World’s Worst Dictators  

Africa

• Isaias Afwerki/Eritrea
• Denis Sassou Nguesso/Congo
• Ismail Omar Guelleh/Djibouti
• Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo/Equatorial Guinea
• Paul Kagame/Rwanda
• Yoweri Kaguta Museveni/Uganda
• Ali Bongo Ondimba/Gabon
• King Mswati III/Swaziland
• Paul Biya/Cameroon
• Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz/Mauritania
• Abdel Fattah el-Sisi/Egypt
• Mohammed VI/Morocco

Asia 

• Kim Jong-un/North Korea
• Xi Jinping/China
• Nguyen Phu Trong/Vietnam
• Bounnhang Vorachith/Laos
• Hun Sen/Cambodia
• Prayut Chan-o-cha/Thailand
• Paduka Seri Baginda Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah Mu’izzaddin Waddaulah/Brunei
• Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow/Turkmenistan
• Nursultan Nazarbayev/Kazakhstan
• Emomali Rahmon/Tajikistan
• Ilham Aliyev/Azerbaijan

Middle East 

• Bashar al Assad/Syria
• Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud/Saudi Arabia
• Ayatollah Ali Khamenei/Iran
• Abdullah bin Al Hussein II/Jordan
• Recep Tayyip Erdogan/Turkey
• Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa/Bahrain
• Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani/Qatar
• Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan/United Arab Emirates
• Mohammed Ali al-Houthi/Yemen

Latin America 

• Raul Castro/Cuba
• Nicolas Maduro/Venezuela
• Daniel Ortega/Nicaragua

Europe

• Vladimir Putin/Russia
• Alexander Lukashenko/Belarus