Original listings of longest-living state leaders

Gallery

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

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  2nd-Oldest ever:
   Cambodia
  Chau Sen Cocsal Chhumserved 1962

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  3rd-Oldest ever:
   France
  served: 1962

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  4th-oldest ever:
   Japan
  Prince Naruhikko Higashikuni
  served: 1972–1976

List

as of 01-01-2000

No.	Name	State	Position	Birth	Death	Age
1	Chau Sen Cocsal Chhum	Democratic Kampuchea	Acting Prime Minister (1962)	1905	Alive	103 years, 88 days
2	Xenophon Zolotas	Greece	Prime Minister (1989–1990)	1904	2004	100 years, 45 days
3	Anthony Mamo	Malta	Prime Minister (1971–1974) President (1974–1976)	1909	2008	99 years, 113 days
4	Michail Stasinopoulos	Greece	President (1974–1975)	1903	2002	99 years, 96 days
5	Johan Ferrier	Surimane	President (1975–1980)	1910	alive	98 years, 200 days
6	Mamadou Dia	Senegal	President (1960–1962)	1910	alive	98 years, 133 days
7	Aden Adde	Somalia	President (1960–1967)	1908	2007	98 years, 181 days
8	Nouhak Phoumsavanh	Laos	President (1992–1998)	1910	2008	98 years, 153 days
9	Gabriel París Gordillo	Colombia	President (1957–1958)	1910	2008	98 years, 13 days
10	Ramaswamy Venkataraman	India	President (1987–1992)	1910	Alive	97 years, 360 days
11	Bernardino González Ruiz	Panama	Acting President (1963)	1911	Alive	97 years, 322 days
12	Pierre Harmel	Belgium	Prime Minister (1965–1966)	1911	Alive	97 years, 257 days
13	Ion Gheorghe Maurer	Romania	President of the Presidium (1958–1961) (Acting) President of the State Council (1965) Prime Minister (1961–1974)	1902	2000	97 years, 138 days
14	Abdul Salam Sabrah	Yemen	Acting Prime Minister (1969; 1971)	1912	Alive	96 years, 332 days
15	Khertek Anchimaa-Toka	Tuvan People's Republic	Chairperson of the Presidium (1940–1944)	1912	2008	96 years, 308 days
16	Habib Bourguiba	Tunisia	Prime Minister (1956–1957) President (1957–1987)	1903	2000	96 years, 247 days
13–17	Konstantinos Kollias	Greece	Prime Minister (1967)	1901	1998	96 years, 194 days to 97 years, 193 days
18	Võ Chí Công	Vietnam	Chairman of the Council of State (1987–1992)	1912	Alive	96 years, 113 days
19	Hans Schaffner	Switzerland	President (1966)	1908	2004	95 years, 346 days
20	Joaquín Balaguer	Dominican Republic	President (1960–1962; 1966–1978; 1986–1996)	1906	2002	95 years, 316 days
21	Fred Degazon	Dominica	President (1979–1980)	1913	2008	95 years, 274 days
17–22	Sheikh Mukhtar Mohamed Hussein	Somalia	Interim president (1969)	1912	Alive	95 years, 209 days to 96 years, 208 days
23	Gheorghe Apostol	Romania	First Secretary of the Worker's Party (1954–1955)	1913	Alive	95 years, 196 days
24	Pote Sarasin	Thailand	Prime Minister (1957)	1905	2000	95 years, 187 days
25	Ċensu Tabone	Malta	President (1989–1994)	1913	Alive	96 years, 119 days
26	Léopold Sédar Senghor	Senegal	President (1960 - 1980)	1906	2001	95 years, 72 days
27	Petar Stambolić	Yugoslavia	Prime Minister (1963 - 1967) President (1982-1983)	1912	2007	95 years, 71 days
28	Martial Célestin	Haiti	Prime Minister (1988)	1913	Alive	95 years, 55 days
29	Saeb Salam	Lebanon	Prime Minister (1952–1953, 1960-1961, 1970-1973)	1905	2000	95 years, 4 days
30	Hassan ibn Yahya	Kingdom of Yemen  North Yemen	Prime Minister (1948–1955)	1908	2003	95 years, 0 days
31	Juliana	Netherlands	Queen (1948–1980)	1909	2004	94 years, 325 days
32	Maaraouf Dawalibi	Syria	Prime Minister (1951, 1961-1962)	1909	2004	94 years, 292 days
33	Martti Miettunen	Finland	Prime Minister (1961–1962, 1975–1977)	1907	2002	94 years, 277 days
34|| data-sort-value="Dharmasakti, Sanya" |Sanya Dharmasakti	Thailand	Prime Minister (1973–1975)	1907	2002	94 years, 276 days
35	Héctor Trujillo	Ecuador	President (1952–1960)	1908	2002	94 years, 196 days
36	Wijeyananda Dahayanake	Sri Lanka	Prime Minister (1959–1960)	1902	1997	94 years, 194 days
37	André Prunet-Foch	Andorra	French Viguier (1977–1980)	1914	Alive	94 years, 148 days
38	Malietoa Tanumafili II	Samoa	O le Ao O le Malo (1989–1993)	1913	2007	94 years, 127 days
39	Mikhail Solometsev	Soviet Union	Chairman of the Council of Ministers (1983–1988)	1913	2008	94 years, 100 days
40	Garfield Todd	Southern Rhodesia	Prime Minister (1953–1958)	1908	2002	94 years, 92 days
41	Phạm Văn Đồng	North Vietnam  State of Vietnam	Prime Minister (1955–1987)	1906	2000	94 years, 59 days
42	Herbert Duffus	Jamaica	Acting Governor-General (1973)	1908	2002	94 years, 56 days
43	Alfonso López Michelsen	Colombia	President (1972–1976)	1913	2007	94 years, 11 days
44	Anibal Portillo	El Salvador	Member of the Civic Military Directory (1961-1962)	1914	Alive	93 years, 344 days
45	Alfredo Stroessener	Paraguay	President and Dictator (1954&ndash1989)	1912	2006	93 years, 276 days
46	Piet de Jong	Netherlands	Prime Minister (1967-1971)	1915	Alive	93 years, 227 days
47	Victor Paz Estensorro	Bolivia	President (1952-1956, 1962-1964, 1985-1989)	1907	2001	93 years, 248 days
48	Zenko Suzuki	Japan	Prime Minister (1980–1982)	1911	2004	93 years, 190 days
49	Gerald Ford	United States	President (1974-1977)	1913	2006	93 years, 165 days
50	Mario Echandi Jiménez	Costa Rica	President (1958–1962)	1915	Alive	93 years, 164 days
51	The Lord Porritt	New Zealand	Governor-General (1967-1972)	1900	1994	93 years, 144 days
52	Pierre Pflimlin	France	Prime Minister (1958)	1907	2000	93 years, 143 days
53	Ronald Reagan	United States	President (1981-1989)	1911	2004	93 years, 120 days
54	Luis Alberto Sánchez	Peru	Prime Minister (1989)	1900	1994	93 years, 117 days
55	Yithak Shamir	Israel	Prime Minister (1983-1984, 1986-1992)	1915	Alive	93 years, 44 days
56	Hugo Ballivián	Bolivia	President (1951–1952)	1901	1993	93 years, 38 days
57	Giovanni Leone	Italy	Prime Minister (1963, 1968, 1971–1978)	1908	2001	93 years, 37 days
58	Howard Cooke	Jamaica	Governor-General (1991–2006)	1915	Alive	93 years, 13 days
59	Armando Villanueva	Peru	Prime Minister (1988–1989)	1915	alive	93 years, 0 days
60	James Callaghanlater Baron Callaghan of Cardiff	United Kingdom	Prime Minister (1976–1979)	1912	2005	92 years, 364 days
61	Maurice Couve de Murville	France	Prime Minister (1968-1969)	1907	1999	92 years, 334 days
62	Thamon Kittikachorn	Thailand	Prime Minister (1958, 1963-1973)	1911	2004	92 years. 310 days
63	Rafael Caldera	Venezuela	President (1969-1974, 1994-1999)	1916	Alive	92 years, 309 days
64	José Joaquín Trejos Fernández	Costa Rica	President (1958–1962)	1916	Alive	92 years, 224 days
65	Dingiri Banda Wijetunga	Sri Lanka	Prime Minister (1969- 1993) President (1993-1994)	1916	2008	92 years, 219 days
66	Efraim Katzir	Israel	President (1973–1978)	1916	Alive	92 years, 209 days
67	Gough Whitlam	Australia	Prime Minister (1973–1978)	1916	Alive	92 years, 140 days
68	Dom Mintoff	Malta	President (1955–1958, 1971–1984)	1916	Alive	92 years, 114 days
69	Allan Louisy	Saint Lucia	Prime Minister (1973–1978)	1916	Alive	92 years, 84 days
70	Alec Douglas-Homeformsly The Earl of Home later Baron Home of the Hirsel	United Kingdom	Prime Minister (1963–1964)	1903	1995	92 years, 98 days
71	Seni Pramoj	Thailand	Prime Minister (1945–1946, 1975, 1976)	1905	1997	92 years, 63 days
72	Nazim al-Qudsi	Syria	Prime Minister (1949, 1950-1951) President (1961-1963)	1906	1998	91 years, 357 days
73	Claude Rostain	Andorra	French Viguier (1972–1977)	1916	Alive	91 years, 348 days
74	Đỗ Mười	Vietnam	Chairman of the Council of Ministers (1988–1991) General Secretary of the Communist Party (1990–1997)	1917	Alive	91 years, 300 days
75	Joseph Conombo	Burkina Faso	Prime Minister (1978-1980)	1917	Alive	91 years, 293 days
76	Amintore Fanfani	Italy	Prime Minister (1954,1958-1959,1960-1963, 1982-1983,1987) President (Interim) (1978)	1908	1999	91 years, 287 days
77	Andrés Rivero Agüero	Cuba	Prime Minister (1957-1958)	1905	1996	91 years, 278 days
78	René Pleven	France	Prime Minister (1950–1951, 1951–1952)	1901	1993	91 years, 273 days
79	Kiro Gligorov	North Macedonia	President (1991–1999)	1917	Alive	91 years, 209 days
80	Ne Win	Burma	Prime Minister of Burma (1958-1960, 1962-1974) President of Burma (1974-1981)	1911	2002	91 years, 195 days
81	Pierre Messmer	France	Prime Minister (1972-1974)	1916	2007	91 years 162 days
82	Nnamdi Azikiwe	Nigeria	President (1963-1966)	1904	1995	91 years, 177 days
83	Abdul Rahman Arif	Iraq	President (1966-1968)	1916	2007	91 years, 135 days
84	Roland Michener	Canada	Governor-General (1967–1978)	1900	1991	91 years, 109 days
85	Augusto Pinochet	Chile	President (1973-1990)	1915	2006	91 years, 15 days
86	P. W. Botha	South Africa	Prime Minister (1978-1984) State President (1984-1989)	1916	2006	90 years, 292 days
87	Takeo Fukuda	Japan	Prime Minister (1978)	1905	1993	90 years, 172 days
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No.	Name	State	Position	Birth	Death	Age
	Anthony Mamo	Malta	Prime Minister (1971–1974) President (1974–1976)	1909	alive	90 years, 357 days
	Maarouf al-Dawalibi	Syria	Prime Minister (1941, 195–1960)	1909	alive	90 years, 278 days
	Juliana	Netherlands	Queen (1948–1980)	1909	alive	90 years, 246 days
	Gabriel París Gordillo	Colombia	President (1957–1958)	1910	Alive	89 years, 299 days
	Abdel Halim Muhamad	Sudan	President (1975–1980)	1910	alive	89 years, 267 days
	Nouhak Phoumsavanh	Laos	President (1992–1998)	1910	alive	89 years, 266 days
	Johan Ferrier	Suriname	President (1975–1980)	1910	alive	89 years, 234 days
	Mamadou Dia	Senegal	President (1960–1962)	1910	alive	89 years, 167 days
	R. Venkararaman	India	President (1987–1992)	1910	Alive	89 years, 28 days
	Ek Yi Oun	Cambodia	Prime Minister (1958)	1910	Alive	89 years, 1 day to 90 years, 0 days
	Bernardino González Ruiz	Panama	Acting President (1963)	1911	Alive	88 years, 355 days
	Zenko Suzuki	Japan	Prime Minister (1980–1982)
	Ronald Reagan	United States	President (1981-1989)	1911	alive	88 years, 329 days
	Pierre Harmel	Belgium	Prime Minister (1965–1966)	1911	Alive	88 years, 291 days
	Abdul Salam Sabrah	Yemen	Acting Prime Minister (1969; 1971)	1912	Alive	88 years, 0 days
	Khertek Anchimaa-Toka	Tuvan People's Republic	Chairperson of the Presidium (1940–1944)
	Petar Stambolić	Yugoslavia	Prime Minister (1963 - 1967) President (1982-1983)	1912	alive	87 years, 173 days
	Võ Chí Công	Vietnam	Chairman of the Council of State (1987–1992)	1912	Alive	87 years, 147 days
	Telmo Vargas	France	Acting Leader (1966)	1912	alive	87 years, 84 days
	Alfredo Stroessner	Paraguay	Dictator and President (1954-1989)	1912	alive	87 years, 59 days
	Sheikh Mukhtar Mohamed Hussein	Somalia	Interim president (1969)	1912	Alive	87 years, 1 day to 88 years, 0 days
	Fred Degazon	Dominica	President (1979–1980)	1913	alive	86 years, 362 days
	Malietoa Tanumafili II	Samoa	O le Ao O le Malo (1989–1993)
	Ċensu Tabone	Malta	President (1989–1994)	1913	Alive	86 years, 277 days
	Gheorghe Apostol	Romania	First Secretary of the Worker's Party (1954–1955)	1913	alive	86 years, 230 days
	Alfonso López Michelsen	Colombia	President (1972–1976)	1913	Alive	86 years, 185 days
	Pak Song-chol	North Korea	Premier (1976–1977)	1913	alive	86 years, 121 days
	Martial Célestin	Haiti	Prime Minister (1988)	1913	Alive	86 years, 89 days
	Mikhail Solometsev	Soviet Union	Chairman of the Council of Ministers (1983–1988)	1913	alive	86 years, 55 days
	André Prunet-Foch	Andorra	French Viguier (1977–1980)	1914	Alive	85 years, 182 days
	Anibal Portillo	El Salvador	Member of the Civic Military Directory (1961-1962)	1914	Alive	85 years, 12 days

Living State Leaders as of January 1, 2000

1. Ion Gheorghe Maurer b. 1902 age: 97 years, 327 days
2. Michail Stasinopoulos b. 1903 age: 96 years, 158 days
3. Habib Bourguiba b. 1903 age: 97 years, 151 days
4. Xenophon Zolotas b. 1904 age: 95 years, 250 days
5. Saeb Salam b. 1905 age: 94 years, 349 days
6. Pote Sarasin b. 1905 age: 94 years, 282 days
7. Chau Sen Cocasal Chhum b. 1905 age: 94 years, 122 days
8. Phạm Văn Đồng b. 1906 age: 93 years, 306 days
9. Joaquin Balaguer b. 1906 age: 93 years, 122 days
10. Léopold Sédar Senghor b. 1906 age: 93 years, 84 days
11. Pierre Pflimlin b. 1907 age: 92 years, 330 days
12. Sanya Dharmasakti b. 1907 age: 92 years, 271 days
13. Martii Miettunen b. 1907 age: 95 years, 259 days
14. Paul Magloire b. 1907 age: 92 years, 166 days
15. Víctor Paz Estenssoro b. 1907 age: 92 years, 122 days
16. Héctor Trujillo b. 1908 age: 91 years, 122 days
17. Hassan Ibn Yahya: b. 1908 age: 91 years, 202 days
18. Garfield Todd b. 1908 age: 91 years, 172 days
19. Herbert Duffus b. 1908 age: 91 years, 124 days
20. Giovanni Leone b. 1908 age: 91 years, 59 days
21. Aden Adde b. 1908 age: { b.{age in years and days|1908-12-09|2000-01-01}}
22. Hans Schaffner b. 1908 age: 91 years, 16 days
23. Anthony Mamo b. 1909 age: 90 years, 357 days
24. Maarouf al-Dawalibi b. 1909 age: 90 years, 278 days
25. Spyros Markizinis b. 1909 age: 90 years, 254 days
26. Juliana of the Netherlands b. 1909 age: 90 years, 246 days
27. Juan Bosch b. 1909 age: 90 years, 185 days