List of longest-living state leaders

For a list of the oldest living state leaders, see List of oldest living state leaders.

This article lists the 100 oldest heads of state or heads of government of sovereign states (often a President or a Prime minister) ^[1] , since 1800. This list includes those who reigned over an independent and internationally recognised state. States with limited recognition are not included. A ruler who doesn't have any reliable source about their death is not included in the list. Currently living state leaders are highlighted in green colour. The longest-lived verifiable state leader is Prime Minister Chau Sen Cocsal Chhum (1905–2009) of Cambodia at the age of 103 years, 143 days. ^[2] The longest-lived state leader currently living is President Guillermo Rodríguez (b. 1923) of Ecuador at the age of 102 years, 58 days. ^[3]

Gallery

• 
  Longest-living:
  Chau Sen Cocsal Chhum
    Cambodia
  1962
• 
  2nd‑longest living:
  Celâl Bayar
  Türkiye
  1937–1939 and 1950–1960
• 
  3rd‑longest living:
  Antoine Pinay
    France
  1952–1953
• 
  Longest currently living and 5th‑longest living:
  Guillermo Rodríguez
  Ecuador
  1972–1976
• 
  Longest living of a now-defunct state and 27th‑longest living:
  Abdul Salam Sabrah
  Yemen Arab Republic
  1969 and 1971 (twice)

List

  Currently living

Rank	Name	State	Position	Born	Died	Age	Citation
1	Chau Sen Cocsal Chhum	Cambodia	Acting Prime Minister (1962)	1 September 1905	22 January 2009	103 years, 143 days	[4]
2	Celâl Bayar	Türkiye	Prime Minister (1937–1939) President (1950–1960)	16 May 1883	22 August 1986	103 years, 98 days	[5]
3	Antoine Pinay	France	Prime Minister (1952–1953)	30 December 1891	13 December 1994	102 years, 348 days	[6]
4	André Prunet-Foch	Andorra	French Viguier (1977–1980)	3 July 1914	30 January 2017	102 years, 211 days	[7]
5	Guillermo Rodríguez	Ecuador	Acting President (1972–1976)	4 November 1923	Alive	102 years, 58 days	[8]
6	Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni	Japan	Prime Minister (1945)	3 December 1887	20 January 1990	102 years, 48 days	[9]
7	Babiker Awadalla	Sudan	Prime Minister (1969)	2 March 1917	17 January 2019	101 years, 321 days	[10]
8	Willem Drees	Netherlands	Prime Minister (1948–1958)	5 July 1886	14 May 1988	101 years, 314 days	[11]
9	Đỗ Mười	Vietnam	Chairman of the Council of Ministers (1988–1991) General Secretary of the Communist Party (1991–1997)	2 February 1917	1 October 2018	101 years, 241 days	[12]
10	Tomiichi Murayama	Japan	Prime Minister (1994–1996)	3 March 1924	17 October 2025	101 years, 228 days	[13]
11	Zhang Qun	Republic of China	Premier (1947–1948)	9 May 1889	14 December 1990	101 years, 219 days	[14]
12	Yasuhiro Nakasone	Japan	Prime Minister (1982–1987)	27 May 1918	29 November 2019	101 years, 186 days	[15]
13	Piet de Jong	Netherlands	Prime Minister (1967–1971)	3 April 1915	27 July 2016	101 years, 115 days	[16]
14	Hyun Soong-jong	South Korea	Prime Minister (1992–1993)	26 February 1919	25 May 2020	101 years, 89 days	[17]
15	Bernardino González Ruiz	Panama	Acting President (1963)	11 January 1911	15 March 2012	101 years, 64 days	[18]
16	Khamtai Siphandone	Laos	Prime Minister (1991–1998) Chairman of the People's Revolutionary Party (1992–2006) President (1998–2006)	8 February 1924	2 April 2025	101 years, 53 days	[19]
17	Christopher Hornsrud	Norway	Prime Minister (1928)	15 November 1859	12 December 1960	101 years, 27 days	[20]
18	Mustafa Ben Halim	Kingdom of Libya	Prime Minister (1954–1957)	29 January 1921	7 December 2021	100 years, 312 days	[21]
19	Telmo Vargas	Ecuador	Acting President (1966)	9 October 1912	9 August 2013	100 years, 304 days	[22]
20	Francisco Morales Bermúdez	Peru	Prime Minister (1975) President (1975–1980)	4 October 1921	14 July 2022	100 years, 283 days	[23]
21	Mahathir Mohamad	Malaysia	Prime Minister (1981–2003; 2018–2020)	10 July 1925	Alive	100 years, 175 days	[24]
22	Luis Echeverría	Mexico	President (1970–1976)	17 January 1922	8 July 2022	100 years, 172 days	[25]
23	Mohammad Hasan Sharq	Afghanistan	Chairman of the Council of Ministers (1988–1989)	17 July 1925	Alive	100 years, 168 days	[26]
24	Jimmy Carter	United States	President (1977–1981)	1 October 1924	29 December 2024	100 years, 89 days	[27]
25	Javier Pérez de Cuéllar	Peru	Prime Minister (2000–2001)	19 January 1920	4 March 2020	100 years, 45 days	[28]
	Xenophon Zolotas	Greece	Interim Prime Minister (1989–1990)	26 April 1904	10 June 2004	100 years, 45 days	[29]
27	Abdul Salam Sabrah	Yemen Arab Republic	Prime Minister of the Yemen Arab Republic (1969; 1971 (twice)	1 January 1912	2 February 2012	100 years, 32 days	[30]
28	Johan Ferrier	Suriname	President (1975–1980)	12 May 1910	4 January 2010	99 years, 237 days	[31]
29	Abdoulaye Wade	Senegal	President (2000–2012)	29 May 1926	Alive	99 years, 217 days	[32]
30	Tun Tin	Burma	Prime Minister (1988)	2 October 1920	1 May 2020	99 years, 212 days	[33]
31	Gulzarilal Nanda	India	Prime Minister (1964 and 1966)	4 July 1898	15 January 1998	99 years, 195 days	[34]
32	Mohammed Karim Lamrani	Morocco	Prime Minister of Morocco (1971–1972; 1983–1986; 1992–1994)	1 May 1919	20 September 2018	99 years, 142 days	[35]
33	Anthony Mamo	Malta	Governor-General (1971–1974) President (1974–1976)	9 January 1909	1 May 2008	99 years, 113 days	[36]
34	Michail Stasinopoulos	Greece	President (1974–1975)	27 July 1903	31 October 2002	99 years, 96 days	[37]
35	Clifford Campbell	Jamaica	Governor-General (1962–1973)	28 June 1892	28 September 1991	99 years, 92 days	[38]
36	Valdas Adamkus	Lithuania	President (1998–2003; 2004–2009)	3 November 1926	Alive	99 years, 59 days	[39]
37	Morarji Desai	India	Prime Minister (1977–1979)	29 February 1896	2 April 1995	99 years, 33 days	[40]
38	Võ Chí Công	Vietnam	Chairman of the Council of state (1987–1992)	7 August 1912	8 September 2011	99 years, 32 days	[41]
39	Raif Dizdarević	Yugoslavia	President of the Presidency (1988–1989)	9 December 1926	Alive	99 years, 23 days	[42]
40	Abdel Halim Mohamed	Sudan	Member of Sovereignty Council (1964–1965)	10 April 1910	16 April 2009	99 years, 6 days	[43]
41	Ċensu Tabone	Malta	President (1989–1994)	30 March 1913	14 March 2012	98 years, 350 days	[44]
42	Ali Hassan Mwinyi	Tanzania	President (1985–1995)	8 May 1925	29 February 2024	98 years, 297 days	[45]
43	Prem Tinsulanonda	Thailand	Prime Minister (1980–1988) Regent (2016)	26 August 1920	26 May 2019	98 years, 273 days	[46]
44	Pierre Harmel	Belgium	Prime Minister (1965–1966)	16 March 1911	15 November 2009	98 years, 244 days	[47]
45	Howard Cooke	Jamaica	Governor-General (1991–2006)	13 November 1915	11 July 2014	98 years, 240 days	[48]
46	Joseph Paul-Boncour	France	Prime Minister (1932–1933)	4 August 1873	28 March 1972	98 years, 237 days	[49]
47	Konstantinos Mitsotakis	Greece	Prime Minister (1990–1993)	31 October 1918	29 May 2017	98 years, 210 days	[50]
48	Isidro Ayora	Ecuador	President (1926–1931) [note 1]	31 August 1879	22 March 1978	98 years, 203 days	[51]
49	Émile Reuter	Luxembourg	Prime Minister (1918–1925)	2 August 1874	14 February 1973	98 years, 196 days	[52]
50	Mamadou Dia	Senegal	Prime Minister (1957–1962)	18 July 1910	25 January 2009	98 years, 191 days	[53]
51	Aden Adde	Somalia	President (1960–1967)	9 December 1908	8 June 2007	98 years, 181 days	[54]
52	Nouhak Phoumsavanh	Laos	President (1992–1998)	9 April 1910	9 September 2008	98 years, 153 days	[55]
53	Lê Đức Anh	Vietnam	President (1992–1997)	1 December 1920	22 April 2019	98 years, 142 days	[56]
54	Émile Derlin Zinsou	Dahomey	President (1968–1969)	23 March 1918	28 July 2016	98 years, 127 days	[57]
55	Borys Martos	Ukrainian People's Republic	Chairman of People's Ministers (1919)	20 May 1879	19 September 1977	98 years, 122 days	[58]
56	Lubomír Štrougal	Czechoslovakia	Prime Minister (1970–1988)	19 October 1924	6 February 2023	98 years, 110 days	[59]
57	Jean	Luxembourg	Grand Duke (1964–2000)	5 January 1921	23 April 2019	98 years, 108 days	[60]
58	Gough Whitlam	Australia	Prime Minister (1972–1975)	11 July 1916	21 October 2014	98 years, 102 days	[61]
59	Giorgio Napolitano	Italy	President (2006–2015)	29 June 1925	22 September 2023	98 years, 85 days	[62]
60	Venceslau Brás	Brazil	President (1914–1918)	26 February 1868	15 May 1966	98 years, 78 days	[63]
61	Claude Rostain	Andorra	French Viguier (1972–1977)	16 December 1916	10 February 2015	98 years, 56 days	[64]
62	Ramaswamy Venkataraman	India	India (1987–1992)	4 December 1910	27 January 2009	98 years, 54 days	[65]
63	Gabriel París Gordillo	Colombia	Acting President (1957–1958)	8 March 1910	21 March 2008	98 years, 13 days	[66]
64	Miloš Jakeš	Czechoslovakia	First Secretary of the Communist Party (1987–1989)	12 August 1922	10 July 2020	97 years, 333 days	[67]
65	Thanin Kraivichien	Thailand	Prime Minister (1976–1977)	5 April 1927	23 February 2025	97 years, 324 days	[68]
66	Abdelsalam Majali	Jordan	Prime Minister (1993–1995; 1997–1998)	18 February 1925	3 January 2023	97 years, 319 days	[69]
67	Kenan Evren	Türkiye	President (1982–1989)	17 July 1917	9 May 2015	97 years, 296 days	[70]
68	Wellington Koo	Republic of China	President (1926–1927) Premier (1924; 1926–1927)	29 January 1888	14 November 1985	97 years, 289 days	[71]
69	Baron Ignaz von Plener	Austria-Hungary	Minister-President (1870)	21 May 1810	17 February 1908	97 years, 272 days	[72]
	Kim Yong-nam	North Korea	President of the Presidium (1998–2019)	4 February 1928	3 November 2025	97 years, 272 days	[73]
71	Domhnall Ua Buachalla	Irish Free State	Governor-General (1932–1936)	3 February 1866	30 October 1963	97 years, 269 days	[74]
72	Abdelmalek Benhabyles	Algeria	Acting President as Chairman of the Constitutional Council (1989–1995)	27 April 1921	28 December 2018	97 years, 245 days	[75]
73	Arthur Foulkes	The Bahamas	Governor-General (2010–2014)	11 May 1928	Alive	97 years, 235 days	[76]
74	Francesc Badia i Batalla	France	Episcopal Viguier (1972–1993)	10 January 1923	14 August 2020	97 years, 217 days	[77]
75	Arnaldo Forlani	Italy	Italy (1980–1981)	8 December 1925	6 July 2023	97 years, 210 days	[78]
76	Ramón José Velásquez	Venezuela	President (1993–1994)	28 November 1916	24 June 2014	97 years, 208 days	[79]
77	He Yingqin	Republic of China	Premier (1949)	2 April 1890	21 October 1987	97 years, 202 days	[80]
78	Liam Cosgrave	Ireland	Taoiseach (1973–1977)	13 April 1920	4 October 2017	97 years, 174 days	[81]
79	Alfredo Solf y Muro	Peru	Prime Minister (1939–1944)	15 March 1872	14 August 1969	97 years, 152 days	[82]
80	Patricio Aylwin	Chile	President (1990–1994)	26 November 1918	19 April 2016	97 years, 145 days	[83]
81	Armando Villanueva	Peru	Prime Minister (1988–1989)	25 November 1915	14 April 2013	97 years, 140 days	[84]
82	Ion Gheorghe Maurer	Romanian People's Republic	President of the Council of Ministers (1960–1974)	23 September 1902	8 February 2000	97 years, 138 days	[85]
83	Péter Boross	Hungary	Prime Minister (1993–1994)	27 August 1928	Alive	97 years, 127 days	[86]
84	Martial Célestin	Haiti	Prime Minister of Haiti (1988)	4 October 1913	4 February 2011	97 years, 123 days	[87]
85	Gheorghe Apostol	Romanian People's Republic	General Secretary (1954–1955)	16 May 1913	21 August 2010	97 years, 97 days	[88]
86	Zhu Rongji	China	Premier (1998–2003)	23 October 1928	Alive	97 years, 70 days	[89]
87	Kenneth Kaunda	Northern Rhodesia	Prime Minister (1964)	28 April 1924	17 June 2021	97 years, 50 days	[90]
		Zambia	President (1964–1991)
88	Walter Scheel	West Germany	Acting Chancellor (1974) President (1974–1979)	8 July 1919	24 August 2016	97 years, 47 days	[91]
89	Helmut Schmidt	West Germany	Chancellor (1974–1982)	23 December 1918	10 November 2015	96 years, 322 days	[92]
90	Gennaro Granito Pignatelli di Belmonte	Vatican City	Acting Sovereign (1939)	10 April 1851	16 February 1948	96 years, 312 days	[93]
91	Khertek Anchimaa-Toka	Tuvan People's Republic	Chairwoman of the Presidium (1940–1944)	1 January 1912	4 November 2008	96 years, 308 days	[94]
92	Camille Huysmans	Belgium	Prime Minister (1946–1947)	26 May 1871	25 February 1968	96 years, 275 days	[95]
93	Yitzhak Shamir	Israel	Prime Minister of Israel (1983–1984; 1986–1992)	22 October 1915	30 June 2012	96 years, 252 days	[96]
94	Federico Páez	Ecuador	President (1935–1937)	4 June 1877	9 February 1974	96 years, 250 days	[97]
95	Habib Bourguiba	Tunisia	Prime Minister (1956–1957) President (1957–1987)	3 August 1903	6 April 2000	96 years, 247 days	[98]
96	Vyacheslav Molotov	Soviet Union	Premier (1930–1941)	9 March 1890	8 November 1986	96 years, 244 days	[99]
97	Édouard Balladur	France	Prime Minister (1993–1995)	2 May 1929	Alive	96 years, 244 days	[100]
98	Arnold Rüütel	Estonia	Chairman of the Supreme Council (1991–1992) President (2001–2006)	10 May 1928	31 December 2024	96 years, 235 days	[101]
99	Yang Hyong-sop	North Korea	Chairman of the Standing Committee of the Supreme People's Assembly (1983–1998)	1 October 1925	13 May 2022	96 years, 224 days	[102]
100	Pedro Richter Prada	Peru	Prime Minister (1979–1980)	4 January 1921	14 July 2017	96 years, 191 days	[103]

Addendum

  Currently living

Uncertain date of birth

The following individuals might have been older than #1–100 on this list, but their exact date of birth is uncertain.

Name	State	Position	Birth	Death	Age	Citation
Muhammad al-Muqri	Morocco	Grand vizier (1911–1913; 1917–1955)	2 February 1854 or 2 February 1860 [note 2]	9 September 1957	103 years, 219 days or 97 years, 219 days	[106]
Ek Yi Oun	Cambodia	Prime Minister (1958)	1910	January 2013	102 years, 1 day to 103 years, 30 days	[107]
Hastings Banda	Malawi	Prime Minister (1964–1966) President (1966–1994)	between 1896-1898 [note 3]	25 November 1997	98 years, 329 days to 101 years, 328 days	[111]
Sheikh Mukhtar Mohamed Hussein	Somalia	President (1969)	1912	12 June 2012	99 years, 164 days to 100 years, 163 days	[112]
Konstantinos Kollias	Greece	Prime Minister (1967)	1901	13 July 1998	96 years, 194 days to 97 years, 193 days	[113]

Unclear status as state leaders

The following individuals lived longer than #1–100 on this list, but their status as a state leader is unclear.

Name	State	Position	Birth	Death	Age	Citation
César Yanes Urías	El Salvador	Member of the Junta of Government (1960–1961)	24 April 1920	4 December 2024	104 years, 224 days	[114]
Josip Manolić	Croatia	Prime Minister (1990–1991)	22 March 1920	15 April 2024	104 years, 24 days	[115]
Kazi Lhendup Dorjee	Kingdom of Sikkim	Prime Minister (1974–1975)	11 October 1904	28 July 2007	102 years, 290 days	[116]
Kim Yong-ju	North Korea	Vice president during vacancy (1994–1998)	21 September 1920	13 December 2021	101 years, 83 days	[117]
Rafaél de Echagüe y Bermingham	The Philippines	Governor-General (1862–1865)	13 February 1815	23 November 1915	100 years, 283 days	[118]
Hau Pei-tsun	Taiwan	Premier (1990–1993)	8 August 1919	30 March 2020	100 years, 235 days	[119]
Vicente Almeida d'Eça	Portuguese Cape Verde	Governor-General (1974)	31 July 1918	13 October 2018	100 years, 74 days	[120]
Ali Haroun	Algeria	Member of the High Council of State (1992–1994)	8 February 1927	Alive	98 years, 327 days	[121]
Artúr Görgei	Hungarian State	Governer-President (1849)	30 January 1818	21 May 1916	98 years, 112 days	[122]
Dezső Pattantyús-Ábrahám	Hungarian Soviet Republic	Prime Minister of the Counter-Revolutionary Government (1919)	10 July 1875	25 July 1973	98 years, 15 days	[123]
Lee Teng-hui	Taiwan	President (1988–2000)	15 January 1923	30 July 2020	97 years, 197 days	[124]
Laurie Greig	Cook Islands	Acting Queen's Representative (2000–2001)	24 February 1929	Alive	96 years, 311 days	[125]

See also

• List of oldest living state leaders
• List of centenarians (politicians and civil servants)
• List of current heads of state and government
• List of current state leaders by date of assumption of office
• List of longest-reigning monarchs
• List of youngest state leaders since 1900
• Lists of state leaders by age
• Lists of state leaders
• Records of heads of state
• Gerontocracy

Notes

1. Ruled as interim President until 1929.
2. Muhammad al-Muqri's birthdate is disputed, but he is generally agreed to have been born in either 1854 or 1860. ^{[104] [105]}
3. Hastings Banda's birthdate is disputed, but he is generally agreed to have been born between 1896 ^[108] and 1898 ^[109] , though some sources suggest 1906. ^[110]

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