Original listings of longest-living state leaders

Gallery

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

• Chau-Sen-Cocsal-Chhum.jpg

  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

UPDATED 12/7/2025

Color	Note
	Living State Leaders

Number	Name	State	Position	Birth	Death	Age
1	Celâl Bayar	Turkey	Prime Minister (1937–1939) President (1950–1960)	1883	1986	103 years, 98 days
2	Antoine Pinay	France	Prime Minister (1952–1953)	1891	1994	102 years, 343 days
3	Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni	Japan	Prime Minister (1945)	1887	1990	102 years, 48 days
4	Chau Sen Cocsal Chhum	Cambodia	Acting Prime Minister (1962)	1905	Alive	101 years, 336 days'
5	Zhang Qun	Taiwan	Premier (1947–1948)	1889	1990	101 years, 219 days
6	Christopher Hornsrud	Norway	Prime Minister (1928)	1859	1960	101 years, 27 days
7	Xenophon Zolotas	Greece	Prime Minister (1989–1990)	1904	2004	100 years, 45 days
8	Gulzarilal Nanda	India	Acting Prime Minister (1964; 1966)	1898	1998	99 years, 195 days
10	Michail Stasinopoulos	Greece	President (1974–1975)	1903	2002	99 years, 96 days
11	Clifford Campbell	Jamaica	Governor-General (1962–1973)	1892	1991	99 years, 92 days
12	Morarji Desai	India	Prime Minister (1977–1979)	1896	1995	99 years, 41 days
13	Anthony Mamo	Malta	Prime Minister (1971–1974) President (1974–1976)	1909	Alive	98 years, 206 days
14	Joseph Paul-Boncour	France	Prime Minister (1932–1933)	1873	1972	98 years, 237 days
15	Isidro Ayora	Ecuador	President (1926–1931)	1879	1978	98 years, 203 days
16	Émile Reuter	Luxembourg	Prime Minister (1918–1925)	1874	1973	98 years, 196 days
17	Aden Adde	Somalia	President (1960–1967)	1908	2007	98 years, 181 days
18	Borys Martos	Ukraine	Prime Minister (1919)	1879	1977	98 years, 123 days
19	Artúr Görgei	Hungary	Acting Governor-President (1849)	1818	1916	98 years, 112 days
20	Venceslau Brás	Brazil	President (1914–1918)	1868	1966	98 years, 78 days
21	Dezső Pattantyús-Ábrahám	Hungary	Prime Minister (1919)	1875	1973	98 years, 15 days
22	Wellington Koo	China	Acting Premier (1924) Acting President (1926–1927)	1888	1985	97 years, 289 days
23	Baron Ignaz von Plener	Austria	Minister-President (1870)	1810	1908	97 years, 272 days
24	Domhnall Ua Buachalla	Ireland	Governor-General (1932–1936)	1866	1963	97 years, 267 days
25	He Yingqin	Taiwan	Premier (1949)	1890	1987	97 years, 202 days
26	Alfredo Solf y Muro	Peru	Prime Minister (1939–1944)	1872	1969	97 years, 152 days
27	Gabriel París Gordillo	Colombia	President (1957–1958)	1910	Alive	97 years, 148 days
28	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
29	Abdel Halim Muhammad	Sudan	Committee of Sovereignty Member (1964–1965)	1910	Alive	97 years, 116 days
30	Nouhak Phoumsavanh	Laos	President (1992–1998)	1910	Alive	97 years, 115 days
31	Johan Ferrier	Suriname	President (1975–1980)	1910	Alive	97 years, 83 days
32	Mamadou Dia	Senegal	President (1960–1962)	1910	Alive	97 years, 16 days
33	Camille Huysmans	Belgium	Prime Minister (1946–1947)	1871	1968	96 years, 275 days
34	Federico Páez	Ecuador	President (1935–1937)	1877	1974	96 years, 250 days
35	Habib Bourguiba	Tunisia	Prime Minister (1956–1957) President (1957–1987)	1903	2000	96 years, 247 days
36	Vyacheslav Molotov	Soviet Union	Premier (1930–1941)	1890	1986	96 years, 244 days
37	Ramaswamy Venkataraman	India	President (1987-1992)	1910	Alive	96 years, 242 days
38	Bernardino González Ruiz	Panama	Acting Leader (1963)	1911	Alive	96 years, 204 days
39	'Pierre Harmel:	Belgium	Prime Minister (1965–1966)	1911	Alive	96 years, 140 days
40	Alejandro Deustua	Peru	Prime Minister (1902)	1849	1945	96 years, 137 days
41	Pedro Lascuráin	Mexico	President (1913)	1856	1952	96 years, 74 days
42	Federico Chaves	Paraguay	President (1949–1954)	1882	1978	96 years, 68 days
43	Fumio Gotō	Japan	Acting Prime Minister (1936)	1884	1980	96 years, 67 days
44	João Lins Cansanção, Viscount of Sinimbu	Brazil	Prime Minister (1878–1880)	1810	1906	96 years, 37 days
45	Hans Schaffner	Switzerland	President (1966)	1908	2004	95 years, 346 days
46	Joaquin Balaguer	Dominican Republic	President (1960–1962; 1966–1978; 1986–1996)	1906	2002	95 years, 316 days
47	Tomás Romero Pereira	Paraguay	Provisional President (1954)	1886	1982	95 years, 312 days
48	Juan José Estrada	Nicaragua	President (1910–1911)	1872	1967	95 years, 191 days
49	Pote Sarasin	Thailand	Prime Minister (1957)	1905	2000	95 years, 187 days
50	Tahar Ben Ammar	Tunisia	Prime Minister (1956)	1889	1985	95 years, 166 days
51	Philippe Pétain	France/Vichy France	Prime Minister (1940) Chief of State (1940-1944)	1856	1951	95 years, 90 days
52	Léopold Sédar Senghor	Senegal	President (1960-1980)	1906	2001	95 years, 72 days
53	Petar Stambolić	Yugoslavia	Prime Minister (1963-1967) President (1982-1983)	1912	2007	95 years, 71 days
54	Nguyễn Vãn Tâm	South Vietnam	Prime Minister (1952–1954)	1895	1990	95 years, 48 days
55	Max Petitpierre	Switzerland	President (1950, 1955, 1960)	1899	1994	95 years, 27 days
56	Saeb Salam	Lebanon	Prime Minister (1952–1953, 1960-1961, 1970-1973)	1905	2000	95 years, 4 days
57	Hassan ibn Yahya	Yemen	Prime Minister (1948–1955)	1908	2003	95 years, 0 days
58	Guillermo Tell Villegas Pulido<	Venezuela	Interim President (1892)	1854	1949	94 years, 362 days
	José Luis Bustamante y Rivero	Peru	President (1945–1948)	1894	1989
60	Võ Chí Công	Vietnam	Chairman of the Council of State (1987–1992)	1912	Alive	94 years, 361 days
61	Juliana	Netherlands	Queen (1948–1980)	1909	2004	94 years, 325 days
62	Emilio Aguinaldo	Philippines	President (1899–1901)	1869	1964	94 years, 321 days
63	Constatin Ion Parhon	Romania	President (1948-1952)	1874	1969	94 years, 298 days
63	Telmo Vargas	Ecuador	Acting President (1966)	1912	Alive	94 years, 298 days
65	Maarouf al-Dawalibi	Syria	Prime Minister (1951, 1961-1962)	1909	2004	94 years, 292 days
66	Emiliano Chamorro Vargas	Nicaragua	President (1917-1921)	1871	1966	94 years, 291 days
67	Martti Miettunen	Finland	Prime Minister (1961–1962, 1975–1977)	1907	2002	94 years, 277 days
68	Sanya Dharmasakti	Thailand	Prime Minister (1973–1975)	1907	2002	94 years, 276 days
69	Naji Talib	Iraq	Prime Minister (1966-1967)	1917	2012	94 years, 266 days
70	Kiro Gligorov	Macedonia	President (1991–1999)	1917	2012	94 years, 243 days
71	Emilio Bello Codesido	Chile	President (1925)	1868	1863	94 years, 233 days
72	Pierre Graber	Switzerland	President (1975)	1908	2003	94 years, 225 days
73	Pedro de Aycinena y Piñol	Guatemala	President of Guatemala|President}} (1865)	1802	1897	94 years, 207 days
74	Pedro de Aycinena y Piñol	Guatemala	President of Guatemala|President}} (1865)	1802	1897	94 years, 207 days
75	Héctor Trujillo	Ecuador	President (1952–1960)	1908	2002	94 years, 196 days
76	Wijeyananda Dahanayake	Sri Lanka	Prime Minister (1959–1960)	1902	1997	94 years, 194 days
77	Giorgios Athanasiadis-Novas	Greece	Prime Minister (1965)	1893	1987	94 years, 182 days
78	Charles de Freycinet	France	Prime Minister (1879–1880, 1882, 1886, 1890–1892)	1828	1923	94 years, 181 days
79	Allan Louisy	Saint Lucia	Prime Minister (1979–1981)	1916	2011	94 years, 176 days
80	Malietoa Tanumafili II	Samoa	O le Ao O le Malo (1989–1993)	1913	2007	94 years, 127 days
81	Ċensu Tabone	Malta	President (1989–1994)	1913	Alive	'94 years, 126 days
82	Charles Tupper	Canada	Prime Minister (1896)	1821	1915	94 years, 120 days
83	Garfield Todd	Southern Rhodesia	Prime Minister (1953–1958)	1908	2002	94 years, 92 days
84	Gheorghe Apostol	Romania	First Secretary of the Worker's Party (1954–1955)	1913	Alive	'94 years, 79 days
85	Martial Célestin	Haiti	Prime Minister (1988)	1913	2011	97 years, 123 days
87	Arthur Foulkes	Bahamas	Governor-General (2010–2014)	1928	Alive	97 years, 210 days
88	Kenneth Kaunda	Zambia	State President (1964–1991)	1924	2021	97 years, 50 days
89	Walter Scheel	Germany	Acting Chancellor (1974) President (1974–1979)	1919	2016	97 years, 47 days
90	Péter Boross	Hungary	Prime Minister (1993–1994)	1928	Alive	97 years, 102 days
91	Helmut Schmidt	West Germany	Chancellor (1974–1982)	1918	2015	96 years, 322 days
93	Zhu Rongji	China	Premier of the State Council (1998–2003)	1928	Alive	97 years, 45 days
94	Yitzhak Shamir	Israel	Prime Minister (1981-1984; 1986-1992)	1915	2012	96 years, 252 days

Addendum

Uncertain Date of Birth

The following individuals might be older than #100–22 on this list, but their exact date of birth is uncertain.

Name	State	Position	Born	Died	Age
Hastings Banda	Malawi	Prime Minister (1964–1966) State President (1966–1994) President of the Congress Party (1966–1993)	1898	1997	98 years, 329 days to 99 years, 328 days
Konstantinos Kollias	Greece	Prime Minister (1967)	1901	1998	96 years, 194 days to 97 years, 193 days
Abdul Salam Sabrah	Yemen	Acting Prime Minister (1969; 1971)	1912	Alive	94 years, 215 days to 95 years, 214 days
Mukhtar Mohamed Hussein	Somalia	Interim president (1969)

Unclear Status as State Leaders

The following individuals might be older than #100–82 on this list, but their exact date of birth is uncertain.

Name	State	Position	Birth	Death	Age
Muhammad al-Muqri	Morocco	Grand Vizier (1911-1957)	1854	1957	103 years, 219 days
Gennaro Granito Pignatelli di Belmonte	Vatican City	Acting Sovereign (1939)	1851	1948	96 years, 312 days
Khertek Anchimaa-Toka	Tuva	Chairperson of the Presidium (1940–1944)	1912	Alive	95 years, 214 days

See Also

• List of longest-living state leaders (current)