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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 |
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1 | Paul Biya | 91 | Cameroon | Prime Minister, then President[lower-alpha 1] | 30 June 1975 | 48 years, 280 days | |
2 | Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo | 81 | Equatorial Guinea | President[lower-alpha 2] | 3 August 1979 | 44 years, 246 days | |
3 | Ali Khamenei | 84 | Iran | President, then Supreme Leader[lower-alpha 3] |
13 October 1981 | 42 years, 175 days | |
4 | Denis Sassou Nguesso | 80 | Republic of the Congo | President[lower-alpha 4] | 8 February 1979 – 31 August 1992 (1st time) 25 October 1997 – present (2nd time) |
40 years, 2 days | |
5 | Yoweri Museveni | 79 | Uganda | President | 26 January 1986 | 38 years, 70 days | |
6 | Emomali Rahmon | 71 | Tajikistan | De facto Head of State, then President[lower-alpha 5] |
19 November 1992 | 31 years, 138 days | |
7 | Isaias Afwerki | 78 | Eritrea | President[lower-alpha 6] | 24 May 1993 | 30 years, 317 days | |
8 | Alexander Lukashenko | 69 | Belarus | President[lower-alpha 7] | 20 July 1994 | 29 years, 260 days | |
9 | Daniel Ortega | 78 | Nicaragua | Acting Head of State, then President[lower-alpha 8] |
4 March 1981 – 25 April 1990 (1st time) 10 January 2007 – present (2nd time) |
26 years, 138 days | |
10 | Ismaïl Omar Guelleh | 76 | Djibouti | President | 8 May 1999 | 24 years, 333 days | |
11 | Vladimir Putin | 71 | Russia | Prime Minister, then President[lower-alpha 9] | 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, 240 days | |
12 | Paul Kagame | 66 | Rwanda | President | 22 April 2000 | 23 years, 349 days | |
13 | Hage Geingob | 82 | Namibia | Prime Minister, then President[lower-alpha 10] | 21 March 1990 – 28 August 2002 (1st time) 4 December 2012 – present (2nd time) |
23 years, 283 days | |
14 | Bashar al-Assad | 58 | Syria | President | 17 July 2000 | 23 years, 263 days | |
15 | Ralph Gonsalves | 77 | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines |
Prime Minister | 29 March 2001 | 23 years, 7 days | |
16 | Recep Tayyip Erdoğan | 70 | Turkey | Prime Minister, then President[lower-alpha 11] | 14 March 2003 | 21 years, 22 days | |
17 | Ilham Aliyev | 62 | Azerbaijan | Prime Minister, then President[lower-alpha 12] | 4 August 2003 | 20 years, 245 days | |
18 | Shavkat Mirziyoyev | 66 | Uzbekistan | Prime Minister, then President[lower-alpha 13] | 12 December 2003 | 20 years, 115 days | |
19 | Sheikh Hasina | 76 | Bangladesh | Prime Minister | 23 June 1996 – 15 July 2001 (1st time) 6 January 2009 – present (2nd time) |
20 years, 112 days | |
20 | Roosevelt Skerrit | 51 | Dominica | Prime Minister | 8 January 2004 | 20 years, 88 days | |
– | Mahmoud Abbas | 88 | Palestine | Prime Minister, then President[lower-alpha 14] | 19 March 2003 – 6 September 2003 (1st time) 15 January 2005 – present (2nd time) |
19 years, 252 days | |
21 | Lee Hsien Loong | 72 | Singapore | Prime Minister | 12 August 2004 | 19 years, 237 days | |
22 | Faure Gnassingbé | 57 | Togo | President[lower-alpha 15] | 5 February 2005 – 25 February 2005 (1st time) 4 May 2005 – present (2nd time) |
18 years, 357 days | |
23 | Viktor Orbán | 60 | Hungary | Prime Minister | 6 July 1998 – 27 May 2002 (1st time) 29 May 2010 – present (2nd time) |
17 years, 272 days | |
24 | Alassane Ouattara | 82 | Côte d'Ivoire | Prime Minister, then President[lower-alpha 16] | 7 November 1990 – 9 December 1993 (1st time) 4 December 2010 – present (2nd time) |
16 years, 155 days | |
25 | Macky Sall | 62 | Senegal | Prime Minister, then President[lower-alpha 17] | 21 April 2004 – 19 June 2007 (1st time) 2 April 2012 – present (2nd time) |
15 years, 63 days | |
26 | Azali Assoumani | 65 | Comoros | President[lower-alpha 18] | 30 April 1999 – 21 January 2002 (1st time) 6 May 2002 – 26 May 2006 (2nd time) 26 May 2016 – present (3rd time) |
14 years, 236 days | |
27 | Mark Rutte | 57 | Netherlands | Prime Minister | 14 October 2010 | 13 years, 174 days | |
28 | Nguyễn Phú Trọng | 79 | Vietnam | General Secretary, formerly also President[lower-alpha 19] |
19 January 2011 | 13 years, 77 days | |
29 | Faustin-Archange Touadéra | 66 | Central African Republic | Prime Minister, then President[lower-alpha 20] | 22 January 2008 – 17 January 2013 (1st time) 30 March 2016 – present (2nd time) |
13 years, 2 days | |
30 | Salva Kiir Mayardit | 72 | South Sudan | President[lower-alpha 21] | 9 July 2011 | 12 years, 271 days | |
31 | Michael D. Higgins | 82 | Ireland | President | 11 November 2011 | 12 years, 146 days | |
32 | Kim Jong-un | 41 | North Korea | Supreme Leader[lower-alpha 22] | 17 December 2011 | 12 years, 110 days | |
33 | Alain Berset | 51 | Switzerland | President, formerly Federal Council Member[lower-alpha 23] |
1 January 2012 | 12 years, 95 days | |
34 | Sauli Niinistö | 75 | Finland | President | 1 March 2012 | 12 years, 35 days | |
35 | Xi Jinping | 70 | China | General Secretary, then President[lower-alpha 24] |
15 November 2012 | 11 years, 142 days | |
36 | Nicolás Maduro | 61 | Venezuela | President[lower-alpha 25] | 5 March 2013 | 11 years, 31 days | |
37 | Pope Francis | 87 | Vatican City | Sovereign | 13 March 2013 | 11 years, 23 days | |
38 | Abdoulkader Kamil Mohamed | 71 | Djibouti | Prime Minister | 1 April 2013 | 11 years, 4 days | |
39 | Edi Rama | 59 | Albania | Prime Minister | 15 September 2013 | 10 years, 203 days | |
40 | Kokhir Rasulzoda | 65 | Tajikistan | Prime Minister | 23 November 2013 | 10 years, 134 days |