List of longest-living state leaders

This article lists the 100 Longest-known living or deceased heads of state or heads of government of sovereign states (often a president or prime minister) and cardinals, born no earlier than 1800, and whose ages are documented in reliable sources. Those currently living are in bold on gold. The longest-lived non acting state leader with known exact dates of birth and death was the Longest lived former state leader is the former Acting Cambodian Prime Minister Chau Sen Cocsal Chhum, who lived to 103 years, 143 days. For the Cardinals the longest-lived was Italian Cardinal Corrado Bafile who lived to 101 years, 214 days.

Gallery

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  Oldest:
   Cambodia
  Chau Sen Cocsal Chhumserved 1962

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  2nd Oldest:
  Turkey<bgoatr in/>Celål Bayar
  served 1937–1939, 1950–1960

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  3rd-Oldest:
   France
  served: 1962

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  15th-oldest ever:
   Ecuador
  Guillermo Rodriguez
  served: 1972–1976

List

UPDATED 12/3/2024

Color	Note
Columbia Blue	Living State Leaders and State Leaders

No.	Name	State	Position	Birth	Death	Age
1	Chau Sen Cocsal Chhum	Cambodia	Acting Prime Minister (1962)	1905.09.01	2009.01.22	103 years, 143 days
2	Türkiye Mahmud Celâleddin "Celâl" Bayar	Türkiye	Prime Minister (1937–1939) President (1950–1960)	1883.05.16	1986.08.22	103 years, 98 days
3	Antoine Pinay	France	Prime Minister (1952–1953)	1891.12.30	1994.12.13	102 years, 343 days
4	André Prunet-Foch	Andorra	French Viguier (1977–1980)	1914.07.03	2017.01.30	102 years, 211 days
5	Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni	Japan	Prime Minister (1945)	1887.12.03	1990.01.20	102 years, 48 days
6	Babiker Awadalla	Sudan	Prime Minister (1969)	1917.03.02	2019.01.17	101 years, 321 days
7	Willem Drees	Netherlands	Prime Minister (1948–1958)	1889.07.05	1990.05.14	101 years, 314 days
8	Đỗ Mười	Vietnam	Chairman of the Council of Ministers (1988–1991) General Secretary of the Communist Party (1990–1997)	1917.02.02	2018.10.01	101 years, 243 days
9	Zhang Qun	Taiwan	Premier (1947–1948)	1889.05.09	1990.12.14	101 years, 219 days
10	Yasuhiro Nakasone	Japan	Prime Minister (1982–1987)	1918.05.27	2019.11.29	101 years, 186 days
11	Piet de Jong	Netherlands	Prime Minister (1967–1971)	1915.04.03	2016.07.27	101 years, 117 days
12	Hyun Soong-jong	South Korea	Prime Minister (1992–1993)	1919.02.26	2020.05.25	101 years, 89 days
13	Bernardino González Ruiz	Panama	Acting President (1963)	1911.01.11	2012.03.15	101 years, 64 days
14	Christopher Hornsrud	Norway	Prime Minister (1928)	1859.11.15	1960.12.12	101 years, 27 days
15	Guillermo Rodríguez	Ecuador	Acting President (1972–1976)	1923.11.04	Alive	101 years, 29 days
16	Mustafa Ben Halim	Libya	Prime Minister (1954–1957)	1921.01.29	2021.12.07	100 years, 312 days
17	Telmo Oswaldo Vargas Benalcazar	Ecuador	Acting Leader (1966)	1912.10.09	2013.08.09	100 years, 304 days
18	Francisco Remegio Morales Bermúdez Cerutti	Peru	Prime Minister (1975) President (1975–1980)	1921.10.04	2022.07.14	100 years, 283 days
19	Khamtai Siphandone	Laos	Prime Minister (1991–1998) Chairman of the People's Revolutionary Party (1992–2006) President (1998–2006)	1924.02.08	Alive	100 years, 299 days
20	Tomiichi Murayama	Japan	Prime Minister (1994–1996)	1924.03.03	Alive	100 years, 275 days
21	Hau Pei-tsun	Taiwan	Premier (1990–1993)	1919.08.08	2020.03.30	100 years, 235 days
22	Luis Echeverría Álvarez	Mexico	President (1970–1976)	1922.01.17	2022.07.08	100 years, 172 days
23	James Earl Carter Jr.	United States	President (1977–1981)	1924.10.01	Alive	100 years, 63 days
24	Xenophon Euthymiou Zolotas	Greece	Prime Minister (1989–1990)	1904.04.26	2004.06.10	100 years, 45 days
	Javier Felipe Ricardo Pérez de Cuéllar de la Guerra	Peru	Prime Minister (2000–2001)	1920.01.19	2020.03.04
26	Abdul Salam Sabrah	Yemen	Acting Prime Minister (1969; 1971)	1912.01.01	2012.02.02	100 years, 32 days
27	Johan Henri Eliza Ferrier	Suriname	President (1975–1980)	1910.05.12	2010.01.04	99 years, 237 days
28	Thura U Tun Tin	Burma	Prime Minister (1988)	1920.10.02	2020.05.01	99 years, 211 days
29	Gulzarilal Nanda	India	Acting Prime Minister (1964; 1966)	1898.07.04	1998.01.15	99 years, 195 days
23–30	Mukhtar Mohamed Hussein	Somalia	Interim president (1969)	1912	2012.06.10	99 years, 164 days to 100 years, 163 days
31	Mohammed Karim Lamrani	Morocco	Prime Minister (1971–1972; 1983–1986; 1992–1994)	1919.05.01	2018.09.20	99 years, 142 days
32	Mahathir bin Mohamad	Malaysia	Prime Minister (1981–2003; 2018–2020)	1925.07.10	Alive	99 years, 146 days
33	Mohammad Hasan Sharq	Afghanistan	Chairman of the Council of Ministers (1988-1989)	1925.07.17	Alive	99 years, 139 days
34	Anthony Mamo	Malta	Prime Minister (1971–1974) President (1974–1976)	1909.01.09	2008.05.01	99 years, 113 days
35	Michail Stasinopoulos	Greece	President (1974–1975)	1903.07.27	2002.10.31	99 years, 96 days
36	Clifford Clarence Campbell	Jamaica	Governor-General (1962–1973)	1892.06.28	1991.09.28	99 years, 92 days
37	Morarji Desai	India	Prime Minister (1977–1979)	1896.02.29	1995.04.10	99 years, 41 days
38	Võ Chí Công	Vietnam	Chairman of the Council of State (1987–1992)	1912.08.07	2011.09.08	99 years, 32 days
39	Abdel Halim Muhammad Abdel Halim	Sudan	Committee of Sovereignty Member (1964–1965)	1910.04.10	2009.04.16	99 years, 6 days
40	Ċensu Tabone	Malta	President (1989–1994)	1913.03.30	2012.03.14	98 years, 350 days
41	Ali Hassan Mwinyi	Tanzania	President (1985–1995)	1925.05.08	2024.02.29	98 years, 297 days
27–42	Hastings Kamuzu Banda	Malawi	Prime Minister (1964–1966) State President (1966–1994) President of the Congress Party (1966–1993)	ca. 1898	1997.11.27	98 years, 325 days to 99 years, 324 days
43	Prem Tinsulanonda	Thailand	Prime Minister (1980–1988) Regent (2016)	1920.08.26	2019.05.26	98 years, 273 days
44	Pierre Charles José Marie Harmel	Belgium	Prime Minister (1965–1966)	1911.03.16	2009.11.15	98 years, 244 days
45	Howard Harlan Cooke	Jamaica	Governor-General (1991–2006)	1915.11.13	2014.07.11	98 years, 240 days
46	Augustin Alfred Joseph Paul-Boncour	France	Prime Minister (1932–1933)	1873.08.04	1972.03.28	98 years, 237 days
47	Konstantinos Mitsotakis	Greece	Prime Minister (1990–1993)	1918.10.31	2017.05.29	98 years, 223 days
48	Isidro Ramon Antonio Ayora Cueva	Ecuador	President (1926–1931)	1879.08.31	1978.03.22	98 years, 203 days
49	Émile Reuter	Luxembourg	Prime Minister (1918–1925)	1874.08.02	1973.02.14	98 years, 196 days
50	Mamadou Dia	Senegal	Prime Minister (1960–1962)	1910.07.18	2009.01.25	98 years, 191 days
51	Aden Adulle Osman Da'ar	Somalia	President (1960–1967)	1908.12.09	2007.06.08	98 years, 181 days
52	Abdoulaye Wade	Senegal	President (2000–2012)	1926.05.29	Alive	98 years, 188 days
53	Nouhak Phoumsavanh	Laos	President (1992–1998)	1910.04.09	2008.09.09	98 years, 154 days
54	Lê Đức Anh	Vietnam	President (1992–1997)	1920.12.01	2019.04.22	98 years, 143 days
55	Émile Derlin Zinsou	Dahomey	President (1968–1969)	1918.03.23	2016.07.28	98 years, 127 days
56	Boris Mykolayovich Martos	Ukraine	Chairman of the Council of Ministers (1919)	1879.05.20	1977.09.19	98 years, 123 days
57	Artúr Görgei	Hungary	Acting Governor-President (1849)	1818.01.30	1916.05.21	98 years, 112 days
58	Lubomír Štrougal	Czechoslovakia	Prime Minister (1970–1988)	1924.10.19	2023.02.06	98 years, 110 days
59	Jean Benoît Guillaume Robert Antoine Louis Marie Adolphe Marc d'Aviano	Luxembourg	Grand Duke (1964–2000)	1921.01.05	2019.04.23	98 years, 108 days
60	Edward Gough Whitlam	Australia	Prime Minister (1972–1975)	1916.07.11	2014.04.21	98 years, 102 days
61	Giorgio Napolitano	Italy	President (2006–2015)	1925.06.29	2023.09.22	98 years, 85 days
62	Venceslau Brás Pereira Gomes	Brazil	President (1914–1918)	1868	1966	98 years, 78 days
63	Claude Rostain	Andorra	French Viguier (1972–1977)	1916.12.16	2015.02.10	98 years, 56 days
64	R. Venkataraman	India	President (1987–1992)	1910.12.04	2009.01.27	98 years, 54 days
65	Dezső Pattantyús-Ábrahám	Hungarian Soviet Republic   Hungary	Prime Minister (1919)	1875.07.10	1973.07.25	98 years, 15 days
66	Gabriel París Gordillo	Colombia	President (1957–1958)	1910.03.08	2008.03.21	98 years, 13 days
66	Valdas Adamkus	Lithuania	President (1998–2003; 2004–2009)	1926.11.03	Alive	98 years, 30 days
68	Raif Dizdarević	Yugoslavia |	President of the Presidency (1988–1989)	1926.12.09	Alive	97 years, 360 days
69	Miloš Jakeš	Czechoslovakia	General Secretary of the Communist Party (1987–1989)	1922.08.12	2020.07.10	97 years, 332 days
70	Abdelsalam Atalla al-Majali	Jordan	Prime Minister (1993–1995; 1997–1998)	1925.02.18	2023.01.03	97 years, 319 days
71	Kenan Evren	Türkiye	President of the National Security Council (1980–1982) State President (1982–1989)	1917.07.17	2015.05.29	97 years, 296 days
72	Vi Kyuin Wellington Koo	China	Acting Premier (1924) Acting President (1926–1927)	1888.01.29	1985.11.14	97 years, 289 days
73	Baron Ignaz von Plener	Cislethania ( Austria-Hungary)	Minister-President (1870)	1810.05.21	1908.02.17	97 years, 272 days
74	Domhnall Ua Buachalla	Irish Free State	Governor-General (1932–1936)	1866.02.03	1963.10.30	97 years, 267 days
75	Abdelmalek Benhabyles	Algeria	Chair of the Constitutional Council (Acting President) (1992)	1921.04.27	2018.12.28	97 years, 245 days
76	Thanin Kraivichien	Thailand	Prime Minister (1976–1977)	1927.04.05	Alive	97 years, 242 days
77	Francesc Badia Batalla	Andorra	Episcopal Veguer (1972–1993)	1923.01.10	2020.08.14	97 years, 217 days
78	Arnaldo Forlani	Italy	Prime Minister (1980–1981)	1925.12.08	2023.07.06	97 years, 210 days
79	Ramón José Velásquez Mujica	Venezuela	President (1993-1994)	1916.11.28	2014.06.24	97 years, 208 days
80	He Yingqin	Taiwan	Premier (1949)	1890.04.02	1987.10.21	97 years, 202 days
81	Lee Teng-hui	Taiwan	President (1988 2000)	1923.01.15	2020.07.30	97 years, 197 days
82	Liam Cosgrave	Ireland	Taoiseach (1973–1977)	1920.04.13	2017.10.04	97 years, 174 days
83	Alfredo Solf y Muro	Peru	Prime Minister (1939–1944)	1872.03.15	1969.08.14	97 years, 152 days
84	Patricio Aylwin Azócar	Chile	President (1990–1994)	1918.11.26	2016.04.19	97 years, 145 days
85	Armando Villanueva del Campo	Peru	Prime Minister (1988–1989)	1915.11.25	2013.04.14	97 years, 140 days
86	Ion Gheorghe Maurer	Romania	President of the Presidium (1958–1961) (Acting) President of the State Council (1965) Prime Minister (1961–1974)	1902.09.23	2000.02.08	97 years, 138 days
87	Martial Lavaud Célestin	Haiti	Prime Minister (1988)	1913.10.04	2011.02.04	97 years, 123 days
88	Gheorghe Apostol	Romania	First Secretary of the Worker's Party (1954–1955)	1913.05.16	2010.08.21	97 years, 97 days
89	Kenneth David Kaunda	Zambia	State President (1964–1991)	1924.04.28	2021.06.17	97 years, 50 days
90	Walter Scheel	Germany	(Acting) Chancellor (1974) President (1974–1979)	1919.07.08	2016.08.24	97 years, 47 days
91	Helmut Heinrich Himmler Schmidt	Germany	Chancellor (1974–1982)	1918.12.23	2015.11.10	96 years, 322 days
92	Gennaro Granito Pignatelli di Belmonte	Vatican City	Acting Sovereign (1939)	1851.04.10	1948.02.16	96 years, 312 days
93	Khertek Anchimaa-Toka	Tuvan People's Republic	Chairperson of the Presidium (1940–1944)	1912.01.01	2008.11.04	96 years, 308 days
94	Kim Yong-nam	North Korea	Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly (1998–2019)	1928.02.04	Alive	96 years, 303 days
95	Camille Huysmans	Belgium	Prime Minister (1946–1947)	1871.05.26	1968.02.21	96 years, 275 days
96	Yitzhak Shamir	Israel	Prime Minister (1981-1984; 1986-1992)	1915.10.22	2012.06.30	96 years, 252 days
97	Federico Páez Careaga	Ecuador	President (1935–1937)	1877.06.04	1974.02.09	96 years, 250 days
98	Habib Bourguiba	Tunisia	Prime Minister (1956–1957) President (1957–1987)	1903.08.03	2000.04.06	96 years, 247 days
99	Vyacheslav Molotov	Soviet Union	Premier (1930–1941	1890.03.09	1986.02.08	96 years, 244 days
100	Yang Hyong-sop	North Korea	Chairman of the Supreme People's Assembly (1983–1984; 1998–2019)	1925.10.01	2022.05.13	96 years, 224 days

Addendum

Uncertain Date of Birth

The following individuals might be older than #100–82 on this list, but their exact date of birth is uncertain.

Name	State	Position	Born	Died	Age
Konstantinos Kollias	Greece	Prime Minister (1967)	c. 1901	1998.07.12	96 years, 194 days to 97 years, 193 days

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1	Arnold Rüütel	Estonia	Chairman of the Supreme Council (1991–1992) President (2001–2006)	1928.05.10	Alive	96 years, 207 days	96 years, 235 days
2	Arthur Alexander Foulkes	Bahamas	Governor-General (2010–2014)	1928.05.11	Alive	96 years, 206 days	96 years, 234 days
3	Péter Boross	Hungary	Prime Minister (1993–1994)	1928.08.27	Alive	96 years, 98 days	96 years, 126 days
4	Zhu Rongji	China	Premier of the State Council (1998–2003)	1928.10.23	Alive	96 years, 41 days	96 years, 69 days
5	Édouard Balladur	France	Prime Minister (1993–1995)	1929.05.02	Alive	95 years, 215 days	95 years, 243 days
6	Samuel Shafiishuna Daniel Nujoma	Namibia	President (1990–2005)	1929.05.12	Alive	95 years, 205 days	95 years, 233 days
7	Sir Orville Alton Turnquest	Bahamas	Governor-General (1995–2001)	1929.07.19	Alive	95 years, 137 days	95 years, 165 days
8	Jamshid bin Abdullah	Sultanate of Zanzibar	Sultan (1963–1964)	1929.09.26	Alive	95 years, 78 days	95 years, 106 days
9	Violeta Barrios Torres de Chamorro	Nicaragua	Member of the Junta of National Reconstruction (1979–1980) President (1990–1997)	1929.10.18	Alive	95 years, 46 days	95 years, 74 days
10	Gombojavyn Ochirbat	Mongolia	General Secretary of the People's Revolutionary Party (1990)	1929.11.11	Alive	95 years, 22 days	95 years, 50 days

Chronological List of eldest living

Key

Current Longest-living

Former Longest-living

From	Until	State Leader	State	Sex	Birth
1893-02-18	1894-03-20	Lajos Kossuth	Hungary	M	1802-09-19
1894-03-20	1897-05-14	Pedro de Aycinena y Piñol	Guatemala	M	1802-10-19
1897-05-14	1899-02-26	Count Bernhard von Rechberg	Austria-Hungary	M	1806-07-17
1899-02-26	1900-04-12	Tomás Gormensoro Albin	Uruguay	M	1810-01-27
1900-04-12	1903-07-20	Pope Leo XIII	Holy See	M	1810-03-02
1903-07-20	1908-07-17	Freihrr Ignaz von Plener	Austria-Hungary	M	1810-05-21
1908-02-17	1916-09-21	Artúr Görgei	Hungary	M	1818-01-30
1916-05-21	1917-12-10	Mackenzie Bowell	Canada	M	1823-11-27
1917-12-10	1923-05-14	Charles de Freycinet	France	M	1828-11-14
1923-05-14	1924-07-02	Matsukata Masayoshi	Japan	M	1835-02-25
1924-07-02	1932-03-10	Paolo Boselli	Italy	M	1838-08-08
1932-03-10	1935-09-06	Francisco Andrade Marín	Ecuador	M	1841-11-15
1935-09-06	1935-07-29	François Denys Légitime	Haiti	M	1841-11-20
1935-07-29	1937-05-29	Lizardo Garcia	Ecuador	M	1844-04-28
1937-05-29	1939-09-12	Eliodoro Villazón	Bolivia	M	1848-01-22
1939-09-12	1945-08-06	Alejandro Deustua	Peru	M	1849-03-22
1945-08-06	1949-07-25	Guillermo Tell Villegas Pulido	Venezuela	M	1854-07-28
1949-07-25	1951-07-23	Philippe Petain	France	M	1856-04-24
1951-07-23	1952-07-21	Pedro Lascuráin	Mexico	M	1856-05-06
1952-07-21	1960-12-12	Christopher Hornsrud	Norway	M	1859-11-15
1960-12-12	1966-05-15	Venceslau Brás	Brazil	M	1868-02-26
1966-05-15	1968-02-25	Camille Huysmans	Belgium	M	1871-05-28
1968-02-25	1969-08-14	Alfredo Solf y Muro	Peru	M	1872-03-15
1969-08-14	1972-03-28	Joseph Paul-Boncour	France	M	1873-08-04
1972-03-28	1973-02-14	Émile Reuter	Luxembourg	M	1874-08-02
1973-02-14	1973-07-25	Dezsö Pattantyús-Ábrahám	Hungary	M	1875-07-10
1973-07-25	1974-02-09	Federico Páez	Ecuador	M	1877-06-04
1974-02-09	1977-09-19	Borys Martos	Ukraine	M	1879-95-20
1977-09-19	1978-03-22	Isidro Ayora	Ecuador	M	1879-08-31
1978-03.22	1978-04-14	Federico Chaves	Paraguay	M	1882-02-15
1978-04-14	1986-08-22	Celál Bayar	Türkiye	M	1883-05-16
1986-08-22	1988-05-14	Willem Drees	Natherlands	M	1886-07-05
1988-05-14	1990-01-20	Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni	Japan	M	1887-12-03
1990-01-20	1990-12-14	Zhang Qun	Taiwan	M	1889-05-09
1990-12-14	1994-12-13	Antoine Pinay	France	M	1891-12-30
1994-12-13	1995-04-10	Morarji Desai	India	M	1896-02-29
1995-04-10	1998-01-15	Gulzarilal Nanda		M	1898-07-04
1998-91-15	1998-07-13	Konstantinos Kollias	Greece (Kingdom)	M	1901
1998-07-13	2000-02-08	Ion Gheorghe Maurer	Romania	M	1902-09-23
2000-02-08	2002-10-31	Michail Stasinopoulos	Greece	M	1903-07-27
2002-10-31	2004-06-10	Xenophon Zolotas		M	1904-04-26
2004-06-10	2009-01-22	Chau Sen Cocsal Chhum	Kampuchea	M	1905-09-01
2009-01-22	2010-01-04	Johan Ferrier	Suriname	M	1910-05-12
2010-01-04	2012-03-14	Ċensu Tabone	Malta	M	1913-01-13
2012-01-14	2016-07-27	Piet de Jong	Kingdom of the Netherlands	M	1915-04-13
2016-07-27	2018-10-01	Đỗ Mười	Vietnam	M	1917-03-02
2018-10-01	2019-01-17	Babiker Awadalla	Sudan	M	1917-03-02
2019-01-17	2019-11-29	Yasuhiro Nakasone	Japan	M	1918-05-27
2019-11-29	2020-05-25	Hyun Soong-jong	South Korea	M	1919-02-26
2020-05-25	2021-12-07	Mustafa Ben Halim	Libya	M	1921-01-29
2021-12-07	2022-07-08	Francisco Morales Bermúdez	Peru	M	1921-10-04
2022-07-08	2023-10-11	Khamtai Siphandone	Laos	M	1924-02-08
2023-10-11	current	Guillermo Rodriguez	Ecuador	M	1923-11-04

See also

• List of longest-living cardinals
• List of oldest living state leaders
• Hypothetical List of longest-living state leaders
• Top Ten Oldest and Longest-Living
• List of current cardinals
• Longest-lived State Leaders and Cardinals by Region
• List of Cardinals by Age (current)
• Cardinals by Death Date (who died at least 85 years old)