List of longest-ruling non-royal national leaders since 1900

This list details national leaders since 1900 who ruled for 30 years or more, and were not self-described royalty. It also combines all national leader level offices held concurrently or consecutively by each individual.

Rank	Name	Country	Title	Term ended
1	Fidel Castro		First Secretary Prime Minister President Maximum Leader
2	Kim Il-sung		General Secretary Premier President Generalissimo
3	Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal	Mongolia	General Secretary Prime Minister President
4	Omar Bongo	Gabon	President
5	Enver Hoxha	Albania	Prime Minister First Secretary
6	*Paul Biya*		Prime Minister President	*present*
7	Francisco Franco	Spain	Caudillo Generalísimo Head of State
8	*Mohamed Abdelaziz*		General Secretary President	*present*
9	Gnassingbé Eyadéma	Togo	President
10	Josip Broz Tito		Prime Minister President Marshal
11	António de Oliveira Salazar	Portugal	Prime Minister
12	Todor Zhivkov	Bulgaria	General Secretary Prime Minister
13	*Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo*		*President*	*present*
14	*José Eduardo dos Santos*	*People's Republic of Angola*	*President*	*present*
15	*Robert Mugabe*		Prime Minister President	*present*
16	Alfredo Stroessner	Paraguay	President
17	Ali Abdullah Saleh		President
18	Mao Zedong	Shaan-Gan-Ning, Republic of China	Party Chairman State Chairman Paramount Leader
19	Félix Houphouët-Boigny	Côte d'Ivoire	Prime Minister President
20	*Sayyid Ali Khamenei*		President Supreme Leader	*present*
21	Dawda Kairaba Jawara	Gambia	Prime Minister President
22	Pham Van Dong		Prime Minister
23	János Kádár	Hungary	General Secretary
24	Habib Bourguiba	Tunisia	Prime Minister President
25	Lee Kuan Yew		Prime Minister
26	Mobutu Sese Seko	Democratic Republic of the Congo	President
27	Hastings Kamuzu Banda		Prime Minister President
28	Suharto	Indonesia	President
29	Joseph Stalin	Soviet Union	General Secretary Premier
30	Abdou Diouf		Prime Minister President
31	Maumoon Abdul Gayoom	Maldives	President

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