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

Gallery of State Leaders

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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 11/16/2024

Color	Note
Columbia Blue	Living State Leaders and State Leaders

State Leaders

No.	Name	State	Position	Birth	Death	Age
The Most recent to die was Former Tanzanian President Ali Hassan Mwinyi on 29 February 2024 aged 98 years, 297 days, and since then no longest living state leader has died in 261 days The most recent to join the list was Former North Korean Premier Kim Yong-nam on 17 August 2024, and no one has joined in the last 91 days
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
11	Piet de Jong	Netherlands	Prime Minister (1967–1971)	1915	2016	101 years, 117 days
12	Hyun Soong-jong	South Korea	Prime Minister (1992–1993)	1919	2020	101 years, 89 days
13	Bernardino González Ruiz	Panama	Acting President (1963)	1911	2012	101 years, 64 days
14	Christopher Hornsrud	Norway	Prime Minister (1928)	1859	1960	101 years, 27 days
15	Guillermo Rodríguez	Ecuador	Acting President (1972–1976)	1923	Alive	101 years, 12 days
16	Mustafa Ben Halim	Libya	Prime Minister (1954–1957)	1921	2021	100 years, 312 days
17	Telmo Vargas	Ecuador	Acting Leader (1966)	1912	2013	100 years, 304 days
18	Francisco Morales Bermúdez	Peru	Prime Minister (1975) President (1975–1980)	1921	2022	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	Alive	100 years, 282 days
20	Tomiichi Murayama	Japan	Prime Minister (1994–1996)	1924	Alive	100 years, 258 days
21	Hau Pei-tsun	Taiwan	Premier (1990–1993)	1919	2020	100 years, 235 days
22	Luis Echeverría	Mexico	President (1970–1976)	1922	2022	100 years, 172 days
23	Xenophon Zolotas	Greece	Prime Minister (1989–1990)	1904	2004	100 years, 45 days
	Javier Pérez de Cuéllar	Peru	Prime Minister (2000–2001)	1920	2020
25	Jimmy Carter	United States	President (1977–1981)	1924	Alive	100 years, 46 days
26	Abdul Salam Sabrah	Yemen	Acting Prime Minister (1969; 1971)	1912	2012	100 years, 32 days
27	Johan Ferrier	Suriname	President (1975–1980)	1910	2010	99 years, 237 days
28	Tun Tin	Burma	Prime Minister (1988)	1920	2020	99 years, 211 days
29	Gulzarilal Nanda	India	Acting Prime Minister (1964; 1966)	1898	1998	99 years, 195 days
23–30	Mukhtar Mohamed Hussein	Somalia	Interim president (1969)	1912	2012	99 years, 164 days to 100 years, 163 days
31	Mohammed Karim Lamrani	Morocco	Prime Minister (1971–1972; 1983–1986; 1992–1994)	1919	2018	99 years, 142 days
32	Mahathir Mohamad	Malaysia	Prime Minister (1981–2003; 2018–2020)	1925	Alive	99 years, 129 days
33	Mohammad Hasan Sharq	Afghanistan	Chairman of the Council of Ministers (1988-1989)	1925	Alive	99 years, 122 days
34	Anthony Mamo	Malta	Prime Minister (1971–1974) President (1974–1976)	1909	2008	99 years, 113 days
35	Michail Stasinopoulos	Greece	President (1974–1975)	1903	2002	99 years, 96 days
36	Clifford Campbell	Jamaica	Governor-General (1962–1973)	1892	1991	99 years, 92 days
37	Morarji Desai	India	Prime Minister (1977–1979)	1896	1995	99 years, 41 days
38	Võ Chí Công	Vietnam	Chairman of the Council of State (1987–1992)	1912	2011	99 years, 32 days
39	Abdel Halim Muhammad	Sudan	Committee of Sovereignty Member (1964–1965)	1910	2009	99 years, 6 days
40	Ċensu Tabone	Malta	President (1989–1994)	1913	2012	98 years, 350 days
41	Ali Hassan Mwinyi	Tanzania	President (1985–1995)	1925	2024	98 years, 297 days
27–42	Hastings Banda	Malawi	Prime Minister (1964–1966) State President (1966–1994) President of the Congress Party (1966–1993)	1898	1997	98 years, 325 days to 99 years, 324 days
43	Prem Tinsulanonda	Thailand	Prime Minister (1980–1988) Regent (2016)	1920	2019	98 years, 273 days
44	Pierre Harmel	Belgium	Prime Minister (1965–1966)	1911	2009	98 years, 244 days
45	Howard Cooke	Jamaica	Governor-General (1991–2006)	1915	2014	98 years, 240 days
46	Joseph Paul-Boncour	France	Prime Minister (1932–1933)	1873	1972	98 years, 237 days
47	Konstantinos Mitsotakis	Greece	Prime Minister (1990–1993)	1918	2017	98 years, 223 days
48	Isidro Ayora	Ecuador	President (1926–1931)	1879	1978	98 years, 203 days
49	Émile Reuter	Luxembourg	Prime Minister (1918–1925)	1874	1973	98 years, 196 days
50	Mamadou Dia	Senegal	Prime Minister (1960–1962)	1910	2009	98 years, 191 days
51	Aden Adde	Somalia	President (1960–1967)	1908	2007	98 years, 181 days
52	Abdoulaye Wade	Senegal	President (2000–2012)	1926	Alive	98 years, 171 days
53	Nouhak Phoumsavanh	Laos	President (1992–1998)	1910	2008	98 years, 154 days
54	Lê Đức Anh	Vietnam	President (1992–1997)	1920	2019	98 years, 143 days
55	Émile Derlin Zinsou	Dahomey	President (1968–1969)	1918	2016	98 years, 127 days
56	Borys Martos	Ukraine	Chairman of the Council of Ministers (1919)	1879	1977	98 years, 123 days
57	Artúr Görgei	Hungary	Acting Governor-President (1849)	1818	1916	98 years, 112 days
58	Lubomír Štrougal	Czechoslovakia	Prime Minister (1970–1988)	1924	2023	98 years, 110 days
59	Jean	Luxembourg	Grand Duke (1964–2000)	1921	2019	98 years, 108 days
60	Gough Whitlam	Australia	Prime Minister (1972–1975)	1916	2014	98 years, 102 days
61	Giorgio Napolitano	Italy	President (2006–2015)	1925	2023	98 years, 85 days
62	Venceslau Brás	Brazil	President (1914–1918)	1868	1966	98 years, 78 days
63	Claude Rostain	Andorra	French Viguier (1972–1977)	1916	2015	98 years, 56 days
64	R. Venkataraman	India	President (1987–1992)	1910	2009	98 years, 54 days
65	Dezső Pattantyús-Ábrahám	Hungarian Soviet Republic   Hungary	Prime Minister (1919)	1875	1973	98 years, 15 days
66	Gabriel París Gordillo	Colombia	President (1957–1958)	1910	2008	98 years, 13 days
67	Valdas Adamkus	Lithuania	President (1998–2003; 2004–2009)	1926	Alive	98 years, 13 days
68	Raif Dizdarević	Yugoslavia |	President of the Presidency (1988–1989)	1926	Alive	97 years, 343 days
69	Miloš Jakeš	Czechoslovakia	General Secretary of the Communist Party (1987–1989)	1922	2020	97 years, 332 days
70	Abdelsalam Majali	Jordan	Prime Minister (1993–1995; 1997–1998)	1925	2023	97 years, 319 days
71	Kenan Evren	Türkiye	President of the National Security Council (1980–1982) State President (1982–1989)	1917	2015	97 years, 296 days
72	Wellington Koo	China	Acting Premier (1924) Acting President (1926–1927)	1888	1985	97 years, 289 days
73	Baron Ignaz von Plener	Cislethania ( Austria-Hungary)	Minister-President (1870)	1810	1908	97 years, 272 days
74	Domhnall Ua Buachalla	Irish Free State	Governor-General (1932–1936)	1866	1963	97 years, 267 days
75	Abdelmalek Benhabyles	Algeria	Chair of the Constitutional Council (1992)	1921	2018	97 years, 245 days
76	Thanin Kraivichien	Thailand	Prime Minister (1976–1977)	1927	Alive	97 years, 225 days
77	Francesc Badia Batalla	Andorra	Episcopal Veguer (1972–1993)	1923	2020	97 years, 217 days
78	Arnaldo Forlani	Italy	Prime Minister (1980–1981)	1925	2023	97 years, 210 days
79	Ramón José Velásquez	Venezuela	President (1993-1994)	1916	2014	97 years, 208 days
80	He Yingqin	Taiwan	Premier (1949)	1890	1987	97 years, 202 days
81	Lee Teng-hui	Taiwan	President (1988 2000)	1923	2020	97 years, 197 days
82	Liam Cosgrave	Ireland	Taoiseach (1973–1977)	1920	2017	97 years, 174 days
83	Alfredo Solf y Muro	Peru	Prime Minister (1939–1944)	1872	1969	97 years, 152 days
84	Patricio Aylwin	Chile	President (1990–1994)	1918	2016	97 years, 145 days
85	Armando Villanueva	Peru	Prime Minister (1988–1989)	1915	2013	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	2000	97 years, 138 days
87	Martial Célestin	Haiti	Prime Minister (1988)	1913	2011	97 years, 123 days
88	Gheorghe Apostol	Romania	First Secretary of the Worker's Party (1954–1955)	1913	2010	97 years, 97 days
89	Kenneth Kaunda	Zambia	State President (1964–1991)	1924	2021	97 years, 50 days
90	Walter Scheel	Germany	(Acting) Chancellor (1974) President (1974–1979)	1919	2016	97 years, 47 days
91	Helmut Schmidt	Germany	Chancellor (1974–1982)	1918	2015	96 years, 322 days
92	Gennaro Granito Pignatelli di Belmonte	Vatican City	Acting Sovereign (1939)	1851	1948	96 years, 312 days
93	Khertek Anchimaa-Toka	Tuvan People's Republic	Chairperson of the Presidium (1940–1944)	1912	2008	96 years, 308 days
94	Kim Yong-nam	North Korea	Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly (1998–2019)	1928	Alive	96 years, 286 days
95	Camille Huysmans	Belgium	Prime Minister (1946–1947)	1871	1968	96 years, 275 days
96	Yitzhak Shamir	Israel	Prime Minister (1981-1984; 1986-1992)	1915	2012	96 years, 252 days
97	Federico Páez	Ecuador	President (1935–1937)	1877	1974	96 years, 250 days
98	Habib Bourguiba	Tunisia	Prime Minister (1956–1957) President (1957–1987)	1903	2000	96 years, 247 days
99	Vyacheslav Molotov	Soviet Union	Premier (1930–1941	1890	1986	96 years, 244 days
100	Yang Hyong-sop	North Korea	Chairman of the Supreme People's Assembly (1983–1984; 1998–2019)	1926	2022	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)	1901	1998	96 years, 195 days to 97 years, 194 days

Next to Join

No.	'Name	State	Position	Birth	Death	Age	Age by 2024.12.31
1	Arnold Rüütel	Estonia	Chairman of the Supreme Council (1991–1992) President (2001–2006)	1928	Alive	96 years, 190 days	96 years, 235 days
2	Arthur Foulkes	Bahamas	Governor-General (2010–2014)	1928	Alive	96 years, 189 days	96 years, 234 days
3	Péter Boross	Hungary	Prime Minister (1993–1994)	1928	Alive	96 years, 81 days	96 years, 126 days
4	Zhu Rongji	China	Premier of the State Council (1998–2003)	1928	Alive	96 years, 24 days	96 years, 69 days
5	Édouard Balladur	France	Prime Minister (1993–1995)	1929	Alive	95 years, 198 days	95 years, 243 days
6	Sam Nujoma	Namibia	President (1990–2005)	1929	Alive	95 years, 188 days	95 years, 233 days
7	Sir Orville Turnquest	Bahamas	Governor-General (1995–2001)	1929	Alive	95 years, 120 days	95 years, 165 days
8	Jamshid bin Abdullah	Sultanate of Zanzibar	Sultan (1963–1964)	1929	Alive	95 years, 61 days	95 years, 106 days
9	Violeta Chamorro	Nicaragua	Member of the Junta of National Reconstruction (1979–1980) President (1990–1997)	1929	Alive	95 years, 29 days	95 years, 74 days
10	Gombojavyn Ochirbat	Mongolia	General Secretary of the People's Revolutionary Party (1990)	1929	Alive	95 years, 5 days	95 years, 50 days

Chronological List of eldest living

State Leaders

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 living state members of the College of Cardinals
• List of oldest living state leaders
• Hypothetical List of longest-living state leaders
• Comparison of Monarchs (list)
• Kage (Naruto)
• Lists of Philippine Officials by age
• Longest lived Spouses of National Leaders
• Philippine Congress Membership if the Philippines followed The US Congress allocations
• 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)

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