How many Dictatorships are left in the world?
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Oh gosh, look at the map.  Most of Africa, though not all. Most Muslim countries except Malaysia, Indonesia and Turkey. Many Central Asian nations, and there are a two dictatorships incubating in South America. Then Cuba and North Korea.  A great many still in existence.
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There are 243 entities considered to be countries. See the list in the link below
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There are 193 countries in the world today, including Taiwan.
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Asia Only          364,270,713  \nRest of the World  653,786,676\nWORLD TOTAL        1,018,057,389\n\nhttp://www.internetworldstats.com/stats3.htm
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Total warheads listed.\n\nUnited States 9,960\nRussia (formerly the Soviet Union) 16,000\nUnited Kingdom <200\nFrance 350\nPeople's Republic of China 400\nIndia 40-50\nPakistan 24-48 \nNorth Korea 0-10
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There are 243 regions that may be considered countries. These contain several types of nations.\n\nFor complete details, you may refer the following link:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries
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6 billion total.  I think China has about 2 billion themselves, followed by India which i think has another 1 billion
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According to CIA world FactBook, 7,163,506 according to July 2005 estimates. You can read a detailed article on it at the following source :
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You can go to the CIA world factbook they will give you the list of countries.  Scroll down and bingo get the number of countries.  Hope this helps.
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Too many to count, we will never know for sure. Many thousands. Sad
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Dictatorship and Terrorism
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There are 193 countries in the world today. \n\nUnless you don't count Taiwan.\n\nTaiwan is not considered an official country by many, which would bring the count down to 192 countries. Although Taiwan operates as an independent country, many countries (including the U.S.) do not officially recognize it as one. Because the People's Republic of China considers Taiwan a breakaway province of China, countries who wish to maintain diplomatic relations with China have had to sever their formal relations with Taiwan (more than 100 countries, however, have unofficial relations with Taiwan).
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The answer varies, depending on whether and which territories are included, and whose count you are using.  The most usual answers are from 189 to 194.  The United Nations has 189 members.  There are 192 independent states according to US calculations, but that count does not include Greenland, Palestine, Taiwan, East Timor, and Western Sahara.  The World Factbook shows 259 world flags.\n\nI hope this helps.
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According to the CIA World Factbook, as of July 2005, there was an estimated 6,446,131,400 living on the planet. \n\nBear in mind, the number is only an estimate but provides a reasonable snapshot of the world's population.
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Starcrossing40, Iraq and Iran and Syria are all part of the African continent. Check your map. However, Saddam is no longer in power, so he isn't currently a dictator.\n\nParade ranked the Sudan’s Omar al-Bashir as the world’s worst dictator. During his reign OECD countries gave his regime more than $6 billion in non-military aid. The U.S. accounted for more than $1 billion of that aid. Kim Jong-Il was ranked as the second worst dictator and received a little over $1 billion in aid, with more than half of it coming from the U.S. Than Shwe of Myanmar, Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe, and Islam Karimov of Uzbekistan round out the top five dictators on the list. The U.S. contributed $32 million to Myanmar, $1.1 billion to Zimbabwe, and $385 million to Uzbekistan.\n\nOverall, OECD countries contributed aid to every one of Parade’s 20 worst dictators. Combined, these leaders received nearly $55 billion in aid. The U.S. contributed to 19 of the 20 worst dictators; King Abdulla of Saudi Arabia was somehow left off of the U.S. gravy train. In total, the U.S. contributed more than $7 billion in aid to these leaders. In North Korea, Belarus, Ethiopia, Swaziland, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan the U.S. contributed more than 20 percent of the total aid these countries received from OECD countries.\n\nGovernment-sponsored aid has failed to promote economic growth in the third world. From 1970 to 2000, more than $400 billion poured into poor African countries with no development to show for it. Parade’s list of dictators makes our foreign aid record even more disturbing. Not only has it failed to promote development, in many cases our aid has supported oppressive dictatorships.\n\nFollowing Hamas’s recent victory in Palestine’s elections, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice threatened to cut off aid to Palestine, saying, “The United States is not prepared to fund an organization that advocates the destruction of Israel, that advocates violence and that refuses its obligations.” Perhaps the U.S. should apply that policy to the dictators on Parade’s list as well. By providing aid to these dictators the U.S. has given them a source of funds to use to secure political support and likely prolonged their oppressive reigns.\n\nThe first rule of development policy should be to do no harm. Unfortunately OECD and U.S. aid have failed to promote development and actively promoted harm by aiding oppressive dictatorships. This kind of aid also unfortunately tends to undermine economic freedom by politicizing economic life in the recipient country and by preserving inefficient regimes. Over the last 30 years development aid has lowered measures of economic freedom in both dictatorships and democracies. To better promote freedom, and consequently development, we should end economic development aid to dictators and democracies alike.\n\n\n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\nBenjamin Powell, Ph.D., is the Director of the Center on Entrepreneurial Innovation at the Independent Institute, an Oakland-based policy think tank and a professor of economics at San Jose State University. \n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\nMatt Ryan is an adjunct fellow with the Independent Institute in Oakland, Calif. and holds a Masters degree in Economics from San Jose State University. \n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Too many.  We are disposing of our own people.  Sad state of affairs don't you think?
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People's Republic of China\n2,255,000 Active Troops\n800,000 Reserve Force\n3,969,000 Paramilitary\n7,024,000  Total\n\nclick here:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of_active_troops