The invention discloses an ultra-thin electromagnetic wave absorber based on electrolyte-regulated graphene, and belongs to the technical field of microwave devices. The ultra-thin electromagnetic wave absorber comprises four layers of structures overlapped together, specifically including an electrolyte graphene layer, a high-resistance surface layer, a dielectric layer and a metal base plate, wherein the dielectric layer is arranged on the metal base plate, the high-resistance surface layer is arranged on the dielectric layer, and the electrolyte graphene layer is arranged on the high-resistance surface layer. According to the ultra-thin electromagnetic wave absorber based on electrolyte-regulated graphene provided by the invention, the electrolyte-regulated graphene technique is combined with the high-resistance surface layer to design a super wave absorbing device, the device is simple in structure, small in size and convenient to integrate, covers the broadband absorbing of X wave band, has the high absorptivity of more than 90%, is insensitive to incident angles and polarization angles of electromagnetic waves, is applicable to the fields of communication, household consumer electronics and military stealth technologies, and is very high in practicability.