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 12/19/2025
No deaths had Occured Since the death if Ali Hassan Mwinyi on 29 Feb 2024 (aged 98 years, 297 days) (1 year, 313 days)

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	Babiker Awadalla	Sudan	Prime Minister (1969)	1917	2019	101 years, 321 days
5	Willem Drees	Netherlands	Prime Minister (1948–1958)	1889	1990	101 years, 314 days
6	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
7	Zhang Qun	Taiwan	Premier (1947–1948)	1889	1990	101 years, 219 days
8	Yasuhiro Nakasone	Japan	Prime Minister (1982–1987)	1918	2019	101 years, 186 days
9	Piet de Jong	Netherlands	Prime Minister (1967–1971)	1915	2016	101 years, 115 days
10	Hyun Soong-jong	South Korea	Prime Minister (1992–1993)	1919	2020	101 years, 89 days

Oldest-living

UPDATED 12/19/2025
No deaths had Occured Since the death of A. Q. M. Badtudozza Chowdhury on 4 Oct 2024 (1 year, 76 days)

No.	Name	State	Position	Birth	Age
1	Guillermo Rodríguez	Ecuador	Acting President (1972–1976)	1923	102 years, 45 days
2	Khamtai Siphandone	Laos	Prime Minister (1991–1998) Chairman of the People's Revolutionary Party (1992–2006) President (1998–2006)	1924	101 years, 314 days
3	Tomiichi Murayama	Japan	Prime Minister (1994–1996)	1924	101 years, 291 days
4	Jimmy Carter	United States	President (1977–1981)	1924	101 years, 79 days
5	Mahathir Mohamad	Malaysia	Prime Minister (1981–2003; 2018–2020)	1925	100 years, 162 days
6	Mohammad Hasan Sharq	Afghanistan	Chairman of the Council of Ministers (1988-1989)	1925	100 years, 155 days
7	Abdoulaye Wade	Senegal	President (2000–2012)	1926	99 years, 204 days
8	Valdas Adamkus	Lithuania	President (1998–2003; 2004–2009)	1926	99 years, 46 days
9	Raif Dizdarević	Yugoslavia	President of the Presidency (1988–1989)	1926	99 years, 10 days
10	Thanin Kraivichien	Thailand	Prime Minister (1976–1977)	1927	98 years, 258 days

Cardinals

Both oldest and longest living since the death of Card. do Nascimento on 28 September 2024 (1 year, 82 days), aged 99 years, 212 days

Longest-Living

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, 315 days
9	Ignatius Kung Pin-mei	China	1901	2000	98 years, 223 days
	Franz König	Austria	1905	2004

Oldest-living

No.	Cardinal	Country	Birth	Age
1	Estanislao Esteban Karlic	Argentina	1926	99 years, 315 days
2	Emmanuel Wamala	Uganda	1926	99 years, 18 days
3	Luis Pascual Dri OFM Cap.	Argentina	1927	98 years, 246 days
4	Júlio Duarte Langa	Mozambique	1927	98 years, 62 days
5	Friedrich Wetter	Germany	1928	97 years, 294 days
6	Ernest Simoni	Albania	1928	97 years, 62 days
7	Walter Brandmüller	Germany	1929	96 years, 348 days
8	Michael Michai Kitbunchu	Thailand	1929	96 years, 328 days
9	Adam Maida	United States	1930	95 years, 276 days
10	Julian Herranz Casado	Spain	1930	95 years, 263 days

See Also

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