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This list of current longest-ruling non-royal national leaders is a list of the current living longest-ruling heads of nation-states or national governments, excluding royalty, who have served ten years or longer, sorted by length of tenure. Heads of generally recognized sovereign states are ranked by number, while heads of sovereign states with limited international recognition are listed in italics and are not given a numbered rank.
The individuals on the list are not always the most powerful figure in their country's national government. Some are or have been at one time the most powerful figures in their country's national government but not necessarily continuously throughout the listed timespan. Some of them have held more than one national leadership-level office: presidency, prime minister-ship, or some other title implying or widely believed to confer national leadership. When more than one such office exists in a country, there may be uncertainty as to which member of the national government actually has the ultimate power. Therefore, this list combines all national level offices held concurrently or consecutively by each individual leader.
Rank | Image | Name | Age | Country | Office | Tenure began | Length of tenure |
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1 | ![]() |
Paul Biya | 91 | ![]() |
Prime Minister, then President[a] | 30 June 1975 | 49 years, 45 days |
2 | ![]() |
Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo | 82 | ![]() |
President[b] | 3 August 1979 | 45 years, 11 days |
3 | ![]() |
Ali Khamenei | 85 | ![]() |
President, then Supreme Leader[c] |
13 October 1981 | 42 years, 306 days |
4 | ![]() |
Denis Sassou Nguesso | 80 | ![]() |
President[d] | 8 February 1979 – 31 August 1992 (1st time) 25 October 1997 – present (2nd time) |
40 years, 133 days |
5 | ![]() |
Yoweri Museveni | 79 | ![]() |
President | 26 January 1986 | 38 years, 201 days |
6 | ![]() |
Emomali Rahmon | 71 | ![]() |
De facto Head of State, then President[e] |
19 November 1992 | 31 years, 269 days |
7 | Isaias Afwerki | 78 | ![]() |
President[f] | 24 May 1993 | 31 years, 82 days | |
8 | ![]() |
Alexander Lukashenko | 69 | ![]() |
President[g] | 20 July 1994 | 30 years, 25 days |
9 | ![]() |
Daniel Ortega | 78 | ![]() |
Acting Head of State, then President[h] |
4 March 1981 – 25 April 1990 (1st time) 10 January 2007 – present (2nd time) |
26 years, 269 days |
10 | ![]() |
Ismaïl Omar Guelleh | 76 | ![]() |
President | 8 May 1999 | 25 years, 98 days |
11 | ![]() |
Vladimir Putin | 71 | ![]() |
Prime Minister, then President[i] | 9 August 1999 – 7 May 2000 (1st term as Prime Minister) 8 May 2000 – 7 May 2008 (1st & 2nd terms as president) 8 May 2008 – 7 May 2012 (2nd term as Prime Minister) 7 May 2012 – present (3rd & 4th terms as president) |
25 years, 5 days |
12 | ![]() |
Paul Kagame | 66 | ![]() |
President | 22 April 2000 | 24 years, 114 days |
13 | ![]() |
Hage Geingob | 83 | ![]() |
Prime Minister, then President[j] | 21 March 1990 – 28 August 2002 (1st time) 4 December 2012 – present (2nd time) |
24 years, 48 days |
14 | ![]() |
Bashar al-Assad | 58 | ![]() |
President | 17 July 2000 | 24 years, 28 days |
15 | ![]() |
Ralph Gonsalves | 78 | ![]() the Grenadines |
Prime Minister | 29 March 2001 | 23 years, 138 days |
16 | ![]() |
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan | 70 | ![]() |
Prime Minister, then President[k] | 14 March 2003 | 21 years, 153 days |
17 | ![]() |
Ilham Aliyev | 62 | ![]() |
Prime Minister, then President[l] | 4 August 2003 | 21 years, 10 days |
18 | ![]() |
Shavkat Mirziyoyev | 67 | ![]() |
Prime Minister, then President[m] | 12 December 2003 | 20 years, 246 days |
19 | ![]() |
Sheikh Hasina | 76 | ![]() |
Prime Minister | 23 June 1996 – 15 July 2001 (1st time) 6 January 2009 – present (2nd time) |
20 years, 243 days |
20 | ![]() |
Roosevelt Skerrit | 52 | ![]() |
Prime Minister | 8 January 2004 | 20 years, 219 days |
– | ![]() |
Mahmoud Abbas | 88 | ![]() |
Prime Minister, then President[n] | 19 March 2003 – 6 September 2003 (1st time) 15 January 2005 – present (2nd time) |
20 years, 17 days |
21 | Lee Hsien Loong | 72 | ![]() |
Prime Minister | 12 August 2004 | 20 years, 2 days | |
22 | ![]() |
Faure Gnassingbé | 58 | ![]() |
President[o] | 5 February 2005 – 25 February 2005 (1st time) 4 May 2005 – present (2nd time) |
19 years, 122 days |
23 | ![]() |
Viktor Orbán | 61 | ![]() |
Prime Minister | 6 July 1998 – 27 May 2002 (1st time) 29 May 2010 – present (2nd time) |
18 years, 37 days |
24 | ![]() |
Alassane Ouattara | 82 | ![]() |
Prime Minister, then President[p] | 7 November 1990 – 9 December 1993 (1st time) 4 December 2010 – present (2nd time) |
16 years, 286 days |
25 | ![]() |
Macky Sall | 62 | ![]() |
Prime Minister, then President[q] | 21 April 2004 – 19 June 2007 (1st time) 2 April 2012 – present (2nd time) |
15 years, 194 days |
26 | ![]() |
Azali Assoumani | 65 | ![]() |
President[r] | 30 April 1999 – 21 January 2002 (1st time) 6 May 2002 – 26 May 2006 (2nd time) 26 May 2016 – present (3rd time) |
15 years, 1 day |
27 | ![]() |
Mark Rutte | 57 | ![]() |
Prime Minister | 14 October 2010 | 13 years, 305 days |
28 | Nguyễn Phú Trọng | 80 | ![]() |
General Secretary, formerly also President[s] |
19 January 2011 | 13 years, 208 days | |
29 | ![]() |
Faustin-Archange Touadéra | 67 | ![]() |
Prime Minister, then President[t] | 22 January 2008 – 17 January 2013 (1st time) 30 March 2016 – present (2nd time) |
13 years, 133 days |
30 | ![]() |
Salva Kiir Mayardit | 72 | ![]() |
President[u] | 9 July 2011 | 13 years, 36 days |
31 | ![]() |
Michael D. Higgins | 83 | ![]() |
President | 11 November 2011 | 12 years, 277 days |
32 | ![]() |
Kim Jong-un | 41 | ![]() |
Supreme Leader[v] | 17 December 2011 | 12 years, 241 days |
33 | ![]() |
Alain Berset | 52 | ![]() |
President, formerly Federal Council Member[w] |
1 January 2012 | 12 years, 226 days |
34 | ![]() |
Sauli Niinistö | 75 | ![]() |
President | 1 March 2012 | 12 years, 166 days |
35 | ![]() |
Xi Jinping | 71 | ![]() |
General Secretary, then President[x] |
15 November 2012 | 11 years, 273 days |
36 | ![]() |
Nicolás Maduro | 61 | ![]() |
President[y] | 5 March 2013 | 11 years, 162 days |
37 | ![]() |
Pope Francis | 87 | ![]() |
Sovereign | 13 March 2013 | 11 years, 154 days |
38 | ![]() |
Abdoulkader Kamil Mohamed | 72 | ![]() |
Prime Minister | 1 April 2013 | 11 years, 135 days |
39 | ![]() |
Edi Rama | 60 | ![]() |
Prime Minister | 15 September 2013 | 10 years, 334 days |
40 | ![]() |
Kokhir Rasulzoda | 65 | ![]() |
Prime Minister | 23 November 2013 | 10 years, 265 days |
See also
[edit]- Records of heads of state
- List of oldest living state leaders
- List of youngest state leaders since 1900
- List of current reigning monarchs by length of reign
- List of current state leaders by date of assumption of office
Footnotes
[edit]- ^ Biya was Prime Minister of Cameroon from 30 June 1975 to 6 November 1982
- ^ Obiang was Chairman of the Revolutionary Military Council / Supreme Military Council of Equatorial Guinea from 3 August 1979 to 12 October 1982
- ^ Khamenei was President of Iran from 13 October 1981 to 2 August 1989, leaving the presidency close to two months after becoming Supreme Leader. Was approved as Supreme Leader of Iran by the Assembly of Experts and sworn in on 4 June 1989, shortly after the death of the founder of this Shia Islamic republic, Ruhollah Khomeini.
- ^ Sassou Nguesso was previously President from 8 February 1979 to 31 August 1992, when the country was a one-Party state known as the People's Republic of the Congo
- ^ Rahmon was Chairman of the Supreme Assembly (Speaker of Parliament) of Tajikistan – de facto head of state – from 19 November 1992 to 16 November 1994
- ^ Isaias was Secretary-General of the Provisional Government of Eritrea from 27 April 1991 to 24 May 1993, when Eritrea declared independence from Ethiopia.
- ^ Disputed with Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya since 23 September 2020
- ^ Ortega was a member of the Nicaraguan Junta of National Reconstruction from 18 July 1979 to 4 March 1981, then the Coordinator of the Junta of National Reconstruction (effectively the head of state) from 4 March 1981 to 10 January 1985; he was then President from 10 January 1985 to 25 April 1990.
- ^ Putin was Prime Minister of Russia from 9 August 1999 to 7 May 2000 and Acting President from 31 December 1999 to 7 May 2000; then President of Russia from 7 May 2000 to 7 May 2008; then Prime Minister again from 8 May 2008 to 7 May 2012.
- ^ Geingob was Prime Minister of Namibia from 21 March 1990 to 28 August 2002 and 4 December 2012 to 21 March 2015
- ^ Erdoğan was Prime Minister of Turkey from 14 March 2003 to 28 August 2014
- ^ Aliyev was Acting President of Azerbaijan from 6 August 2003 to 31 October 2003
- ^ Mirziyoyev was Prime Minister of Uzbekistan from 12 December 2003 to 14 December 2016, and Acting President from 8 September 2016 to 14 December 2016.
- ^ Abbas was Prime Minister of the Palestinian National Authority from 19 March 2003 to 6 September 2003
- ^ Gnassingbé was President of Togo from 5 February 2005 to 25 February 2005, when it was disputed whether he had inherited the presidency from his deceased father, Gnassingbé Eyadéma.
- ^ Ouattara was Prime Minister of Côte d'Ivoire from 7 November 1990 to 9 December 1993. The Presidency was disputed between Ouattara and Laurent Gbagbo from 4 December 2010 to 11 April 2011.
- ^ Sall was Prime Minister of Senegal from 21 April 2004 to 19 June 2007
- ^ Assoumani was Chief of Staff of the National Development Army (de facto leader of the Comoros) from 30 April 1999 to 6 May 1999, Head of State of the Comoros from 6 May 1999 to 21 January 2002, then the elected President from 6 May 2002 to 26 May 2006.
- ^ Trọng was concurrently the President of Vietnam from 23 October 2018 to 5 April 2021. Under the one-Party system, the position of General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam is a more important and powerful office than the Presidency of Vietnam.
- ^ Touadéra was Prime Minister of the Central African Republic from 22 January 2008 to 17 January 2013
- ^ Kiir was President of the Southern Sudan Autonomous Region – a region of Sudan – from 30 July 2005 to 9 July 2011, when South Sudan declared independence.
- ^ The term Supreme Leader is used as a description, for the sake of brevity, rather than being an official title of a single office. The actual offices held by Kim Jong-un are: General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, President of the State Affairs Commission of the DPRK, and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the DPRK.
- ^ The Swiss Federal Council is a collective seven-member head of state. Berset previously served as chairperson of the Federal Council, i.e. the President of the Swiss Confederation, in the constitutional customary one-year period from 1 January to 31 December 2018. From 1 January to 31 December 2017 he was the deputy chairperson of the Federal Council, or Vice President of Switzerland. He served as Vice President again from 1 January 2022 to 31 December 2022, and President again from 1 January 2023.
- ^ Xi has been the President of China since 14 March 2013. Under the one-Party system, the position of General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party is a more important and powerful office than the Presidency of the People's Republic.
- ^ Maduro was acting President of Venezuela from 5 March 2013 to 24 April 2013. The presidency was disputed with Juan Guaidó from 23 January 2019 to 5 January 2023 and Dinorah Figuera since 5 January 2023.
External links
[edit]- Rulers.org List of rulers throughout time and places