Most Murderous Dictators in World History - Statistics

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Victims Dictator Regime Country Years in Reign % Correct
30 Million victims of Lebensraum and ethnic cleansing Adolf Hitler Fascist dictatorship Germany 1933-45
99%
40 Million starved, purged and perished in prison camps Josef Stalin Communist USSR 1929-53
97%
60 Million Chinese starved, murdered and tortured to death Mao Zedong Communist China 1949-76
95%
250,000 Ethiopians, Libyans, Jews, political opponents Benito Mussolini Fascist dictatorship Italy 1922-45
77%
1.7 Million political opponents Pol Pot Communist Cambodia 1975-79
73%
30,000 political opponents Fidel Castro Communist Cuba 1959-2006
69%
600,000 Shi'ites, Kirds, Kuwaitis, political opponents Saddam Hussein Ba'ath party dictatorship Iraq 1989-2003
67%
8 Million Congolese enslaved King Leopold II Colonial Belgium 1886-1909
65%
35,000 political opponents General Francisco Franco Fascist/military dictatorship Spain 1939-75
63%
570,000 political opponents Josip Broz Tito Communist Yugoslavia 1945-80
57%
1.6 Million political opponents/civilians Kim Il Sung Communist North Korea 1948-94
56%
200,000 political opponents, South Vietnamese Ho Chi Minh Communist North Vietnam 1945-69
51%
300,000-500,000 political/personal opponents Idi Amin Personal dictatorship Uganda 1971-79
51%
3,000 political opponents General Augusto Pinochet Military dictatorship Chile 1973-1990
50%
15,000 political/tribal opponents (still counting) Robert Mugabe Personal dictatorship Zimbabwe 1982-
49%
5 Million victims of Japanese occupation during WWII Hideki Tojo Military dictatorship Japan 1941-45
43%
20,000 political/religious opponents Ayatollah Khomeini Islamist dictatorship Iran 1979-1989
34%
500,000 commnists Sukarno Nationalist dictatorship Indonesia 1945-66
22%
220,000 political/military opponents and civilians Charles Taylor Personal dictatorship Liberia 1989-96
17%
50,000 political opponents Rafael Trujillo Personal dictatorship Dominican Republic 1930-61
16%
2 Million Armenians, Greeks and Assyruans Ismail Enver Pasha Military dictatorship Ottoman Empire 1915-20
15%
400,000 political/religious opponents Mullah Omar Taliban Afghanistan 1996-2001
10%
300,000 Benglis in East Pakistan General Yahya Khan Military dictatorship Pakistan 1970-1971
9%
13,000 left-wing political opponents General Jorge Videla Military dictatorship Argentina 1976-83
8%
1.5 Million political opponents/Eritreans Mengistu Haile Mariam Communist military dictatorship Ethiopia 1974-78
7%
70,000 peasants, political opponents Efrain Rios Montt Military dictatorship Guatemala 1982-83
1%
210,000 political opponents Foday Sankoh Personal dictatorship Sierra Leone 1991-2000
1%
800,000 Tutsis Jean Kambanda Tribal dictatorship Rwanda 1994
1%
150,000 Hutus Michel Micombero Personal dictatorship Burundi 1966-76
1%
1 Million Bifrans starved and soldiers killed in civil war Yakubu Gowan Military dictatorship Nigeria 1967-70
1%
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