AUTHORITARIAN REGIMES OF THE WORLD

Authoritarian regimes are nations where political pluralism is nonexistent or severely limited. These nations are often absolute monarchies or dictatorships may have some conventional institutions of democracy but with meagre significance, infringements and abuses of civil liberties are commonplace, elections (if they take place) are not fair or free (including sham elections), the media is often state-owned or controlled by groups associated with the ruling regime, the judiciary is not independent, and censorship and suppression of governmental criticism are commonplace.

Alphabetical Ranking

1. Afghanistan
2. Algeria
3. Angola
4. Azerbaijan
5. Bahrain
6. Belarus
7. Burkina Faso
8. Burundi
9. Cambodia
10. Cameroon
11. Central African Republic
12. Chad
13. China
14. Comoros
15. Cuba
16. Democratic Republic of the Congo
17. Djibouti
18. Egypt
19. Equatorial Guinea
20. Eritrea
21. Eswatini
22. Ethiopia
23. Gabon
24. Guinea
25. Guinea Bissau
26. Haiti
27. Iran
28. Iraq
29. Jordan
30. Kazakhstan
31. Kuwait
32. Kyrgyztan
33. Laos
34. Lebanon
35. Libya
36. Mali
37. Mozambique
38. Myanmar
39. Nicaragua
40. Niger
41. North Korea
42. Oman
43. Palestine
44. Qatar
45. Republic of the Congo
46. Russia
47. Rwanda
48. Saudi Arabia
49. Sudan
50. Syria
51. Tajikistan
52. Togo
53. Turkmenistan
54. United Arab Emirates
55. Uzbekistan
56. Venezuela
57. Vietnam
58. Yemen
59. Zimbabwe

The above 59 countries represent 37.1% of the world population