Which countries are closed autocracies?

32 countries are classified as closed autocracies, including Eswatini, Eritrea, Belarus, Jordan, Bahrain.

Closed autocracy

32 countries

In a closed autocracy, citizens get no meaningful vote on who leads them. There are no real multiparty elections for the leadership. Power belongs to a single party, a royal family, or the military, and it changes hands on their terms.

Across the 32 closed autocracies, the current leader has been in office an average of 4,100 days (about 11.2 years).

Country	Leader	Days in office
🇸🇿 Eswatini	Mswati III · Monarch	14,785
🇪🇷 Eritrea	Isaias Afwerki · President	12,342
🇧🇾 Belarus	Alexander Lukashenka · President	11,777
🇯🇴 Jordan	Abdullah II of Jordan · Monarch	10,114
🇧🇭 Bahrain	Hamad II of Bahrain · Monarch	10,087
🇲🇦 Morocco	Mohammed VI of Morocco · Monarch	9,948
🇸🇸 South Sudan	Salva Kiir Mayardit · President	5,579
🇰🇵 North Korea	Kim Jong-un · President	5,405
🇬🇼 Guinea-Bissau	Manuel Serifo Nhamadjo · President	5,272
🇨🇳 China	Xi Jinping · President	4,965
🇶🇦 Qatar	Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani · Monarch	4,862
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia	Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud · Monarch	4,285
🇨🇺 Cuba	Miguel Díaz-Canel · President	3,103
🇸🇩 Sudan	Abdel Fattah al-Burhan · President	2,745
🇴🇲 Oman	Haitham bin Tarik Al Said · Monarch	2,471
🇲🇲 Myanmar	Myint Swe · President	2,084
🇱🇾 Libya	Mohamed al-Menfi · President	2,042
🇱🇦 Laos	Thongloun Sisoulith · President	2,035
🇲🇱 Mali	Assimi Goïta · President	1,972
🇦🇫 Afghanistan	Hibatullah Akhundzada · Monarch	1,889
🇬🇳 Guinea	Mamadi Doumbouya · President	1,842
🇾🇪 Yemen	Rashad al-Alimi · President	1,654
🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates	Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan · Monarch	1,617
🇸🇴 Somalia	Hassan Sheikh Mohamud · President	1,616
🇧🇫 Burkina Faso	Ibrahim Traoré · President	1,472
🇳🇪 Niger	Abdourahamane Tiani · President	1,177
🇰🇼 Kuwait	Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah · Monarch	1,036
🇭🇹 Haiti	Transitional Presidential Council · President	905
🇻🇳 Vietnam	Tô Lâm · President	878
🇸🇾 Syria	Ahmed al-Sharaa · President	626
🇲🇬 Madagascar	Michael Randrianirina · President	368
🇧🇩 Bangladesh	Tarique Rahman · Prime Minister	242

Regime classifications follow the Regimes of the World scheme (V-Dem), via Our World in Data.