List of current longest ruling non-royal national leaders
This list of current longest ruling non-royal national leaders is a list of the 50 current longest ruling heads of nation-states or national governments, who are not royalty, sorted by length of tenure.
The individuals on the list were not necessarily the most powerful figure in their country's national government throughout the listed timespan. Some of them have held more than one national leadership level office: presidency, prime ministership, 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 greatest power. This list combines all national leader level offices held concurrently or consecutively by each individual.
Rank |
Name |
Country |
Office |
Tenure Began |
Length of Tenure |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1. |
Paul Biya |
Prime Minister, then President |
30 June 1975 |
||
2. |
Mohamed Abdelaziz |
General Secretary and President |
30 August 1976 |
||
3. |
Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo |
President |
3 August 1979 |
||
4. |
José Eduardo dos Santos |
President |
10 September 1979 |
||
5. |
Robert Mugabe |
Prime Minister, then President |
18 April 1980 |
||
6. |
Ali Khamenei |
President, then Supreme Leader |
13 October 1981 |
||
7. |
Hun Sen |
Prime Minister |
14 January 1985 |
||
8. |
Yoweri Museveni |
President |
26 January 1986 |
||
9. |
Blaise Compaoré |
President |
15 October 1987 |
||
10. |
Nursultan Nazarbayev |
First Secretary, then President |
22 June 1989 |
||
11. |
Islam Karimov |
First Secretary, then President |
23 June 1989 |
||
12. |
Omar al-Bashir |
President |
30 June 1989 |
||
13. |
Idriss Déby |
President |
2 December 1990 |
||
14. |
Milo Đukanović |
Prime Minister |
15 February 1991 |
||
15. |
Emomalii Rahmon |
President |
19 November 1992 |
||
16. |
Isaias Afewerki |
President |
24 May 1993 |
||
17. |
Alexander Lukashenko |
President |
20 July 1994 |
||
18. |
Yahya Jammeh |
President |
22 July 1994 |
||
19. |
Jean-Claude Juncker |
Prime Minister |
20 January 1995 |
||
20. |
Denzil Douglas |
Prime Minister |
7 July 1995 |
||
21. |
Ólafur Ragnar Grimsson |
President |
1 August 1996 |
||
22. |
Denis Sassou Nguesso |
President |
15 October 1997 |
||
23. |
Tuilaepa Aiono Sailele Malielegaoi |
Prime Minister |
23 November 1998 |
||
24. |
Hugo Chávez |
President |
2 February 1999 |
||
25. |
Abdelaziz Bouteflika |
President |
27 April 1999 |
||
26. |
Ismail Omar Guelleh |
President |
8 May 1999 |
||
27. |
Vladimir Putin |
President |
9 August 1999 |
||
28. |
Sam Hinds |
Prime Minister |
11 August 1999 |
||
29. |
Oqil Oqilov |
Prime Minister |
20 December 1999 |
||
30. |
Paul Kagame |
President |
24 March 2000 |
||
31. |
Bashar al-Assad |
President |
17 July 2000 |
||
32. |
Joseph Kabila |
President |
17 January 2001 |
||
33. |
José Maria Neves |
Prime Minister |
1 February 2001 |
||
34. |
Dileita Mohamed Dileita |
Prime Minister |
4 March 2001 |
||
35. |
Ralph Gonsalves |
Prime Minister |
29 March 2001 |
||
36. |
Girma Wolde-Giorgis |
President |
8 October 2001 |
||
37. |
Hamid Karzai |
President |
22 December 2001 |
||
38. |
Hu Jintao |
President |
15 November 2002 |
||
39. |
Mwai Kibaki |
President |
30 December 2002 |
||
40. |
Václav Klaus |
President |
7 March 2003 |
||
41. |
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan |
Prime Minister |
14 March 2003 |
||
42. |
François Bozizé |
President |
15 March 2003 |
||
43. |
Wen Jiabao |
Premier |
16 March 2003 |
||
44. |
George Maxwell Richards |
President |
17 March 2003 |
||
45. |
Anote Tong |
President |
10 July 2003 |
||
46. |
Ilham Aliyev |
Prime Minister, then President |
4 August 2003 |
||
47. |
Artur Rasizade |
Prime Minister |
6 August 2003 |
||
48. |
Abdelkader Taleb Omar |
Prime Minister |
29 October 2003 |
||
49. |
Shavkat Mirziyoyev |
Prime Minister |
11 December 2003 |
||
50. |
Roosevelt Skerrit |
Prime Minister |
8 January 2004 |
<!-- |- |
See also
- Current reigning monarchs by length of reign
- List of current state leaders by date of assumption of office
- List of longest ruling non-royal national leaders
External links
- Rulers.org List of rulers throughout time and places