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.

Gallery

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  Oldest:
   Cambodia
  Chau Sen Cocsal Chhum
  served 1962

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  2nd Oldest:
  Turkey
  Celål Bayar
  served 1937–1939, 1950–1960

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  3rd-Oldest:
   France
  Antoine Pinay
  served: 1962

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  14th-oldest ever:
   Ecuador
  Guillermo Rodriguez
  served: 1972–1976

List

UPDATED 01/16/2025

Color	Color Name	Hex Triplet	Note
	Gold	#FFD700	Living (cell color)
Text Colors
	Color Name	Hex Triplet	Age
	Aero	#7CB9E8	Centenarian
	Jade	#00A86B	Nonagenarian

No.	Name	State	Position	Birth	Death (and age)	Age (in years and days)
1	Chau Sen Cocsal Chhum	Cambodia	Acting Prime Minister (1962)	1905.09.01	2009.01.22	103 years, 143 days
2	Celål 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	1994.12.31	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)	1886.07.05	1988.05.14	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, 115 days
12	Hyun Soong-jong	South Korea	Prime Minister (1992–1993)	1919.02.26	2020.05.25	101 years, 88 days
13	Guillermo Rodriguez	Ecuador	Acting President (1972–1976)	1923.11.04	Alive	101 years, 73 days
14	Bernardino González Ruiz	Panama	Acting President (1963)	1911.01.11	2012.03.15	101 years, 64 days
15	Christopher Hornsrud	Norway	Prime Minister (1928)	1859.11.15	1960.12.12	101 years, 27 days
16	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, 343 days
17	Tomiichi Murayama	Japan	Prime Minister (1994–1996)	1924.03.03	Alive	(1924-03-03) March 3, 1924
18	Mustafa Ben Halim	Libya	Prime Minister (1954–1957)	1921.01.29	2021.12.14	100 years, 312 days
19	Telmo Vargas	Ecuador	Acting Leader (1966)	1912.10.09	2013.08.09	100 years, 304 days
20	Francisco Morales Bermúdez	Peru	Prime Minister (1975) President (1975–1980)	1921.10.04	2022.07.14	100 years, 283 days
21	Hau Pei-tsun	Taiwan	Premier (1990–1993)	1919.08.08	2020.03.30	100 years, 235 days
22	Luis Echeverria	Mexico	President (1970–1976)	1922.01.17	2022.07.08	100 years, 172 days
23	Jimmy Carter	United States	President (1977–1981)	1924.01.10	2024.10.29	100 years, 89 days
24	Xenophon Zolotas	Greece	Prime Minister (1989–1990)	1904.04.26	2004.06.10	100 years, 45 days
	Javier Pérez de Cúellar	Peru	Prime Minister (2000–2001)	1920.01.19	2020.03.04
26	Johan Ferrier	Suriname	President (1975–1980)	1910.05.12	2010.01.04	99 years, 237 days
27	Tun Tin	Burma	Prime Minister (1988)	1920.10.02	2020.05.01	99 years, 211 days
28	Gulzarilal Nanda	India	Acting Prime Minister (1964; 1966)	1898.07.04	1998.01.15	99 years, 195 days
29	Mahathir Mohamad	Malaysia	Prime Minister (1981–2003; 2018–2020)	1925.07.10	Alive	99 years, 190 days
30	Muhammad Hassan Sharq	Afghanistan	Chairman of the Council of Ministers (1988-1989)	1925.07.17	Alive	99 years, 183 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	Anthony Mamo	Malta	Prime Minister (1971–1974) President (1974–1976)	1909.01.09	2008.05.01	99 years, 113 days
33	Michail Stasinopoulos	Greece	President (1974–1975)	1903.07.27	2002.10.31	99 years, 96 days
34	Clifford Campbell	Jamaica	Governor-General (1962–1973)	1892.06.28	1991.09.28	99 years, 92 days
35	Morarji Desai	India	Prime Minister (1977–1979)	1896.02.29	1995.04.10	99 years, 41 days
36	Võ Chí Công	Vietnam	Chairman of the Council of State (1987–1992)	1912.08.07	2011.09.08	99 years, 32 days
37	Ċensu Tabone	Malta	President (1989–1994)	1913.03.30	2012.03.14	98 years, 350 days
38	Ali Hassan Mwinyi	Tanzania	President (1985–1995)	1925.05.08	2024.02.29	98 years, 297 days
39	Prem Tinsulanonda	Thailand	Prime Minister (1980–1988) Regent (2016)	1920.08.26	2019.05.26	98 years, 273 days
40	Pierre Harmel	Belgium	Prime Minister (1965–1966)	1911.03.16	2009.11.15	98 years, 244 days
41	Howard Cooke	Jamaica	Governor-General (1991–2006)	1915.11.13	2014.07.11	98 years, 240 days
42	Joseph Paul-Boncour	France	Prime Minister (1932–1933)	1873.08.04	1972.03.28	98 years, 237 days
43	Abdoulaye Wade	Senegal	President (2000–2012)	1926.05.29	Alive	98 years, 232 days
44	Konstantinos Mitsotakis	Greece	Prime Minister (1990–1993)	1918.10.31	2017.05.29	98 years, 223 days
45	Isidro Ayora	Ecuador	President (1926–1931)	1879.08.31	1978.03.22	98 years, 203 days
46	Émile Reuter	Luxembourg	Prime Minister (1918–1925)	1874.08.02	1973.02.14	98 years, 196 days
47	Mamadou Dia	Senegal	Prime Minister (1960–1962)	1910.07.18	2009.01.25	98 years, 191 days
48	Aden Adde	Somalia	President (1960–1967)	1908.12.09	2007.06.08	98 years, 181 days
49	Nouhak Phoumsavanh	Laos	President (1992–1998)	1910.04.09	2008.09.09	98 years, 153 days
50	Lê Đức Ahn	Vietnam	President (1992–1997)	1920.12.01	2019.04.22	98 years, 142 days
51	Émile Derlin Zinsou	Dahomey	President (1968–1969)	1918.03.23	2016.07.28	98 years, 127 days
52	Borys Martos	Ukraine	Chairman of the Council of Ministers (1919)	1879.05.20	1977.09.19	98 years, 123 days
53	Lubomir Štrougal	Czechoslovakia	Prime Minister (1970–1988)	1924.10.19	2023.02.06	98 years, 110 days
54	Jean	Luxembourg	Grand Duke (1964–2000)	1921.01.05	2019.04.23	98 years, 108 days
55	Gough Whitlam	Australia	Prime Minister (1972–1975)	1916.07.11	2014.10.21	98 years, 102 days
56	Giorgio Napolitano	Italy	President (2006–2015)	1925.06.29	2023.09.22	98 years, 85 days
57	Venceslau Brás	Brazil	President (1914–1918)	1868.02.26	1966.05.15	98 years, 78 days
58	Valdas Adamkus	Lithuania	President (1998–2003; 2004–2009)	1926.11.03	Alive	98 years, 74 days
59	Claude Rostain	Andorra	French Viguier (1972–1977)	1916.12.16	2015.02.10	98 years, 56 days
60	R. Venkataraman	India	President (1987–1992)	1910.12.10	2009.01.27	98 years, 54 days
61	Raif Dizdarević	Yugoslavia |	President of the Presidency (1988–1989)	1926.12.09	Alive	98 years, 38 days
62	Dezső Pattantyús-Ábrahám	Hungarian Soviet Republic  Hungary	Prime Minister (1919)	1875.07.10	1973.07.25	98 years, 15 days
63	Gabriel Paris Gordillo	Colombia	President (1957–1958)	1910.03.08	2008.03.21	98 years, 13 days
64	Miloš Jakeš	Czechoslovakia	General Secretary of the Communist Party (1987–1989)	1922.08.12	2020.07.10	97 years, 332 days
65	Abdelsalam Majali	Jordan	Prime Minister (1993–1995; 1997–1998)	1925.02.18	2023.01.03	97 years, 319 days
66	Kenan Even	Türkiye	President of the National Security Council (1980–1982) State President (1982–1989)	1917.07.17	2015.05.09	97 years, 296 days
67	Wellington Koo	China	Acting Premier (1924) Acting President (1926–1927)	1888.01.29	1985.11.14	97 years, 289 days
68	Thanin Kraivichien	Thailand	Prime Minister (1976–1977)	1927.04.05	Alive	97 years, 286 days
60	Ignaz von Plener	Cislethania ( Austria-Hungary)	Minister-President (1870)	1810.05.21	1908.02.17	97 years, 272 days
70	Domhnall Ua Buachallia	Irish Free State	Governor-General (1932–1936)	1866.02.03	1963.10.30	97 years, 267 days
71	Abdelmalek Benhabyles	Algeria	Chair of the Constitutional Council (1992)	1921.04.27	2018.12.28	97 years, 245 days
72	Francesc Badia Batalla	Andorra	Episcopal Veguer (1972–1993)	1923.01.10	2020.08.14	97 years, 217 days
73	Arnaldo Forlani	Italy	Prime Minister (1980–1981)	1925.12.08	2023.07.06	97 years, 210 days
74	Ramón José Velásquez	Venezuela	President (1993-1994)	1916.11.28	2014.06.24	97 years, 208 days
75	He Yingpin	Taiwan	Premier (1949)	1890.04.02	1987.10.21	97 years, 202 days
76	Lee Teng-hui	Taiwan	President (1988 2000)	1923.01.15	2020.07.30	97 years, 197 days
77	Liam Cosgrave	Ireland	Taoiseach (1973–1977)	1920.04.13	2017.10.04	97 years, 174 days
78	Alfredo Solf y Muro	Peru	Prime Minister (1939–1944)	1872.03.15	1969.08.14	97 years, 152 days
79	Patricio Aylwin	Chile	President (1990–1994)	1918.11.26	2016.04.19	97 years, 145 days
80	Armando Villanueva	Peru	Prime Minister (1988–1989)	1915.11.25	2013.04.14	97 years, 140 days
81	Ion Georghe 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
82	Martial Célestin	Haiti	Prime Minister (1988)	1913.10.04	2011.02.04	97 years, 123 days
83	Georghe Apostol	Romania	First Secretary of the Worker's Party (1954–1955)	1913.05.16	2010.08.21	97 years, 97 days
84	Kenneth Kaunda	Zambia	State President (1964–1991)	1924.04.28	2021.06.17	97 years, 50 days
85	Walter Scheel	Germany	(Acting) Chancellor (1974) President (1974–1979)	1919.07.08	2016.08.24	97 years, 47 days
86	Kim Yong-nam	North Korea	Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly (1998–2019)	1928.02.04	Alive	96 years, 347 days
87	Helmut Schmidt	Germany	Chancellor (1974–1982)	1918.12.23	2015.11.10	96 years, 322 days
88	Camille Huysmans	Belgium	Prime Minister (1946–1947)	1871.05.26	1968.02.25	96 years, 275 days
89	Yitzhak Shamir	Israel	Prime Minister (1981-1984; 1986-1992)	1915.10.22	2012.06.30	96 years, 252 days
90	Federico Páez	Ecuador	President (1935–1937)	1877.06.04	1974.02.09	96 years, 250 days
90	Arthur Foulkes	Bahamas	Governor-General (2010–2014)	1928.05.11	Alive	96 years, 250 days
92	Habib Bourguiba	Tunisia	Prime Minister (1956–1957) President (1957–1987)	1903.08.03	2000.04.06	96 years, 247 days
93	Vyacheslav Molotov	Soviet Union	Premier (1930–1941)	1890.03.09	1986.11.08	96 years, 244 days
94	Arnold Rüütel	Estonia	Chairman of the Supreme Council (1991-1992) President (2001-2006)	1928.05.10	2024.12.31	96 years, 235 days
95	Yang Hyong-sop	North Korea	Chairman of the Standing Committee of the Supreme People's Assembly (1983–1998) Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly (1998–2019)	1925.10.01	2022.05.15	96 years, 224 days
96	Pedro Richter Prada	Peru	Prime Minister (1979–1980)	1921.01.05	2017.07.14	96 years, 191 days
97	Péter Boross	Hungary	Prime Minister (1993–1994)	1928.08.27	Alive	96 years, 142 days
98	Elizabeth II	United Kingdom	Queen (1952–2022)	1926.04.21	2022.09.09	96 years, 140 days
99	Alejandro Deustua	Peru	Prime Minister (1902)	1849.03.22	1945.08.06	96 years, 137 days
100	Zhu Rongji	China	Premier of the State Council (1998–2003)	1928.10.23	Alive	96 years, 85 days

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Color	Color Name	Hex Triplet	Note
	Gold	#FFD700	Living (cell color)
Text Colors
	Color Name	Hex Triplet	Age
	Jade	#00A86B	Nonagenarian

No.	'Name	State	Position	Birth	Death	Age	Age by 2025.01.31
1	Édouard Balladur	France	Prime Minister (1993–1995)	1929.05.02	Alive	95 years, 259 days	95 years, 274 days
2	Sam Nujoma	Namibia	President (1990–2005)	1929.05.12	Alive	95 years, 249 days	95 years, 264 days
3	Orville Turnquest	Bahamas	Governor-General (1995–2001)	1929.07.19	Alive	95 years, 181 days	95 years, 196 days
4	Violeta Chamorro	Nicaragua	Member of the Junta of National Reconstruction (1979–1980) President (1990–1997)	1929.10.18	Alive	95 years, 90 days	95 years, 105 days
5	Gombojavyn Ochirbat	Mongolia	General Secretary of the People's Revolutionary Party (1990)	1929.11.15	Alive	95 years, 62 days	95 years, 77 days
6	Alfred Moisiu	Albania	President (2002–2007)	1929.12.01	Alive	95 years, 46 days	95 years, 61 days
7	Lee Hyun-jae	South Korea	Prime Minister (1988)	1929.12.20	Alive	95 years, 27 days	95 years, 42 days
	Milan Panić	Yugoslavia	Federal Prime Minister (1992–1993)
9	Efraín Goldenberg	Peru	Prime Minister (1994–1995)	1929.12.28	Alive	95 years, 19 days	95 years, 34 days
10	Ahmed Osman	Morocco	Prime Minister (1972–1977)	1930.01.03	Alive	95 years, 13 days	95 years, 28 days
11	Ion Iliescu	Romania	Chairman of the National Salvation Front Council (1989–1990) President of the Provisional National Unity Council (1990) President (1990–1996; 2000–2004)	1930.03.03	Alive	94 years, 319 days	94 years, 334 days
12	Vigdís Finnbogadótir	Iceland	President (1980–1996)	1930.04.15	Alive	94 years, 276 days	94 years, 291 days
13	José Sarney	Brazil	President (1985–1990)	1930.04.24	Alive	94 years, 267 days	94 years, 282 days
14	Kesang Choden	Bhutan	Regent (1972)	1930.05.21	Alive	94 years, 240 days	94 years, 255 days
15	Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada	Bolivia	President (1993–1997; 2002–2003)	1930.07.01	Alive	94 years, 199 days	94 years, 214 days

Addendum

Uncertain Date of Birth

The following individuals might be older than #100–23 on this list, but their exact date of birth is uncertain.

Name	State	Position	Born	Date of Death and age	Age in years and days
Mukhtar Mohamad Hussein	Somalia	Interim president (1969)	1912	2012.06.12	99 years, 164 days to 100 years, 163 days
Abdul Salam Sabrah	Yemen	Acting Prime Minister (1969; 1971)	1912	2012.02.02	99 years, 33 days to 100 years, 32 days
Hastings Banda	Malawi	Prime Minister (1964–1966) State President (1966–1994) President of the Congress Party (1966–1993)	1898	1997.11.27	98 years, 329 days to 99 years, 328 days
Constantine Kollias	Greece	Prime Minister (1967)	1901	1998.07.13	96 years, 194 days to 97 years, 193 days
Khertek Anchimaa-Toka	Tuvan People's Republic	Chairperson of the Presidium (1940–1944)	1912	2008.11.04	95 years, 309 days to 96 years, 308 days

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