List of current longest ruling non-royal national leaders
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. This list of current longest ruling non-royal national leaders is a list of the current longest ruling heads of nation-states or national governments, who are not royalty, sorted by length of tenure.
Note: 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 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 | Name | Country | Office | Tenure Began | Length of Tenure |
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1. | Paul Biya | Cameroon | Prime Minister, then President | 30 June 1975 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. |
2. | Mohamed Abdelaziz | Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic | General Secretary and President | 30 August 1976 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. |
3. | Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo | Equatorial Guinea | President[1] | 3 August 1979 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. |
4. | José Eduardo dos Santos | Angola | President | 10 September 1979 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. |
5. | Robert Mugabe | Zimbabwe | Prime Minister, then President | 18 April 1980 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. |
6. | Ali Khamenei | Iran | President, then Supreme Leader | 13 October 1981 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. |
7. | Hun Sen | Cambodia | Prime Minister[2] | 14 January 1985 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. |
8. | Yoweri Museveni | Uganda | President | 29 January 1986 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. |
9. | Nursultan Nazarbayev | Kazakhstan | First Secretary, then President | 22 June 1989 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. |
10. | Islam Karimov | Uzbekistan | First Secretary, then President | 23 June 1989 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. |
11. | Omar al-Bashir | Sudan | President[3] | 30 June 1989 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. |
12. | Idriss Déby | Chad | President[4] | 2 December 1990 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. |
13. | Isaias Afwerki | Eritrea | President[5] | 27 April 1991 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. |
14. | Emomali Rahmon | Tajikistan | President[6] | 19 November 1992 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. |
15. | Alexander Lukashenko | Belarus | President | 20 July 1994 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. |
16. | Yahya Jammeh | The Gambia | President[7] | 22 July 1994 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. |
17. | Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson | Iceland | President | 1 August 1996 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. |
18. | Denis Sassou Nguesso | Republic of the Congo | President[8] | 25 October 1997 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. |
19. | Kim Yong-nam | North Korea | President of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly[9] |
5 September 1998 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. |
20. | Tuilaepa Aiono Sailele Malielegaoi | Samoa | Prime Minister | 23 November 1998 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. |
21. | Abdelaziz Bouteflika | Algeria | President | 27 April 1999 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. |
22. | Ismaïl Omar Guelleh | Djibouti | President | 8 May 1999 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. |
23. | Vladimir Putin | Russia | President[10] | 9 August 1999 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. |
24. | Paul Kagame | Rwanda | President | 24 March 2000 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. |
25. | Bashar al-Assad | Syria | President | 17 July 2000 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. |
26. | Joseph Kabila | Democratic Republic of the Congo | President | 17 January 2001 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. |
27. | José Maria Neves | Cabo Verde | Prime Minister | 1 February 2001 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. |
28. | Ralph Gonsalves | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | Prime Minister | 29 March 2001 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. |
29. | Recep Tayyip Erdoğan | Turkey | Prime Minister, then President | 14 March 2003 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. |
30. | Filip Vujanović | Montenegro | President[11] | 22 May 2003 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. |
31. | Anote Tong | Kiribati | President | 10 July 2003 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. |
32. | Ilham Aliyev | Azerbaijan | Prime Minister, then President[12] | 4 August 2003 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. |
33. | Artur Rasizade | Azerbaijan | Prime Minister[13] | 6 August 2003 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. |
34. | Abdelkader Taleb Omar | Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic | Prime Minister | 29 October 2003 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. |
35. | Shavkat Mirziyoyev | Uzbekistan | Prime Minister | 11 December 2003 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. |
36. | Roosevelt Skerrit | Dominica | Prime Minister | 8 January 2004 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. |
37. | James Michel | Seychelles | President | 14 April 2004 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. |
38. | Heinz Fischer | Austria | Federal President | 8 July 2004 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. |
39. | Lee Hsien Loong | Singapore | Prime Minister | 12 August 2004 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. |
40. | Mahmoud Abbas | Palestine | President[14] | 15 January 2005 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. |
41. | Faure Gnassingbé | Togo | President[15] | 4 May 2005 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. |
42. | Salva Kiir Mayardit | South Sudan | President[16] | 30 July 2005 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. |
43. | Pierre Nkurunziza | Burundi | President | 26 August 2005 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. |
44. | Angela Merkel | Germany | Federal Chancellor | 22 November 2005 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. |
Footnotes
- ↑ was Chairman of the Revolutionary Military Council / Supreme Military Council of Equatorial Guinea from August 3, 1979 to October 12, 1982
- ↑ Was Prime Minister of the Vietnam-occupation one-party state called the People's Republic of Kampuchea from January 14, 1985 to May 1, 1989. Was also Prime Minister during the entire existence of the State of Cambodia from May 1, 1989 to September 24, 1993.
- ↑ was Chairman of the Sudanese Revolutionary Command Council for National Salvation from June 30, 1989 to October 16, 1993
- ↑ was President of the Council of State of Chad from December 2, 1990 to March 4, 1991
- ↑ Was Secretary-General of the Provisional Government of Eritrea from April 27, 1991 to May 24, 1993, when Eritrea declared independence from Ethiopia.
- ↑ was Chairman of the Supreme Assembly (Speaker of Parliament) of Tajikistan – de facto head of state – from November 19, 1992 to November 16, 1994
- ↑ was Chairman of the Armed Forces Provisional Ruling Council of the Gambia from July 22, 1994 to September 28, 1996
- ↑ was previously President from February 8, 1979 to August 31, 1992, when the country was a one-party state known as the People's Republic of the Congo
- ↑ The position of president (formerly head of state) was written out of the constitution in 1998. Kim Il-sung, who died in 1994, was given the appellation "Eternal President".
- ↑ Was Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation from August 16, 1999 to May 7, 2000 and Acting President from December 31, 1999 to May 7, 2000; then President of Russia from May 7, 2000 to May 7, 2008; then Chairman of the Government again from May 8, 2008 to May 7, 2012.
- ↑ Montenegro did not gain independence until June 3, 2006, being part of Serbia and Montenegro. He was previously Acting President from November 25, 2002 to May 19, 2003.
- ↑ was Acting President of Azerbaijan from August 6, 2003 to October 31, 2003
- ↑ Was previously Prime Minister of Azerbaijan from July 20, 1996 to August 4, 2003; and Interim Prime Minister from August 6, 2003 to November 4, 2003.
- ↑ was previously Prime Minister of the Palestinian National Authority from March 19, 2003 to September 6, 2003
- ↑ Was previously President from February 5, 2005 to February 25, 2005, when it was disputed whether he had inherited the presidency from his deceased father, Gnassingbé Eyadéma.
- ↑ South Sudan did not gain independence until July 9, 2011, being part of Sudan. Was Acting President of the Southern Sudan Autonomous Region from July 30, 2005 to August 11, 2005.
See also
- Current reigning monarchs by length of reign
- List of current state leaders by date of assumption of office
- List of longest ruling non-royal national leaders
External links
- Rulers.org List of rulers throughout time and places