List of Current Longest-Ruling Non-Royal National Leaders - Wikipedia

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List of current longest-ruling non-royal

national leaders
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.
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Length
Tenure
Rank Image Name Age Country Office of
began
tenure
Prime
Minister, 30 June 45 years,
1. Paul Biya 87 Cameroon
then 1975 136 days
President[1]
Teodoro Obiang
3 August 41 years,
2. Nguema 78 Equatorial Guinea President[2]
1979 102 days
Mbasogo
President,
then 13 October 39 years,
3. Ali Khamenei 81 Iran
Supreme 1981 31 days
Leader[3]
8 February
1979 – 31
August
1992 (1st
Denis Sassou Republic of the Congo 36 years,
4.
Nguesso
76 President[4] time)
224 days
25 October
1997 –
present
(2nd time)
26
Prime 35 years,
5. Hun Sen 68 Cambodia December
Minister[5] 1984
323 days
Uganda 26 January 34 years,

6. Yoweri Museveni 76 President
1986 292 days
2
29 years,
7. Idriss Déby 68 Chad President[6] December
347 days
1990
Chairman of
the
16
Nursultan Security 28 years,
8. 80 Kazakhstan December
Nazarbayev Council, 333 days
1991
formerly
President[7]
De facto
Head of 19
State, 27 years,
9. Emomali Rahmon 68 Tajikistan November
then 360 days
1992
President[8]
Length
Tenure
began
tenure
24 May 27 years,
10. Isaias Afwerki 74 Eritrea President[9]
1993 173 days
Acting Head
of State, 19 July 26 years,
11. Paul Kagame 63 Rwanda
then 1994 117 days
President[10]
Alexander 20 July 26 years,

12. 66 Belarus President
Lukashenko 1994 116 days
4 March
1981 – 25
Acting Head April 1990
of State, (1st time) 22 years,
13. Daniel Ortega 75 Nicaragua
then 10 January 360 days
President[11] 2007 –
present
(2nd time)
Tuilaepa Aiono 23
Prime 21 years,
14. Sailele 75 Samoa November
Minister 356 days
Malielegaoi 1998
Ismaïl Omar Djibouti 8 May 21 years,

15. 72 President
Guelleh 1999 189 days
Length
Tenure
began
tenure
9 August
1999 – 7
May 2000
(1st term
as Prime
Minister)
8 May
2000 – 7
May 2008
(1st & 2nd
Prime terms as
Minister, president) 21 years,
16. Vladimir Putin 68 Russia
then 8 May 96 days
President[12] 2008 – 7
May 2012
(2nd term
as Prime
Minister)
7 May
2012 –
present
(3rd & 4th
terms as
president)
22 June
1995 – 9
July 2008
(1st time)
Prime 20 years,
17. Keith Mitchell 74 Grenada 20
Minister 284 days
February
2013 –
present
(2nd time)
21 March
1990 – 28
August
Prime 2002 (1st
Minister, time) 20 years,
18. Hage Geingob 79 Namibia
then 4 139 days
President[13] December
2012 –
present
(2nd time)
Syria 17 July 20 years,

19. Bashar al-Assad 55 President
2000 119 days
Saint Vincent and Prime 29 March 19 years,

20. Ralph Gonsalves 74
the Grenadines Minister 2001 229 days
Prime
Recep Tayyip Minister, 14 March 17 years,
21. 66 Turkey
Erdoğan then 2003 244 days
President[14]
Length
Tenure
began
tenure
Prime
Minister, 4 August 17 years,
22. Ilham Aliyev 58 Azerbaijan
then 2003 101 days
President[15]
Prime
Minister, 12
Shavkat 16 years,
23. 63 Uzbekistan December
Mirziyoyev then 337 days
2003
President[16]
23 June
1996 – 15
July 2001
Bangladesh Prime (1st time) 16 years,
24. Sheikh Hasina 73
Minister 6 January 334 days
2009 –
present
(2nd time)
Prime 8 January 16 years,

25. Roosevelt Skerrit 48 Dominica
Minister 2004 310 days
19 March
2003 – 6
Prime September
Minister, 2003 (1st
16 years,
– Mahmoud Abbas 84 Palestine time)
then 108 days
15 January
President[17]
2005 –
present
(2nd time)
Singapore Prime 12 August 16 years,

26. Lee Hsien Loong 68
1 January
2001 – 15
January
2009 (1st
Tommy 15 years,
27. 64 Palau President time)
Remengesau 315 days
17 January
2013 –
present
(2nd time)
5 February
2005 – 25
February
2005 (1st
Faure 15 years,
28.
Gnassingbé
54 Togo President[18] time)
213 days
4 May
2005 –
present
(2nd time)
Length
Tenure
began
tenure
22
Germany Federal 14 years,
29. Angela Merkel 66 November
Chancellor 357 days
2005
18 June
1996 – 6
July 1999
Benjamin Israel Prime (1st time) 14 years,
30. 71
Netanyahu Minister 31 March 244 days
2009 –
present
(2nd time)
6 July 1998
– 27 May
2002 (1st
Prime time) 14 years,
31. Viktor Orbán 57 Hungary
Minister 29 May 128 days
2010 –
present
(2nd time)
First
Secretary,
formerly
also 31 July 14 years,
32. Raúl Castro 89 Cuba
President 2006 105 days
and
Prime
Minister[19]
29 May
2000 – 13
Acting Head July 2000
of State, (1st time)
Frank 14 years,
33. 66 Fiji 5
Bainimarama then Prime 23 days
December
Minister[20]
2006 –
present
(2nd time)
21
Gurbanguly Turkmenistan 13 years,
34.
Berdimuhamedow
63 President[21] December
328 days
2006
7
November
1990 – 9
Prime December
Minister, 1993 (1st
Alassane Côte d'Ivoire 13 years,
35. 78 then time)
Ouattara 11 days
4
President[22]
December
2010 –
present
(2nd time)
Length
Tenure
began
tenure
6 April
2004 – 19
November
2005 (1st
term as
Prime
Minister)
19
November
2005 – 9
January
2015 (Term
as
president)
Mahinda Prime 11 years,
36. 74 Sri Lanka 26 October
Rajapaksa Minister[23] 2018 – 15
321 days
December
2018 (2nd
disputed
term as
Prime
Minister)[24]
21
November
2019 –
present
(3rd term
as Prime
Minister)
Federal
Council
Switzerland Member, 1 January 11 years,
37. Ueli Maurer 69
formerly 2009 317 days
President[25]
21 April
2004 – 19
Prime June 2007
Minister, (1st time) 11 years,
38. Macky Sall 58 Senegal
then 2 April 285 days
present
(2nd time)
22 July
1998 – 15
Prime July 2002
Minister, (1st time) 11 years,
39. Miloš Zeman 76 Czech Republic
then 8 March 243 days
present
(2nd time)
30 April
1999 – 21
January
2002 (1st
time)
6 May
11 years,
40. Azali Assoumani 61 Comoros President[28] 2002 – 26
92 days
May 2006
(2nd time)
26 May
2016 –
present
(3rd time)
Length
Tenure
began
tenure
21
November
2008 – 10
Prime February
Minister, 2012 (1st
11 years,
41. Borut Pahor 57 Slovenia time)
then 42 days
22
President[29]
December
2012 –
present
(2nd time)
Ali Bongo Gabon 16 October 11 years,

42. 61 President
Ondimba 2009 28 days
17 April
1993 – 28
Prime September
Minister, 1994 (1st
Mahamadou Niger 11 years,
43. 69 then time)
Issoufou 19 days
7 April
President[30]
2011 –
present
(2nd time)
14
September
2007 – 25
Prime September
Arayik Minister, 2017 (1st 10 years,
– 46 Artsakh
Harutyunyan then time) 187 days
President[31] 21 May
2020 –
present
(2nd time)
Netherlands Prime 14 October 10 years,

44. Mark Rutte 53
Federal
Council 1
Simonetta Switzerland Member, 10 years,
45. 60 November
Sommaruga currently 12 days
2010
President[32]
General 27 March
Secretary 2001 – 8
and June 2006
Bounnhang Laos President, (1st time) 10 years,
46. 83
Vorachith formerly 22 January 3 days
Prime 2016 –
present
Minister[33]
(2nd time)
See also
Records of heads of state
List of current reigning monarchs by length of reign
List of current state leaders by date of assumption of office
List of oldest living state leaders
Footnotes
1. Was Prime Minister of Cameroon from 30 June 1975 to 6 November 1982
2. Was Chairman of the Revolutionary Military Council / Supreme Military Council of Equatorial Guinea from
3 August 1979 to 12 October 1982
3. 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.
4. 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
5. Was Acting Prime Minister of the Vietnam-occupation one-Party state called the People's Republic of
Kampuchea from 26 December 1984 to 14 January 1985, then Prime Minister of the Vietnam-occupation
one-Party state People's Republic of Kampuchea from 14 January 1985 to 1 May 1989. Was also Prime
Minister during the entire existence of the State of Cambodia from 1 May 1989 to 24 September 1993.
6. Was President of the Council of State of Chad from 2 December 1990 to 4 March 1991
7. Was First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Kazakh SSR from 22 June 1989 to 14 December
1991, Chairman of the Supreme Soviet (Speaker of Parliament and de facto head of state) of the Kazakh
SSR from 22 February 1990 to 24 April 1990, and President of the Kazakh SSR from 24 April 1990 to 16
December 1991, on which date Kazakhstan declared independence from the Soviet Union. He has an
emeritus position as permanent Chairman of the Kazakh National Security Council from 12 July 2018 to
the present.
8. Was Chairman of the Supreme Assembly (Speaker of Parliament) of Tajikistan – de facto head of state –
from 19 November 1992 to 16 November 1994
9. Was Secretary-General of the Provisional Government of Eritrea from 27 April 1991 to 24 May 1993,
when Eritrea declared independence from Ethiopia.
10. Was the Vice President of Rwanda and Commander in Chief of the Rwandan Patriotic Army while he
was the Acting Head of State from 19 July 1994 to 22 April 2000.
11. 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.
12. 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.
13. Was Prime Minister of Namibia from 21 March 1990 to 28 August 2002 and 4 December 2012 to 21
March 2015
14. Was Prime Minister of Turkey from 14 March 2003 to 28 August 2014
15. Was Acting President of Azerbaijan from 6 August 2003 to 31 October 2003
16. Was Prime Minister of Uzbekistan from 12 December 2003 to 14 December 2016, and Acting President
from 8 September 2016 to 14 December 2016.
17. Was Prime Minister of the Palestinian National Authority from 19 March 2003 to 6 September 2003
18. 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.
19. Was Acting President and Acting Prime Minister of Cuba from 31 July 2006 to 24 February 2008, then
President and Prime Minister of Cuba from 24 February 2008 to 19 April 2018; and Acting First Secretary
of the Communist Party of Cuba from 31 July 2006 to 19 April 2011. Under the one-Party system, the
position of First Secretary is a more important and powerful office than the Presidency of Cuba.
20. Was President of the first Interim Military Government of Fiji from 29 May 2000 to 13 July 2000; then
President of a second Interim Military Government of Fiji from 5 December 2006 to 4 January 2007. Was
Acting Prime Minister from 5 January 2007 to 22 September 2014.
21. Was Acting President of Turkmenistan from 21 December 2006 to 14 February 2007
22. 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.
23. Was Prime Minister of Sri Lanka from 6 April 2004 to 19 November 2005, President of Sri Lanka from 19
November 2005 to 9 January 2015, then the disputed Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (with Ranil
Wickremesinghe) from 26 October 2018 to 15 December 2018.
24. The office of Prime Minister was disputed between Mahinda Rajapaksa and Ranil Wickremesinghe from
26 October 2018 to 15 December 2018.
25. The Swiss Federal Council is a collective seven-member head of state. Maurer 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 2013 and 1 January to 31 December 2019.
From 1 January to 31 December 2012 and 1 January to 31 December 2018, he was the deputy
chairperson of the Federal Council, or Vice President of Switzerland.
26. Was Prime Minister of Senegal from 21 April 2004 to 19 June 2007
27. Was Prime Minister of the Czech Republic from 22 July 1998 to 15 July 2002
28. 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.
29. Was Prime Minister of Slovenia from 21 November 2008 to 10 February 2012
30. Was Prime Minister of Niger from 17 April 1993 to 28 September 1994
31. Was Prime Minister of the Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh from 14 September 2007 to 25 September
2017. The country was called the Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh until 10 March 2017.
32. The Swiss Federal Council is a collective seven-member head of state. Since 1 January 2020,
Sommaruga is the incumbent chairperson of the Federal Council, i.e. the President of the Swiss
Confederation. Sommaruga previously served as chairperson of the Federal Council, or President, in the
constitutional customary one-year period from 1 January to 31 December 2015. From 1 January to 31
December 2014 and 1 January to 31 December 2019, she was the deputy chairperson of the Federal
Council, or Vice President of Switzerland.
33. Bounnhang was Prime Minister of Laos from 27 March 2001 to 8 June 2006; he has been President
since 20 April 2016. Under the one-Party system, the position of General Secretary of the Lao People's
Revolutionary Party is a more important and powerful office than the Presidency of Laos.
External links
Rulers.org (http://www.rulers.org/) List of rulers throughout time and places
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Uganda 26 January 34 years,

Alexander 20 July 26 years,

Ismaïl Omar Djibouti 8 May 21 years,

Syria 17 July 20 years,

Saint Vincent and Prime 29 March 19 years,

Prime 8 January 16 years,

Singapore Prime 12 August 16 years,

Ali Bongo Gabon 16 October 11 years,

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