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Kim Il Sung
North Korea
46 Years
 
Fidel Castro
Cuba
42 Years
 
Enver Hoxha
Albania
41 Years
 
Francisco Franco
Spain
36 Years
 
Antonio Salazar
Portugal
36 Years
 
Josip Broz
Yugoslavia
35 Years
 
Alfredo Stroessner
Paraguay
35 Years

 

Reza Pahlavi
Iran
34 Years
 
Haile Selassie
Ethiopia
32 Years
 
Mobuto Sese Seko
Zaire
32 Years
 
Mu'ammar Quathafi
Libya
31 Years
 
Rafael Trujillo
Dominican Republic
31 Years
 
Hafez Al-Assad
Syria
30 Years
 
Hastings Banda
Malawi
30 Years
 
Thojib Suharto
Indonesia
30 Years
 
Juan Vicente Gómez
Venezuela
27 Years
 
Mao Tse Tung
China
27 Years
 
Chaing Kai Shek **
Taiwan
26 Years
 
Joseph Stalin
USSR
25 Years
 
Nicolae Ceaucescu
Romania
24 Years
 
Benito Mussolini
Italy
22 Years
 
Saddam Hussein
Iraq
21 Years
 
Ferdinand Marcos
Phillipines
21 Years
 
Heider Aliev *
Azerbaijan
20 Years
 
Robert Mugabe
Zimbabwe
20 Years
 
Anastasio Samoza
Nicaragua
20 Years
 
Leonid Brezhnev
USSR
18 Years
 
Erich Honecker
East Germany
17 Years
 
Haile Mariam Menghistu
Ethiopia
17 Years
 
Augusto Pinochet
Chile
17 Years
 
Park Chung-Hee
South Korea
16 Years
 
Hugo Banzer
Bolivia
14 Years
 
Papa Doc Duvalier
Haiti
14 Years
 
Jean-Bédel Bokassa
Central African Republic
13 Years
 
Slobodan Milosovic
Yugoslavia
13 Years
 
Samuel Doe
Liberia
10 Years
 
Ruhollah Khomeni
Iran
10 Years
 
Saparmurat Niyazov
Turkmenistan
10 Years
 
Idi Amin
Uganda
9 Years
 
Zia Ul-Haq
Pakistan
9 Years
 
Fulgencio Batista
Cuba
9 Years
 
Ibrahim Babangida
Nigeria
8 Years
 
Ngo Dinh Diem
Vietnam
8 Years
 
Wojciech Jaruselzski
Poland
8 Years
 
Desi Bouterse
Suriname
7 Years
 
Kim Jong Il
North Korea
6 Years
 
Manuel Noriega
Panama
6 Years
 
Sani Abacha
Nigeria
5 Years
 
Jorge Videla
Argentina
5 Years
 
Ion Antonescu
Romania
4 Years
 
Pol Pot
Cambodia
4 Years
 
Hideki Tojo
Japan
4 Years
 
Humberto Branco
Brazil
3 Years
 
Vikdun Quisling
Norway
3 Years
 
** Chiang Kai Shek Although Chiang also ruled China from 1928-49 and is therefore the longest serving leader in the chart the dictatorship.com had to be quite strict in the marking. Between these years China was not entirely under his control, with the Communists strong in the North, the Japanese occupying Manchuria and the Soviets dominating the province of Shiangking.

*Heider Aliev ruled in two stretches, as head of Azerbaijan SSR from 1969-1982 and again after independence from 1993-present.

 
 
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Mao Tse Tung
 
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