Top Ten Oldest and Longest-Living

This list contains the top 10 Longest-lived and oldest living State leaders and Cardinals

State Leaders

Longest-lived

UPDATED 12/8/2025
Cell colors

Color	Age Range
Light blue	103 years 0 days to 103 years, 366 days
Gainsboro	102 years 0 days to 102 years, 366 days
Linen	101 years 0 days to 101 years, 366 days
Columbia Blue	Living (any age)

No.	Name	State	Position	Birth	Death	Age
1	Chau Sen Cocsal Chhum	Cambodia	Acting Prime Minister (1962)	1905	2009	103 years, 143 days
2	Celâl Bayar	Türkiye	Prime Minister (1937–1939) President (1950–1960)	1883	1986	103 years, 98 days
3	Antoine Pinay	France	Prime Minister (1952–1953)	1891	1994	102 years, 343 days
4	André Prunet-Foch	Andorra	French Viguier (1977–1980)	1914	2017	102 years, 211 days
5	Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni	Japan	Prime Minister (1945)	1887	1990	102 years, 48 days
6	Babiker Awadalla	Sudan	Prime Minister (1969)	1917	2019	101 years, 321 days
7	Willem Drees	Netherlands	Prime Minister (1948–1958)	1889	1990	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	2018	101 years, 243 days
9	Zhang Qun	Taiwan	Premier (1947–1948)	1889	1990	101 years, 219 days
10	Yasuhiro Nakasone	Japan	Prime Minister (1982–1987)	1918	2019	101 years, 186 days

Oldest-living

UPDATED 12/8/2025

No.	Name	State	Position	Birth	Age
1	Guillermo Rodríguez	Ecuador	Acting President (1972–1976)	1923	102 years, 34 days
2	Khamtai Siphandone	Laos	Prime Minister (1991–1998) Chairman of the People's Revolutionary Party (1992–2006) President (1998–2006)	1924	101 years, 303 days
3	Tomiichi Murayama	Japan	Prime Minister (1994–1996)	1924	101 years, 280 days
4	Jimmy Carter	United States	President (1977–1981)	1924	101 years, 68 days
5	Mahathir Mohamad	Malaysia	Prime Minister (1981–2003; 2018–2020)	1925	100 years, 151 days
6	Mohammad Hasan Sharq	Afghanistan	Chairman of the Council of Ministers (1988-1989)	1925	100 years, 144 days
7	Abdoulaye Wade	Senegal	President (2000–2012)	1926	99 years, 193 days
8	Valdas Adamkus	Lithuania	President (1998–2003; 2004–2009)	1926	99 years, 35 days
9	Raif Dizdarević	Yugoslavia	President of the Presidency (1988–1989)	1926	98 years, 364 days
10	Thanin Kraivichien	Thailand	Prime Minister (1976–1977)	1927	98 years, 247 days

Cardinals

Longest-Living

Color	Age Range
Linen	101 years 0 days to 101 years, 365/366 days
Gold	100 years 0 days to 100 years, 365/366 days
Tuscany	99 years, 0 days to 99 years , 365 days
Amber	98 years, 0 days to 98 years , 365 days
Mint green	Uncertain age
Columbia Blue	Living (any age)

No.	Cardinal	Country	Birth	Death	Age
1	Corrado Bafile	Italy	1903	2005	101 years, 214 days
2	Loris Francesco Capovilla	Italy	1915	2016	100 years, 224 days
3	José de Jesús Pimiento Rodriguez	Colombia	1919	2019	100 years, 197 days
4	Alexandre do Nascimento	Angola	1925	2024	99 years, 212 days
5	Ersilio Tonini	Italy	1914	2013	99 years, 8 days
6	Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir	Lebanon	1920	2019	98 years, 362 days
7	Paul Augustin Mayer	Germany	1911	2010	98 years, 342 days
8	Estanislao Esteban Karlic	Argentina	1926	Alive	99 years, 304 days
9	Ignatius Kung Pin-mei	China	1901	2000	98 years, 223 days
	Franz König	Austria	1905	2004

Oldest-living

Color	Age Range
Columbia Blue	Living (any age)

No.	Cardinal	Country	Birth	Age
1	Estanislao Esteban Karlic	Argentina	1926	99 years, 304 days
2	Emmanuel Wamala	Uganda	1926	99 years, 7 days
3	Luis Pascual Dri OFM Cap.	Argentina	1927	98 years, 235 days
4	Júlio Duarte Langa	Mozambique	1927	98 years, 51 days
5	Friedrich Wetter	Germany	1928	97 years, 283 days
6	Ernest Simoni	Albania	1928	97 years, 51 days
7	Walter Brandmüller	Germany	1929	96 years, 337 days
8	Michael Michai Kitbunchu	Thailand	1929	96 years, 317 days
9	Adam Maida	United States	1930	95 years, 265 days
10	Julian Herranz Casado	Spain	1930	95 years, 252 days

See Also

• List of oldest-living state leaders
• List of longest-living state leaders
• List of longest-living State cardinals