Countries Without Mcdonalds 2024

McDonald’s is a fast-food restaurant chain established in 1940 in the United States. Richard and Maurice McDonald first opened a single restaurant in San Bernardino, California, which they later expanded.




In the years that followed, the business changed its name to a hamburger stand and became a franchise. Since its founding in 1955, McDonald’s has become one of the world’s most recognizable companies.

Fast facts about McDonald’s, the world’s largest hamburger and fries chain.

In 1953, the golden arches emblem first debuted in a Phoenix, Arizona, McDonald’s restaurant. In 1955, Ray Kroc became a franchise agent for McDonald’s, and he went on to buy the company from the McDonald brothers. This location is presently the headquarters of McDonald’s.

The world’s biggest restaurant chain, McDonald’s, was founded in 1940. Over 37,000 McDonald’s restaurants may be found in over 120 countries.

More than 1.7 million employees work for the company, which serves more than 70 million customers. In addition to food sales, franchise fees, and rent, McDonald’s income comes from franchise royalties and fees and rent (McDonald’s owns most of its restaurants’ land and leases it to the franchisee).

McDonald’s has a market value of $122.9 billion as of March 2020. Over $100 billion in system sales and $21.1 billion in consolidated revenues were recorded by McDonald’s for the 2019 fiscal year.




McDonald’s is so well-known for the many reasons its low prices, lightning-fast service, a wide variety of cuisine, and clever advertising. People throughout the world recognize the McDonald’s jingle “ba da ba ba ba, I’m lovin’ it.”

McDonald’s was the first fast-food business to offer breakfast with its well-known Egg McMuffin. However, providing breakfast was one of McDonald’s best ideas because it became lucrative after McDonald’s had lost money five years prior.

In response to rising consumer demand, McDonald’s began offering its breakfast menu 24 hours a day in 2015. When McDonald’s began serving breakfast all day, sales increased by 5% in the first few years of the policy change.

The McDonald’s menu in many countries is different from the menu in other countries. Burgers on rice patties, bratwursts, McSpaghetti, and tempura shrimp burgers are just a few options available to McDonald’s diners across the world.

Even beer is served in some McDonald’s establishments throughout Europe.

Non-McDonaldized countries

More than 39,000 McDonald’s restaurants have been opened throughout the globe; however, many nations still lack even a single one. This exclusion might be due to a variety of factors.




As a result, McDonald’s cannot operate in certain nations because they lack adequate supply chain and infrastructure. Some nations’ populations are either too poor or politically unstable to justify the necessary operating expenditures.

Some nations have a national cuisine that is quite different from McDonald’s, and they see the chain’s food as lacking in nutritional value.

It’s possible that some nations aren’t interested in having a large, worldwide firm competing with their local favorites or importing Westernized consumer culture into their country.

Nevertheless, the number of nations without a McDonald’s restaurant decreases annually. In 2021, Brunei and Tunisia were both removed from this list (and added to the list of countries with McDonald’s) and those without McDonald’s.

List of countries where McDonald’s does not exist:

  • Afghanistan
  • Albania
  • Algeria
  • Angola
  • Armenia
  • Bangladesh
  • Barbados
  • Belize
  • Benin
  • Bermuda
  • Bhutan
  • Bolivia
  • Botswana
  • Burkina Faso
  • Burundi
  • Cambodia
  • Cameroon
  • Cape Verde
  • The central African Republic
  • Chad
  • Comoros
  • Congo
  • Congo, the Democratic Republic of the
  • Djibouti
  • Dominica
  • East Timor
  • Equatorial Guinea
  • Eritrea
  • Ethiopia
  • Gabon
  • The Gambia
  • Ghana
  • Grenada
  • Guinea
  • Guinea-Bissau
  • Haiti
  • Iceland
  • Iran
  • Iraq
  • Ivory Coast
  • Jamaica
  • Kenya
  • Kiribati
  • Kyrgyzstan
  • Laos
  • Macedonia
  • Madagascar
  • Malawi
  • Maldives
  • Mali
  • Marshall Islands
  • Mauritania
  • Mauritius
  • Micronesia
  • Mongolia
  • Montenegro
  • Mozambique
  • Myanmar (Burma)
  • Namibia
  • Nauru
  • Nepal
  • Niger
  • Nigeria
  • North Korea
  • Palau
  • Papua New Guinea
  • Rwanda
  • Saint Kitts and Nevis
  • Saint Lucia
  • Sao Tome and Principe
  • Senegal
  • Seychelles
  • Sierra Leone
  • Solomon Islands
  • Somalia
  • South Sudan
  • Sudan
  • Swaziland
  • Syria
  • Tajikistan
  • Togo
  • Tonga
  • Turkmenistan
  • Tuvalu
  • Uganda
  • Uzbekistan
  • Vanuatu
  • Vatican City/Holy See
  • Yemen
  • Zimbabwe




Where McDonald’s formerly existed but no longer does.

Before the financial crisis of 2009, Iceland had 3 or 4 McDonald’s outlets. Importing the necessary food items for the restaurants allegedly doubled in price due to the country’s currency collapse, necessitating the closure of all sites.

McDonald’s may have had difficulty opening a restaurant in the country because of the locals’ devotion to the country’s burger brand, the resplendently titled Hambórgarabllan. In 2018, McDonald’s was contemplating a comeback to Iceland. However, the company’s European branch denied the allegation as a rumor.

Seven McDonald’s restaurants were open in Macedonia until the franchisees’ licenses were canceled by the chain’s European headquarters in 2013.

Foreign restaurant franchises were forbidden in Bermuda in 1977, but a single McDonald’s was permitted to establish on a U.S. military post in 1985 against the island’s ban. During the 1995 closure of the base, the government used existing law to ensure that the restaurant was also forced to shut down.

McDonald’s first launched in Jamaica in 1995, but it closed in 2005 since it couldn’t compete with the locals. For less than a year after opening, Barbados’ only McDonald’s had to shut down because it couldn’t get its poultry and seafood-loving population enthused about hamburgers.




The structure has been converted into a financial services center. From 1999 until 2019, the lone McDonald’s in San Marino operated. However, it was forced out by competition from other surrounding restaurants.

McDonald’s had a few outlets in Bolivia for more than a decade until the South American nation rejected the “super-fast, but not necessarily super-healthy” menu and pulled out of the country.

Many people believe the brand is contemplating a comeback, and one corporate McDonald’s website even linked to a dead Facebook page for a McDonald’s in Bolivia. In late 2021, the allegations had not been proven genuine, and contrary sources said the government had formally prohibited the franchise.

McDonald’s began testing the Montenegrin market by installing a “mobile restaurant” in Podgorica. Some stories claim that the government was persuaded (perhaps bribed) to ban the chain’s entry into the nation by local rivals.

The official Public Relations Bureau of Montenegro replied to the claims by publishing an official press statement claiming that “No corporation, not even McDonald’s, is “forbidden” to conduct business in Montenegro,” which was an uncommon move. As of 2021, there will be no McDonald’s in Montenegro.




The Middle East is home to some of the most bizarre non-situations.

McDonald’s The menu and logo of a restaurant called “Mash Donalds” in Iran (a country without an official McDonald’s) are formed like an M. Two McDonald’s clones have appeared in Iraq since 1979: MaDonal (whose owner is said to have sought for a McDonald’s license and was turned down), as well as Matbax.

McDonald’s is illegal in certain countries. Even while most nations without McDonald’s have no strong sentiments about the issue, a few countries have gone to abolish the restaurant business outright. Local cuisine or public health are common motivations for this practice.

  • McDonald’s is prohibited in the following countries:
  • Bermuda
  • Bolivia
  • Iceland
  • Iran
  • Macedonia
  • North Korea
  • Yemen
  • Zimbabwe




Country2022 Population
Vatican City0.7990
Tokelau1.3780
Niue1.6220
Falkland Islands3.5390
Montserrat4.9650
Saint Pierre and Miquelon5.7590
Saint Barthelemy9.9450
Nauru10.9030
Wallis and Futuna10.9820
Tuvalu12.0660
Anguilla15.2300
Cook Islands17.5710
Palau18.2330
British Virgin Islands30.5960
Gibraltar33.7040
San Marino34.0850
Liechtenstein38.3870
Saint Martin39.7300
Turks and Caicos Islands39.7410
Monaco39.7830
Sint Maarten43.9660
Faroe Islands49.2330
Saint Kitts and Nevis53.8710
American Samoa55.0300
Greenland56.9730
Northern Mariana Islands58.2690
Marshall Islands60.0570
Bermuda61.9390
Cayman Islands67.2770
Dominica72.3440
Andorra77.4630
Isle of Man85.7320
Seychelles99.4260
Antigua and Barbuda99.5090
United States Virgin Islands103.9710
Aruba107.6090
Tonga107.7490
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines111.5510
Grenada113.4750
Micronesia117.4890
Kiribati123.4190
Curacao165.5290
Guam171.5190
Saint Lucia185.1130
Samoa202.2390
Sao Tome and Principe227.6790
French Polynesia284.1640
Mayotte286.2590
Barbados288.0230
New Caledonia290.9150
French Guiana314.1690
Vanuatu321.8320
Iceland345.3930
Martinique374.0870
Guadeloupe399.7940
Bahamas400.5160
Belize412.1900
Malta444.0330
Brunei445.4310
Maldives540.9850
Cape Verde567.6780
Suriname596.8310
Western Sahara626.1610
Montenegro627.9500
Luxembourg642.3710
Macau667.4900
Solomon Islands721.1590
Bhutan787.9410
Guyana794.0450
Comoros907.4190
Reunion908.0610
Fiji909.4660
Djibouti1016.0970
Eswatini1184.8170
Cyprus1223.3870
Mauritius1274.7270
Estonia1321.9100
Timor-Leste1369.4290
Trinidad and Tobago1406.5850
Equatorial Guinea1496.6620
Bahrain1783.9830
Latvia1848.8370
Guinea-Bissau2063.3670
Slovenia2078.0340
North Macedonia2081.3040
Lesotho2175.6990
Gabon2331.5330
Botswana2441.1620
Gambia2558.4820
Namibia2633.8740
Lithuania2661.7080
Puerto Rico2829.8120
Albania2866.3740
Armenia2971.9660
Qatar2979.9150
Jamaica2985.0940
Bosnia and Herzegovina3249.3170
Mongolia3378.0780
Uruguay3496.0160
Eritrea3662.2440
Georgia3968.7380
Moldova4013.1710
Croatia4059.2860
Kuwait4380.3260
Panama4446.9640
New Zealand4898.2030
Mauritania4901.9810
Central African Republic5016.6780
Ireland5020.1990
Costa Rica5182.3540
Liberia5305.1170
Oman5323.9930
Palestine5345.5410
Slovakia5460.1930
Norway5511.3700
Finland5554.9600
Republic of the Congo5797.8050
Denmark5834.9500
Singapore5943.5460
Turkmenistan6201.9430
El Salvador6550.3890
Lebanon6684.8490
Kyrgyzstan6728.2710
Nicaragua6779.1000
Bulgaria6844.5970
Libya7040.7450
Paraguay7305.8430
Laos7481.0230
Hong Kong7604.2990
Sierra Leone8306.4360
Serbia8653.0160
Togo8680.8370
Switzerland8773.6370
Israel8922.8920
Austria9066.7100
Papua New Guinea9292.1690
Belarus9432.8000
Hungary9606.2590
Tajikistan9957.4640
United Arab Emirates10081.7850
Portugal10140.5700
Sweden10218.9710
Honduras10221.2470
Azerbaijan10300.2050
Jordan10300.8690
Greece10316.6370
Czech Republic10736.7840
Dominican Republic11056.3700
Cuba11305.6520
South Sudan11618.5110
Belgium11668.2780
Haiti11680.2830
Bolivia11992.6560
Tunisia12046.6560
Burundi12624.8400
Benin12784.7260
Rwanda13600.4640
Guinea13865.6910
Zimbabwe15331.4280
Somalia16841.7950
Cambodia17168.6390
Netherlands17211.4470
Chad17413.5800
Senegal17653.6710
Ecuador18113.3610
Guatemala18584.0390
Romania19031.3350
Kazakhstan19205.0430
Chile19250.1950
Syria19364.8090
Zambia19470.2340
Malawi20180.8390
Mali21473.7640
Sri Lanka21575.8420
Burkina Faso22102.8380
Taiwan23888.5950
North Korea25990.6790
Australia26068.7920
Niger26083.6600
Ivory Coast27742.2980
Cameroon27911.5480
Madagascar29178.0770
Venezuela29266.9910
Nepal30225.5820
Yemen31154.8670
Ghana32395.4500
Mozambique33089.4610
Malaysia33181.0720
Peru33684.2080
Uzbekistan34382.0840
Angola35027.3430
Saudi Arabia35844.9090
Poland37739.7850
Morocco37772.7560
Canada38388.4190
Afghanistan40754.3880
Iraq42164.9650
Ukraine43192.1220
Algeria45350.1480
Sudan45992.0200
Argentina46010.2340
Spain46719.1420
Uganda48432.8630
South Korea51329.8990
Colombia51512.7620
Myanmar55227.1430
Kenya56215.2210
Italy60262.7700
South Africa60756.1350
Tanzania63298.5500
France65584.5180
United Kingdom68497.9070
Thailand70078.2030
Germany83883.5960
Turkey85561.9760
Iran86022.8370
DR Congo95240.7920
Vietnam98953.5410
Egypt106156.6920
Philippines112508.9940
Ethiopia120812.6980
Japan125584.8380
Mexico131562.7720
Russia145805.9470
Bangladesh167885.6890
Brazil215353.5930
Nigeria216746.9340
Pakistan229488.9940
Indonesia279134.5050
United States334805.2690
India1406631.7760
China1448471.4000




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