List of state leaders in 2023

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This is a list of heads of state, heads of governments, and other rulers in the year 2023.

Contents

Africa

Asia

Europe

North America

Oceania

South America

See also

Notes

  1. As President of the Transitional Military Council from 2021 to 2022
  2. Eritrea only became independent in 1993.
  3. Brunei only became independent in 1984.
  4. Hun Sen was titled Second Prime Minister from 1993 to 1998.
  5. Kim was referred to as supreme leader in 2011, and then appointed as First Chairman of the National Defence Commission in 2012 and Chairman of the State Affairs Commission in 2016 —having been de facto leader of North Korea throughout.
  6. Leader of Ansar Allah as an insurgency since 2004, until the successful takeover in 2015
  7. The seven-member Swiss Federal Council is head of state and government collectively. Within this executive council, the president serves solely in a primus inter pares capacity for one year.
  8. Titled President of the Council of State until 10 October 2019.

References

  1. Between 12 April 2019 and 21 August 2019 Burhan was titled as Chairman of the Transitional Military Council, between 20 August 2019 and 25 October 2021 as Chairman of the Sovereignty Council and between 25 October 2021 and 11 November 2021 was Head of state de facto.
  2. Title changed from Chairman to General Secretary on 10 January 2021.
  3. Title changed from Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly to Chairman of the Standing Committee of the Supreme People's Assembly in 2021.
  4. "Syria's Idlib enclave: how does it work?". Agence France-Presse . Beirut, Lebanon. France 24. 28 June 2019. Retrieved 10 January 2023. The head of the Salvation Government is [the prime minister], who assumed his post late last year, but the region's strongman is HTS chief Abu Mohammed al-Jolani.
  5. "Turkmenistan's president expands his father's power". Associated Press . Ashgabat. 22 January 2023. Retrieved 29 January 2023.
  6. Nasser, Afrah (18 December 2022). "'Republic of fear': A return to Yemen after 11 years". Al Jazeera . Retrieved 22 December 2022.