| Dictator/leader | Country | Years in Power | Reason for downfall |
|---|---|---|---|
| João Bernardo Vieira | Guinea Bissau | 1980-1999; 2005-2009 | Military coup, execution |
| Zine El Abidine Ben Ali | Tunisia | 1987-2011 | Revolution |
| Hosni Mubarak | Egypt | 1981-2011 | Revolution |
| Laurent Gbago | Côte d'Ivoire | 2000-2011 | Arrest |
| Muammar Gaddafi | Libya | 1969-2011 | Revolution |
| Ali Abdullah Saleh | Yemen | 1978/90-2012 | Revolution |
| Meles Zenawi | Ethiopia | 1995-2012 | Death |
| Hugo Chávez | Venezuela | 1999/2002-2013 | Death |
| François Bozizé | Central African Republic | 2003-2013 | Civil war |
| Nouri al Maliki | Iraq | 2006-2014 | Elections |
| Hamid Karzai | Afghanistan | 2001-2014 | Elections |
| Blaise Compaoré | Burkina Faso | 1987-2014 | Uprising, resignation |
| Thein Sein | Myanmar | 2011-2016 | Elections |
| Fidel Casto | Cuba | 1961-2011/2016 | Death |
| Yahya Jammeh | The Gambia | 1994-2017 | Elections, eventual resignation |
| José Eduardo dos Santos | Angola | 1979-2017 | Resigned, but still holds power |
| Robert Mugabe | Zimbabwe | 1987-2017 | Coup, resignation |
| Almazbek Atambayev | Kyrgyzstan | 2011-2017 | Elections |
| Serzh Sargsyan | Armenia | 2008-2018 | Protests, resignation |
