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This list of current longest-ruling non-royal national leaders is a list of the current living longest-ruling heads of nation-states or national governments, excluding royalty, who have served ten years or longer, sorted by length of tenure. Heads of generally recognized sovereign states are ranked by number, while heads of sovereign states with limited international recognition are listed in italics and are not given a numbered rank.

The individuals on the list are not always the most powerful figure in their country's national government. Some are or have been at one time the most powerful figures in their country's national government but not necessarily continuously throughout the listed timespan. Some of them have held more than one national leadership-level office: presidency, prime minister-ship, 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 ultimate power. Therefore, this list combines all national level offices held concurrently or consecutively by each individual leader.

Rank Image Name Age Country Office Tenure began Length of tenure
1
Paul Biya 91  Cameroon Prime Minister, then President[a] 30 June 1975 48 years, 285 days
2
Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo 81  Equatorial Guinea President[b] 3 August 1979 44 years, 251 days
3
Ali Khamenei 84  Iran President, then
Supreme Leader[c] 		13 October 1981 42 years, 180 days
4
Denis Sassou Nguesso 80  Republic of the Congo President[d] 8 February 1979 – 31 August 1992 (1st time)
25 October 1997 – present (2nd time) 		40 years, 7 days
5
Yoweri Museveni 79  Uganda President 26 January 1986 38 years, 75 days
6
Emomali Rahmon 71  Tajikistan De facto Head of State,
then President[e] 		19 November 1992 31 years, 143 days
7
Isaias Afwerki 78  Eritrea President[f] 24 May 1993 30 years, 322 days
8
Alexander Lukashenko 69  Belarus President[g] 20 July 1994 29 years, 265 days
9
Daniel Ortega 78  Nicaragua Acting Head of State,
then President[h] 		4 March 1981 – 25 April 1990 (1st time)
10 January 2007 – present (2nd time) 		26 years, 143 days
10
Ismaïl Omar Guelleh 76  Djibouti President 8 May 1999 24 years, 338 days
11
Vladimir Putin 71  Russia Prime Minister, then President[i] 9 August 1999 – 7 May 2000 (1st term as Prime Minister)
8 May 2000 – 7 May 2008 (1st & 2nd terms as president)
8 May 2008 – 7 May 2012 (2nd term as Prime Minister)
7 May 2012 – present (3rd & 4th terms as president) 		24 years, 245 days
12
Paul Kagame 66  Rwanda President 22 April 2000 23 years, 354 days
13
Hage Geingob 82  Namibia Prime Minister, then President[j] 21 March 1990 – 28 August 2002 (1st time)
4 December 2012 – present (2nd time) 		23 years, 288 days
14
Bashar al-Assad 58  Syria President 17 July 2000 23 years, 268 days
15
Ralph Gonsalves 77  Saint Vincent and
the Grenadines 		Prime Minister 29 March 2001 23 years, 12 days
16
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan 70  Turkey Prime Minister, then President[k] 14 March 2003 21 years, 27 days
17
Ilham Aliyev 62  Azerbaijan Prime Minister, then President[l] 4 August 2003 20 years, 250 days
18
Shavkat Mirziyoyev 66  Uzbekistan Prime Minister, then President[m] 12 December 2003 20 years, 120 days
19
Sheikh Hasina 76  Bangladesh Prime Minister 23 June 1996 – 15 July 2001 (1st time)
6 January 2009 – present (2nd time) 		20 years, 117 days
20
Roosevelt Skerrit 51  Dominica Prime Minister 8 January 2004 20 years, 93 days
–
Mahmoud Abbas 88  Palestine Prime Minister, then President[n] 19 March 2003 – 6 September 2003 (1st time)
15 January 2005 – present (2nd time) 		19 years, 257 days
21
Lee Hsien Loong 72  Singapore Prime Minister 12 August 2004 19 years, 242 days
22
Faure Gnassingbé 57  Togo President[o] 5 February 2005 – 25 February 2005 (1st time)
4 May 2005 – present (2nd time) 		18 years, 362 days
23
Viktor Orbán 60  Hungary Prime Minister 6 July 1998 – 27 May 2002 (1st time)
29 May 2010 – present (2nd time) 		17 years, 277 days
24
Alassane Ouattara 82  Côte d'Ivoire Prime Minister, then President[p] 7 November 1990 – 9 December 1993 (1st time)
4 December 2010 – present (2nd time) 		16 years, 160 days
25
Macky Sall 62  Senegal Prime Minister, then President[q] 21 April 2004 – 19 June 2007 (1st time)
2 April 2012 – present (2nd time) 		15 years, 68 days
26
Azali Assoumani 65  Comoros President[r] 30 April 1999 – 21 January 2002 (1st time)
6 May 2002 – 26 May 2006 (2nd time)
26 May 2016 – present (3rd time) 		14 years, 241 days
27
Mark Rutte 57  Netherlands Prime Minister 14 October 2010 13 years, 179 days
28
Nguyễn Phú Trọng 79  Vietnam General Secretary,
formerly also
President[s] 		19 January 2011 13 years, 82 days
29
Faustin-Archange Touadéra 66  Central African Republic Prime Minister, then President[t] 22 January 2008 – 17 January 2013 (1st time)
30 March 2016 – present (2nd time) 		13 years, 7 days
30
Salva Kiir Mayardit 72  South Sudan President[u] 9 July 2011 12 years, 276 days
31
Michael D. Higgins 82  Ireland President 11 November 2011 12 years, 151 days
32
Kim Jong-un 41  North Korea Supreme Leader[v] 17 December 2011 12 years, 115 days
33
Alain Berset 52   Switzerland President,
formerly Federal Council Member[w] 		1 January 2012 12 years, 100 days
34
Sauli Niinistö 75  Finland President 1 March 2012 12 years, 40 days
35
Xi Jinping 70  China General Secretary,
then President[x] 		15 November 2012 11 years, 147 days
36
Nicolás Maduro 61  Venezuela President[y] 5 March 2013 11 years, 36 days
37
Pope Francis 87  Vatican City Sovereign 13 March 2013 11 years, 28 days
38
Abdoulkader Kamil Mohamed 71  Djibouti Prime Minister 1 April 2013 11 years, 9 days
39
Edi Rama 59  Albania Prime Minister 15 September 2013 10 years, 208 days
40
Kokhir Rasulzoda 65  Tajikistan Prime Minister 23 November 2013 10 years, 139 days

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Footnotes edit

  1. ^ Biya was Prime Minister of Cameroon from 30 June 1975 to 6 November 1982
  2. ^ Obiang was Chairman of the Revolutionary Military Council / Supreme Military Council of Equatorial Guinea from 3 August 1979 to 12 October 1982
  3. ^ Khamenei was President of Iran from 13 October 1981 to 2 August 1989, leaving the presidency close to two months after becoming Supreme Leader. Was approved as Supreme Leader of Iran by the Assembly of Experts and sworn in on 4 June 1989, shortly after the death of the founder of this Shia Islamic republic, Ruhollah Khomeini.
  4. ^ Sassou Nguesso was previously President from 8 February 1979 to 31 August 1992, when the country was a one-Party state known as the People's Republic of the Congo
  5. ^ Rahmon was Chairman of the Supreme Assembly (Speaker of Parliament) of Tajikistan – de facto head of state – from 19 November 1992 to 16 November 1994
  6. ^ Isaias was Secretary-General of the Provisional Government of Eritrea from 27 April 1991 to 24 May 1993, when Eritrea declared independence from Ethiopia.
  7. ^ Disputed with Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya since 23 September 2020
  8. ^ Ortega was a member of the Nicaraguan Junta of National Reconstruction from 18 July 1979 to 4 March 1981, then the Coordinator of the Junta of National Reconstruction (effectively the head of state) from 4 March 1981 to 10 January 1985; he was then President from 10 January 1985 to 25 April 1990.
  9. ^ Putin was Prime Minister of Russia from 9 August 1999 to 7 May 2000 and Acting President from 31 December 1999 to 7 May 2000; then President of Russia from 7 May 2000 to 7 May 2008; then Prime Minister again from 8 May 2008 to 7 May 2012.
  10. ^ Geingob was Prime Minister of Namibia from 21 March 1990 to 28 August 2002 and 4 December 2012 to 21 March 2015
  11. ^ Erdoğan was Prime Minister of Turkey from 14 March 2003 to 28 August 2014
  12. ^ Aliyev was Acting President of Azerbaijan from 6 August 2003 to 31 October 2003
  13. ^ Mirziyoyev was Prime Minister of Uzbekistan from 12 December 2003 to 14 December 2016, and Acting President from 8 September 2016 to 14 December 2016.
  14. ^ Abbas was Prime Minister of the Palestinian National Authority from 19 March 2003 to 6 September 2003
  15. ^ Gnassingbé was President of Togo from 5 February 2005 to 25 February 2005, when it was disputed whether he had inherited the presidency from his deceased father, Gnassingbé Eyadéma.
  16. ^ Ouattara was Prime Minister of Côte d'Ivoire from 7 November 1990 to 9 December 1993. The Presidency was disputed between Ouattara and Laurent Gbagbo from 4 December 2010 to 11 April 2011.
  17. ^ Sall was Prime Minister of Senegal from 21 April 2004 to 19 June 2007
  18. ^ Assoumani was Chief of Staff of the National Development Army (de facto leader of the Comoros) from 30 April 1999 to 6 May 1999, Head of State of the Comoros from 6 May 1999 to 21 January 2002, then the elected President from 6 May 2002 to 26 May 2006.
  19. ^ Trọng was concurrently the President of Vietnam from 23 October 2018 to 5 April 2021. Under the one-Party system, the position of General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam is a more important and powerful office than the Presidency of Vietnam.
  20. ^ Touadéra was Prime Minister of the Central African Republic from 22 January 2008 to 17 January 2013
  21. ^ Kiir was President of the Southern Sudan Autonomous Region – a region of Sudan – from 30 July 2005 to 9 July 2011, when South Sudan declared independence.
  22. ^ The term Supreme Leader is used as a description, for the sake of brevity, rather than being an official title of a single office. The actual offices held by Kim Jong-un are: General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, President of the State Affairs Commission of the DPRK, and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the DPRK.
  23. ^ The Swiss Federal Council is a collective seven-member head of state. Berset previously served as chairperson of the Federal Council, i.e. the President of the Swiss Confederation, in the constitutional customary one-year period from 1 January to 31 December 2018. From 1 January to 31 December 2017 he was the deputy chairperson of the Federal Council, or Vice President of Switzerland. He served as Vice President again from 1 January 2022 to 31 December 2022, and President again from 1 January 2023.
  24. ^ Xi has been the President of China since 14 March 2013. Under the one-Party system, the position of General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party is a more important and powerful office than the Presidency of the People's Republic.
  25. ^ Maduro was acting President of Venezuela from 5 March 2013 to 24 April 2013. The presidency was disputed with Juan Guaidó from 23 January 2019 to 5 January 2023 and Dinorah Figuera since 5 January 2023.

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  • Rulers.org List of rulers throughout time and places

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