz, President of Mauritania North Korea – Kim Jong-un, President of North Korea Oman – Qaboos bin Said Al-Said, Prime Minister of Oman Qatar – Sheikh Hamad Bin Jassim Bin Jabr Al-Thani Russia – Vladimir Putin, President of Russia Rwanda – Paul Kagame, President of Rwanda Saudi Arabia – King Fahd bin Abdul Aziz, King of Saudi Arabia Somalia – Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, President of Somalia South Sudan – Salva Kiir Mayardit, President Sudan – Omar H.A. Al-Bashier, President of Sudan Swaziland – Mswati III, King of Swaziland Syria – Bashar al-Assad, President of Syria Tajikistan – Emomalii Rahmon, President of Tadjikistan Thailand – Prayut Chan-o-cha, Prime Minister of Thailand Turkmenistan – Gurbanguly BERDIMUHAMEDOW, President of Turkmenistan United Arab Emirates – Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan Uzbekistan – Shavkat Mirziyoyev, President of Uzbekistan Venezuela – Nicolás Maduro, President of Venezuela – ADDED Vietnam – Tran Dai Quang, President of Vietnam Yemen – Ali Abdallah Salih, President of Yemen Zimbabwe – Robert (Gabriel) Mugabe, President of Zimbabwe NOT FREE (authoritarian regimes/dictatorships) Countries In 2016: Afghanistan – Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai, President of Afghanistan Algeria – Abdelaziz Bouteflika, President of Algeria Angola – Mr. Jose Eduardo dos Santos, President of Angola Azerbaijan – Ilham Aliyev, President of Azerbaijan Bahrain – King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, King of Bahrain Belarus – Aleksandr Lukashenko, President of Belarus Brunei – Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah Mu’izzaddin Waddaulah Burundi – Pierre Nkurunziza, President of Burundi Cambodia – Hun Sen, Prime Minister of Cambodia Cameroon – Paul Biya, President of Cameroon Central African Republic – Faustin Archange Touadera – ADDED Chad – Idriss Deby, President of Chad China – Xi Jinping, President of China Congo, Dem. Rep. of – Joseph Kabila, President of Congo Congo, Rep of (Brazzaville) – Denis Sassou Nguesso, President Cuba – Raul Castro, President of Cuba Djibouti – Ismaïl Omar Guelleh, President of Djibouti Egypt – Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, President of Egypt Equatorial Guinea – OBIANG NGUEMA MBASOGO, President Eritrea – Isaias Afwerki, President of Eritrea Ethiopia – Girme Wolde Giorgis, President of Ethiopia Gabon – Albert-Bernard Bongo, President of Gabon Gambia – Adama Barrow, President of Gambia Iran – Hassan Rouhan, President of Iran Iraq – Muhammad Fuad Masum, President of Iraq Jordan – King Abdullah II bin Al Hussein, King of Jordan Kazakhstan – Nursultan Nazarbaev, President of Kazakhstan Laos – Bounnhang Vorachith, President (elected on Apr 19, 2016) Libya – Nouri Abusahmain, President Mauritania – Mohamed Ould Abd Aziz, President of Mauritania Myanmar (Burma) – Htin Kyaw, President of Myanmar – ADDED North Korea – Kim Jong-un, President of North Korea Oman – Qaboos bin Said Al-Said, Prime Minister of Oman Qatar – Sheikh Hamad Bin Jassim Bin Jabr Al-Thani Russia – Vladimir Putin, President of Russia Rwanda – Paul Kagame, President of Rwanda Saudi Arabia – King Fahd bin Abdul Aziz, King of Saudi Arabia Somalia – Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, President of Somalia South Sudan – Salva Kiir Mayardit, President Sudan – Omar H.A. Al-Bashier, President of Sudan Swaziland – Mswati III, King of Swaziland Syria – Bashar al-Assad, President of Syria Tajikistan – Emomalii Rahmon, President of Tadjikistan Thailand – Prayut Chan-o-cha, Prime Minister of Thailand Turkmenistan – Gurbanguly BERDIMUHAMEDOW, President of Turkmenistan United Arab Emirates – Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan Uzbekistan – Shavkat Mirziyoyev, President of Uzbekistan Vietnam – Tran Dai Quang, President of Vietnam – ADDED Yemen – Ali Abdallah Salih, President of Yemen Zimbabwe – Robert (Gabriel) Mugabe, President of Zimbabwe NOT FREE (authoritarian regimes/dictatorships) Countries In 2015: Afghanistan – Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai, President of Afghanistan Algeria – Abdelaziz Bouteflika, President of Algeria Angola – Mr. Jose Eduardo dos Santos, President of Angola Azerbaijan – Ilham Aliyev, President of Azerbaijan Bahrain – King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, King of Bahrain Belarus – Aleksandr Lukashenko, President of Belarus Brunei – Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah Mu’izzaddin Waddaulah Burundi – Pierre Nkurunziza, President of Burundi Cambodia – Hun Sen, Prime Minister of Cambodia Cameroon – Paul Biya, President of Cameroon Central African Republic – Catherine Samba-Panza, President Chad – Idriss Deby, President of Chad China – Xi Jinping, President of China Congo, Dem. Rep. of – Joseph Kabila, President of Congo Congo, Rep of (Brazzaville) – Denis Sassou Nguesso, President Cuba – Raul Castro, President of Cuba Djibouti – Ismaïl Omar Guelleh, President of Djibouti Egypt – Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, President of Egypt Equatorial Guinea – OBIANG NGUEMA MBASOGO, President Eritrea – Isaias Afwerki, President of Eritrea Ethiopia – Girme Wolde Giorgis, President of Ethiopia Gabon – Albert-Bernard Bongo, President of Gabon Gambia – Alhaji Dr. Yahya Abdul-Azziz Jemus Junkung Jammeh, President of Gambia Iran – Hassan Rouhan, President of Iran Iraq – Muhammad Fuad Masum, President of Iraq Jordan – King Abdullah II bin Al Hussein, King of Jordan Kazakhstan – Nursultan Nazarbaev, President of Kazakhstan Laos – Lieutenant General Choummaly Sayasone, President Libya – Nouri Abusahmain, President Mauritania – Mohamed Ould Abd Aziz, President of Mauritania Myanmar (Burma) – Thein Sein, President of Myanmar North Korea – Kim Jong-un, President of North Korea Oman – Qaboos bin Said Al-Said, Prime Minister of Oman Qatar – Sheikh Hamad Bin Jassim Bin Jabr Al-Thani Russia – Vladimir Putin, President of Russia Rwanda – Paul Kagame, President of Rwanda Saudi Arabia – King Fahd bin Abdul Aziz, King of Saudi Arabia Somalia – Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, President of Somalia South Sudan – Salva Kiir Mayardit, President Sudan – Omar H.A. Al-Bashier, President of Sudan Swaziland – Mswati III, King of Swaziland Syria – Bashar al-Assad, President of Syria Tajikistan – Emomalii Rahmon, President of Tadjikistan Thailand – Prayut Chan-o-cha, Prime Minister of Thailand Turkmenistan – Gurbanguly BERDIMUHAMEDOW, President of Turkmenistan United Arab Emirates – Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan Uzbekistan – Islam Abdughanievich Karimov, President of Uzbekistan Vietnam – Truong Tan Sang, President of Vietnam Yemen – Ali Abdallah Salih, President of Yemen Zimbabwe – Robert (Gabriel) Mugabe, President of Zimbabwe
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Fine article!
When I see deeply inaccurate information on a website, I begin to question the entirety of its content.
Norodom Sihamoni is not a dictator. He's 'king' of Cambodia in nothing but name; it's an empty title. Prime Minister Hun Sen is the de facto dictator of Cambodia, although he was supposedly 'democratically' elected. He has also expressed that he plans to be prime minister until he dies, or until he gets old enough to pass the office onto his son. Sounds very democratic, right...
So... You've got some inaccurate information on here. I don't feel like going down this list and checking how much of the rest of it is right or wrong. If you've got a site like this, it seems to me is the idea that *you* do the research instead of lazily slapping a list together. You coulda read Wikipedia to glean that Sihamoni is basically under house arrest in his own kingdom (lulz) by order of Hun Sen. Lazy, yo.
Lol, after reading through the rest of the comments, it looks like this list is more or less your personal opinion, site moderators? Yeesh, I can make s**t up, too, but there's very little evidence to suggest that the U.S. is a 'free' nation-- lots of information demonstrating that it is a modern imperialist colonial nation-state which kills, imprisons, and otherwise subjugates certain portions of its own population (people of colour, queers, people with disabilities, immigrants, etc.)-- awfully semblant of Nazi Germany, a place in time which we have historically demonized in tandem with our own historic heroism.
You think the U.S., Canada, South Africa, etc. are free when they have populations, some of them majority populations, which are subject to ongoing genocide? Black South Africans, people of colour in the UK, France, Scandinavia, First Nation peoples, Native American nations, to name a few. You should point out that "free" refers to certain types of people. Other peoples are partially or entirely excluded from this.
Our dictatorship data is based on the Freedom House reports.
do you know anything about usa i live in us and there is no killing queers people of color or disabled people for no reason you still go to jail if u do that
It wasn't their personal opinion "a land rated “Not Free” by the Freedom House in their annual survey of freedom"
Lee, thanks for pointing this out. The information has now been updated for Cambodia.
where is donald trump
I'm not sure how the USA is considered "free"
You should also do a list of illegal states.... number 1, it is Israel......
One thing is a dictatorship or an autoritharian guverment and another is the level of freedom permited to the people .
There is a big diffrence betwean an totalitarian system and an authoritarian one !!
This map is quite biased.... China is considered today to have quite the economical freedom , it is not ruled in a dictatorial fashion but more by an authoritarian party who protects its interests .
Russia is clearly much more free today then it ever was ! To call Russia a dictatorship is ridiculous.. Putin is a strong man but not a dictator, in the east you have a diffrent tradition of leadership .
Missing a few! British Monarchy QUEEN ELIZABETH II, Current US President Obama is still in office until late 2016. And in my eyes Prime Minister is also considered dictators so yeah, its a few more to add.
more that half of them were just monarchs and comminst countries
Turkey is still missing from this list. Recep Tayyip Erdogan is a bloody dictator who came to power by a fixed election (after a financial crisis was triggered) and refuses to let go of power the last 13 years through massive election fraud and media suppression. Currently he has personally caused a record number of journalists and academicians to be jailed and control the whole judicial system singlehandedly. It's been many years since the last fair elections and currently even journalists are not allowed in the country where the government forces are running a very bloody ethnic cleansing campaign in Kurdish populated areas. There are multiple international efforts to send him to the international tribunal for crimes against humanity and eat crimes. He's also a relentless supporter of Daesh (ISIL) through training, equipment, and logistic support by Turkish armed forces.
This is pretty much what Trump/Bannon are attempting.
asks, Can we change the name of this page. These People are Recklessly Endangered by (The Classification).