List of state

leaders in 2019

This is a list of heads of state, heads of

governments, and other rulers in the
year 2019.

Africa
 Algeria
President –
 1. Abdelaziz Bouteflika,
President of Algeria
(1999–2019)
2. Abdelkader Bensalah,
Acting President of
Algeria (2019–present)
Prime Minister –
1. Ahmed Ouyahia, Prime
Minister of Algeria
(2017–2019)
2. Noureddine Bedoui,
Acting Prime Minister of
Algeria (2019–present)
 Angola
 President – João Lourenço,
President of Angola (2017–
present)
 Benin
President – Patrice Talon,
President of Benin (2016–
present)
 Botswana
President – Mokgweetsi Masisi,
President of Botswana (2018–
present)
 Burkina Faso
President – Roch Marc Christian
Kaboré, President of Burkina
 Faso (2015–present)
Prime Minister –
1. Paul Kaba Thieba, Prime
Minister of Burkina Faso
(2016–2019)
2. Christophe Joseph Marie
Dabiré, Prime Minister of
Burkina Faso (2019–
present)
 Burundi
President – Pierre Nkurunziza,
President of Burundi (2005–
present)
 Cameroon
 President – Paul Biya, President
of Cameroon (1982–present)
Prime Minister –
1. Philémon Yang, Prime
Minister of Cameroon
(2009–2019)
2. Joseph Ngute, Prime
Minister of Cameroon
(2019–present)
 Cape Verde
President – Jorge Carlos
Fonseca, President of Cape
Verde (2011–present)
Prime Minister – Ulisses Correia
 e Silva, Prime Minister of Cape
Verde (2016–present)
 Central African Republic
President  – Faustin-Archange
Touadéra, President of the
Central African Republic (2016–
present)
Prime Minister –
1. Simplice Sarandji, Prime
Minister of the Central
African Republic (2016–
2019)
2. Firmin Ngrébada, Prime
Minister of the Central
 African Republic (2019–
present)
 Chad
President – Idriss Déby,
President of Chad (1990–
present)
Prime Minister – Position vacant
(2018–present)
 Comoros
President –
1. Azali Assoumani,
President of the
Comoros (2016––
present)
 2. Moustadroine Abdou,
Acting President of the
Comoros (2019)
 Congo–Brazzaville (Republic of
the Congo)
President – Denis Sassou
Nguesso, President of the
Republic of the Congo (1997–
present)
Prime Minister – Clément
Mouamba, Prime Minister of the
Republic of the Congo (2016–
present)
 Congo–Kinshasa (Democratic
Republic of the Congo)
President –
1. Joseph Kabila, President
of the Democratic
Republic of the Congo
(2001–2019)
2. Félix Tshisekedi,
President of the
Democratic Republic of
the Congo (2019–
present)
Prime Minister – Bruno Tshibala,
Prime Minister of the
Democratic Republic of the
 Congo (2017–present)
 Djibouti
President – Ismaïl Omar Guelleh,
President of Djibouti (1999–
present)
Prime Minister – Abdoulkader
Kamil Mohamed, Prime Minister
of Djibouti (2013–present)
 Egypt
President – Abdel Fattah el-Sisi,
President of Egypt (2014–
present)
Prime Minister – Moustafa
Madbouly, Prime Minister of
 Egypt (2018–present)
 Equatorial Guinea
President – Teodoro Obiang
Nguema Mbasogo, President of
Equatorial Guinea (1979–
present)
Prime Minister – Francisco
Pascual Obama Asue, Prime
Minister of Equatorial Guinea
(2016–present)
 Eritrea
President – Isaias Afwerki,
President of Eritrea (1991–
present) [a]
 Eswatini
Monarch – Mswati III, King of
Eswatini (1986–present)
Prime Minister – Mandvulo
Ambrose Dlamini, Prime Minister
of Eswatini (2018–present)
 Ethiopia
President – Sahle-Work Zewde,
President of Ethiopia (2018–
present)
Prime Minister – Abiy Ahmed,
Prime Minister of Ethiopia
(2018–present)
 Gabon
 President – Ali Bongo Ondimba,
President of Gabon (2009–
present)
Prime Minister –
1. Emmanuel Issoze-
Ngondet, Prime Minister
of Gabon (2016–2019)
2. Julien Nkoghe Bekale,
Prime Minister of Gabon
(2019–present)
 The Gambia
President – Adama Barrow,
President of the Gambia (2017–
present)
 Ghana
President – Nana Akufo-Addo,
President of Ghana (2017–
present)
 Guinea
President – Alpha Condé,
President of Guinea (2010–
present)
Prime Minister – Ibrahima
Kassory Fofana, Prime Minister
of Guinea (2018–present)
 Guinea-Bissau
President – José Mário Vaz,
President of Guinea-Bissau
 (2014–present)
Prime Minister – Aristides
Gomes, Prime Minister of
Guinea-Bissau (2018–present)
 Ivory Coast
President – Alassane Ouattara,
President of the Ivory Coast
(2010–present)
Prime Minister – Amadou Gon
Coulibaly, Prime Minister of the
Ivory Coast (2017–present)
 Kenya
President – Uhuru Kenyatta,
President of Kenya (2013–
 present)
 Lesotho
Monarch – Letsie III, King of
Lesotho (1996–present)
Prime Minister – Tom Thabane,
Prime Minister of Lesotho
(2017–present)
 Liberia
President – George Weah,
President of Liberia (2018–
present)
Libya
Government of House of
Representatives of Libya
(Government of Libya
internationally recognised to 12
March 2016)
Head of State – Aguila
Saleh Issa, Chairman of the
House of Representatives
of Libya (co-claimant,
2014–present)
Prime Minister – Abdullah
al-Thani, Prime Minister of
Libya (co-claimant, 2014–
present)
Government of National
Accord of Libya (Interim
 government internationally
recognised as the sole
legitimate government of Libya
from 12 March 2016)
Head of State – Fayez al-
Sarraj, Chairman of the
Presidential Council of
Libya (co-claimant, 2016–
present)
Prime Minister – Fayez al-
Sarraj, Prime Minister of
Libya (co-claimant, 2016–
present)
 Madagascar
 President –
1. Rivo Rakotovao, Acting
President of Madagascar
(2018–2019)
2. Andry Rajoelina,
President of Madagascar
(2019–present)
Prime Minister – Christian
Ntsay, Prime Minister of
Madagascar (2018–present)
 Malawi
President – Peter Mutharika,
President of Malawi (2014–
present)
 Mali
President – Ibrahim Boubacar
Keïta, President of Mali (2013–
present)
Prime Minister –
1. Soumeylou Boubèye
Maïga, Prime Minister of
Mali (2017–2019)
2. Boubou Cisse, Prime
Minister of Mali (2019–
present)
 Mauritania
President – Mohamed Ould
Abdel Aziz, President of
 Mauritania (2009–present)
Prime Minister – Mohamed
Salem Ould Béchir, Prime
Minister of Mauritania (2018–
present)
 Mauritius
President – Barlen Vyapoory,
Acting President of Mauritius
(2018–present)
Prime Minister – Pravind
Jugnauth, Prime Minister of
Mauritius (2017–present)
 Morocco
Monarch – Mohammed VI, King
 of Morocco (1999–present)
Prime Minister – Saadeddine
Othmani, Head of Government
of Morocco (2017–present)
 Mozambique
President – Filipe Nyusi,
President of Mozambique
(2015–present)
Prime Minister – Carlos
Agostinho do Rosário, Prime
Minister of Mozambique (2015–
present)
 Namibia
President – Hage Geingob,
 President of Namibia (2015–
present)
Prime Minister – Saara
Kuugongelwa, Prime Minister of
Namibia (2015–present)
 Niger
President – Mahamadou
Issoufou, President of Niger
(2011–present)
Prime Minister – Brigi Rafini,
Prime Minister of Niger (2011–
present)
 Nigeria
President – Muhammadu
 Buhari, President of Nigeria
(2015–present)
 Puntland (self-declared
autonomous state)
President –
1. Abdiweli Mohamed Ali,
President of Puntland
(2014–2019)
2. Said Abdullahi Deni,
President of Puntland
(2019–present)
 Rwanda
President – Paul Kagame,
President of Rwanda (2000–
 present)
Prime Minister – Édouard
Ngirente, Prime Minister of
Rwanda (2017–present)
 Saint Helena, Ascension and
Tristan da Cunha (Overseas Territory
of the United Kingdom)
Governor –
1. Lisa Honan, Governor of
Saint Helena (2016–
2019)
2. Louise MacMorran,
Acting Governor of Saint
Helena (2019)
 3. Philip Rushbrook,
Governor of Saint Helena
(2019–present)
 São Tomé and Príncipe
President – Evaristo Carvalho,
President of São Tomé and
Príncipe (2016–present)
Prime Minister – Jorge Bom
Jesus, Prime Minister of São
Tomé and Príncipe (2018–
present)
 Senegal
President – Macky Sall,
President of Senegal (2012–
 present)
Prime Minister – Mohammed
Dionne, Prime Minister of
Senegal (2014–2019)
 Seychelles
President – Danny Faure,
President of Seychelles (2016–
present)
 Sierra Leone
President – Julius Maada Bio,
President of Sierra Leone
(2018–present)
Chief Minister – David J.
Francis, Chief Minister of Sierra
 Leone (2018–present)
 Somalia
President – Mohamed Abdullahi
Mohamed, President of Somalia
(2017–present)
Prime Minister – Hassan Ali
Khayre, Prime Minister of
Somalia (2017–present)
 Somaliland (unrecognised,
secessionist state)
President – Muse Bihi Abdi,
President of Somaliland (2017–
present)
 South Africa
 President – Cyril Ramaphosa,
President of South Africa
(2018–present)
 South Sudan
President – Salva Kiir Mayardit,
President of South Sudan
(2005–present) [b]
 Sudan
President –
1. Omar al-Bashir, President
of Sudan (1989–2019)
2. Ahmed Awad Ibn Auf,
Chairman of the
Transitional Military
 Council (2019)
3. Abdel Fattah
Abdelrahman Burhan,
Chairman of the
Transitional Military
Council (2019–present)
Prime Minister –
1. Motazz Moussa, Prime
Minister of Sudan (2018–
2019)
2. Mohamed Tahir Ayala,
Prime Minister of Sudan
(2019)
 Tanzania
 President – John Magufuli,
President of Tanzania (2015–
present)
Prime Minister – Kassim
Majaliwa, Prime Minister of
Tanzania (2015–present)
 Togo
President – Faure Gnassingbé,
President of Togo (2005–
present)
Prime Minister – Komi Sélom
Klassou, Prime Minister of Togo
(2015–present)
 Tunisia
 President – Beji Caid Essebsi,
President of Tunisia (2014–
present)
Prime Minister – Youssef
Chahed, Head of Government of
Tunisia (2016–present)
 Uganda
President – Yoweri Museveni,
President of Uganda (1986–
present)
Prime Minister – Ruhakana
Rugunda, Prime Minister of
Uganda (2014–present)
 Western Sahara (self-declared,
partially recognised state)
President – Brahim Ghali,
President of Western Sahara
(2016–present)
Prime Minister – Mohamed Wali
Akeik, Prime Minister of Western
Sahara (2018–present)
 Zambia
President – Edgar Lungu,
President of Zambia (2015–
present)
 Zimbabwe
President – Emmerson
Mnangagwa, President of
 Zimbabwe (2017–present)

Asia
 Afghanistan
President – Ashraf Ghani,
President of Afghanistan (2014–
present)
Prime Minister – Abdullah
Abdullah, Chief Executive Officer
of Afghanistan (2014–present)
 Bahrain
Monarch – Sheikh Hamad bin
Isa Al Khalifa, King of Bahrain
(1999–present)
 Prime Minister – Prince Khalifa
bin Salman Al Khalifa, Prime
Minister of Bahrain (1970–
present) [c]
 Bangladesh
President – Abdul Hamid,
President of Bangladesh (2013–
present)
Prime Minister – Sheikh Hasina,
Prime Minister of Bangladesh
(2009–present)
 Bhutan
Monarch – Jigme Khesar
Namgyel Wangchuck, King of
 Bhutan (2006–present)
Prime Minister – Lotay Tshering,
Prime Minister of Bhutan (2018–
present)
 Brunei
Monarch – Hassanal Bolkiah,
Sultan of Brunei (1967–
present) [d]
Prime Minister – Hassanal
Bolkiah, Prime Minister of Brunei
(1984–present)
 Cambodia
Monarch – Norodom Sihamoni,
King of Cambodia (2004–
 present)
Prime Minister – Hun Sen, Prime
Minister of Cambodia (1985–
present) [e]
 China (People's Republic of China)
Communist Party Leader – Xi
Jinping, General Secretary of the
Communist Party of China
(2012–present)
President – Xi Jinping, President
of China (2013–present)
Premier – Li Keqiang, Premier of
the State Council of China
(2013–present)
 East Timor
President – Francisco Guterres,
President of East Timor (2017–
present)
Prime Minister – Taur Matan
Ruak, Prime Minister of East
Timor (2018–present)
 India
President – Ram Nath Kovind,
President of India (2017–
present)
Prime Minister – Narendra Modi,
Prime Minister of India (2014–
present)
 Indonesia
President – Joko Widodo,
President of Indonesia (2014–
present)
 Iran
Supreme Leader – Ayatollah Ali
Khamenei, Supreme Leader of
Iran (1989–present)
President – Hassan Rouhani,
President of Iran (2013–present)
 Iraq
President – Barham Salih,
President of Iraq (2018–present)
Prime Minister – Adil Abdul-
 Mahdi, Prime Minister of Iraq
(2018–present)
 Israel
President – Reuven Rivlin,
President of Israel (2014–
present)
Prime Minister – Benjamin
Netanyahu, Prime Minister of
Israel (2009–present)
 Japan
Monarch – Naruhito, Emperor of
Japan (2019–present)
Prime Minister – Shinzō Abe,
Prime Minister of Japan (2012–
 present)
 Jordan
Monarch – Abdullah II, King of
Jordan (1999–present)
Prime Minister – Omar Razzaz,
Prime Minister of Jordan (2018–
present)
 Kazakhstan
President –
1. Nursultan Nazarbayev,
President of Kazakhstan
(1990–2019) [f]
2. Kassym-Jomart Tokayev,
President of Kazakhstan
 (2019–present)
Prime Minister –
1. Bakhytzhan Sagintayev,
Prime Minister of
Kazakhstan (2016–2019)
2. Askar Mamin, Prime
Minister of Kazakhstan
(2019–present)
 North Korea (Democratic People's
Republic of Korea)
Communist Party Leader – Kim
Jong-un, Chairman of the
Workers' Party of Korea (2012–
present)
De facto Head of State – Kim
Jong-un, Chairman of the State
Affairs Commission of North
Korea [g] (2011–present)
De jure Head of State –
1. Kim Yong-nam, Chairman
of the Presidium of the
Supreme People's
Assembly of North Korea
(1998–2019)
2. Choe Ryong-hae,
Chairman of the
Presidium of the
Supreme People's
 Assembly of North Korea
(2019–present)
Premier –
1. Pak Pong-ju, Premier of
the Cabinet of North
Korea (2013–2019)
2. Kim Jae-ryong, Premier
of the Cabinet of North
Korea (2019–present)
 South Korea (Republic of Korea)
President – Moon Jae-in,
President of South Korea (2017–
present)
Prime Minister – Lee Nak-yeon,
 Prime Minister of South Korea
(2017–present)
 Kuwait
Monarch – Sheikh Sabah Al-
Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Emir
of Kuwait (2006–present)
Prime Minister – Sheikh Jaber
Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah,
Prime Minister of Kuwait (2011–
present)
 Kyrgyzstan
President – Sooronbay
Jeenbekov, President of
Kyrgyzstan (2017–present)
 Prime Minister –
Muhammetkaliy Abulgaziyev,
Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan
(2018–present)
 Laos
Communist Party Leader –
Bounnhang Vorachith, General
Secretary of the Lao People's
Revolutionary Party (2016–
present)
President – Bounnhang
Vorachith, President of Laos
(2016–present)
Prime Minister – Thongloun
 Sisoulith, Chairman of the
Council of Ministers of Laos
(2016–present)
 Lebanon
President – Michel Aoun,
President of Lebanon (2016–
present)
Prime Minister – Saad Hariri,
President of the Council of
Ministers (2016–present)
 Malaysia
Monarch –
1. Muhammad V, Yang di-
Pertuan Agong of
 Malaysia (2016–2019)
2. Nazrin Shah, Acting Yang
di-Pertuan Agong of
Malaysia (2019)
3. Abdullah, Yang di-
Pertuan Agong (2019–
present)
Prime Minister – Mahathir
Mohamad, Prime Minister of
Malaysia (2018–present)
 Maldives
President – Ibrahim Mohamed
Solih, President of the Maldives
(2018–present)
 Mongolia
President – Khaltmaagiin
Battulga, President of Mongolia
(2017–present)
Prime Minister – Ukhnaagiin
Khürelsükh, Prime Minister of
Mongolia (2017–present)
 Myanmar
President – Win Myint, President
of Myanmar (2018–present)
Prime Minister – Aung San Suu
Kyi, State Counsellor of
Myanmar (2016–present)
   Nepal
 President – Bidhya Devi
Bhandari, President of Nepal
(2015–present)
Prime Minister – Khadga Prasad
Oli, Prime Minister of Nepal
(2018–present)
 Oman
Monarch – Qaboos bin Said al
Said, Sultan of Oman (1970–
present)
Prime Minister – Qaboos bin
Said al Said, Prime Minister of
Oman (1972–present)
 Pakistan
 President – Arif Alvi, President
of Pakistan (2018–present)
Prime Minister – Imran Khan,
Prime Minister of Pakistan
(2018–present)
 Palestine [h]
President – Mahmoud Abbas,
President of Palestine (2005–
present)
Prime Minister –
1. Rami Hamdallah, Prime
Minister of Palestine
(2013–2019)
2. Mohammad Shtayyeh,
 Prime Minister of
Palestine (2019–present)
 Philippines
President – Rodrigo Duterte,
President of the Philippines
(2016–present)
 Qatar
Monarch – Sheikh Tamim bin
Hamad Al Thani, Emir of Qatar
(2013–present)
Prime Minister – Sheikh
Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa
Al Thani, Prime Minister of Qatar
(2013–present)
 Saudi Arabia
Monarch – Salman, King of
Saudi Arabia (2015–present)
Prime Minister – Salman, Prime
Minister of Saudi Arabia (2015–
present)
 Singapore
President – Halimah Yacob,
President of Singapore (2017–
present)
Prime Minister – Lee Hsien
Loong, Prime Minister of
Singapore (2004–present)
 Sri Lanka
 President – Maithripala Sirisena,
President of Sri Lanka (2015–
present)
Prime Minister – Ranil
Wickremesinghe, Prime Minister
of Sri Lanka (2018–present)
Syria
 Syrian Arab Republic
President – Bashar al-
Assad, President of Syria
(2000–present)
Prime Minister – Imad
Khamis, Prime Minister of
Syria (2016–present)
  Syrian Interim Government
(partially recognised, rival
government)
President – Abdurrahman
Mustafa, President of the
Syrian National Coalition
(2018–present)
Prime Minister – Jawad
Abu Hatab, Prime Minister
of the Syrian National
Coalition (2016–2019)
 Taiwan (Republic of China)
President – Tsai Ing-wen,
President of Taiwan (2016–
 present)
Premier –
1. William Lai, President of
the Executive Yuan of
Taiwan (2017–2019)
2. Su Tseng-chang,
President of the
Executive Yuan of
Taiwan (2019–present)
 Tajikistan
President – Emomali Rahmon,
President of Tajikistan (1992–
present)
Prime Minister – Kokhir
 Rasulzoda, Prime Minister of
Tajikistan (2013–present)
 Thailand
Monarch – Maha Vajiralongkorn,
King of Thailand (2016–present)
Prime Minister – Prayut Chan-o-
cha, Prime Minister of Thailand
(2014–present)
 Turkey
President – Recep Tayyip
Erdoğan, President of Turkey
(2014–present)
 Turkmenistan
President – Gurbanguly
 Berdimuhamedow, President of
Turkmenistan (2006–present)
 United Arab Emirates
President – Sheikh Khalifa bin
Zayed Al Nahyan, President of
the United Arab Emirates (2004–
present)
Prime Minister – Sheikh
Mohammed bin Rashid Al
Maktoum, Prime Minister of the
United Arab Emirates (2006–
present)
 Uzbekistan
President – Shavkat Mirziyoyev,
 President of Uzbekistan (2016–
present)
Prime Minister – Abdulla Aripov,
Prime Minister of Uzbekistan
(2016–present)
 Vietnam
Communist Party Leader –
Nguyễn Phú Trọng, General
Secretary of the Communist
Party of Vietnam (2011–
present)
President – Nguyễn Phú Trọng,
President of Vietnam (2018–
present)
 Prime Minister – Nguyễn Xuân
Phúc, Prime Minister of Vietnam
(2016–present)
Yemen
 Republic of Yemen
President – Abdrabbuh
Mansur Hadi, President of
Yemen (2012–present)
Prime Minister – Maeen
Abdulmalik Saeed, Prime
Minister of Yemen (2018–
present)
  Supreme Political Council
(unrecognised, rival government)
 Head of State – Mahdi al-
Mashat, Head of the
Supreme Political Council of
Yemen (2018–present)
Prime Minister – Abdel-Aziz
bin Habtour, Prime Minister
of Yemen (2016–present)

Europe
 Abkhazia (partially recognised,
secessionist state)
President – Raul Khajimba,
President of Abkhazia (2014–
present)
Prime Minister – Valeri Bganba,
 Prime Minister of Abkhazia
(2018–present)
 Albania
President – Ilir Meta, President
of Albania (2017–present)
Prime Minister – Edi Rama,
Prime Minister of Albania
(2013–present)
 Andorra
Monarchs –
French Co-Prince –
Emmanuel Macron, French
Co-prince of Andorra
(2017–present)
 Co-Prince's
Representative –
Patrick Strzoda (2017–
present)
Episcopal Co-Prince –
Archbishop Joan Enric
Vives Sicília, Episcopal Co-
prince of Andorra (2003–
present)
Co-Prince's
Representative – Josep
Maria Mauri (2012–
present)
Prime Minister –
 1. Antoni Martí, Head of
Government of Andorra
(2015–2019)
2. Xavier Espot Zamora,
Head of Government of
Andorra (2019–present)
 Armenia
President – Armen Sarkissian,
President of Armenia (2018–
present)
Prime Minister – Nikol
Pashinyan, Prime Minister of
Armenia (2018–present)
 Artsakh (unrecognised,
secessionist state)
Nagorno-Karabakh changed
name to Artsakh on 10 March
2017
President – Bako Sahakyan,
President of Artsakh (2007–
present)
 Austria
President – Alexander Van der
Bellen, Federal President of
Austria (2017–present)
Chancellor – Sebastian Kurz,
Federal Chancellor of Austria
(2017–present)
 Azerbaijan
President – Ilham Aliyev,
President of Azerbaijan (2003–
present)
Prime Minister – Novruz
Mammadov, Prime Minister of
Azerbaijan (2018–present)
 Belarus
President – Alexander
Lukashenko, President of
Belarus (1994–present)
Prime Minister – Syarhey
Rumas, Prime Minister of
Belarus (2018–present)
 Belgium
Monarch – Philippe, King of the
Belgians (2013–present)
Prime Minister – Charles Michel,
Prime Minister of Belgium
(2014–present)
 Bosnia and Herzegovina
Head of State – Presidency of
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosniak Member – Šefik
Džaferović (2018–present)
Croat Member – Željko
Komšić (2018–present)
Serb Member – Milorad
 Dodik (2018–present;
Chairman of the Presidency
of Bosnia and Herzegovina,
2018–present))
Prime Minister – Denis Zvizdić,
Chairman of the Council of
Ministers of Bosnia and
Herzegovina (2015–present)
High Representative – Valentin
Inzko, High Representative for
Bosnia and Herzegovina (2009–
present)
 Bulgaria
President – Rumen Radev,
 President of Bulgaria (2017–
present)
Prime Minister – Boyko Borisov,
Prime Minister of Bulgaria
(2017–present)
 Croatia
President – Kolinda Grabar-
Kitarović, President of Croatia
(2015–present)
Prime Minister – Andrej
Plenković, Prime Minister of
Croatia (2016–present)
 Cyprus
President – Nicos Anastasiades,
 President of Cyprus (2013–
present)
 Czech Republic
President – Miloš Zeman,
President of the Czech Republic
(2013–present)
Prime Minister – Andrej Babiš,
Prime Minister of the Czech
Republic (2017–present)
 Denmark
Monarch – Margrethe II, Queen
of Denmark (1972–present)
Prime Minister – Lars Løkke
Rasmussen, Prime Minister of
 Denmark (2015–present)
 Donetsk People's Republic
(unrecognised, secessionist state)
President – Denis Pushilin,
President of Donetsk People's
Republic (2018–present)
Prime Minister – Alexander
Ananchenko, Prime Minister of
Donetsk People's Republic
(2018–present)
 Estonia
President – Kersti Kaljulaid,
President of Estonia (2016–
present)
 Prime Minister – Jüri Ratas,
Prime Minister of Estonia
(2016–present)
 Finland
President – Sauli Niinistö,
President of Finland (2012–
present)
Prime Minister – Juha Sipilä,
Prime Minister of Finland
(2015–present)
 France
President – Emmanuel Macron,
President of France (2017–
present)
 Prime Minister – Édouard
Philippe, Prime Minister of
France (2017–present)
 Georgia
President – Salome Zurabishvili,
President of Georgia (2018–
present)
Prime Minister – Mamuka
Bakhtadze, Prime Minister of
Georgia (2018–present)
 Germany
President – Frank-Walter
Steinmeier, Federal President of
Germany (2017–present)
 Chancellor – Angela Merkel,
Federal Chancellor of Germany
(2005–present)
 Gibraltar (Overseas Territory of the
United Kingdom)
Governor – Ed Davis, Governor
of Gibraltar (2016–present)
Chief Minister – Fabian Picardo,
Chief Minister of Gibraltar
(2011–present)
 Greece
President – Prokopis
Pavlopoulos, President of
Greece (2015–present)
 Prime Minister – Alexis Tsipras,
Prime Minister of Greece (2015–
present)
 Guernsey (Crown dependency)
Lieutenant-Governor – Sir Ian
Corder, Lieutenant Governor of
Guernsey (2016–present)
President of the Policy and
Resources Committee – Gavin
St Pier, President of the Policy
and Resources Committee
(2016–present)
 Hungary
President – János Áder,
 President of Hungary (2012–
present)
Prime Minister – Viktor Orbán,
Prime Minister of Hungary
(2010–present)
 Iceland
President – Guðni Th.
Jóhannesson, President of
Iceland (2016–present)
Prime Minister – Katrín
Jakobsdóttir, Prime Minister of
Iceland (2017–present)
 Ireland
President – Michael D. Higgins,
 President of Ireland (2011–
present)
Prime Minister – Leo Varadkar,
Taoiseach of Ireland (2017–
present)
 Isle of Man (Crown dependency)
Lieutenant-Governor – Sir
Richard Gozney, Lieutenant
Governor of the Isle of Man
(2016–present)
Chief Minister – Howard Quayle,
Chief Minister of the Isle of Man
(2016–present)
 Italy
 President – Sergio Mattarella,
President of Italy (2015–
present)
Prime Minister – Giuseppe
Conte, President of the Council
of Ministers of Italy (2018–
present)
 Jersey (Crown dependency)
Lieutenant-Governor – Sir
Stephen Dalton, Lieutenant
Governor of Jersey (2017–
present)
Chief Minister – John Le Fondré
Jr, Chief Minister of Jersey
 (2018–present)
 Kosovo (partially recognised,
secessionist state; under nominal
international administration) 
President – Hashim Thaçi,
President of Kosovo (2016–
present)
Prime Minister – Ramush
Haradinaj, Prime Minister of
Kosovo (2017–present)
UN Special Representative –
Zahir Tanin, Special
Representative of the UN
Secretary-General for Kosovo
 (2015–present)
 Latvia
President – Raimonds Vējonis,
President of Latvia (2015–
present)
Prime Minister –
1. Māris Kučinskis, Prime
Minister of Latvia (2016–
2019)
2. Krišjānis Kariņš, Prime
Minister of Latvia (2019–
present)
 Liechtenstein
Monarch – Hans-Adam II, Prince
 Regnant of Liechtenstein (1989–
present)
Regent – Hereditary Prince
Alois, Regent of Liechtenstein
(2004–present)
Prime Minister – Adrian Hasler,
Head of Government of
Liechtenstein (2013–present)
 Lithuania
President – Dalia Grybauskaitė,
President of Lithuania (2009–
present)
Prime Minister – Saulius
Skvernelis, Prime Minister of
 Lithuania (2016–present)
Luhansk People's Republic
(unrecognised, secessionist state)
President – Leonid Pasechnik,
Head of state of Luhansk
People's Republic (2017–
present)
Prime Minister – Sergey Kozlov,
Prime Minister of Luhansk
People's Republic (2015–
present)
 Luxembourg
Monarch – Henri, Grand Duke of
Luxembourg (2000–present)
 Prime Minister – Xavier Bettel,
Prime Minister of Luxembourg
(2013–present)
 Malta
President –
1. Marie Louise Coleiro
Preca, President of Malta
(2014–2019)
2. George Vella, President
of Malta (2019–present)
Prime Minister – Joseph
Muscat, Prime Minister of Malta
(2013–present)
 Moldova
 President – Igor Dodon,
President of Moldova (2016–
present)
Prime Minister – Pavel Filip,
Prime Minister of Moldova
(2016–present)
 Monaco
Monarch – Albert II, Sovereign
Prince of Monaco (2005–
present)
Prime Minister – Serge Telle,
Minister of State of Monaco
(2016–present)
 Montenegro
 President – Milo Đukanović,
President of Montenegro (2018–
present)
Prime Minister – Duško
Marković, Prime Minister of
Montenegro (2016–present)
 Nagorno-Karabakh (unrecognised,
secessionist state)
see under Artsakh
 Kingdom of the Netherlands
Monarch – Willem-Alexander,
King of the Netherlands (2013–
present)
 Netherlands (constituent
 country)
Prime Minister – Mark
Rutte, Prime Minister of the
Netherlands (2010–
present)
 Aruba (constituent country)
see under North America
 Curaçao (constituent country)
see under North America
 Sint Maarten (constituent
country)
see under North America
 Northern Cyprus (unrecognised,
secessionist state)
 President – Mustafa Akıncı,
President of Northern Cyprus
(2015–present)
Prime Minister – Tufan
Erhürman, Prime Minister of
Northern Cyprus (2018–present)
 North Macedonia [i]
President –
1. Gjorge Ivanov, President
of Macedonia (2009–
2919)
2. Stevo Pendarovski,
President of Macedonia
(2019–present)
 Prime Minister – Zoran Zaev,
President of the Government of
Macedonia (2017–present)
 Norway
Monarch – Harald V, King of
Norway (1991–present)
Prime Minister – Erna Solberg,
Prime Minister of Norway
(2013–present)
 Poland
President – Andrzej Duda,
President of Poland (2015–
present)
Prime Minister – Mateusz
 Morawiecki, Chairman of the
Council of Ministers of Poland
(2017–present)
 Portugal
President – Marcelo Rebelo de
Sousa, President of Portugal
(2016–present)
Prime Minister – António Costa,
Prime Minister of Portugal
(2015–present)
 Romania
President – Klaus Iohannis,
President of Romania (2014–
present)
 Prime Minister – Viorica Dăncilă,
Prime Minister of Romania
(2018–present)
 Russia
President – Vladimir Putin,
President of Russia (2012–
present)
Prime Minister – Dmitry
Medvedev, Chairman of the
Government of Russia (2012–
present)
 San Marino
Captains-Regent –
1. Mirko Tomassoni and
 Luca Santolini, Captains
Regent of San Marino
(2018–2019)
2. Nicola Selva and Michele
Muratori, Captains
Regent of San Marino
(2019–present)
 Serbia
President – Aleksandar Vučić,
President of Serbia (2017–
present)
Prime Minister – Ana Brnabić,
Prime Minister of Serbia (2017–
present)
 Slovakia
President – Andrej Kiska,
President of Slovakia
(2014–2019)
President-elect - Zuzana
Čaputová, President-elect of
Slovakia (2019)
Prime Minister – Peter Pellegrini,
Prime Minister of Slovakia
(2018–present)
 Slovenia
President – Borut Pahor,
President of Slovenia (2012–
present)
 Prime Minister – Marjan Šarec,
Prime Minister of Slovenia
(2018–present)
 South Ossetia (partially
recognised, secessionist state)
President – Anatoliy Bibilov,
President of South Ossetia
(2017–present)
Prime Minister – Erik Pukhayev,
Prime Minister of South Ossetia
(2017–present)
 Spain
Monarch – Felipe VI, King of
Spain (2014–present)
 Prime Minister – Pedro Sánchez,
President of the Government of
Spain (2018–present)
 Sweden
Monarch – Carl XVI Gustaf, King
of Sweden (1973–present)
Prime Minister – Stefan Löfven,
Prime Minister of Sweden
(2014–present)
  Switzerland
Council – Federal Council of
Switzerland [j]
Members – Ueli Maurer
(2009–present; President of
 Switzerland, 2019–present),
Simonetta Sommaruga
(2010–present), Alain
Berset (2012–present), Guy
Parmelin (2016–present),
Ignazio Cassis (2017–
present), Karin Keller-Sutter
(2019–present) and Viola
Amherd (2019–present)
 Transnistria (unrecognised,
secessionist state)
President – Vadim
Krasnoselsky, President of
Transnistria (2016–present)
 Prime Minister – Aleksandr
Martynov, Prime Minister of
Transnistria (2016–present)
 Ukraine
President – Petro Poroshenko,
President of Ukraine (2014–
present)
Prime Minister – Volodymyr
Groysman, Prime Minister of
Ukraine (2016–present)
 United Kingdom
Monarch – Elizabeth II, Queen of
the United Kingdom (1952–
present)
 Prime Minister – Theresa May,
Prime Minister of the United
Kingdom (2016–present)
  Vatican City
Monarch – Pope Francis,
Sovereign of Vatican City
(2013–present)
Head of Government – Cardinal
Giuseppe Bertello, President of
the Governorate of Vatican City
(2011–present)
Holy See (sui generis subject of
public international law)
Secretary of State –
 Cardinal Pietro Parolin,
Cardinal Secretary of State
(2013–present)

North and Central America

 Anguilla (Overseas Territory of the
United Kingdom)
Governor – Tim Foy, Governor of
Anguilla (2017–present)
Chief Minister – Victor Banks,
Chief Minister of Anguilla
(2015–present)
 Antigua and Barbuda
Monarch – Elizabeth II, Queen of
Antigua and Barbuda (1981–
 present)
Governor-General – Sir Rodney
Williams, Governor-General of
Antigua and Barbuda (2014–
present)
Prime Minister – Gaston
Browne, Prime Minister of
Antigua and Barbuda (2014–
present)
 Aruba (constituent country of the
Kingdom of the Netherlands)
Governor – Alfonso Boekhoudt,
Governor of Aruba (2017–
present)
 Prime Minister – Evelyn Wever-
Croes, Prime Minister of Aruba
(2017–present)
 The Bahamas
Monarch – Elizabeth II, Queen of
the Bahamas (1973–present)
Governor-General – Dame
Marguerite Pindling, Governor-
General of the Bahamas (2014–
present)
Prime Minister – Hubert Minnis,
Prime Minister of the Bahamas
(2017–present)
 Barbados
 Monarch – Elizabeth II, Queen of
Barbados (1966–present)
Governor-General – Dame
Sandra Mason, Governor-
General of Barbados (2018–
present)
Prime Minister – Mia Mottley,
Prime Minister of Barbados
(2018–present)
 Belize
Monarch – Elizabeth II, Queen of
Belize (1981–present)
Governor-General – Sir Colville
Young, Governor-General of
 Belize (1993–present)
Prime Minister – Dean Barrow,
Prime Minister of Belize (2008–
present)
 Bermuda (Overseas Territory of the
United Kingdom)
Governor – John Rankin,
Governor of Bermuda (2016–
present)
Premier – Edward David Burt,
Premier of Bermuda (2017–
present)
 British Virgin Islands (Overseas
Territory of the United Kingdom)
 Governor – Augustus Jaspert,
Governor of the British Virgin
Islands (2017–present)
Premier –
1. Orlando Smith, Premier
of the British Virgin
Islands (2011–2019)
2. Andrew Fahie, Premier of
the British Virgin Islands
(2019–present)
 Canada
Monarch – Elizabeth II, Queen of
Canada (1952–present)
Governor-General – Julie
 Payette, Governor General of
Canada (2017–present)
Prime Minister – Justin Trudeau,
Prime Minister of Canada
(2015–present)
 Cayman Islands (Overseas
Territory of the United Kingdom)
Governor – Martyn Roper,
Governor of the Cayman Islands
(2018–present)
Premier – Alden McLaughlin,
Premier of the Cayman Islands
(2013–present)
 Costa Rica
 President – Carlos Alvarado
Quesada, President of Costa
Rica (2018–present)
 Cuba
Communist Party Leader – Raúl
Castro, First Secretary of the
Communist Party of Cuba
(2011–present)
President – Miguel Díaz-Canel,
President of the Council of State
of Cuba (2018–present)
Prime Minister – Miguel Díaz-
Canel, President of the Council
of Ministers of Cuba (2018–
 present)
 Curaçao (constituent country of
the Kingdom of the Netherlands)
Governor – Lucille George-Wout,
Governor of Curaçao (2013–
present)
Prime Minister – Eugene
Rhuggenaath, Prime Minister of
Curaçao (2017–present)
 Dominica
President – Charles Savarin,
President of Dominica (2013–
present)
Prime Minister – Roosevelt
 Skerrit, Prime Minister of
Dominica (2004–present)
 Dominican Republic
President – Danilo Medina,
President of the Dominican
Republic (2012–present)
 El Salvador
President – Salvador Sánchez
Cerén, President of El Salvador
(2014–present)
 Grenada
Monarch – Elizabeth II, Queen of
Grenada (1974–present)
Governor-General – Dame Cécile
 La Grenade, Governor-General of
Grenada (2013–present)
Prime Minister – Keith Mitchell,
Prime Minister of Grenada
(2013–present)
 Guatemala
President – Jimmy Morales,
President of Guatemala (2016–
present)
 Haiti
President – Jovenel Moïse,
President of Haiti (2017–
present)
Prime Minister –
 1. Jean-Henry Céant, Prime
Minister of Haiti (2018–
2019)
2. Jean Michel Lapin,
Acting Prime Minister of
Haiti (2019–present)
 Honduras
President – Juan Orlando
Hernández, President of
Honduras (2014–present)
 Jamaica
Monarch – Elizabeth II, Queen of
Jamaica (1962–present)
Governor-General – Sir Patrick
 Allen, Governor-General of
Jamaica (2009–present)
Prime Minister – Andrew
Holness, Prime Minister of
Jamaica (2016–present)
 Mexico
President – Andrés Manuel
López Obrador, President of
Mexico (2018–present)
 Montserrat (Overseas Territory of
the United Kingdom)
Governor – Andrew Pearce,
Governor of Montserrat (2018–
present)
 Premier – Donaldson Romeo,
Premier of Montserrat (2014–
present)
 Nicaragua
President – Daniel Ortega,
President of Nicaragua (2007–
present)
 Panama
President – Juan Carlos Varela,
President of Panama (2014–
present)
 Puerto Rico (Commonwealth of
the United States)
Governor – Ricardo Rosselló,
 Governor of Puerto Rico (2017–
present)
   Saint Barthélemy (overseas
collectivity of France)
Prefect – Sylvie Daniélo-Feucher,
Prefect of Saint Barthélemy
(2018–present)
Head of Government – Bruno
Magras, President of the
Territorial Council of Saint
Barthélemy (2007–present)
 Saint Kitts and Nevis
Monarch – Elizabeth II, Queen of
Saint Kitts and Nevis (1983–
 present)
Governor-General – Sir Tapley
Seaton, Governor-General of
Saint Kitts and Nevis (2015–
present)
Prime Minister – Timothy Harris,
Prime Minister of Saint Kitts and
Nevis (2015–present)
 Saint Lucia
Monarch – Elizabeth II, Queen of
Saint Lucia (1979–present)
Governor-General – Sir Neville
Cenac, Governor-General of
Saint Lucia (2018–present)
 Prime Minister – Allen
Chastanet, Prime Minister of
Saint Lucia (2016–present)
 Saint Martin (overseas collectivity
of France)
Prefect – Sylvie Daniélo-Feucher,
Prefect of Saint Barthélemy
(2018–present)
Head of Government – Daniel
Gibbs, President of the
Territorial Council of Saint
Martin (2017–present)
   Saint Pierre and Miquelon
(overseas collectivity of France)
 Prefect – Thierry Devimeux,
Prefect of Saint Pierre and
Miquelon (2018–present)
Head of Government – Stéphane
Lenormand, President of the
Territorial Council of Saint Pierre
and Miquelon (2017–present)
 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Monarch – Elizabeth II, Queen of
Saint Vincent and the
Grenadines (1979–present)
Governor-General – Sir Frederick
Ballantyne, Governor-General of
Saint Vincent and the
 Grenadines (2002–present)
Prime Minister – Ralph
Gonsalves, Prime Minister of
Saint Vincent and the
Grenadines (2001–present)
 Sint Maarten (constituent country
of the Kingdom of the Netherlands)
Governor – Eugene Holiday,
Governor of Sint Maarten
(2010–present)
Prime Minister – Leona Marlin-
Romeo, Prime Minister of Sint
Maarten (2018–present)
 Trinidad and Tobago
 President – Paula-Mae Weekes,
President of Trinidad and
Tobago (2018–present)
Prime Minister – Keith Rowley,
Prime Minister of Trinidad and
Tobago (2015–present)
 Turks and Caicos Islands
(Overseas Territory of the United
Kingdom)
Governor – John Freeman,
Governor of the Turks and
Caicos Islands (2016–present)
Premier – Sharlene Cartwright-
Robinson, Premier of the Turks
 and Caicos Islands (2016–
present)
 United States
President – Donald Trump,
President of the United States
(2017–present)
 United States Virgin Islands
(insular area of the United States)
Governor –
1. Kenneth Mapp, Governor
of the United States
Virgin Islands (2015–
2019)
2. Albert Bryan, Governor of
 the United States Virgin
Islands (2019–present)

Oceania
 American Samoa (unorganised,
unincorporated territory of the United
States)
Governor – Lolo Matalasi
Moliga, Governor of American
Samoa (2013–present)
 Australia
Monarch – Elizabeth II, Queen of
Australia (1952–present)
Governor-General – Sir Peter
Cosgrove, Governor-General of
 Australia (2014–present)
Prime Minister – Scott Morrison,
Prime Minister of Australia
(2018–present)
 Christmas Island (external territory
of Australia)
Administrator – Natasha Griggs,
Administrator of Christmas
Island (2017–present)
Shire-President – Gordon
Thomson, Shire president of
Christmas Island (2013–
present)
 Cocos (Keeling) Islands (external
territory of Australia)
Administrator – Natasha Griggs,
Administrator of the Cocos
(Keeling) Islands (2017–
present)
Shire-President – Seri Wati Iku,
Shire president of the Cocos
(Keeling) Islands (2017–
present)
 Cook Islands (associated state of
New Zealand)
Queen's Representative – Tom
Marsters, Queen's
Representative of the Cook
 Islands (2013–present)
Prime Minister – Henry Puna,
Prime Minister of the Cook
Islands (2010–present)
 Fiji
President – George Konrote,
President of Fiji (2015–present)
Prime Minister – Frank
Bainimarama, Prime Minister of
Fiji (2007–present)
   French Polynesia (overseas
collectivity of France)
High Commissioner – René
Bidal, High Commissioner of the
 Republic in French Polynesia
(2016–present)
President – Édouard Fritch,
President of French Polynesia
(2014–present)
 Guam (insular area of the United
States)
Governor –
1. Eddie Baza Calvo,
Governor of Guam
(2011–2019)
2. Lou Leon Guerrero,
Governor of Guam
(2019–present)
 Kiribati
President – Taneti Mamau,
President of Kiribati (2016–
present)[1]
 Marshall Islands
President – Hilda Heine,
President of the Marshall
Islands (2016–present)
 Micronesia
President –
1. Peter M. Christian,
President of Micronesia
(2015–2019)
2. David W. Panuelo,
 President of Micronesia
(2019–present)
 Nauru
President – Baron Waqa,
President of Nauru (2013–
present)
   New Caledonia (sui generis
collectivity of France)
High Commissioner – Thierry
Lataste, High Commissioner of
New Caledonia (2016–present)
Head of Government – Philippe
Germain, President of the
Government of New Caledonia
 (2015–present)
 New Zealand
Monarch – Elizabeth II, Queen of
New Zealand (1952–present)
Governor-General – Dame Patsy
Reddy, Governor-General of New
Zealand (2016–present)
Prime Minister – Jacinda Ardern,
Prime Minister of New Zealand
(2017–present)
 Niue (associated state of New
Zealand)
Premier – Sir Toke Talagi,
Premier of Niue (2008–present)
  Northern Mariana Islands
(Commonwealth of the United
States)
Governor – Ralph Torres,
Governor of the Northern
Mariana Islands (2015–present)
 Palau
President – Tommy
Remengesau, President of Palau
(2013–present)
 Papua New Guinea
Monarch – Elizabeth II, Queen of
Papua New Guinea (1975–
present)
 Governor-General – Sir Bob
Dadae, Governor-General of
Papua New Guinea (2017–
present)
Prime Minister – Peter O'Neill,
Prime Minister of Papua New
Guinea (2011–present)
 Pitcairn Islands (Overseas
Territory of the United Kingdom)
Governor – Laura Clarke,
Governor of Pitcairn (2018–
present)
Mayor – Shawn Christian, Mayor
of the Pitcairn Islands (2014–
 present)
 Samoa
Head of State – Va'aletoa
Sualauvi II, O le Ao o le Malo of
Samoa (2017–present)
Prime Minister – Tuilaepa Aiono
Sailele Malielegaoi, Prime
Minister of Samoa (1998–
present)
 Solomon Islands
Monarch – Elizabeth II, Queen of
the Solomon Islands (1978–
present)
Governor-General – Sir Frank
 Kabui, Governor-General of the
Solomon Islands (2009–
present)
Prime Minister –
1. Rick Houenipwela, Prime
Minister of the Solomon
Islands (2017–2019)
2. Manasseh Sogavare,
Prime Minister of the
Solomon Islands (2019–
present)
 Tokelau (dependent territory of
New Zealand)
Administrator – Ross Ardern,
 Administrator of Tokelau (2018–
present)
Head of Government –
1. Afega Gaualofa, Head of
Government of Tokelau
(2018–2019)
2. Kerisiano Kalolo, Head of
Government of Tokelau
(2018–present)
 Tonga
Monarch – Tupou VI, King of
Tonga (2012–present)
Prime Minister – ʻAkilisi Pōhiva,
Prime Minister of Tonga (2014–
 present)
 Tuvalu
Monarch – Elizabeth II, Queen of
Tuvalu (1978–present)
Governor-General – Sir Iakoba
Italeli, Governor-General of
Tuvalu (2010–present)
Prime Minister – Enele Sopoaga,
Prime Minister of Tuvalu (2013–
present)
 Vanuatu
President – Tallis Obed Moses,
President of Vanuatu (2017–
present)
 Prime Minister – Charlot Salwai,
Prime Minister of Vanuatu
(2016–present)
   Wallis and Futuna (overseas
collectivity of France)
Administrator –
1. Christophe Lotigie,
Acting Administrator
Superior of Wallis and
Futuna (2018–2019)
2. Thierry Queffelec,
Administrator Superior of
Wallis and Futuna
(2019–present)
 Head of Government – David
Vergé, President of the
Territorial Assembly of Wallis
and Futuna (2017–present)

South America
 Argentina
President – Mauricio Macri,
President of Argentina (2015–
present)
 Bolivia
President – Evo Morales,
President of Bolivia (2006–
present)
 Brazil
 President – Jair Bolsonaro,
President of Brazil (2019–
present)
 Chile
President – Sebastián Piñera,
President of Chile (2018–
present)
 Colombia
President – Iván Duque
Márquez, President of Colombia
(2018–present)
 Ecuador
President – Lenín Moreno,
President of Ecuador (2017–
 present)
 Falkland Islands (Overseas
Territory of the United Kingdom)
Governor – Nigel Phillips,
Governor of the Falkland Islands
(2017–present)
Chief Executive – Barry Rowland,
Chief Executive of the Falkland
Islands (2016–present)
 Guyana
President – David A. Granger,
President of Guyana (2015–
present)
Prime Minister – Moses
 Nagamootoo, Prime Minister of
Guyana (2015–present)
 Paraguay
President – Mario Abdo Benítez,
President of Paraguay (2018–
present)
 Peru
President – Martín Vizcarra,
President of Peru (2018–
present)
Prime Minister –
1. César Villanueva,
President of the Council
of Ministers of Peru
 (2018–2019)
2. Salvador del Solar,
President of the Council
of Ministers of Peru
(2019–present)
 Suriname
President – Dési Bouterse,
President of Suriname (2010–
present)
 Uruguay
President – Tabaré Vázquez,
President of Uruguay (2015–
present)
Venezuela
  Venezuela
President – Nicolás
Maduro, President of
Venezuela (2013–present)
 Venezuelan opposition
(partially recognised, rival
government)
President – Juan Guaidó,
President of the National
Assembly (2019–present)

See also
List of current heads of state and
government

Notes
Notes
a. Eritrea only became independent in
1993.
b. South Sudan only became
independent in 2011.
c. Bahrain only became independent
in 1971.
d. Brunei only became independent in
1984.
e. Hun Sen was titled Second Prime
Minister in 1993–98.
f. Kazakhstan only became
independent in 1991.
g. Kim was referred to as supreme
 leader in 2011, and then appointed
as First Chairman of the National
Defence Commission in 2012 and
Chairman of the State Affairs
Commission in 2016 —having been
de facto leader of North Korea
throughout.
h. The Palestinian head of state is the
president and prime minister.
Despite its existing status
internationally as a mostly
recognized state, it controls parts
of the West Bank, but lacks any
authority in the Gaza Strip, which is
taken over by Hamas militant
 group since 2007.
i. The official name was changed to
the Republic of North Macedonia
on 12 February 2019.
j. The seven-member Swiss Federal
Council is head of state and
government collectively. Within
this executive council, the
president serves solely in a primus
inter pares capacity for one year.

References
1. "Taneti Maamau declared new
president of Kiribati" . Radio New
Zealand. Retrieved 10 April 2016.
External links
CIDOB Foundation (in Spanish)—
contextualised biographies of world
political leaders
Portale Storia (in Spanish)—a list of
current rulers by country
Rulers —a list of rulers throughout
time and places
WorldStatesmen —an online
encyclopedia of the leaders of
nations and territories

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