List of current heads

of state and
government

This is a list of current heads of state and

heads of government. In some cases,
mainly in presidential systems, there is
only one leader being both head of state
and head of government. In other cases,
mainly in semi-presidential and
parliamentary systems, the head of state
 State Head of state Head of government
Supreme Leader – Hibatullah Acting Prime Minister – Hasan
Afghanistan
Akhundzada Akhund

Albania President – Bajram Begaj Prime Minister – Edi Rama

President – Abdelmadjid Prime Minister – Aymen
Algeria
Tebboune Benabderrahmane
Episcopal Co-Prince – Joan Enric
Vives i Sicília
Co-Prince's Representative – Josep
Maria Mauri Prime Minister – Xavier Espot
Andorra
French Co-Prince – Emmanuel Zamora
Macron[α]
Co-Prince's Representative – Patrick
Strzoda

Angola President – João Lourenço

King – Charles III[β]
Prime Minister – Gaston
Antigua and Barbuda Governor-General – Sir Rodney
Browne
Williams

Argentina President – Alberto Fernández

President – Vahagn Prime Minister – Nikol
Armenia
Khachaturyan Pashinyan
King – Charles III[β] Prime Minister – Anthony
Australia
Governor-General – David Hurley Albanese
President – Alexander Van der
Austria Chancellor – Karl Nehammer
Bellen
Azerbaijan President – Ilham Aliyev Prime Minister – Ali Asadov
King – Charles III[β]
Bahamas, The Governor-General – Sir Cornelius A. Prime Minister – Philip Davis
Smith

King – Sheikh Hamad bin Isa Al Prime Minister – Prince

Bahrain
Khalifa Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa
Prime Minister – Sheikh
Bangladesh President – Abdul Hamid
Hasina
Barbados President – Dame Sandra Mason Prime Minister – Mia Mottley
President – Alexander Prime Minister – Roman
Belarus
Lukashenko[γ] Golovchenko
Prime Minister – Alexander De
Belgium King – Philippe
Croo
 King – Charles III[β]
Prime Minister – Johnny
Belize Governor-General – Dame Froyla
Briceño
Tzalam

Benin President – Patrice Talon

King – Jigme Khesar Namgyel Prime Minister – Lotay
Bhutan
Wangchuck Tshering
Bolivia President – Luis Arce
High Representative – Christian Schmidt
Presidency[δ]
Bosnia and Prime Minister – Zoran
Herzegovina Željka Cvijanović (as Chairwoman) Tegeltija
Denis Bećirović (as Member)
Prime minister-designate –
Borjana Krišto
Željko Komšić (as Member)

Botswana President – Mokgweetsi Masisi

Brazil President – Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
Brunei Sultan and Prime Minister – Hassanal Bolkiah
Bulgaria President – Rumen Radev Prime Minister – Galab Donev
President of the Patriotic Movement for Safeguard and Restoration – Ibrahim
Traoré
Burkina Faso
Interim Prime Minister – Apollinaire
Interim President – Ibrahim Traoré
Kyélem

President – Évariste Prime Minister – Gervais

Burundi
Ndayishimiye[γ] Ndirakobuca
Cambodia King – Norodom Sihamoni Prime Minister – Hun Sen
Cameroon President – Paul Biya[γ] Prime Minister – Joseph Ngute
King – Charles III[β] Prime Minister – Justin
Canada
Governor General – Mary Simon Trudeau
Prime Minister – Ulisses
Cape Verde President – José Maria Neves
Correia e Silva
Central African President – Faustin-Archange
Prime Minister – Félix Moloua
Republic Touadéra[γ]
Transitional President – Mahamat Prime Minister – Saleh
Chad
Déby Kebzabo
Chile President – Gabriel Boric
General Secretary of the Communist Party – Xi Jinping
China Premier – Li Keqiang
President – Xi Jinping
Premier-designate – Li Qiang
 Colombia President – Gustavo Petro
Comoros President – Azali Assoumani
Congo, Democratic Prime Minister – Jean-Michel
President – Félix Tshisekedi
Republic of the Sama Lukonde
President – Denis Sassou Prime Minister – Anatole
Congo, Republic of the
Nguesso Collinet Makosso
Costa Rica President – Rodrigo Chaves Robles
Prime Minister – Andrej
Croatia President – Zoran Milanović
Plenković
First Secretary of the Communist Party – Miguel Díaz-Canel
Cuba Prime Minister – Manuel
President – Miguel Díaz-Canel
Marrero Cruz
Cyprus President – Nicos Anastasiades
Czech Republic President – Miloš Zeman Prime Minister – Petr Fiala
Prime Minister – Mette
Denmark Queen – Margrethe II
Frederiksen
President – Ismaïl Omar Prime Minister – Abdoulkader
Djibouti
Guelleh[γ] Kamil Mohamed
Prime Minister – Roosevelt
Dominica President – Charles Savarin
Skerrit
Dominican Republic President – Luis Abinader
Prime Minister – Taur Matan
East Timor President – José Ramos-Horta
Ruak
Ecuador President – Guillermo Lasso
Prime Minister – Mostafa
Egypt President – Abdel Fattah el-Sisi
Madbouly
El Salvador President – Nayib Bukele
President – Teodoro Obiang Prime Minister – Francisco
Equatorial Guinea
Nguema Mbasogo[γ] Pascual Obama Asue
Chairman of the People's Front for Democracy and Justice –
Eritrea Isaias Afwerki
President – Isaias Afwerki
Estonia President – Alar Karis Prime Minister – Kaja Kallas
Acting Prime Minister – Cleopas
Eswatini King – Mswati III
Dlamini

Ethiopia President – Sahle-Work Zewde Prime Minister – Abiy Ahmed

 President – Ratu Wiliame Prime Minister – Sitiveni
Fiji
Katonivere Rabuka
Finland President – Sauli Niinistö Prime Minister – Sanna Marin
Prime Minister – Élisabeth
France President – Emmanuel Macron[α]
Borne
Prime Minister – Alain Claude
Gabon President – Ali Bongo Ondimba[γ]
Bilie By Nze
Gambia, The President – Adama Barrow
Prime Minister – Irakli
Georgia President – Salome Zourabichvili
Garibashvili
President – Frank-Walter
Germany Chancellor – Olaf Scholz
Steinmeier
Ghana President – Nana Akufo-Addo
President – Katerina Prime Minister – Kyriakos
Greece
Sakellaropoulou Mitsotakis
King – Charles III[β]
Prime Minister – Dickon
Grenada Governor-General – Dame Cécile La
Mitchell
Grenade

Guatemala President – Alejandro Giammattei

Chairman of the National Committee of Reconciliation and Development –
Mamady Doumbouya
Guinea
Interim President – Mamady Interim Prime Minister – Bernard
Doumbouya Gomou

President – Umaro Sissoco Prime Minister – Nuno Gomes

Guinea-Bissau
Embaló Nabiam
Guyana President – Irfaan Ali[γ] Prime Minister – Mark Phillips
Haiti Acting Prime Minister – Ariel Henry

Honduras President – Xiomara Castro

Hungary President – Katalin Novák Prime Minister – Viktor Orbán
President – Guðni Th. Prime Minister – Katrín
Iceland
Jóhannesson Jakobsdóttir
Prime Minister – Narendra
India President – Droupadi Murmu
Modi
Indonesia President – Joko Widodo
Supreme Leader – Ali
Iran President – Ebrahim Raisi
Khamenei[ε]
 Prime Minister – Mohammed
Iraq President – Abdul Latif Rashid
Shia' Al Sudani
Ireland President – Michael D. Higgins Taoiseach – Leo Varadkar
Prime Minister – Benjamin
Israel President – Isaac Herzog
Netanyahu
Prime Minister – Giorgia
Italy President – Sergio Mattarella
Meloni
Ivory Coast President – Alassane Ouattara[γ] Prime Minister – Patrick Achi
King – Charles III[β] Prime Minister – Andrew
Jamaica
Governor-General – Sir Patrick Allen Holness
Prime Minister – Fumio
Japan Emperor – Naruhito[ζ]
Kishida
Prime Minister – Bisher Al-
Jordan King – Abdullah II
Khasawneh
President – Qasym-Zhomart Prime Minister – Älihan
Kazakhstan
Toqaev[γ] Smaiylov
Kenya President – William Ruto
Kiribati President – Taneti Maamau
Prime Minister – Sheikh
Emir – Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad
Kuwait Ahmad Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-
Al-Jaber Al-Sabah
Sabah
Chairman of the Cabinet of
Kyrgyzstan President – Sadyr Japarov[γ]
Ministers – Akylbek Japarov
General Secretary of the People's Revolutionary Party –
Thongloun Sisoulith
Laos
Prime Minister – Sonexay
President – Thongloun Sisoulith
Siphandone
Prime Minister – Krišjānis
Latvia President – Egils Levits
Kariņš
Lebanon Acting President – Najib Mikati Prime Minister – Najib Mikati
Prime Minister – Sam
Lesotho King – Letsie III
Matekane
Liberia President – George Weah
Chairman of the Presidential Prime Minister – Abdul Hamid
Libya
Council – Mohamed al-Menfi Dbeibeh
Prince Regnant – Hans-Adam II
Liechtenstein Prime Minister – Daniel Risch
Regent – Hereditary Prince Alois
 Prime Minister – Ingrida
Lithuania President – Gitanas Nausėda
Šimonytė
Luxembourg Grand Duke – Henri Prime Minister – Xavier Bettel
Prime Minister – Christian
Madagascar President – Andry Rajoelina
Ntsay
Malawi President – Lazarus Chakwera
Yang di-Pertuan Agong – Prime Minister – Anwar
Malaysia
Abdullah Sultan Ahmad Shah Ibrahim
Maldives President – Ibrahim Mohamed Solih
Interim Prime Minister – Abdoulaye
Mali Interim President – Assimi Goïta
Maïga

Malta President – George Vella Prime Minister – Robert Abela

Marshall Islands President – David Kabua
President – Mohamed Ould Prime Minister – Mohamed
Mauritania
Ghazouani Ould Bilal
Prime Minister – Pravind
Mauritius President – Prithvirajsing Roopun
Jugnauth
Mexico President – Andrés Manuel López Obrador
Federated States of
President – David Panuelo
Micronesia
Prime Minister – Natalia
Moldova President – Maia Sandu
Gavrilița
Minister of State – Pierre
Monaco Sovereign Prince – Albert II
Dartout
President – Ukhnaagiin Prime Minister –
Mongolia
Khürelsükh Luvsannamsrain Oyun-Erdene
Prime Minister – Dritan
Abazović
Montenegro President – Milo Đukanović
Prime minister-designate –
Miodrag Lekić
Prime Minister – Aziz
Morocco King – Mohammed VI
Akhannouch
Prime Minister – Adriano
Mozambique President – Filipe Nyusi[γ]
Maleiane
Chairman of the State Administration Council – Min Aung Hlaing
Myanmar Prime Minister – Min Aung
Acting President – Myint Swe
Hlaing
 Prime Minister – Saara
Namibia President – Hage Geingob[γ]
Kuugongelwa
Nauru President – Russ Kun
Prime Minister – Pushpa
Nepal President – Bidya Devi Bhandari
Kamal Dahal
Netherlands King – Willem-Alexander Prime Minister – Mark Rutte
King – Charles III[β] Prime Minister – Jacinda
New Zealand [η]
Governor-General – Dame Cindy Kiro Ardern
Nicaragua President – Daniel Ortega
Prime Minister –
Niger President – Mohamed Bazoum
Ouhoumoudou Mahamadou
Nigeria President – Muhammadu Buhari
General Secretary of the Workers' Party – Kim Jong-un
North Korea President of the State Affairs
Premier – Kim Tok-hun
Commission – Kim Jong-un
Prime Minister – Dimitar
North Macedonia President – Stevo Pendarovski
Kovačevski
Prime Minister – Jonas Gahr
Norway King – Harald V
Støre
Oman Sultan and Prime Minister – Haitham bin Tariq
Prime Minister – Shehbaz
Pakistan President – Arif Alvi
Sharif
Palau President – Surangel Whipps Jr.
Prime Minister – Mohammad
Palestine President – Mahmoud Abbas
Shtayyeh
Panama President – Laurentino Cortizo
King – Charles III[β] Prime Minister – James
Papua New Guinea
Governor-General – Sir Bob Dadae Marape
Paraguay President – Mario Abdo Benítez
Prime Minister – Alberto
Peru President – Dina Boluarte[γ]
Otárola
Philippines President – Bongbong Marcos
Prime Minister – Mateusz
Poland President – Andrzej Duda
Morawiecki
President – Marcelo Rebelo de Prime Minister – António
Portugal
Sousa Costa

Emir – Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad
Qatar
Al Thani
Romania President – Klaus Iohannis
Russia President – Vladimir Putin
Rwanda President – Paul Kagame[γ]
King – Charles III[β]
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Governor-General – Sir Tapley Seaton
King – Charles III[β]
Saint Lucia Acting Governor-General – Errol
Charles
Prime Minister – Sheikh Khalid
bin Khalifa bin Abdul Aziz Al
Thani
Prime Minister – Nicolae Ciucă
Prime Minister – Mikhail
Mishustin
Prime Minister – Édouard
Ngirente
Prime Minister – Terrance
Drew
Prime Minister – Philip J.
Pierre

King – Charles III[β]

Saint Vincent and the Prime Minister – Ralph
Governor-General – Dame Susan
Grenadines Gonsalves
Dougan

O le Ao o le Malo – Afioga
Prime Minister – Fiamē Naomi
Samoa Tuimalealiʻifano Vaʻaletoʻa
Mataʻafa
Sualauvi II
Captain Regent[θ] – Maria Luisa
Berti Secretary for Foreign and
San Marino
Captain Regent[θ] – Manuel Political Affairs – Luca Beccari
Ciavatta
Prime Minister – Patrice
São Tomé and Príncipe President – Carlos Vila Nova
Trovoada
Prime Minister – Mohammed
Saudi Arabia King – Salman
bin Salman
Senegal President – Macky Sall[γ] Prime Minister – Amadou Ba
Serbia President – Aleksandar Vučić Prime Minister – Ana Brnabić
Seychelles President – Wavel Ramkalawan
Chief Minister – Jacob Jusu
Sierra Leone President – Julius Maada Bio[γ]
Saffa
Prime Minister – Lee Hsien
Singapore President – Halimah Yacob
Loong
Slovakia President – Zuzana Čaputová Prime Minister – Eduard Heger
Slovenia President – Nataša Pirc Musar Prime Minister – Robert Golob
King – Charles III[β] Prime Minister – Manasseh
Solomon Islands
Governor-General – Sir David Vunagi Sogavare
 President – Hassan Sheikh Prime Minister – Hamza Abdi
Somalia
Mohamud Barre
South Africa President – Cyril Ramaphosa
South Korea President – Yoon Suk-yeol
South Sudan President – Salva Kiir Mayardit
Prime Minister – Pedro
Spain King – Felipe VI
Sánchez
President – Ranil Prime Minister – Dinesh
Sri Lanka
Wickremesinghe[γ] Gunawardena
Chairman of the Transitional
Acting Prime Minister – Osman
Sudan Sovereignty Council – Abdel
Hussein
Fattah al-Burhan
Suriname President – Chan Santokhi
Prime Minister – Ulf
Sweden King – Carl XVI Gustaf
Kristersson
Federal Council[ι]
Members: Alain Berset (President) · Viola Amherd (Vice President) · Guy
Switzerland
Parmelin · Ignazio Cassis · Karin Keller-Sutter · Albert Rösti ·
Élisabeth Baume-Schneider

Prime Minister – Hussein

Syria President – Bashar al-Assad
Arnous
Prime Minister – Kokhir
Tajikistan President – Emomali Rahmon[γ]
Rasulzoda
President – Samia Suluhu Prime Minister – Kassim
Tanzania
Hassan[γ] Majaliwa
Prime Minister – Prayut Chan-
Thailand King – Maha Vajiralongkorn
o-cha
Prime Minister – Victoire
Togo President – Faure Gnassingbé[γ]
Tomegah Dogbé
Prime Minister – Siaosi
Tonga King – Tupou VI
Sovaleni
Trinidad and Tobago President – Paula-Mae Weekes Prime Minister – Keith Rowley
Tunisia President – Kaïs Saïed[γ] Prime Minister – Najla Bouden
Turkey President – Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
Chairman of the People's Council – Gurbanguly
Turkmenistan Berdimuhamedow[1]
President – Serdar Berdimuhamedow
 King – Charles III[β]
Prime Minister – Kausea
Tuvalu Governor-General – Sir Tofiga Vaevalu
Natano
Falani

Prime Minister – Robinah

Uganda President – Yoweri Museveni[γ]
Nabbanja
Prime Minister – Denys
Ukraine President – Volodymyr Zelenskyy
Shmyhal
Prime Minister – Sheikh
President – Sheikh Mohamed bin
United Arab Emirates Mohammed bin Rashid Al
Zayed Al Nahyan
Maktoum
United Kingdom King – Charles III Prime Minister – Rishi Sunak
United States President – Joe Biden
Uruguay President – Luis Lacalle Pou
Prime Minister – Abdulla
Uzbekistan President – Shavkat Mirziyoyev[γ]
Aripov
Prime Minister – Ishmael
Vanuatu President – Nikenike Vurobaravu
Kalsakau
President of the Governorate –
Vatican City Sovereign – Pope Francis Cardinal Fernando Vérgez
Alzaga
Venezuela President – Nicolás Maduro
General Secretary of the Communist Party – Nguyễn Phú Trọng
Vietnam Prime Minister – Phạm Minh
President – Nguyễn Xuân Phúc
Chính
Chairman of the Presidential Prime Minister – Maeen
Yemen
Leadership Council – Rashad al-Alimi Abdulmalik Saeed
Zambia President – Hakainde Hichilema
Zimbabwe President – Emmerson Mnangagwa

Other states
The following states are in free
association with another UN member
state.

State Associated with Head of state Head of government

King – Charles III[κ]
Cook New Prime Minister – Mark
King's Representative – Sir Tom
Islands Zealand Brown
Marsters

King – Charles III[κ]

New
Niue King's Representative – Dame Cindy Premier – Dalton Tagelagi
Zealand [η]
Kiro

The following states control at least part

of their territory and are recognised by at
least one UN member state.

State Also claimed by Head of state Head of government

President – Aslan Prime Minister – Aleksander
Abkhazia Georgia
Bzhania Ankvab
Republic of People's President – Tsai
Premier – Su Tseng-chang
China (Taiwan) Republic of China Ing-wen
President – Vjosa
Kosovo Serbia Prime Minister – Albin Kurti
Osmani
President – Ersin
Northern Cyprus Cyprus Prime Minister – Ünal Üstel
Tatar
General Secretary of the Polisario Front – Brahim
Sahrawi Ghali
Morocco
Republic President – Brahim Prime Minister – Bouchraya
Ghali Hammoudi Bayoun
President – Alan Prime Minister – Konstantin
South Ossetia Georgia
Gagloyev Dzhussoyev
The following states control their territory,
but are not recognised by any UN member
states.

Also claimed
State Head of state Head of government
by
Artsakh Azerbaijan President – Arayik Harutyunyan

Somalia President – Muse Bihi Abdi

Somaliland
President – Vadim Prime Minister – Aleksander
Moldova
Transnistria Krasnoselsky Rozenberg

Other governments
These alternative governments control
part of their territory and are recognised as
legitimate by at least one UN member
state.

Government State Head of state Head of government

Leader of Ansar Allah – Abdul-Malik al-Houthi[2]
Supreme Political
Council Yemen Chairman – Mahdi al- Prime Minister – Abdel-Aziz bin
Mashat Habtour
Syrian National President – Salem al- Prime Minister – Abdurrahman
Syria
Coalition Meslet Mustafa
These alternative governments control
part of their territory, but are not
recognized as legitimate by any UN
member states.

Government State Head of state Head of government

Government of Chairman of the Presidential Prime Minister – Fathi
Libya
National Stability Council – Mohamed al-Menfi[λ] Bashagha
National Unity Acting President – Duwa Lashi Prime Minister – Mahn
Government Myanmar La Win Khaing Than
Commander-in-Chief of Tahrir al-Sham – Abu Mohammad
Syrian Salvation al-Julani[3]
Syria
Government President of the General Shura Prime Minister – Ali
Council – Mustafa al-Mousa Keda

These alternative governments do not

control their territory but are recognized as
legitimate by at least one UN member
state.

Government State Head of state Head of government

President and Head of the Cabinet – Sviatlana
Coordination Council Belarus
Tsikhanouskaya
National Assembly President of the National Assembly – Dinorah
(2015) Venezuela Figuera[4]
Sui generis entities
Entity Head of entity Head of government
President of the European
President of the European
European Union Commission – Ursula von der
Council – Charles Michel[5]
Leyen[6]
Sovereign Military Lieutenant (interim Grand Master) – Grand Chancellor – Riccardo
Order of Malta John T. Dunlap Paternò di Montecupo

See also
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