Principal Dictator
|
Duration
|
Country
|
Joseph Stalin (1922-1952)
|
1918-1991
|
Russia
|
Benito Mussolini (1922-1943)
|
1922-1943
|
Italy
|
António de Oliveira Salazar (1932-1968)
|
1926-1974
|
Portugal
|
Hirohito (1926-1989)
|
1928-1945
|
Japan
|
Abdallah (2005-2015)
|
1932-
|
Saudi Arabia
|
Adolf Hitler (1933-1945)
|
1933-1945
|
Germany
|
Francisco Franco (1939-1975)
|
1939-1975
|
Spain
|
Philippe Pétain (1940-1944)
|
1940-1945
|
France
|
Wojciech Jaruzelski (1989-1990)
|
1944-1990
|
Poland
|
Charles Taylor (1997-2003)
|
1944-2003
|
Liberia
|
Hô Chi Minh (1945-1969)
|
1945-
|
Vietnam
|
Kim Il-Sung (1948-1994)
|
1945-
|
North Korea
|
Josip Broz Tito (1953-1980)
|
1945-2003
|
Yugoslavia
|
Todor Jivkov (1954-1990)
|
1946-1990
|
Bulgaria
|
Enver Hoxha (1941-1985)
|
1946-1991
|
Albania
|
Nicolae Ceaușescu (1965-1989)
|
1947-1989
|
Romania
|
Gustáv Husák (1969-1987)
|
1948-1990
|
Czechoslovakia
|
Mátyás Rákosi (1948-1956)
|
1949-1989
|
Hungary
|
Mao Zedong (1949-1976)
|
1949-
|
China
|
Fidel Castro (1959-2008)
|
1952-
|
Cuba
|
Alfredo Stroessner (1954-1989)
|
1954-1989
|
Paraguay
|
Jean-Claude Duvalier (1971-1986)
|
1957-1986
|
Haiti
|
Ben Ali (1987-2011)
|
1957-2011
|
Tunisia
|
Saddam Hussein (1979-2003)
|
1958-2004
|
Iraq
|
Ne Win (1962-1988)
|
1962-
|
Burma
|
Park Chung-Hee (1962-1979)
|
1962-1987
|
South Korea
|
Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco (1964-1967)
|
1964-1982
|
Brazil
|
Ferdinand Marcos (1965-1986)
|
1965-1986
|
Philippines
|
Mobutu Sese Seko (1965-1997)
|
1965-1997
|
Congo-Kinshasa
|
Omar Bongo (1967-2009)
|
1967-
|
Gabon
|
Geórgios Papadópoulos (1967-1973)
|
1967-1973
|
Greece
|
Soeharto (1967-1998)
|
1967-1998
|
Indonesia
|
Denis Sassou-Nguesso (1997-)
|
1969-
|
Congo-Brazzaville
|
Muammar Gaddafi (1969-2011)
|
1969-2011
|
Libya
|
Bachar Al-Assad (2000-)
|
1971-
|
Syria
|
Idi Amin Dada (1971-1979)
|
1971-1979
|
Uganda
|
Juan María Bordaberry (1972-1976)
|
1973-1985
|
Uruguay
|
Augustino Pinochet (1973-1990)
|
1973-1990
|
Chile
|
Souphanouvong (1975-1986)
|
1975-
|
Laos
|
José Eduardo dos Santos (1979-)
|
1975-
|
Angola
|
Jorge Videla (1976-1981)
|
1976-1983
|
Argentina
|
Pol Pot (1975-1979)
|
1975-1993
|
Cambodia
|
Jean-Bedel Bokassa (1976-1979)
|
1976-2013
|
Central African Republic
|
Ali Abdallah Saleh (1990-2012)
|
1978-2012
|
Yemen
|
Hassan Gouled Aptidon (1977-1999)
|
1977-1999
|
Djibouti
|
Ali Khamenei (1989-)
|
1979-
|
Iran
|
Robert Mugabe (1987-)
|
1980-
|
Zimbabwe
|
Hosni Mubarak (1981-2011)
|
1981-2011
|
Egypt
|
Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo (1982-)
|
1982-
|
Equatorial Guinea
|
Hissène Habré (1982-1990)
|
1982-
|
Chad
|
Omar al-Bashir (1989-)
|
1989-
|
Sudan
|
Islom Karimov (1990-)
|
1990-
|
Uzbekistan
|
Noursoultan Nazarbayev (1990-)
|
1990-
|
Kazakhstan
|
Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow (2006-)
|
1990-
|
Turkmenistan
|
Alexandre Loukachenko (1994-)
|
1991-
|
Belarus
|
Issayas Afewerki (1993-)
|
1993-
|
Eritrea
|
Yahya Jammeh (1996-)
|
1996-
|
Gambia
|
Mohammad Omar (1996-2001)
|
1996-2001
|
Afghanistan
|
Paul Kagame (2000-)
|
2000-
|
Rwanda
|