List of current heads of state and

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This is a list of current heads of state and government, showing heads of state and
heads of government where different, mainly in parliamentary systems. Often a leader is
both in presidential systems. Some states have semi-presidential systems, where the head
of government role is fulfilled by both the listed head of government and the head of
state.
The list includes the names of the recently elected or appointed heads of state who will
take office on an appointed date.

Contents

1 Member states and observers of the United Nations

2 Other states
3 Other governments
4 See also
5 Notes
6 References
7 External links

Member states and observers of the United Nations

Legend:
Cells highlighted in yellow indicate state leaders chiefly regarded (e.g. de facto)
as administering their governmental executive
Names in small font generally denote acting, transitional, temporary leaders or
representatives

Other notes and exceptions are provided in the References section below.
State
Head of state
Head of government
Chief Executive Officer
Afghanistan
President Ashraf Ghani[n 1]
Abdullah Abdullah
President Bujar Nishani
Prime Minister Edi Rama
Albania
Prime Minister Abdelmalek
Algeria
President Abdelaziz Bouteflika
Sellal
Andorra
Episcopal Co-Prince Joan Enric Head of Government Antoni
Vives Siclia
Mart
Co-Prince's Representative Josep Maria

Mauri

French Co-Prince Franois

Hollande[n 2]
Co-Prince's Representative Thierry
Lataste

Angola
Antigua and
Barbuda
Argentina
Armenia
Australia
Austria
Azerbaijan
Bahamas

President Jos Eduardo dos Santos

Prime Minister Gaston
Queen Elizabeth II[n 3]
Governor-General Sir Rodney Williams Browne
President Cristina Fernndez de Kirchner
Prime Minister Hovik
President Serzh Sargsyan
Abrahamyan
[n 3]
Prime Minister Malcolm
Queen Elizabeth II
Governor-General Sir Peter Cosgrove
Turnbull
Federal Chancellor Werner
Federal President Heinz Fischer
Faymann
Prime Minister Artur
President Ilham Aliyev[n 1]
Rasizade
Queen Elizabeth II[n 3]
Prime Minister Perry Christie
Governor-General Dame Marguerite
Pindling

Bahrain
Bangladesh
Barbados
Belarus
Belgium

King Sheikh Hamad bin Isa Al

Khalifa
President Abdul Hamid
Queen Elizabeth II[n 3]
Governor-General Sir Elliott Belgrave

President Alexander
Lukashenko[n 1]
King Philippe

Prime Minister Prince Khalifa

bin Salman Al Khalifa
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina
Prime Minister Freundel
Stuart
Prime Minister Andrei
Kobyakov
Prime Minister Charles
Michel

Belize

Queen Elizabeth II[n 3]

Benin

President Yayi Boni[n 1]

Prime Minister Lionel Zinsou
King Jigme Khesar Namgyel
Prime Minister Tshering
Wangchuck
Tobgay
President Evo Morales
High Representative Valentin Inzko
Presidency:[n 4]
Chairman of the Council of
Dragan ovi (Chairman)
Mladen Ivani (Member)
Ministers Denis Zvizdi

Bhutan
Bolivia
Bosnia and
Herzegovina

Governor-General Sir Colville Young

Prime Minister Dean Barrow

Bakir Izetbegovi (Member)

Botswana
Brazil
Brunei
Bulgaria

President Ian Khama

President Dilma Rousseff
Sultan and Prime Minister Hassanal Bolkiah
Prime Minister Boyko
President Rosen Plevneliev
Borisov

Acting Prime Minister Yacouba

Isaac Zida

Burkina Faso

Acting President Michel Kafando

Burundi
Cambodia

President Pierre Nkurunziza

King Norodom Sihamoni
Prime Minister Hun Sen
Prime Minister Philmon
President Paul Biya[n 1]
Yang
[n 3]
Prime Minister Stephen
Queen Elizabeth II
Governor General David Johnston
Harper
Prime Minister Jos Maria
President Jorge Carlos Fonseca
Neves

Cameroon
Canada
Cape Verde

Central African Head of State of the Transition Catherine Acting Prime Minister Mahamat
Kamoun
Samba-Panza[n 1]
Republic
Prime Minister Kalzeubet
Chad
President Idriss Dby[n 1]
Pahimi Deubet
Chile
President Michelle Bachelet
General Secretary of the Communist Party Xi Jinping
China
Premier of the State Council
President Xi Jinping
Li Keqiang
President Juan Manuel Santos
Colombia
Comoros
President Ikililou Dhoinine
Congo,
Prime Minister Augustin
Democratic Republic President Joseph Kabila
Matata Ponyo
of the
Congo, Republic
President Denis Sassou Nguesso
of the
Costa Rica
President Luis Guillermo Sols
President Kolinda GrabarPrime Minister Zoran
Croatia
Kitarovi
Milanovi
First Secretary of the Communist Party Ral Castro
Cuba
President of the Council of State and President of the Council of
Ministers Ral Castro
Cyprus
President Nicos Anastasiades
Prime Minister Bohuslav
Czech Republic President Milo Zeman
Sobotka
Prime Minister Lars Lkke
Denmark
Queen Margrethe II
Rasmussen
Prime Minister Abdoulkader
Djibouti
President Ismal Omar Guelleh
Kamil Mohamed
Prime Minister Roosevelt
Dominica
President Charles Savarin
Skerrit
Dominican
President Danilo Medina
Republic
Prime Minister Rui Maria de
East Timor
President Taur Matan Ruak
Arajo

Ecuador
Egypt
El Salvador
Equatorial
Guinea
Eritrea
Estonia
Ethiopia
Fiji
Finland
France
Gabon
Gambia, The
Georgia
Germany
Ghana
Greece
Grenada
Guatemala
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Guyana
Haiti
Honduras
Hungary
Iceland
India
Indonesia
Iran
Iraq

President Rafael Correa

President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi
Prime Minister Sherif Ismail
President Salvador Snchez Cern
President Teodoro Obiang
Prime Minister Vicente Ehate
Nguema Mbasogo[n 1]
Tomi
President Isaias Afwerki
President Toomas Hendrik Ilves Prime Minister Taavi Rivas
Prime Minister Hailemariam
President Mulatu Teshome
Desalegn
President Ratu Epeli Nailatikau Prime Minister Frank
President-elect George Konrote Bainimarama
President Sauli Niinist
Prime Minister Juha Sipil
President Franois Hollande[n 2] Prime Minister Manuel Valls
Prime Minister Daniel Ona
President Ali Bongo Ondimba[n 1]
Ondo
President Yahya Jammeh
Prime Minister Irakli
President Giorgi Margvelashvili
Garibashvili
Federal Chancellor Angela
Federal President Joachim Gauck
Merkel
President John Dramani Mahama
President Prokopis Pavlopoulos Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras
Queen Elizabeth II[n 3]
Prime Minister Keith
Governor-General Dame Ccile La
Mitchell
Grenade
Acting President Alejandro Maldonado

Prime Minister Mohamed

Said Fofana
Prime Minister Carlos
President Jos Mrio Vaz
Correia
Prime Minister Moses
President David Granger
Nagamootoo
President Michel Martelly
Prime Minister Evans Paul
President Juan Orlando Hernndez
President Jnos der
Prime Minister Viktor Orbn
President lafur Ragnar
Prime Minister Sigmundur
Grmsson
Dav Gunnlaugsson
Prime Minister Narendra
President Pranab Mukherjee
Modi
President Joko Widodo
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
President Hassan Rouhani
President Fuad Masum
Prime Minister Haider AlPresident Alpha Cond[n 1]

Ireland
Israel
Italy
Ivory Coast
Jamaica
Japan
Jordan
Kazakhstan
Kenya
Kiribati
Kuwait
Kyrgyzstan
Laos
Latvia
Lebanon
Lesotho
Liberia
Libya
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Macedonia
Madagascar
Malawi
Malaysia

Abadi
Taoiseach Enda Kenny
Prime Minister Benjamin
President Reuven Rivlin
Netanyahu
President of the Council of
President Sergio Mattarella
Ministers Matteo Renzi
Prime Minister Daniel Kablan
President Alassane Ouattara[n 1]
Duncan
[n 3]
Prime Minister Portia
Queen Elizabeth II
Governor-General Sir Patrick Allen
Simpson-Miller
Emperor Akihito
Prime Minister Shinz Abe
Prime Minister Abdullah
King Abdullah II
Ensour
President Nursultan Nazarbayev[n Prime Minister Karim
1]
Massimov
President Uhuru Kenyatta
President Anote Tong
Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber
Emir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad
Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad AlAl-Jaber Al-Sabah
Sabah
President Almazbek Atambayev Prime Minister Temir Sariyev
General Secretary of the Communist Party Choummaly Sayasone
Prime Minister Thongsing
President Choummaly Sayasone
Thammavong
Prime Minister Laimdota
President Raimonds Vjonis
Straujuma
Acting President and President of the Council of Ministers Tammam
Salam
Prime Minister Pakalitha
King Letsie III
Mosisili
President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Chairman of the House of
Prime Minister Abdullah alRepresentatives Aguila Saleh Issa Thani
Sovereign Prince Hans-Adam II Head of Government Adrian
Regent Hereditary Prince Alois
Hasler
Prime Minister Algirdas
President Dalia Grybauskait
Butkeviius
Grand Duke Henri
Prime Minister Xavier Bettel
President of the Government
President Gjorge Ivanov
Nikola Gruevski
President Hery
Prime Minister Jean
Rajaonarimampianina
Ravelonarivo
President Peter Mutharika
Yang di-Pertuan Agong Abdul
Prime Minister Najib Razak
President Michael D. Higgins

Halim
Maldives
Mali

President Abdulla Yameen

President Ibrahim Boubacar Keta Prime Minister Modibo Keita
President Marie Louise Coleiro Prime Minister Joseph
Malta
Preca
Muscat
Marshall Islands
President Christopher Loeak
President Mohamed Ould Abdel Prime Minister Yahya Ould
Mauritania
Aziz
Hademine
Prime Minister Sir Anerood
Mauritius
President Ameenah Gurib
Jugnauth
Mexico
President Enrique Pea Nieto
Micronesia
President Peter M. Christian
Moldova
President Nicolae Timofti
Prime Minister Valeriu Strele
Minister of State Michel
Monaco
Sovereign Prince Albert II
Roger
Prime Minister Chimediin
Mongolia
President Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj
Saikhanbileg
Prime Minister Milo
Montenegro
President Filip Vujanovi
ukanovi
Prime Minister Abdelilah
Morocco
King Mohammed VI
Benkirane
Prime Minister Carlos
Mozambique
President Filipe Nyusi[n 1]
Agostinho do Rosrio
Myanmar
President Thein Sein
Prime Minister Saara
Namibia
President Hage Geingob[n 1]
Kuugongelwa-Amadhila
Nauru
President Baron Waqa
Prime Minister Khadga
President Ram Baran Yadav
Nepal
Prasad Oli
King Willem-Alexander
Prime Minister Mark Rutte
Netherlands
[n 3]
Queen Elizabeth II
New Zealand
Governor-General Sir Jerry Mateparae[n Prime Minister John Key
5]

Nicaragua
Niger
Nigeria

North Korea

President Daniel Ortega

President Mahamadou Issoufou Prime Minister Brigi Rafini
President Muhammadu Buhari
First Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea Kim Jong-un
First Chairman of the National
Defence Commission Kim JongPremier of the Cabinet Pak
un[n 6]
Pong-ju
President of the Presidium of the Supreme
People's Assembly Kim Yong-nam[n 7]

Norway
Oman

King Harald V
Prime Minister Erna Solberg
Sultan and Prime Minister Qaboos bin Said al Said

Pakistan
Palau
Palestine
Panama
Papua New
Guinea
Paraguay
Peru
Philippines
Poland
Portugal
Qatar
Romania
Russia
Rwanda
Saint Kitts and
Nevis
Saint Lucia
Saint Vincent
and the Grenadines
Samoa
San Marino
So Tom and
Prncipe
Saudi Arabia
Senegal
Serbia
Seychelles
Sierra Leone

President Mamnoon Hussain

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif
President Tommy Remengesau
Prime Minister Rami
President Mahmoud Abbas
Hamdallah
President Juan Carlos Varela
Queen Elizabeth II[n 3]
Prime Minister Peter O'Neill
Governor-General Sir Michael Ogio

President Horacio Cartes

President of the Council of
President Ollanta Humala[n 1]
Ministers Pedro Cateriano
President Benigno Aquino III
President of the Council of
President Andrzej Duda
Ministers Ewa Kopacz
Prime Minister Pedro Passos
President Anbal Cavaco Silva
Coelho
Prime Minister Sheikh
Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad
Abdullah bin Nasser bin
Al Thani
Khalifa Al Thani
President Klaus Iohannis
Prime Minister Victor Ponta
Chairman of the Government
President Vladimir Putin
Dmitry Medvedev
Prime Minister Anastase
President Paul Kagame[n 1]
Murekezi
[n 3]
Queen Elizabeth II
Prime Minister Timothy
Governor-General Samuel Weymouth
Tapley Seaton

Harris

Queen Elizabeth II[n 3]

Prime Minister Kenny

Anthony

Governor-General Dame Pearlette

Louisy

Queen Elizabeth II[n 3]

Governor-General Sir Frederick
Ballantyne

Prime Minister Ralph

Gonsalves

Prime Minister Tuilaepa

Aiono Sailele Malielegaoi
Captain Regent Lorella Stefanelli[n 8]
Captain Regent Nicola Renzi
Prime Minister Patrice
President Manuel Pinto da Costa
Trovoada
King and Prime Minister Salman
Prime Minister Mohamed
President Macky Sall
Dionne
President of the Government
President Tomislav Nikoli
Aleksandar Vui
President James Michel
President Ernest Bai Koroma
O le Ao o le Malo Tufuga Efi

Prime Minister Lee Hsien

Loong
Slovakia
President Andrej Kiska
Prime Minister Robert Fico
President of the Government
Slovenia
President Borut Pahor
Miro Cerar
[n 3]
Prime Minister Manasseh
Solomon Islands Queen Elizabeth II
Governor-General Sir Frank Kabui
Sogavare
President Hassan Sheikh
Prime Minister Omar
Somalia
Mohamud
Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke
President Jacob Zuma
South Africa
Prime Minister Hwang KyoSouth Korea
President Park Geun-hye[n 1]
ahn
South Sudan
President Salva Kiir Mayardit
President of the Government
Spain
King Felipe VI
Mariano Rajoy
Prime Minister Ranil
Sri Lanka
President Maithripala Sirisena[n 1]
Wickremesinghe
Sudan
President Omar al-Bashir
Suriname
President Dsi Bouterse
Prime Minister Barnabas
Swaziland
King Mswati III
Sibusiso Dlamini
Sweden
King Carl XVI Gustaf
Prime Minister Stefan Lfven
Federal President Simonetta Sommaruga[n 9]
Federal Council:
Doris Leuthard (Member), Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf (Member), Ueli Maurer
Switzerland
Singapore

President Tony Tan

(Member),
Didier Burkhalter (Member), Johann Schneider-Ammann (Vice President), Alain
Berset (Member)

Syria

President Bashar al-Assad

Tajikistan

President Emomalii Rahmon

Tanzania

President Jakaya Kikwete[n 1]

Thailand

King Bhumibol Adulyadej

Togo

President Faure Gnassingb[n 1]

Tonga

King Tupou VI

Prime Minister Wael Nader

Al-Halqi
Prime Minister Kokhir
Rasulzoda
Prime Minister Mizengo
Pinda
Prime Minister Prayuth Chanocha
Prime Minister Komi Slom
Klassou
Prime Minister Akilisi
Pohiva

Trinidad and
Tobago

President Anthony Carmona

Prime Minister Keith Rowley

Tunisia

President Beji Caid Essebsi

Head of Government Habib

Essid

Prime Minister Ahmet

Davutolu
Turkmenistan
President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow
Prime Minister Enele
Queen Elizabeth II[n 3]
Tuvalu
Governor-General Sir Iakoba Italeli
Sopoaga
Prime Minister Ruhakana
Uganda
President Yoweri Museveni[n 1]
Rugunda
Prime Minister Arseniy
Ukraine
President Petro Poroshenko
Yatsenyuk
Prime Minister Sheikh
United Arab
President Sheikh Khalifa bin
Mohammed bin Rashid Al
Emirates
Zayed Al Nahyan
Maktoum
Prime Minister David
United Kingdom Queen Elizabeth II[n 3]
Cameron
United States
President Barack Obama
President Tabar Vzquez
Uruguay
Prime Minister Shavkat
Uzbekistan
President Islam Karimov[n 1]
Mirziyoyev
Vanuatu
President Baldwin Lonsdale
Prime Minister Sato Kilman
President of the Governorate
Sovereign Pope Francis
Vatican City
Cardinal Giuseppe Bertello
Venezuela
President Nicols Maduro
General Secretary of the Communist Party Nguyn Ph Trng
Vietnam
Prime Minister Nguyn Tn
President Trng Tn Sang
Dng
President Abd Rabbuh Mansur
Yemen
Prime Minister Khaled Bahah
Hadi[n 1]
President Edgar Lungu
Zambia
Zimbabwe
President Robert Mugabe
Turkey

President Recep Tayyip Erdoan